Urban Legends/Paranormal Feud [game over]

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But, factually, she’s been found. Or her remains have been.

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I had forgotten about that!

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  1. Gerbil stuffing (I don’t think you want me to get more graphic than that)

  2. Paul McCartney

  3. Roswell

  4. Hitchhiker flags down car but vanishes before the car reaches its destination; the people inside the house say it’s their daughter, who died ten years ago

  5. McDonalds burgers are made of ground worms

  6. Amelia Earhart

  7. Loch Ness Monster

  8. Bloody Mary

  9. John Edward

  10. Stevie Wonder

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Fortunately this game is about guessing what the participating dopers will write and not about correctness. I just play to boost the moral of everybody else.

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  1. The choking doberman (on the bitten-off fingers of a burglar hiding in a closet)
  2. Paul McCartney
  3. Roswell, NM
  4. The Hook - teenagers parked at lover’s lane hear radio report of escaped mental patient with hook for hand, drive home, discver hook hanging on door handle.
  5. Pop rocks + soda = exploded stomach
  6. Jimmy Hoffa
  7. Bigfoot
  8. Abe Lincoln
  9. John Edward
  10. Reggie Jackson
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[here are the questions:

  1. Briefly summarize an urban legend that pertains to household pets. (For this question and others, a link to the relevant Snopes article or similar page is permitted.)

My original urban legend: New Yorkers flushed baby alligators bought as pets down the toilet, so the New York sewers were teeming with full grown alligators.

  1. Mark Twain is reported to have assured his fans that reports of his death were greatly exaggerated. Name another person whose demise was reported prematurely.

Paul McCartney

  1. Name a place associated with UFO activity.

Roswell, New Mexicon

  1. Briefly summarize an urban legend that pertains to automobiles.

“Lights out”; gang-bangers drove around with their headlights out, sworn to follow home and kill the first person who flashed their beams (standard signal to someone that their headlights were out).

  1. Briefly summarize an urban legend that pertains to food.

Tomatoes are contaminated with salmonella? [Can’t think of one]

  1. Name a person who disappeared under mysterious circumstances and has never officially been found.

Amelia Earhart (I can’t remember the name of that man who probably crashed in the desert fairly recently)

  1. Name an animal species which has never been proven to exist, but in which many people believe.

Yeti

  1. Name a person whose ghost has been reported by people who claim to have seen or otherwise sensed the apparition.

Any un-named soldier who died at Gettysburg.

  1. Name a person regarded by some as a psychic or medium.

[pass; the only name that comes to mind is the Amazing Kreskin]

  1. Finally, there’s a story about a woman who gets on an elevator and is soon joined by a black man and his dog. The man says something like “On the floor, Lady” which is directed to the dog, but which the woman interprets as being directed to her. After realizing her mistake, the woman is further ashamed when told that the man she had unjustifiably feared was actually which celebrity?

Which one wasn’t it? I probably first heard it about Clarence Williams; I most recently heard Samuel L. Jackson

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  1. A poodle stuffed in a microwave to dry off.
  2. Anna Nicole Smith
  3. Roswell, NM
  4. Old couple turn on cruise control, thinking it drives the car, than go in the back of the RV.
  5. Couple goes into a chinese restraunt with their toy poodle, get served him cooked.
  7. Bigfoot, Yeti, etc.
  8. Bloody Mary
  10. Eddie Murphy
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This is somewhat cleaned up to meet the format and save Delores reborn some work.

  1. My original urban legend: New Yorkers flushed baby alligators bought as pets down the toilet, so the New York sewers were teeming with full grown alligators.

  2. Paul McCartney

  3. Roswell, New Mexicon

  4. “Lights out”; gang-bangers drove around with their headlights out, sworn to follow home and kill the first person who flashed their beams (standard signal to someone that their headlights were out).

  5. Tomatoes are contaminated with salmonella?

  6. Amelia Earhart

  7. Yeti

  8. Any un-named soldier who died at Gettysburg.

  9. pass

  10. Samuel L. Jackson

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1. Briefly summarize an urban legend that pertains to household pets. (For this question and others, a link to the relevant Snopes article or similar page is permitted.)
The one about the Mexican dog (Chihuahua) that is actually a rat.

2. Mark Twain is reported to have assured his fans that reports of his death were greatly exaggerated. Name another person whose demise was reported prematurely.
Paul McCartney. “I buried Paul” is supposedly the trailing lyrics in “Strawberry Fields Forever”, and his being barefoot on the cover of the album Abbey Road is supposed to somehow be a clue as well. (Then again, I just saw him perform live at Billy Joel’s Last Play At Shea concert a week and a half ago.)

3. Name a place associated with UFO activity.
Area 51. (I’ll be surprised if this isn’t unanimous)

4. Briefly summarize an urban legend that pertains to automobiles.
The woman who’s selling her ex’s prized rare sports car for $1.

