Let's start silly urban legends

“Gullible” isn’t in the dictionary.

Ha! It is too! I checked!

Smoking cigarettes actually cures a whole host of diseases, including AIDS and hepatitis-C. Anti-smoking laws were passed mainly at the behest of fundamentalist Christian lobbyists who want AIDS to remain uncured, so that it can be used as a deterrant to scare young people away from having premarital sex.
As soon as he becomes sworn in, Obama plans to enact reverse-segregation nationwide. Already, all federal/state/city government run agencies have “Blacks Only” signs which will be posted in January, the first day after Obama’s swearing-in ceremony.
Facebook is really a tool of a secretive cartel of big corporate interests that control the world. Everyone who ever posts on Facebook is having their personal information monitored and run through a computer algorythm program that determines whether the person is a gullible, easily-controlled sheep (therefore deemed “good”) or a free-thinking, potentially rebellious person (therefore deemed “bad”). All the people deemed “bad” are quietly, methodically being ‘eliminated’ before they can cause trouble for the Powers That Be.
The current financial meltdown was no accident. It was a coldly, methodically-calculated plan carried out by the democratic party to poison the Joe Six-Packs of the world against the republicans and sway the '08 election in their favor.

The long shorts known as “plus fours”* derive their name from a corruption of the French "plus force": the pants and the name were brought back from Alaska and popularised in the late 19th Century by Theodore Roosevelt.

*Post 13 and onwards.

This one is my favourite. :slight_smile:

Due to a catastrophic printing error, all tickets printed for a certain scratchoff game and shipped to a convenience store in Rahway, NJ, were winning lottery tickets. Lottery officials indicated that they are trying to determine how to prevent this in the future, but that the odds of it happening again are comparable to someone’s winning the lottery anyway, so they’re not putting too much effort into it.

You might want to tweak that so that it refers to someone who actually ran in the 2008 election.

The reason the government is clamping down on smoking is because the alien zombies, who they are in secret alliance with, are sick of tasting nicotine in their food.

Due to his well known drug and alcohol problems at the time, the werewolf portrayed on the cover of Ozzy Osbourne’s 1983 Bark At The Moon is actually Barbara Streisand as Ozzy was disposed at the time.

Fah! It is quite silly to fashion urban legends when reality is full of actual interesting facts.

Like, the other day I was reading about the cartoon “Casper, the friendly ghost”. Interestingly enough, it was created by danish born cartoonist Ulf “Bunny” Buundgaard. The inspiration for the character came from his twin brother, Kasper, who died at the age of seven. Ulf claimed to feel Kasper’s presence for most of his life.

One of Ulf’s grandsons works as an animator in “The Simpsons”. There are several references to “Casper” during the show.

The kid actor who played real life Casper in the 1995 movie with Christina Ricci has got something more in common with Casper now: he died of heroin overdose in 2006.

That’d be Devon Sawa. He’s still alive, and has a movie coming out this year.

I would’ve put KFC instead. :smiley:

Yes, well, obviously I meant the other kid, the one that appears at the beginning of the movie playing an even younger Casper.

(If there is no younger kid, then I obviously meant the actor that played him in one of the sequels.)

There were sequels? :smack: I didn’t know. Sorry, I get a little overzealous with the ignorance fighting and all. Carry on, then! :o

I have been whooshed. Fuck.

Well played!

Fuck.

There are almost no court cases involving the Third Amendment, which restricts the quartering of soldiers in private homes. The reason? Due to various mix-ups and oversights in the ratification process for the Bill of Rights, the Third Amendment was never actually legally ratified (various states instead ratified what eventually became the Twenty-Seventh Amendment, or the never-enacted Congressional Apportionment Amendment).

Everyone in the legal community is well aware of the Third’s dubious status, and there is thus a tacit agreement not to bring up the amendment in any official capacity, for fear that if the constitutional blunder became public knowledge, it could undermine our entire legal system. In particular, the Sixteenth Amendment was correctly ratified, but legal experts know that if the truth about the Third Amendment ever got out, they would never be able to get some people to shut up about the whole income tax thing, and the federal government would risk collapse due to massive lack of revenue caused by wholesale non-compliance with the income tax laws. This “gentlemen’s agreement” was significantly violated only once, in Engblom v. Carey, an obscure 1982 court case.

Since the United States (unlike crowded Old World monarchies) has always had plenty of vacant land for forts and barracks, the issue covered by the Third Amendment has never really come up, rendering the whole thing essentially moot in any case.

George Clinton has a B.A. in mathematics.

Alicia Witt has been quietly blacklisted from the film industry because of casual cocktail-party comments against Scientology and prominent Scientologists.

Coming soon to a Franklin near you: RFID dust.

Swallowing semen will cause any fat normally deposited on the hips within the following 24 hours to be deposited in the breasts.