# Let's start silly urban legends

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-silly-urban-legends/480450>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 9, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-silly-urban-legends/480450 "2009-01-09T00:24:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-silly-urban-legends/480450/161 "2015-09-10T21:08:05Z")

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You do. But the rumor was that they would dissolve and add a subtle gold sheen to each turd.

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**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-silly-urban-legends/480450/162 "2015-09-11T02:39:18Z")

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‘All-Day’ deodorants and anti-perspirants were never made Y2K compliant. This is why on random days they don’t work.

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**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-silly-urban-legends/480450/163 "2015-09-11T10:22:57Z")

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> [@Wallaby](#):
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> ‘All-Day’ deodorants and anti-perspirants were never made Y2K compliant. This is why on random days they don’t work.

😃

Neither were contact lens solutions, resulting in people mixing up the right and left lenses, which caused train crashes throughout America and Tibet!

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**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-silly-urban-legends/480450/164 "2015-09-11T11:48:06Z")

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> [@Derleth](#):
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> Everyone who dies in Antarctica has to stay there forever: Fuel is too limited for the aircraft and ships that visit to justify carrying even a single dead body out.
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> More Jews have been members of the Nazi Party than have played in the World Series.

These two are both very, _very_ good.

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