JamesCurran wrote:
It's not really a hoax, as much as a joke. Some people just weren't bright enough to get it.....
(Snopes reports it been re-told since the 1950s at least. Their first article on it was written in 2000 --- Eight years BEFORE the VP debate where it was supposed to happen. Funny thing --- the only elected official who is so uninformed, impulsive and powerful enough to actually try that, is Trump, but even then, one of his advisers would probably stop him)