A rule of thumb postulated by a colleague, for evaluating extreme or extraordinary information:

• If you hear it from one person, you've got a crackpot
• If you hear it from two people, it's a crackpot and a jerk friend
• If you hear it from three people, maybe it's real

(RL, 3 May 2006)

TopicHumor - TopicThinking - 2006-05-18

(correlates: CodeOfTheHaggler, MetaJoke, DuringOrEnduring, ...)