Did you know that Baltimore has a Rumor Control Center?

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matthew says:

June 10, 2004 at 7:24 am

you are three minutes late today. What happened?

Raymond Chen says:

June 10, 2004 at 8:08 am

Couldn’t find my tinfoil hat.

Mike Dunn says:

June 10, 2004 at 11:35 am

Or maybe he’s getting prepared for the change to standard time, by setting his clock back a little bit every week. ;)

ed (just another linux hacker) posada says:

June 10, 2004 at 5:16 pm

I heard a rumor that Raymond use to hack on the linux kernel…

alfons says:

June 11, 2004 at 5:31 am

|I heard a rumor that Raymond use to

|hack on the linux kernel…

See http://groups.google.nl/groups?q=Raymond+Chen+Linux&hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=1993Jun07.164224.28377%40microsoft.com&rnum=1

June 11, 2004 at 6:49 am

yeah, click on my name…

MilesArcher says:

June 11, 2004 at 8:27 am

And this is a bad thing?

sd says:

June 11, 2004 at 11:26 am

MilesArcher: Who said it was a bad thing?

Scott says:

June 12, 2004 at 10:13 pm

The real impressive thing is that someone found the linux posts among the 1900 other ones.

Nekto says:

June 16, 2004 at 4:10 am

I have heard a rumor, that OS installed with main modules for 486 processor instiad of native – Pentiums runs faster then with native :)

Pat Long says:

June 21, 2004 at 11:27 am

I have heard continuing rumors that the mayor’s wife has left him, and that the mayor has had twins by TV personality Sade Bed—wah. I don’t know how to spell it. Has the mayor separated from his wife?

Date:	June 10, 2004 / year-entry #230
Tags:	non-computer
Orig Link:	https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040610-00/?p=38943
Comments:	11
Summary:	A little-known department in the city of Baltimore is the Rumor Control Center, whose purpose is to squash rumors before they get out of hand. Scott Simon talked with supervisor Tom Saunders on cash rewards for blue-eyed cicadas and other rumors he's had to handle in the past.