snopes: Mr Ed was a zebra...read

[bcjammerx]

http://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp


Mr Ed was actually a zebra!!

Claim: Mister Ed, the talking equine of television fame, was a horse.

Status: FALSE
come on people...use that brain up there...triple check and take everything with a grain of salt...especially wild zany theories even if they make a little since

The best lies always have a little truth mixed in...very little

(The difficulty in resolving closely integrated black and white images on non-color television receivers was one of the primary reasons NFL games were not regularly televised until the mid-1960s, when sales of color TV sets started to outstrip those of black-and-white models. When black-and-white television predominated in the nation's living rooms, football games were too often disrupted when players ran into the referees, whose black-and-white striped uniform tops made them nearly invisible to onlookers. Likewise, Johnny Cash's famous televised live concert performance at California's Folsom Prison in January 1968 proved disastrous when several inmates wearing the traditional black and white prisoner's garb slipped unnoticed past guards, who had been provided only black and white monitors with which to view the proceedings.) *

crazy huh?

[PointBlank]

How am I supposed to sleep tonight now?

[bcjammerx]

this might help
http://www.snopes.com/lost/lost.asp

heh heh heh...those made me chuckle...I almost bought the mobile home one too

wait why did I edit this post, what reason did I give? hmmmmm

[MikeW]

I swear to God...if anyone believes this I will completely give up all hope in humanity.

Jammer, please tell me you know this is a joke...

[deevergote]

It IS written very convincingly, though...

[MikeW]

Not really.

football games were too often disrupted when players ran into the referees, whose black-and-white striped uniform tops made them nearly invisible to onlookers.

This makes absolutely NO sense. What "onlookers" see has absolutely no effect on what the players see. The players are THERE. ON THE FIELD. Unless they have a vision problem, they see the refs in B&W.

As soon as I saw that, I knew this was shenanigans.

[bcjammerx]

LOL, no, highlight my first post and note it has not been edited ;
The one on mobile homes ALMOST got me though

I know enough abou horses to see he was a real horse not a smaller zebra...yeah the black and White thing I was like...but I've seen OLD bw games and you could see stripes.

It is a point made by snopes that you should not just accept info as true, even from very credible sources