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Internet rumors fly around the net all the time. The speeding ticket frenzy rumor is a very recent example. I think that as a board we should come up with a rumor that is very believable but still shocking enough to spread. Then, people post about it on various other forums and watch it spread. Maybe someday it will come back to us!

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Such as??

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you're a tool

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you're a tool

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A rumor cannot be as easily confirmable as this...

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What, like Steve Martin was caught wacking off to Pee-Wee's Big Adventure?

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How about an upcoming legislation requiring you to be 25 to smoke or something like that?

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I like this idea...give it time, we'll come up with something.

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How about some sort of crazy home remedy?

Washing your face with pineapple juice can clear up acne?

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How about fat is the new thin???

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THE INTERIOIR DESIGN GUY ON QUEER EYE IS ACTUALLY STRAIGHT!!!

Spread it.

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How about some sort of crazy home remedy?

Washing your face with pineapple juice can clear up acne?

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I love this.

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THE INTERIOIR DESIGN GUY ON QUEER EYE IS ACTUALLY STRAIGHT!!!

Spread it.

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A bogus statistic would be easy too. Lots of people could start posting it on websites and link to others, so it could achieve some real legitimacy if people searched for it.

"By 2010, it's estimated that only 5% of all highschool freshman will still be virgins before the end of the school year."

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A bogus statistic would be easy too. Lots of people could start posting it on websites and link to others, so it could achieve some real legitimacy if people searched for it.

"By 2010, it's estimated that only 5% of all highschool freshman will still be virgins before the end of the school year."

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I like this one, if only because if it actually got spread around a decent amount, high school freshmen virgins would be flipping a [censored] if they weren't able to get laid by the end of the school year. Can you imagine thinking that you were in the extreme minority for something like that, especially at that time in your life/development? I'd be nervous as balls.

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Do people still fall for the fake CNN.com links? I haven't seen one in awhile.

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Do people still fall for the fake CNN.com links? I haven't seen one in awhile.

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That would give it away way too easily.

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if its gonna be a made up fact shouldnt it help us in some way

"regular male poker players on average can last 29% longer having sex than the average male"

this benefits us in
1 - more donkeys who start to play poker cuz they wanna be a stud
2 - more girls wanna bang us


could even justify the "stat" by making up reasons
eg - its due to there ability to focus on multiple things for long periods of time

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I like this one, if only because if it actually got spread around a decent amount, high school freshmen virgins would be flipping a [censored] if they weren't able to get laid by the end of the school year. Can you imagine thinking that you were in the extreme minority for something like that, especially at that time in your life/development? I'd be nervous as balls.

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Damn, you just made me reconsider. I wouldn't want to be responsible for ruining millions of fragile growing psyches.

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if its gonna be a made up fact shouldnt it help us in some way

"regular male poker players on average can last 29% longer having sex than the average male"

this benefits us in
1 - more donkeys who start to play poker cuz they wanna be a stud
2 - more girls wanna bang us


could even justify the "stat" by making up reasons
eg - its due to there ability to focus on multiple things for long periods of time

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This could go somewhere.

It could even be something like "In a study of 1053 regular poker players, penis size was found to have a strong correlation to success at the tables. John Sheffield, who designed the study, suggested that well endowed males tend to have higher confidence levels, a crucial component to winning, especially in games like no limit hold em."

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Gold.

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How about some sort of crazy home remedy?

Washing your face with pineapple juice can clear up acne?

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very good idea, but be prepared for a lawsuit when some kid goes blind because he got pineapple juice in his eye every day for a year

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make it something about how 90% of online poker players win more then their paycheck everyweek. maybe we could get an influx of fish this way.

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How about some sort of crazy home remedy?

Washing your face with pineapple juice can clear up acne?

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very good idea, but be prepared for a lawsuit when some kid goes blind because he got pineapple juice in his eye every day for a year

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But how will they know who to sue? That's the best part of a rumor. It's been going around for who know's how long, and started at who know's where. Still, would kinda suck to be responsible for something like that, even if the kid was dumb enough to try it.

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very good idea, but be prepared for a lawsuit when some kid goes blind because he got pineapple juice in his eye every day for a year

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I believe this is what Darwin was talking about...

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so you want to become a spammer?

