Famous urban legends
 

Inspired by the "Greatest Poker hand ever" thread. Post your favorite(s)

Since a lot of them are great reads/well written, it should be interesting. Only rule is that it MUST be an urban legend and not a true story.

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I'll start:

From Snopes


Lemon Joy in water will repel and kill mosquitoes. I love this one because my grandma heard it from a friend who got one of the e-mails, and she had little tubs of water all over her house for a couple years after. Funny stuff.

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And just to save these two from the other thread:

From Matt Flynn:

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My good buddy Alex just called me from the Commerce about a hand that happened there recently. He wasn't at the table.

5-10 no-limit. Nice old rich guy and a punk kid are at the table. The punk kid has been riding the old man for hours. The old guy hasn't said anything. Finally they tangle in a huge pot and get all the money in. The kid shows a big aces full - a jackpot qualifier. The old man says, "Well, I'm rich already," flashes quads, and MUCKS HIS HAND.

Punk goes ballistic. Floor says sorry kid it doesn't count.

Old man then whips out a wad of bills and pays everyone else at the table what they would have won in the jackpot.


Now that's style.


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And from kemystery:

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Micheal Weisenburg relates a cool fictional story in one of his Cardplayer columns about a card mechanic setting up a lowball jackpot -
http://www.cardplayer.com/author/article/all/14/5916



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just edited your post a bit if thats ok, it was longggg.

my fav. is the common misbelief that water in the southern hemisphere spirals down the drain the opposite direction than in the north.

http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp

definitely a 'wtf' moment when you realise you were sold a complete lie as a little kid.

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wow, I really thought water did flow the opposite direction. I learned it from Bart vs. Australia episode of the Simpsons.

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just edited your post a bit if thats ok, it was longggg.

my fav. is the common misbelief that water in the southern hemisphere spirals down the drain the opposite direction than in the north.

http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp

definitely a 'wtf' moment when you realise you were sold a complete lie as a little kid.

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[censored] Simpsons.



I used to LOVE urban legends when I was a kid, I had a couple different books that retold them.The series: Stories to Be Told in the Dark, by alvin schwartz was my favorite series, if anyone likes this stuff.

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the story about the killer who calls the babysitter asking when she had checked up on the kids ruined my sh*t for like a month.. thinking about that situation was terrifying..

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Mr. Rogers being some sort of US special forces guy with over 20 confirmed kills was something I had always thought was true, but recently found out it's not given any credit or considered true, because he was filming during the Vietnam war, however, the anti-true people neglect to comment on what he was doing during the Korean war or before the official start of the Vietnam War.

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wtf water doesn't go in the opposite direction? IT MUST BE TRUE

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Phil Collin's In The Air Tonight was about a man he witnessed letting a women drown.

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Phil Collin's In The Air Tonight was about a man he witnessed letting a women drown.

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If he witnessed a man letting a woman drown, then HE let her drown as well, no?

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Phil Collin's In The Air Tonight was about a man he witnessed letting a women drown.

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If he witnessed a man letting a woman drown, then HE let her drown as well, no?

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I always heard that phil was at a lake w/ friends, and he was on the other side of the lake, and one of his acquaintances let one of phil's friends drown, and phil couldnt get there in time to save him. Then at one of the concerts he put a spotlight on the guy, and sang that song to him, then the guy committed suicide.

none of this is true obv, but thats the story that is told around here.

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Phil Collin's In The Air Tonight was about a man he witnessed letting a women drown.

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If he witnessed a man letting a woman drown, then HE let her drown as well, no?

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I always heard that phil was at a lake w/ friends, and he was on the other side of the lake, and one of his acquaintances let one of phil's friends drown, and phil couldnt get there in time to save him. Then at one of the concerts he put a spotlight on the guy, and sang that song to him, then the guy committed suicide.

none of this is true obv, but thats the story that is told around here.

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Wow. The story i was told was that Phils girlfriend or wife was raped. Later, Phil and significant other saw the rapist drowning and elected to not help at all. Odd the stories we hear.

