Famous urban legends

[emon87]

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.

[emon87]

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.

[emon87]

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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[Yeti]

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.

[Rootabager]

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

[guids]

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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.

[plzleenowhammy]

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..

[CORed]

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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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The thing that amazes me is how many people believe the water down the drain thing because a teacher, parent or other authority feature told them so when simple observation is all that is necessary to debunk it. Watch the water going down a drain a few times. You will see that it sometimes rotates clockwise, sometimes counterclockwise, regardless of which hemisphere you are in.

[jeffnc]

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The thing that amazes me is how many people believe the water down the drain thing because a teacher, parent or other authority feature told them so when simple observation is all that is necessary to debunk it. Watch the water going down a drain a few times. You will see that it sometimes rotates clockwise, sometimes counterclockwise, regardless of which hemisphere you are in.

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I believed it because I watched the water flush down my toilet 6 times in a row after I heard it, and it always went the same way. It's not random - it has to do with the design of the toilet (I suppose with some designs it might be random or almost random.)

[ikestoys]

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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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well, my gf went to Australia, and she swears its true

now i'm confused