# Let's create Urban Legends! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628 "2017-09-30T03:32:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/21 "2017-10-02T19:11:05Z")
Steve Jobs paid his way through college by oiling up bodybuilders like the young Arnold Schwarzenegger on Venice Beach. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/22 "2017-10-04T13:50:59Z")
It is not possible to get a replacement Social Security Card. You can lose a portion of your Social Security benefits if you laminate your Social Security card. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/23 "2017-10-04T15:50:22Z")
The chip they now put in your debit card is there so the NSA can track anybody’s movements anywhere in the country. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/24 "2017-10-06T15:10:51Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > The chip they now put in your debit card is there so the NSA can track anybody’s movements anywhere in the country. REAL LIFE: They don’t need to: If you have a smartphone with Google Maps it does it automatically.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/25 "2017-10-06T15:20:52Z")
Isn’t this going to turn into another trivia dominoes? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/26 "2017-10-06T15:22:19Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > The chip they now put in your debit card is there so the NSA can track anybody’s movements anywhere in the country. That one’s real. Or at least, a real urban legend. Enough so that I have clients come in with the chip ripped out of their card at least once a month. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/27 "2017-10-06T16:24:08Z")
Comedian Julius Marx used the names Stinko, Bummo and Gringo before settling on Groucho. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/28 "2017-10-06T17:28:33Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > That one’s real. Or at least, a real urban legend. Enough so that I have clients come in with the chip ripped out of their card at least once a month. Are you a bail bondsman? ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/29 "2017-10-06T19:40:49Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > That one’s real. Or at least, a real urban legend. Enough so that I have clients come in with the chip ripped out of their card at least once a month. Wow, I guess I hit too close with that one. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/30 "2017-10-06T21:26:39Z")
A political group has claimed that the Apache helicopter is denigrating to native Americans, portraying them as bellicose and warlike. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/31 "2017-10-06T21:29:30Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > That one’s real. Or at least, a real urban legend. Enough so that I have clients come in with the chip ripped out of their card at least once a month. Tell 'em that the REAL chip is embedded in their left ear, and hand them a cold chisel… ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/32 "2017-10-06T22:02:14Z")
Since the debut of the cartoon “Samurai Jack”, telecommunications workers often refer to cell phone towers as “Akus”. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/33 "2017-10-06T22:35:52Z")
The North Star is the brightest non-Sun star because it is the closest non-Sun star to Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/34 "2017-10-07T01:21:55Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Tell 'em that the REAL chip is embedded in their left ear, and hand them a cold chisel… [Can God Fill Teeth?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPV73jB0N6Q) > [@](#): > > No wonder every bad thing in and out of my mouth keeps winding up on my employment record. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/35 "2017-10-07T12:08:17Z")
OK, once I point this out, you’ll be all :smack: that you hadn’t noticed. In fact, I think I’ll spoiler this and urge you not to peek. You will never see **Beckdawreck** in any threads about music. That’s because Jeff is afraid he’ll out himself. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/36 "2017-10-07T12:18:11Z")
The Heaven’s Gate cult kept themselves financed by designing websites. This is well known and uncontroversial. Less known is the fact that in each website they launched, they included a Trojan Horse designed to replicate itself in as many computers as possible, then lay dormant until March 19, 2047; on this date, the virus will activate, and turn off the World Wide Web. The cult staged their mass suicide, not to teleport themselves aboard comet Hale-Bopp’s “escort fleet,” but to cover their tracks. On March 19, 4385, the virus will turn the World Wide Web back on, when Hale-Bopp next makes perihelion. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628/37 "2017-10-10T02:38:14Z")
In 1930s Baltimore, the Bromo Seltzer company almost went out of business when their delivery van–loaded with Bromo–backed into the Inner Harbor when its brakes failed. Charm City-ites were burping non-stop for the better part of a week. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-create-urban-legends/797628.md?page=1)