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the story about the killer who calls the babysitter asking when she had checked up on the kids ruined my sh*t for like a month.. thinking about that situation was terrifying..

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got a full version of this?

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the story about the killer who calls the babysitter asking when she had checked up on the kids ruined my sh*t for like a month.. thinking about that situation was terrifying..

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got a full version of this?

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A girl is babysitting a couple of kids, after she puts the kids to bed upstairs, the phone rings, and the voice on the otherside says "I see you", or something menacing. this happens a couple more times, then she calls the police to trace the call, and the cops say the call is comming from inside the house. Usually the babysitter gets killed, or she goes up to check on the kids and they are decapitated.

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Personally, my fav;


A lady goes to teh grocery store on a very hot day, picks up a bunch of odds and ends and starts to drive home. As she is driving, she hears a gun shot, and is startled, she feels soemthing dripping on her neck, reaches back, adn feels brains coming out of her skull, she panics and crashes the car. Ambulance comes, and when she comes to, she finds out that it was a Pilsbury dough tube that exploded becuase of the heat.

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Babysitter drops acid while watching the kids. Decides to cook a turkey in the microwave to feed them. Microwaves the baby by mistake.

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Personally, my fav;


A lady goes to teh grocery store on a very hot day, picks up a bunch of odds and ends and starts to drive home. As she is driving, she hears a gun shot, and is startled, she feels soemthing dripping on her neck, reaches back, adn feels brains coming out of her skull, she panics and crashes the car. Ambulance comes, and when she comes to, she finds out that it was a Pilsbury dough tube that exploded becuase of the heat.

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Mythbusters explored this one sufficiently to prove that it was actually plausible.

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Personally, my fav;


A lady goes to teh grocery store on a very hot day, picks up a bunch of odds and ends and starts to drive home. As she is driving, she hears a gun shot, and is startled, she feels soemthing dripping on her neck, reaches back, adn feels brains coming out of her skull, she panics and crashes the car. Ambulance comes, and when she comes to, she finds out that it was a Pilsbury dough tube that exploded becuase of the heat.

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Mythbusters explored this one sufficiently to prove that it was actually plausible.

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ya, I saw that one, I think there are a lot of these stories that may have happened in some form, but are impossible to prove.

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lol @ accidentally barbecuing a human baby. Hope that really happened.

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my gf told me about this story that some acquantaince who used to work at arbys told her. SOmething about the roast beef coming in liquid form, so she won't eat there and hadn't in like 5 years even though she loves it. I'm like wtf, I'm looking this up, and sure enough its on Snopes as false. So she just called and I obv requested she pick up Arbys and it will be the first time she has had it in 5 years or whatever.

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My good buddy Alex just called me from the Commerce about a hand that happened there recently. He wasn't at the table.

5-10 no-limit. Nice old rich guy and a punk kid are at the table. The punk kid has been riding the old man for hours. The old guy hasn't said anything. Finally they tangle in a huge pot and get all the money in. The kid shows a big aces full - a jackpot qualifier. The old man says, "Well, I'm rich already," flashes quads, and MUCKS HIS HAND.

Punk goes ballistic. Floor says sorry kid it doesn't count.

Old man then whips out a wad of bills and pays everyone else at the table what they would have won in the jackpot.


Now that's style.



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This is amazing.

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I once heard Kentucky Fried Chicken isn't really chicken, it's some specially bred hybrid animal, liked "Animal 37" that's why they had to change the to "KFC."

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I once heard Kentucky Fried Chicken isn't really chicken, it's some specially bred hybrid animal, liked "Animal 37" that's why they had to change the to "KFC."

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lol for some reason I get really mad when people tell me that as fact

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my god...i get so many of these crazy emails from coworkers...

You can notify police if you are being robbed at an ATM by putting your PIN in backwards order.

Any one of many emails saying that Bill Gates/Microsoft/Yahoo/Google/etc will donate 25 or whatever cents per each email forwarded to a special cause.

