so when the horse thief/train robber e-mail comes your way

[gh]

I love nothing better than smacking my otherwise bright friends upside the head when the try to pass along urban legends as fact.

There's one about Harry Reid's supposed forebears now making the rounds, but as snopes makes eminently clear, the same exact story has previously done its tour attached to Hillary, then Al Gore, then Ted Stevens:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/horsethief.asp

[KevinM]

There are some people who should have their "forward" buttons taken away (and have snopes installed as their home page at the same time).