Check especially this bit :
I actually released this one into the wild something like a year ago, but I think it was too silly to take off.
The funniest part was watching folks on alt.folklore.urban analyzing it.
That is so worth reading, thanks very much. It’s like that with ideas isn’t it? They are all secondhand or of “collective” origin no matter how original your own may appear to you. I thought the stuff about the Vehm was less in tune with my ideas than this (from your link): “there was some interest by the Nazi cadres in parapsychology as an espionage device”. That was my third urban myth in this thread and as a demonstration of how ideas can be secondhand but not plagiarised I’ll tell you how that one came to me. It relates to the thinking processes of deaf people or outsiders of various types (Handy may be able to comment on it).
I had a bad ear problem awhile back and for days I was unable to hear much at all - I was almost stone deaf. Whenever I was in a room in which other people were gathered in groups I found myself turning over in my head all the things they may have been talking about. I was desperate to guess - they may have been talking about me! The idea came to me that if someone was highly intelligent and had access to almost perfect information that it would be possible to know what was going on. Working through random possibilities and then guessing might be close to being actually psychic. It’s kind of a development of the “slave/master” relationship dynamic in which the slave has become acutely sensitive to the master’s behaviour patterns. The knowledge available is not about space and time or anything other than the person who wants to know it though. It must, in some way, help the slave survive.
Well, that was a long paragraph about nothing much, wasn’t it?
Oh no! My last post is intended for DETOP not Revtim. I’d like to make that clear. Thanks.
Thank you. What can I say ? Weird minds think alike ? 
d&R
-Dr. Dre and the guys from Metallica actually supported Napster. They gave Shawn Fanning startup money, and when they found out that he had no intention of sharing the profits from a subscription service, they sued him over copyright infringement. Lars Ulrich actually released the demo versions of “I Disappear” onto Napster just to set up the lawsuit.
-Strom Thurmond actually died in 1986. He has been reelected after that time because of a secret South Carolina law that stated he must serve in the Senate until after 2000.
-The US Postal Service has optical scanners that can read items inside of “security” envelopes. They use this capability to gather information for the government.
-Cheap, efficient space travel is possible right now. NASA uses the $10,000/lb. figure to prevent private companies from gaining funding for space services.
-Aaliyah faked her own death so she could marry Tupac Shakur, who is living in a penthouse in Toronto. His death was faked by the FBI because he has information that will lead to the end of the rap industry.
How do you like those?
-Brianjedi
This might be the JUST thing for me. Any more info…? 
I meant to say…this might be JUST the thing for me.
How’s this for an urban legend? Pregnancy causes brain cells to die rapidly. This deterioration accelerate with each subsequent pregnancy. This is the fourth time for me. Do you think that it’s affecting me at all h gyaudg jdla?
Brianjedi: Tupac Shakur knew that if African-American artists compromised their music, dropped rhythm and blues, rap and hip hop and switched to rock (heavy metal, country, alternative) that racism would be almost eradicated. Racism is founded on shaky, superficial grounds and can be got rid of easier than most people think. Neither the Klan nor the Nation of Islam likes this idea at all.
Mayflower: Try the isolation ward at your local hospital. It’s the perfect hang out for you!
The so-called “security tags” on the more expensive clothing in nice stores are nothing of the sort. They’re actually time-release mechanisms for releasing drugs into the clothing. The drugs are designed to seep in through the skin and impair fertility of the women who shop there and thus handle the clothing, ensuring that they’ll have smaller families and thus more disposable income.
You may doubt, but you’ll notice you’ve never seen a pregnant clerk in the clothing section of a large department store, have you now.
(Sorry, couldn’t fit the aliens in there…or the government surveillance.)
Corr
Sherwood Schwartz, the producers of such TV classics as The Brady Bunch and Gilligan’s Island, is also the possessor of a Doctorate in Asian literature and has written a number of scholarly articles on the subject under a pseudonym. He has also used his academic background more directly in his mainstream career.
The Brady Bunch is actually based on a Indian epic of the joining of two families. At the dawn of history, India was inhabited by a dark haired race who were conquered by blonde haired Aryan invaders. The epic tells of an Aryan man with three sons who lost his wife but met and fell in love with an Indian woman with three daughters who had lost her husband. The epic symbolized the union of the two races who together created the golden age of classic India. Schwartz incidentally originally planned to duplicate the “color” of the original couple, but changed his mind due to the difficulty of casting blonde actors rather than actresses.
Gilligan’s Island was based on a Korean folktale of a group of travelers who were beset by a typhoon while sailing and cast ashore on a desert island. The travelers in the original tale were a monk, a merchant, the merchant’s concubine, a scholar, a mercenary, the ship’s captain, and the captain’s slave. Despite their highly different backgrounds, the castaways had to work together to survive on the island. The folktale was a metaphor for how people of all stations in life were necessary for society to function. Schwartz adapted some charactors directly to his show and invented others to balance the cast.
In both cases, Schwartz took existing legends and simply added the humor to them. In addition to the main backgrounds, Schwartz often found inspiration for specific episodes in the classical Asian literature he loved. Schwartz wanted to give full credit to his sources, but network executives were fearful that audiences would think the shows were too “high brow” and not watch if they knew the truth.
Guitarist Steve Miller is Glenn Miller’s son.
(Note-actually, Glenn’s and Helen Miller’s son, whom they adopted in 1943, WAS named Steve. Just not the same guy as the “Space Cowboy”)
Little Nemo: It’s not too late for the Indian epic Brady Bunch with authentic colours. It’s the best new series idea I’ve seen for awhile.
This is being done! The first group came out this week! Alias, Nick Fury and many more…
The first issue of Triple X-Men is sure to be a collector’s item.
Hearing-Impared people are discouraged (Though not actually barred) from adopting dogs from animal shelters in some states. The reason? Some dogs, not understanding that their owners are can’t hear their barks for attention, think that they are being intentionally ignored or “shunned”, and become depressed.
A secret microprocessor breakthrough resulted in the 10 Gigahertz personal computer CPU (Called “Stratus”) being developed…In 1989. The computer industry, thrilled with the possibilities of this new development, promptly switched all of it’s manufacturing lines to the production of this processor. Unfortunately, all attempts to exceed the 10 GHz speed have failed, through to the present day, owning to problems in ultra-small-scale manufacturing. The computer industry, fearing market stagnation from a lack of user incentive to buy new equipment, and unable to switch back to traditional lines of processors due to the massive investment in the new model, decided to release the Stratus into the market…With software “Bottlenecks” to limit it’s speed. Any processor “Advances” since May of 1990 have in fact just been secret software modifications to allow the Stratus processors to use more of their existing processor power. Even now, Industry think-tanks are working around the clock to devise a new charade to explain why home PC’s will not be increasing in speed after Fall of 2006.
I spotted at LEAST five plot holes in the above legends. How’d everyone else do? 
Ranchoth
Mary Shelly’s attorney was named Jon Harker. Bram Stoker’s attorney was named Victor Franks.
He-he…
Ranchoth