Talk:Mister Ed

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Apparently, Mister Ed was a zebra.

The silly zebra story is a joke. Please don't put it in the article.--Pharos 02:21, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

My psychic sense predicts an influx of vandals over the coming week. How do I know? I just do.

Possibly, possibly yes. But they raise a good point. This section here is, after all Talk:Mr Ed, yet we don't indicate anywhere in the article... how did they get Mr. Ed to talk? --Irongaard 10:30, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Two points... 2 "THIS IS TRUE" 3 Zebra Hoax 4 Zebra, not an Urban Legend 5 Playing it backward?

[edit] Two points...

First, please sign your comments. If nothing else, it helps clarify who said what. Usually, signing your comments is as easy as using three or four tildes — typing '~~~' OR '~~~~' should do the trick.

Second, why is the Snopes reference discounted? While I understand that this POV is unconventional, there seems to be no valid reason to discard it outright. If it is a falsehood, would it not be better to provide evidence contrary to the POV? At least, that should put the issue to rest... Folajimi 16:29, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

• Please read the link I provided above. The creator of Snopes explains there how the Mr. Ed/zebra thing is part of an exercise meant to encourage skepticism of "respected" sources, even her own website.--Pharos 05:55, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Wow. That does seem rather malicious. Anyway, thanks for the info. Folajimi 14:42, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
    • wow. malicious is right. i am 48 yrs old and survived 9/11. i don't need some moron thinking it's cool to teach me a 'lesson'. what rubbish. thank you for that link.
      • Even though the second artical does say Mr.Ed story didn't back up it's facts. The second artical backs up none of its facts for itself.

[edit] "THIS IS TRUE"

Someone took the liberty to put the words "THIS IS TRUE" after the external links, obviously referring to the zebra legend so I deleted it ;) Is this worthy of a post here? I'm kind of new to Wikipedia editing.'Bonteburg 13:48, 21 May 2006 (UTC)'

• Correcting simple vandalism is generally not worthy of a talk page post, but thanks for fixing this.--Pharos 04:05, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zebra Hoax

I've recently reverted an edit to the section about the Zebra hoax that changed the message of that section entirely.

"According to the Internet Urban Legend Encyclopedia, Snopes, Mr. Ed was in fact a Zebra", it begins. Snopes is the only wikilinked word in the entire edit, suggesting it was copyvio, to begin with. Secondly, though only a minor point, Snopes refers to itself as "Urban Legends Reference Pages", as opposed to an "Encyclopedia", which is slightly different. Thirdly, The entire edit was uncited. If you're going to suggest that Snopes has proven something, at least link to where they have said this. So, I did a little searching, and the only relevant page on either search is, as far as I can see, a page disproving that Mister Ed made a racist comment in the outtakes. So without citation, and in such an unencyclopedic, copypasta tone - "(Ironically, the photography crew actually had to shoot Ed's "zebra" scenes for that episode in color and then convert them back to black-and-white in order to make Mister Ed appear as a zebra to the audience!)" - I decided that I was right to revert. Please take up the issue on here before adding it back in, if you plan on doing such a thing.--Dreaded Walrus 02:28, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zebra, not an Urban Legend

The whole "Mr. Ed was a zebra" case is, to the best of my knowledge, a complete invention by Snopes creator, Barbara Mikkelson. It was included in a section with complete false urban legends presented as true facts (i.e. false historical facts, and false purported rumours on those supposedly historical facts). As it is said in previous posts, it was done only to prevent readers to take anything -absurd as it may be- for true, granting on "authority".

With that said, the "zebra paragraph" is totally incorrect. It is not an urban legend to begin with. It could be included if it be said that the Snopes site started the rumour for "educational" purposes. But then, we should ask ourselves if that piece of information is relevant to the article. I think not, so I will delete it in a few days (say, three), to give time for another opinions. Nazroon 21:09, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Playing it backward?

There is no shortage of morons in the world. I recall a joke from George Carlin in the late 1960s: "The Beatles' latest song, when played backwards at slow speed, says, 'Dummy! You're playing it backwards at slow speed!'" Wahkeenah 23:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)