glurge

"Glurge" is the word that snopes.com uses for "chicken soup with several cups of sugar mixed in...the sending of inspirational (and supposedly 'true') tales, ones that often conceal much darker meanings than the uplifting moral lessons they purport to offer or undermine their messages by fabricating or distorting historical fact." Their glurge gallery demonstrates the quiz attributed to Charles Schulz is false, but the last email sent by late UU astronaut Laurel Clark is true, as is the tale of the life-saving hug of an infant twin.