Crisitunity!
The only thing I ever got from sleeping under a ceiling fan was some seriously dry sinuses.
So I’m guessing I was in danger of death by dehydration if the alarm hadn’t woken me up.
Some of these are almost true in a way. I went to Tulane and the main library really is sinking. Of course, New Orleans itself is sinking but the fact still remains and the weight of the books doesn’t help any.
This guy I game with constantly repeats the one about how the Clintons murdered 100s of people. Basically, any bad story you ever heard about the Clintons, he’s tried to assert as fact. The one about how when Bush got to the White House it was completely trashed, how Bill Clinton started a crime database project and then stopped it when his name kept coming up, how Clinton repeatedly let Osama bin Laden go free after he’d been captured, etc.
Oh, something else I used to hear a lot: anyone who did nine hits of acid is legally insane. Not nine at once, but nine over any period of time.
Er, not that I’d have any reason to be around people who would have reason to repeat that…
On the other side of the spectrum, there was the Blue Star or Mickey Mouse sticker/acid scare that police keep warning small towns about.
Just that Febreze is deadly poison to pets and if you use Febreze on your couch or your curtains or anything in your home, your pets will die a horrible death.
I’d heard 3 hits over any length of time made your testimony invalid in a court of law. Apparently, acid could “hang around” in your body more or less forever and give you hallucinations even years later, so your senses could never be trusted again. Or something.
Right about when this one was gaining serious traction, every Febreze commercial had pets in it.
I had no idea there was a UL about fans being dangerous until I read this thread. Had I heard it when I was about 5, my life might be very different (As in, living in constant fear).
As it is, every night during the summer I sleep with my ceiling fan on (for several years, directly underneath it, in a loft bed. This also gives me first hand knowledge on how no matter how fast your ceiling fan is running, it won’t chop your head/arm/hand off.) When I am at college, I sleep with a fan on near/underneath my bed to act as a white noise generator (helps drown out the random bass thumps/yelling/drunken singing). Just call me Ro Carter, daredevil.
As far as ULs that I’ve heard most often, probably the one where drinking any pop at all, EVER will give you cancer and you will die a horrible death. I almost lost a friend over that one (her mom had convinced her of this, and me telling her it wasn’t true, then laughing, was interpreted as a direct insult to her mother). The other one comes up every year, where nutjobs declare that Nostradamus has predicted that the world will end this year. This particularly annoys me for some reason, probably because you can’t ever convince them it isn’t true.
In the version I heard, the whole blacks-with-weird-names thing was started by a mischievous white intern in an inner-city hospital, who persuaded new moms to give their babies names like “Urethra” and “Trachea.”
Well, what a rip-off! I took acid for years and never got a single freebie flashback!
My problem with that is that it increases the problem that these dumb emails cause, and that is the clogging of email servers. I will occasionally send a reply back to the sender with the Snopes link letting them know the problems they’re causing.
I often hear it repeated as known fact that Eskimos have more than 40 words for snow. The truth is more complicated.
Way I heard it, unmetabolized LSD gets stored in your fat cells; if you lose weight, you start tripping.
“Oh, yeah, we totally stick gerbils up our asses. I go through three, four gerbils a week. I go in the pet store and they yell, ‘Noooo! Get a dog!’” - some stand-up comic
More to the point, though, why have there been no case reports of gerbillectomy published in any medical journals? You’d think that this would be the sort of thing they’d rush right out and print.
To be quite honest, whatever the cat did that’s requiring me to get out the Febreze is far more likely to result in its horrible death.
I can verify that if you spray Febreze directly on your dog – which has just rolled in something dead and wants to come inside – there will be bald spots. It’s just temporary though. Yeah, I know, read the directions.
I first heard that in 1964 when I was applying for a teaching position in Binghampton, N.Y. I believed it! :smack:
My cat seems to believe the Febreze myth because every time I bring it out and spray it in the air, she runs as fast as she can into another room.
Oh, right- we’d be a nation of skinny, happy people! 
The advantage of using only 10% of your brain is you can kill off 90% in debauchery.
One of the members on this board admitted to having a glitter sprinkle for one of the gynecologists. I think it was left over from a costume they wore.
The court did give a guy jail time for putting his feces in the taco filling at the Portage store. It was in the local paper at the time. It was years ago so it’s not in the local paper’s online archive. 
Somebody with access to criminal records could give it a try.