Practically everyone is the recipient of emails from friends, relatives and acquaintances. Here is a picture that was in an email recently sent to us.

Because Internet legends are so rife with, well, just that … legends, we either delete most of them, or if it seems to have basis, we go to http://www.snopes.com/ for verification. In this case, the legend is true. These legislators in the Connecticut legislature appear to be playing solitaire or checking their “facebook” accounts. In either case, the photograph is real. 

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