Now that I’ve got your attention: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_957945.html
I find that article difficult to believe I must say.
May I introduce you to the wonders of snopes?
Snope before you post.
Snope before you post.
Snope before you post.
Snope before you post. x100
:smack: excuse me while I go die now
When I was an undergrad in the 1970s Masters and Johnson came to speak at our school. That’s Masters and Johnson the sex researchers.
They told this story as a factual one, that happened at their establishment. This isn’t your typical Urban Legend FOAF.
So either:
1.) M&J were puttin’ us youngsters one
or
2.) M&J were mistaken or misinformed by their staff
or
3.) This story was actually true at one location.
Birds do it…
Bees do it…
Everybody but conservative German religious fanatics do it…
Or at least search.
not a doper till you’ve been publicly humiliated, not a doper till you’ve been publicly humiliated…just keep telling yourself that, grue…yeah… :kicks self:
You may also enjoy the longer thread discussing the subject more thoroughly.
Don’t worry, a lot of us have posted in too much haste.
What TroubleAgain said.
Happens to the best of us. If it’s any consolation, it didn’t take me very long at all after signing up. :o
Twenty or more years ago, ‘Dear Abby’* pubished a letter from a man who was around 40. He was getting married soon to a woman who had been married before, and confessed to Abby that he was a virgin. He asked her where to go for advice. She basically told him that his wife would know what to do, which I thought was a cop out – he was obviously writing to Abby because he didn’t want to have to ask his wife what to do.
Abby wasn’t an especially reliable source – she was notorious for falling for urban legends and the like, and even got caught making up letters to herself. But I thought I’d mention this anyway.
*And it was Dear Abby, not her twin sister Ann Landers – I specifically remember the letter writer saying, “Please don’t faint, Abby, but I am a virgin”.
I got an early start. My very first post had four different howling mistakes in it. :smack: So, hang in there.
Well, that’s what happens when you wander around in the dark. You get eaten by a… oh, wait… never mind.
Ananova has also been known to fall for stories like this before.
Isn’t Ananova the site that used to have the simulated talking reporter? What ever happened to that?
umop, darlin’, much as I love you and as much as I love having people agree with me, I don’t remember saying anything in this thread or the other one…? Think you must have meant someone else…
Well, it was a while ago, and out of 2690 it’s understandably easy to forget the odd post.
Ahhh…oddly enough, I thought I MIGHT have replied to the other one, but skimmed it and couldn’t find a post by me. Thanks, Lute. And Umop, I’ve been around long enough to have lost a whole CHUNK of posts in the Winter of Our Lost Content, so it’s even more than that…I need a life.
In fact, Snopes himself sent in a UL that was printed in an Ann Landers column.
Check out this posting to the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban back in 1994 where Snopes (Dave Mikkelson) says
Ahh, those were the days. Back when Snopes was committing hoaxes and not just exposing them…