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#131
08-06-2007, 07:19 PM
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Re: Famous urban legends
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There's a couple of other I have a hazy memory of that have this sort of internet provenance. The first is about some sort of supernatural ritual involving holding a mirror underwater and staring into it for a certain amount of time, the end result being that some sort of spirit from another dimension 'adopts' you and never leaves you alone ever again. [/ QUOTE ] I frequent a forum where a legendary thread was created about this by some guy called eBlip, it got to about 1200 posts. Anyhow it was ripped from the adventures of Don Juan or wtf it's called, by Carlos Castaneda. 
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#132
08-06-2007, 07:20 PM
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Two of them. Some guys is looking through the classified for a new car, comes across an ad for a recent Porsche 911 for $50! Now he wasn't looking for a sports car, and he's sure its a typo, but figures what the heck. he calls the number and get a friendly lady on the other end, and she confirms that the car is indeed only $50. Without asking a question he rushed over to her house, give her $50, and they sign a contract. Before the ink is dry, he asks her "You have to know this car is worth more than $50, right?" She says "Oh yeah, I know. My husband ran off to Tahiti with his mistress and sent me a note asking to sell his Porsche and send the money for them to live on." [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] Similar scene happened in a deleted scene from High Fidelity. Someone wants to sell their entire collection to John Cusack (who runs a record store). The collection is full of ultra-rare and valuable records, but the lady wants to sell it at a bargain for the same reason you listed. Cusack refuses to buy the collection because he doesn't want to rip off a record collector.
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#134
08-06-2007, 10:20 PM
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Re: Famous urban legends
I was too afraid to do the Bloody Mary thing.
I'd really like the Men In Black stories to be true (not the movies.) My sister told me that you should never flash a car without its lights on because the driver might stop and kill you as part of a gang initiation.
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#135
08-07-2007, 08:01 AM
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Re: Famous urban legends
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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. <font color="red"> You can unlock your car using a cell phone, even if you are miles away. </font> I hate getting these emails. [/ QUOTE ] I'm sure the one I put in red is true....
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#139
08-07-2007, 06:59 PM
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Re: Famous urban legends
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] It's not. [/ QUOTE ] It is, if you use your cell phone to call OnStar. [/ QUOTE ] or a locksmith. [/ QUOTE ] Or a guy with a brick, yo.
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#140
08-07-2007, 08:20 PM
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Re: Famous urban legends
at an engineering firm i worked at in college, someone printed an email out and put it on the wall as a warning to others;
DO NOT USE YOUR CELL PHONE AT THE GAS PUMP! According to a study by the American Petroleum Institute, yada yada... Since I was a snot-nosed engineering co-op, I typed a point by point rebuttal and hung it right next to the original email, so that everyone knew I was an [censored].
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