People who eat too much chicken wings will feel the effects of the growth hormones used in chickens. Females especially will develop cysts.

Students stare at the sun until they go blind while on a LSD trip.

You can unlock your car using a cell phone, even if you are miles away.


I hate getting these emails.

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someone's girlfriend put turkey necks in his freezer and he thought they were frozen severed penises

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lol @ accidentally barbecuing a human baby. Hope that really happened.

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This is funny to you? How about deleting this post, mod.

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lol @ accidentally barbecuing a human baby. Hope that really happened.

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This is funny to you? How about deleting this post, mod.

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You think you have the right to censor me just because you don't share my sense of humor? Especially for a one-off comment that was meant in jest and should actually be offensive to no one, it's a lame request.

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This is funny to you? How about deleting this post, mod.

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Dude, unless you accidentally grilled your kid in your BBQ, how are you gonna take offense to his comment?

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back on topic,

does gum stay undigested in our stomachs for 7 years if we swallow it?

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This is funny to you? How about deleting this post, mod.

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Dude, unless you accidentally grilled your kid in your BBQ, how are you gonna take offense to his comment?

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There are plenty of sillier reasons for getting "censored", and it doesn't take killing your own child to find his comment disgusting.

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My intestines are already long enough to circle Texas twice, so I doubt there's room for the gum to stay in there.

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There are plenty of sillier reasons for getting "censored", and it doesn't take killing your own child to find his comment disgusting.

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Sure, but it takes more than one uptight poster to justify the censorship of another.

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There are plenty of sillier reasons for getting "censored", and it doesn't take killing your own child to find his comment disgusting.

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Sure, but it takes more than one uptight poster to justify the censorship of another.

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I can only speak for one, and that's exactly what I did. It was a sick comment.

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This is funny to you? How about deleting this post, mod.

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Dude, unless you accidentally grilled your kid in your BBQ, how are you gonna take offense to his comment?

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There are plenty of sillier reasons for getting "censored", and it doesn't take killing your own child to find his comment disgusting.

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Lol Shaniac's shaniac is off the charts in this thread.

Shaniac,

I don't believe gum stays undigested in your stomach for 7 years. I am a habitual gum swallower and at one point last year someone across the hall from me in my dorm had a ton of gumballs so I'd have them all the time. The result of this was I'd often find what was obviously gum in my [censored] every time I took a dump. Myth debunked.

P.S. Stop finding humor in dead babies you baby hating baby killer wannabe.

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I can only speak for one

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QFT

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For some reason I think that the "gum for 7 years" thing came about because gum is increddibly hard to digest, but it doesnt stay inside of us long enough to get fully digested. Which is why it often looks just like it does when you finished chewing it when you pass it.

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In Berlin, after World War II, money was short, supplies were tight, and it seemed like everyone was hungry. At that time, people were telling the tale of a young woman who saw a blind man picking his way through a crowd. The two started to talk. The man asked her for a favor: could she deliver the letter to the address on the envelope? Well, it was on her way home, so she agreed..

A week later a home in Berlin was raided by the police after reports of suspicious activity. In the house police found several mutilated bodies and human flesh. They also found an envelope with a letter inside that read.. "This is the last one I am sending you today".

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back on topic,

does gum stay undigested in our stomachs for 7 years if we swallow it?

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No.

I read about that one in "Why do men have nipples? Questions you would only ask your doctor after your third martini"

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In Berlin, after World War II, money was short, supplies were tight, and it seemed like everyone was hungry. At that time, people were telling the tale of a young woman who saw a blind man picking his way through a crowd. The two started to talk. The man asked her for a favor: could she deliver the letter to the address on the envelope? Well, it was on her way home, so she agreed..

A week later a home in Berlin was raided by the police after reports of suspicious activity. In the house police found several mutilated bodies and human flesh. They also found an envelope with a letter inside that read.. "This is the last one I am sending you today".

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moral of the story: never talk to blind people. If a blind person asks you for help, run away or kill him.