5. Briefly summarize an urban legend that pertains to food.
If you eat Pop Rocks and chase it with some carbonated soda, your stomach can rupture from the gas… You know, it’s how the kid who played “Mikey” on those commercial for Life cereal died.

6. Name a person who disappeared under mysterious circumstances and has never officially been found.
Amelia Earheart.

7. Name an animal species which has never been proven to exist, but in which many people believe.
Bigfoot (more so, I would say, than the Loch Ness Monster, at least in the USA)

8. Name a person whose ghost has been reported by people who claim to have seen or otherwise sensed the apparition.
Abraham Lincoln’s ghost in the White House

9. Name a person regarded by some as a psychic or medium.
Jeanne Dixon, (who made her name by predicting, in print, that the 1960 US Presidential election would go to someone who would be assassinated or die in office")

10. Finally, there’s a story about a woman who gets on an elevator and is soon joined by a black man and his dog. The man says something like “On the floor, Lady” which is directed to the dog, but which the woman interprets as being directed to her. After realizing her mistake, the woman is further ashamed when told that the man she had unjustifiably feared was actually which celebrity?
Reggie Jackson

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  1. Pet dog from Mexico is really a rat

  2. Mikey, from Life cereal commercials

  3. Roswell

  4. Gangs target drivers who flash headlights

  5. Kentucky Fried Chicken served rats

  6. Judge Crater

  7. Bigfoot

  8. Abraham Lincoln

  9. Nostradamus

  10. Lionel Richie

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  1. Arghhh! cat in microwave. Arrrgh!
  2. James Brady
  3. Area 51
  4. “Haunted car”
  5. rat in KFC
  6. Amelia Earhart
  7. Yeti/Sasquatch/Bigfoot
  8. The Bell Witch?
  9. John Edwards
  10. Eddie Murphy
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  1. Dog dried in microwave, of course the dog exploded
  2. Paul McCartney
  3. Roswell NM
  4. Teens at make-out site flee suspicious sound, later find hook on car door
  5. Neiman-Marcus chocolate chip cookie recipe
  6. Jimma Hoffy
  7. Bigfoot
  8. Abe Lincoln
  9. Sylvia Brown
  10. Eddie Murphy*

the line was, “Hit the floor” i.e., push the button for your floor.

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  1. The Choking Doberman

  2. Paul McCartney

  3. Roswell, NM

  4. The stolen grandmother

  5. Chinese restaurants and cat meat

  6. Natalie Holloway

  7. Bigfoot

  8. Abraham Lincoln

  9. Sylvia Browne

  10. Eddie Murphy

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[QUOTE=Sternvogel]

  1. 2 dumb men, along with intelligent dog, go fishing on frozen lake. Park truck on lake. Start throwing sticks of dynamite to blast holes in ice to fish. Dog fetches thrown stick of dynamite back to men and truck. Blows up and truck sinks to bottom of lake.

  2. Have to go with John Darwin - the canoe guy! Just because it’s been in the papers non-stop over here.

  3. Roswell

  4. Car industry is suppressing world-changing green technology that allows cars to run on water, fresh air etc

  5. Eating celery actually makes you lose calories

  6. Lord Lucan

  7. Yeti

  8. Anne Boleyn

  9. Sylvia Browne

  10. Pretty sure this one’s a fear of the black man scenario - Michael Jordan?

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Thanks, but Sternvogel is scoring this one! :slight_smile:

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In that case can a mod delete that post? :slight_smile:
Just kidding.

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  1. A family went to Mexico and bought what they thought was a chihuahua but when they went to the vet in the states they learned they had really bought a rat–with mange.

  2. Alfred Nobel

  3. Roswell, NM

  4. James Dean’s car parts killing other people (Snopes)

  5. Coca-Cola means “bite the wax tadpole” in Chinese (Snopes )

  6. Amelia Earhardt

  7. Chupacabra

  8. Lady Jane Gray

  9. John Edward (aka South Park’s “Biggest Douche in the Universe”)

  10. Michael Jordan?

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I had higher hopes for y’all. I thought more people would go for the exotic chupacabra than the prosaic Sasquatch. I should have gone with my first instinct and used it as an opportunity for a comic shout-out.

Chupacabra’s more fun anyway.

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  1. Cat or small dog in microwave.

  2. Sinbad

  3. Bermuda Triangle

  4. Don’t buy cars made on Mondays

  5. Pop Rocks and soda will kill you

  6. Jimmy Hoffa

  7. Yeti

  8. Lincoln

  9. Nostradamus

  10. Danny Glover

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I WILL someday make it there. I’m a Neil Gaiman fan, and when I found the link to that “place of power” I was very excited. I didn’t know that the House on The Rock was real.