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Come up with a good one and I will make an image to backup your claims. Would be funny if they had to make a snopes article to disprove us. lol

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i'd much rather see OOT come to life as an underground secret society. we go into businesses and after we order our food/what not we say something along the lines of "sup bro" or "pozz my sandwich" and we'll be hooked up.

make THAT happen.

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make it something about how 90% of online poker players win more then their paycheck everyweek. maybe we could get an influx of fish this way.

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I like this one.

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"pozz my sandwich"

make THAT happen.

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I see no way for that phrase to backfire.

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How about some sort of crazy home remedy?

Washing your face with pineapple juice can clear up acne?

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I love this.

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that one is true

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make it something about how 90% of online poker players win more then their paycheck everyweek. maybe we could get an influx of fish this way.

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I think something similar to this idea already exists.

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make it something about how 90% of online poker players win more then their paycheck everyweek. maybe we could get an influx of fish this way.

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I think something similar to this idea already exists.

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ya it's called TV.

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We should make it about Lindsay Lohan, the would ensure it would spread and the national media would pick it up, they seem to love any rumor about her...

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At a chinese restaurant, it is custumary to leave a seperate tip for the fortune-cookie maker to ensure posative fortunes in the future.

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you're a tool

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How about some sort of crazy home remedy?

Washing your face with pineapple juice can clear up acne?

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No for girls... washing your face in semen clears up acne, makes your hair shinier and improves the firmness of your breasts. Swallowing it improves your complexion, and help your body release pheromones that make you more attractive to men, and seem more presentable and intelligent to other women.

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How about some sort of crazy home remedy?

Washing your face with pineapple juice can clear up acne?

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No for girls... washing your face in semen clears up acne, makes your hair shinier and improves the firmness of your breasts. Swallowing it improves your complexion, and help your body release pheromones that make you more attractive to men, and seem more presentable and intelligent to other women.

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...only gross thing is youve used yourself as a test subject to see wether or not this is true...

...you may have pozzed yourself

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Might be more interesting to start a 'meme' (or mind virus) rather than a rumour.

Why don't be all use 'pozzed' instead of 'boosted' or 'really excited about something', and wait to see who the first one who hears it back from a civilian IRL?

When youre excited or intense on something, just say 'I'm sooooo POZZED right now!'

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Might be more interesting to start a 'meme' (or mind virus) rather than a rumour.

Why don't be all use 'pozzed' instead of 'boosted' or 'really excited about something', and wait to see who the first one who hears it back from a civilian IRL?

When youre excited or intense on something, just say 'I'm sooooo POZZED right now!'

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LOL then give them a business card with nothing on it but the http address to those forums.

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The key here is to appeal to greed, a desire for easy money, and an impending deadline. The deadline needs to be upcoming, but neverending. It needs to sound plausible, and it needs to be based on something most people will have heard of. Then spread it to everyone you know via email, who will then spread it forever.

So, here's what could work (though you really, really shouldn't spread it).



At the end of this month, your chance to claim a share of billions in unspent Tobacco Settlement Funds will expire. In 1998, the five major American tobacco companies and all 50 states came to an agreement for the tobacco companies to pay over $320 billion dollars to the states to educate the American public on the dangers of smoking. At the end of the settlement period, any unspent money was to be distributed to citizens of each state, provided they made a claim. The settlement period will end on December 31 of this year and any claims for your share MUST BE MADE BY THE END OF THIS MONTH.

As of the end of 2005, over $120 billion was unspent by the states, and given the current rate of spending, over $75 billion in funds should remain at the end of the settlement period. If only one million people make a claim, that means you could receive $75,000. However, in order to ensure that as many people as possible have a fair chance to recieve these funds, we are offering a 10% bounty for every referral you send us. So if you send us one referral, you could receive an additional $7500 if one million people make a claim. Refer 10 people and you could receive an additional $75,000!!! But you must make your claim and any referrals must make their claim by the end of this month. Any claims made after this point in time will be invalid and unable to collect the unclaimed funds.

To make your claim, please contact the law offices of Ratbastard, Ream, and Mooch, LLP at 314-XXX-XXX with your name and address. Referrals should also leave their referring persons name and address.

Remember, the enrollment period ends at the end of this month. All claims will be mailed after the first of the year.

If I really wanted to be nasty, I'd put in a real lawfirm and phone number, but I'd prefer to avoid the inevitable lawsuit.