# Ann Landers, disseminating urban legends from beyond the grave

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-disseminating-urban-legends-from-beyond-the-grave/118690>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 12, 2002, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-disseminating-urban-legends-from-beyond-the-grave/118690 "2002-07-12T21:22:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-disseminating-urban-legends-from-beyond-the-grave/118690/21 "2002-07-15T19:55:21Z")

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Does it matter if the cup of water is next to a baby put there by a stoned babysitter? What about next to the elderly woman’s wet poodle. Anne Lander’s was pretty elderly, was it her poodle?

Hmmm, I wonder if her hair and fingernails are still growing…

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-disseminating-urban-legends-from-beyond-the-grave/118690/22 "2002-07-15T20:18:26Z")

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Now, _there’s_ a nightmare image for you . . .

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-disseminating-urban-legends-from-beyond-the-grave/118690/23 "2002-07-16T00:08:26Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Beeblebrox \*  
> \*\*Does it matter if the cup of water is next to a baby put there by a stoned babysitter? What about next to the elderly woman’s wet poodle. Anne Lander’s was pretty elderly, was it her poodle?
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> Hmmm, I wonder if her hair and fingernails are still growing… \*\*

That’s it! I saw “microwave” and my BS detector went off immediately!

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**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-disseminating-urban-legends-from-beyond-the-grave/118690/24 "2002-07-16T22:23:46Z")

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I must have been living under a rock for the last few weeks. I didn’t even know she was dead.

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-disseminating-urban-legends-from-beyond-the-grave/118690/25 "2002-07-17T00:43:15Z")

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I knew there was a reason I didn’t own a microwave!

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**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-disseminating-urban-legends-from-beyond-the-grave/118690/26 "2002-07-17T14:46:43Z")

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Here is a video of some demonstrations of superheating water done by a professor with way too much time on his hands:

[http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW/movies/superwater1.rm](http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW/movies/superwater1.rm)

[http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW/movies/superwater2.rm](http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW/movies/superwater2.rm)  
is the same video, if you have broadband. Number thirteen is the best.

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