# rumors **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 27, 1999, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791 "1999-09-27T18:04:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Boris\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/21 "1999-09-29T06:24:00Z")
Okay, a small correction. China is on the other side of the world if you live in Chile, not Angola. It was a typo. Yeah, that’s the ticket! ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/22 "1999-09-29T07:48:00Z")
This one is notorious among Godzilla fans: King Kong vs Godzilla (1962) had a different ending in Japan where Godzilla, not King Kong, won. * * * “It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument” - William McAdoo ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/23 "1999-09-29T14:33:00Z")
Bubble Yum was the texture it was 'cause it was made with spider webs. [Insert preferred brand] hair spray will cause hornets to swarm on you and sting you to death. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/24 "1999-09-29T15:37:00Z")
\*Coldfire: AWB, you might wanna check ou this link… [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.htm](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.htm) It’s true, I’m afraid… thank god we have no such thing as Halloween here in Holland\* This is the same site that says Mr. Ed (the talking TV horse) was really a zebra. [Link to Mr. Ed the Zerba](http://www.snopes.com/lost/mred.htm) ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/25 "1999-09-29T15:42:00Z")
The Snopes reference doesn’t have _any_ references listed. 25 years ago I heard the Halloween rumor. Ten years later, I hear there’s no documented cases, just friend-of-a-friend (FOAF) references. Five more years, and I hear that there is a documented case. Right after that, the police arrested the parents who brought in the candy. Seems they wanted to create a stir, so they doctored the candy and brought it to the police. I’m still of the belief that this is still an urban legend. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/26 "1999-09-29T15:42:00Z")
The Snopes reference doesn’t have _any_ references listed. 25 years ago I heard the Halloween rumor. Ten years later, I hear there’s no documented cases, just friend-of-a-friend (FOAF) references. Five more years, and I hear that there is a documented case. Right after that, the police arrested the parents who brought in the candy. Seems they wanted to create a stir, so they doctored the candy and brought it to the police. I’m still of the belief that this is still an urban legend. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 1999, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/27 "1999-09-30T00:20:00Z")
Hey Hubzilla! It did! In Japan , Godzilla whipped Kong. Reference: “The Official Godzilla Compendium” Actually, the film clip is the same in both pictures. But the voice-over! In the US release, Kong swims away in triumph; in the Japanese release, Kong is described as fleeing. There are many other differences between the films, usually caused by editing. * * * We have met the enemy, and He is Us.–Walt Kelly ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 1999, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/28 "1999-09-30T23:16:00Z")
> [@](#): > > i herd that masterbation wil leed too bad speling. and punktuation, i for one (dont( beleve it? Only if the masturbating and writing are done simultaneuosly. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/29 "1999-10-01T01:12:00Z")
Um, AWB, the Mr. Ed story is a JOKE. Snopes has a section called “Lost Legends” that are made up, silly stories that they claim are true. There are disclaimers all over the place. The rest of Snopes is a serious UL debunking site. The linked page has quotes for an authoritative books and mentions that most of the objects in the apples were put there by the kids to scare there folks. But don’t go around deriding a useful tool of skeptics because you misunderstood the lost legends. * * * * * * The Ai\ Yue- Ha FAQ: 1. Eye You-way Han 2. It’s Chinese. 3. The symbols are tone marks. 4. No, I wasn’t drunk when I registered. 5. Just call me John, OK? ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/30 "1999-10-01T01:57:00Z")
You can die if a dragonfly stings you. Anybody else remember that one? Dragonflies can’t even sting. I think I was about the only kid my age who knew that. Once, I was playing with my cousin at the park, and a dragonfly landed on him. He just went batshit, and here I was saying “Don’t worry! It’s okay! They don’t sting!” Or how about the one where if you get a Tootsie-Roll Pop wrapper with a kid in an Indian headdress shooting a bow and arrow at two stars, you get a free bag of candy. Where do you redeem them? Nobody knew. You just got a free bag of candy, and that was all there was to it. ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/31 "1999-10-01T02:45:00Z")
