# We want to START an Urban Legend **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 8, 2004, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853 "2004-08-08T03:48:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![quicken78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/919ad9/32.png) [@quicken78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quicken78)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/21 "2004-08-09T10:35:50Z")
WARNING I generally hate hoax warnings, but this one is important. Please send this to everyone on your e-mail list. If a man comes to your front door and says he’s conducting a survey and asks you to show him your ass, DO NOT show him your ass. This is a scam - he only wants to see your ass. I wish I’d gotten this warning yesterday. I feel so stupid. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/22 "2004-08-09T13:19:14Z")
Does this classify as UL, or is it just a hoax? Anyway, [here’s](http://beatles.ncf.ca/bill_deyoung_reporting_on_the_paul_is_dead_hoax.html) the story behind rumors that Paul McCarney was dead. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/23 "2004-08-09T13:21:42Z")
Er, that would be McCar **t** ney. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/24 "2004-08-09T14:55:04Z")
Any of you hear about the Disney plan to produce an animated musical of LOLITA with John Lithgow voicing Humbert Humbert, Britney Spears as Lolita, & Steve Martin as Clare Quilty? Because if you did, that was my invention. Only now, I’d cast Jamie Lynn Spears instead of Britney. ---
**Author:** ![jay-c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jay-c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jay-c)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/25 "2004-08-09T19:15:41Z")
> [@Meursault](#): > > Sorry, that’s [http://www.ourbits.com/urbanlegend/](http://www.ourbits.com/urbanlegend/). Your story about Coke’s new C2 beverage has already been making the rounds. I heard it yesterday (from 2 different people). There is a C2 taste test/ sample booth at the Ohio State Fair. I overheard 2 different people tell others that Coke’s C2 is really the same as the “New Coke” that failed so dismally in the 80’s. Either your site has a lot of gullible visitors, or someone else came up with the same story and is spreading it around Columbus, Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Avumede](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/avumede/32/7235_2.png) [@Avumede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avumede)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/26 "2004-08-09T20:52:36Z")
The person who created [the Cabbage Patch Kids UL](http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/cabbage.asp) has [admitted it](http://tafkac.org/misc/cabbage_patch_dolls.html). So now you know. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/27 "2004-08-09T21:02:18Z")
Hmm. I thought someone else would have come up with this one already. First of all, I really highly disapprove of this. But people are gullible so who am I to stop you. Do you guys all remember the President Bush IQ report that came out? The one where it had a list of President’s IQ’s, with Bush at the bottom? Well a newsletter I subscribed to at the time created that. They wrote me and all the subscribers and told us they were going to. At first it was hush-hush, in the newsletter only. Before long I started getting the letter forwarded from other people, claiming it was true. Whether they were in on the hoax or no, I never asked. But they were friends, so they would have told me directly if they heard it from the website/newsletter. Eventually they confessed to it, and it died down somewhat. For those who are interested, here are the links. [http://www.linkydinky.com/](http://www.linkydinky.com/) Click on “More Fun”, it’s about 1/2 way down the left side. Here is the direct link: [http://www.linkydinky.com/BushIQ.shtml](http://www.linkydinky.com/BushIQ.shtml) Now I am not as naive as I used to be. It’s possible that the whole UL itself is a hoax, as in Linky & Dinky claim they made it up but never did! So take it with lots of salt. Again, I think this is kind of horrible, but no skin off my back. I take everything with a grain of salt these days. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Llama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@The\_Llama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Llama)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/28 "2004-08-09T21:40:50Z")
> [@Meursault](#): > > Sorry, that’s [http://www.ourbits.com/urbanlegend/](http://www.ourbits.com/urbanlegend/). I just tried contacting you from that site, but it kept giving me an error saying to input my name and email when I had done both. I tried it twice, and got the same error. ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/29 "2004-08-10T13:22:16Z")
> [@The\_Llama](#): > > I just tried contacting you from that site, but it kept giving me an error saying to input my name and email when I had done both. I tried it twice, and got the same error. Ooh now you’ve done it. Your name and email address have been harvested by an axe-murderer with a hook for a hand who drives a motorbike at night with no lights on… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Llama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@The\_Llama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Llama)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/30 "2004-08-10T19:06:06Z")
> [@Martiju](#): > > Ooh now you’ve done it. Your name and email address have been harvested by an axe-murderer with a hook for a hand who drives a motorbike at night with no lights on… > > :eek: I’m screwed ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/31 "2004-08-10T22:14:59Z")
A friend of a friend started an urban legend. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bigdfrombigd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bigdfrombigd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bigdfrombigd)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/32 "2004-08-18T21:46:26Z")
[QUOTE=quicken78] WARNING I generally hate hoax warnings, but this one is important. Please send this to everyone on your e-mail list. If a man comes to your front door and says he’s conducting a survey and asks you to show him your ass, DO NOT show him your ass. This is a scam - he only wants to see your ass. I wish I’d gotten this warning yesterday. I feel so stupid.[/QUOTE ``` :eek: But he was holding a clipboard. :smack: ``` ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/33 "2004-08-18T23:51:05Z")
First we need a root concept, preferably something new that little detail is available on: Something involving… west nile virus…something mundane like drinking a glass of diet pepsi and avoiding mosquito infested areas will help reduce your chance of infection. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/34 "2004-08-19T06:30:19Z")
[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=34146) was fun for me. I’m amazed how easily I killed that thread, and I’m still horribly disappointed that I missed that first R, but it’s cool. Note: This is an extremely old thread. Please do not add any posts to the above linked thread because bumping old threads is a Very Bad Thing. ---
**Author:** ![Got\_Taste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@Got\_Taste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Got_Taste)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853/35 "2004-08-19T06:45:33Z")
> [@Enola Straight](#): > > _re_ the OP: > > Phil Collins is rumored to have written the song “In the air Tonight” after witnessing someone drowning after his friend did nothing to save him. > > When at concert, Phil saw the man in the audience, and pointed directly at him, singing: > > “Well if I saw you were drowning, I would not lend you a hand…” > > At this point, the man flees in tears, later killing himself. So wouldnt that make Phil Collins just as bad as the friend who did nothing to save him? If he witnessed it also? Have i been wooshed? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-want-to-start-an-urban-legend/258853.md?page=1)