Look above Sampiro for the explanation about this. Try the “Lost Legends” page at Snopes.
Sorry 'bout that. Somehow I didn’t see that you had caught it.
Nevermind. :o
I remember a story of fishermen in a country with a stray dog overpopulation using live dogs as bait. Snopes had it listed as false, but I saw this same story (along with pictures) on the National Geographic website and it said it was true. So who knows? I tend to believe the National Geographic reporter that witnessed this act over Snopes.
I don’t know if I buy at all that her saying it makes it true, however, she certainly didn’t play it off like an elaborate joke to my recollection. It’s included in a collection of Johnny Carson clips I saw around the time Johnny died. This is probably it, if you’re interested in seeing it again:
http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60033733&trkid=147042
And a bloody nuisance it was, too. I would go through Cecil’s mail, and every week there would be at least one letter asking whether Mr Ed was really a zebra, some of them citing the Snopes’ story as if it were real. Sigh.
You should bring this to Snopes’ attention, with a link to the appropriate web page if it’s still there.
Well, yes- and no. Lucy did make that claim, and I don’t think she was lying, but that doesn’t mean that all aspects of her claim have been substanciated. Especially the part about "and sure enough, they found an underground Japanese radio station. It was somebody’s gardener, but sure enough, they were spies. " which is VERY doubtful. Of course, it isn’t all that doubtful that either the FBI or MGM security got back to Lucy and thanked her for her "vigilance’ or somethng like that.
I saw that shortly after Carson died, and I don’t remember Ball being in the collection. However, an episode of Mythbusters which tackled the legend did show clips from another talk show- I believe it was Dick Cavett’s- in which Ball told her story.
D’oh! Yes, it may very well have been on Mythbusters that I saw it. I swear I wasn’t intentionally trying to produce an example of false clarity in memory.
They used to have a legend about a congressman stopped on the way to the capital, drunk, pulled over by a Virginia state trooper. The congressman got out of it by claiming you can’t arrest a congressman on the way to congress.
I can’t find that one anymore - I tried various searches.
Anyway, it’s true, and they said as much, but they also said it was a valid loophole, which it is not. A lawyer posted in the message board that the Supreme Court ruled long ago that the sentence in the constitution that says that only applies to civil arrest, and not criminal.
But, as I said, it looks like they’ve taken the whole page down.
TV triva buffs consider the claim that Mary Kay and Johnny was the first television series to portray a married couple who slept in the same bed is heresy due to the lack of evidence.
Methinks that the biggest scam on the internet is Snopes saying “We knew all along that it was false, but we put it there to let everybody know that they should know better than to believe us!”
Dear, dear friends: Snopes got busted on these, and won’t eat the obligatory crow. The only reason that they fessed up on the Eubanks thing was because it was plastered all over tv and the rest of the internet finally got the sound byte.
Naw. The Lost Legends are obviously bullshit, not only not true but downright rediculous. I mean, read the Mr. Ed one. Stripes don’t show up in black and white? It’s a gotcha and they meant it.
But it’s not clear the handsome one is talking about the TROLL ones - the one specific legend he mentions is the Eubanks one (I honestly don’t remember if they used to have it red or yellow), which is not a faker.
I like snopes, but I think handsomeharry has a point.
At least they are out there, with falsifiable contentions, and they change things they get wrong. I do agree it’s a little frustrating they don’t have a ‘we used to say blah, but have since learned blah’ on every page they change.
Mary Kay Stearns, the co-creator and co-star of Mary Kay and Johnny is still living. She has first-hand knowledge of the couple sharing the same bed on their pioneering sitcom.
Yes, it is.
Because they’re the only pages that snopes knowingly posts incorrect information, or includes any mention of False Authority Syndrome.
Tell that to this guy.
National Geographic isn’t immune to reporting UL’s as true either. On their Explorer TV show, they have these true/false trivia questions they show on their commercial bumpers. One time they did a segment on a guy who trained a falcon to dive along side him as he skydived himself, and the bumper claimed that a skydiver can’t breathe during freefall. They said it wasn’t necessary anyway, because the skin will absorb enough oxygen from the air. Furthermore, they claimed that the reason skydivers don’t jump on cloudy days is that the condensation on their skin would suffocate them. All this was reported as true, despite the fact that skydivers breathe normally during freefall and “breathing through your skin” being a well-known myth.
There is one that I can say it was declared false by snopes, then partially true (Snopes was willing to eat crow!) now it fase again: (It was changed on December and Snopes is not eating crow for this 2nd change… mmm)
Well the fact was the flights were not reported at the time, and indeed they hapened just after normal flights were resumed (I still have my doubts)
The new conclusion comes from the 9/11 commision and it sounds fair until I saw this:
Ahem, unless Superman typed new lists and those databases were updated in less than 2 days, the FBI was using the same incomplete information that allowed the 9/11 perpetrators (mostly Saudis) to roam across America. I still think the questioning was inadequate, and in the light of how long we keep unlawful combatants in jail, a joke of an investigation.
I think the confusion comes in that while Mary Kay and Johnny were indeed the first to be shown sleeping in the same bed, Jake and Molly Goldberg had been shown having graphic three way sex in a bed (with special guest star Bea Benadarat). However, when finished, they returned to their own beds to actually sleep.