I remember one of my friends telling me that if you French kissed a boy, you would end up pregnant. Of course, I still believed in cooties at the time. Shadowfox ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/32 "1999-10-01T04:13:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Watching TV with no light in the room is bad for your eyes I still thought this was true. My grandmother always tells me that the light from the TV is bad for your eyes (cause it’s blue, or something), and you need white light (like from a lamp) to even things out. Anybody have any references proving or disproving this? > [@](#): > > Also that if you misspell moon(duh!) you must marry c#3! No,that would be too horrible!Wasn’t there a thread awhile back about the one I heard where you look in the mirror in the dark,light a candle,you’ll see your future mate? ## Think that was the Bloody Mary thread. I’ll see if I can find it for you. Cessandra [My Homepage](http://www.shsu.edu/~stdmed17/Home.html) **Updated 9/30/99!** [The RHPS: Website For Virgins](http://www.shsu.edu/~stdmed17/RockyHome.html) **Updated 9/28/99!** ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/33 "1999-10-01T04:33:00Z")
Sorry, no luck with the Bloody Mary thread. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/34 "1999-10-01T09:40:00Z")
Nope, watching TV with the lights off is perfectly OK for your eyes. A little background light is SMOOTHER to the eye and less tiresome to watch, but no lights does not mean your eyes will be going bad. BTW, the Bloody Mary thing is explained on [www.snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com) also. Coldfire * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Scarred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Scarred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarred)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/35 "1999-10-01T20:27:00Z")
What is this bullshit about golfballs NOT exploding when they’re opened?!? I have scars on my left eyeball to prove that one wrong. When I was nine, I grabbed a ball and a knife and started hacking away. When I hit that liquid center, I was a goner. Oh, I forgot to mention I had the ball in a vise. By the way, getting stitches in one’s eye makes for one of the most unpleasant experiences one could have. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/36 "1999-10-01T20:43:00Z")
If you go outside with your hair wet, and it’s cold outside, you’ll catch a cold. If you stay outside too long in the cold, you’ll catch a cold. If you go outside “with your pores open,” and it’s cold outside, you’ll catch a cold. I have no idea what that last one means, but I’ve heard it from different people who could not possibly have known one another. It must be some backwoods Southernism. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/37 "1999-10-01T22:32:00Z")
If you swallow seeds or pits, they go in the appendix and give appendicitis.(my mom’s words) ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/38 "1999-10-01T22:41:00Z")
**Boris B** > [@](#): > > There is a swarm of killer bees headed here from Mexico. When they arrive, they will kill everyone in the United States. This one isn’t too far off. The “headed” part has become obsolete since we were kids. They’re here now, kicking ass and taking names. I suppose “everyone” is an exageration…\*or is it?\*_cue scary music_ ---
**Author:** ![Imthecowgodmoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/39 "1999-10-01T23:47:00Z")
If you have a cut somewhere on your body and then go swimming in a pond, lake or ocean you will get blood poisening. * * * “I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”-- Calvin and Hobbes (\_\_) `\/-------\ `| |-----| | …c.c…c.c… ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791/40 "1999-10-02T05:06:00Z")
RE: open pores, not a southernerism Your pores, (as in, the part of your skin that scretes oil, and such) do open and close. That’s why you are supposed to wash your face with warm water (to open your pores and get your face clean) and rinse with cold water (to close your pores again). Of course, I don’t see how you could be out in the cold with your pores open, since cold air would close them, and it certainly wouldn’t make you sick, anyway. * * * Cessandra [My Homepage](http://www.shsu.edu/~stdmed17/Home.html) **Updated 9/30/99!** [The RHPS: Website For Virgins](http://www.shsu.edu/~stdmed17/RockyHome.html) **Updated 9/28/99!** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumors/8791.md?page=3)