Okay, so I finally snopesed it, and it is false. At least in the form in which I usually receive it, which is the NBC poll story. I actually got one the other day that claimed to include England and Canada in that 86/14% statistic.
Science can’t figure out how a bumblebee flies.
Now if you lived on a time zone border you could have all the clocks on one side of the house set an hour different from the other side and all of them be correct! 
This one always makes me laugh, because if they wanted to raise more money, it might be better to, you know, save the whole can.
I notice you said “people like Limbauch” (actually, Limbaugh), because AFAIK, whatever other criticisms & jokes Limbaugh has made about Obama, he’s never actually said he was Muslim.
Hahaha, if I ever was to win the Powerball lotto that’s one of the things that I planned on opening, just so that it would actually exist because it sounded so cool.
I remember one from when I was a kid that came home on a letter from school at least once a year warning parents that teenagers or hippies or someone was putting LSD into temporary tattoos or on blotter paper that had cartoons on them so as to trick the unsuspecting youngsters into becoming addicted to the dread LSD!! Which of course is 10% truth (LSD often comes on blotter paper with toons on them) and 90% WTF. I wonder if that letter still makes the rounds.
Just reading the thread title I immediately thought of poor little baby Shithead. I’m so tired of hearing that story. Everyone knows that I’m interested in interesting names, so they MUST report this one to me. I hear it constantly!!! (Now I really did see Jehovah on a class list one time when I was subbing, but he was absent so I haven’t actually met him.)
Several of my friends seem to have (hopefully!) stopped forwarding me emails after I replied with snopes links to their whole address book. This Obama is a Muslim is driving me crazy – I mean vote for the man or don’t vote for him based on his politics, not some stupid email.
The biggest thing I hate is “I don’t know if this is true, but I’ll forward it on just in case…” at the beginning of an email. I always send back a link and say “Well it only took me less than a minute to check if it was true.”
The Rod Stewart semen one, which is hilariously dumb because why would you need to have you stomach pumped if it was filled with semen- semen isn’t toxic. You wouldn’t pump someone’s stomach if it was filled with burgers, why semen?
Another odd hospital name one is Nosmo King.
And Elvis may not have been racist, but he did have the infamous catfish incident.
Right. When people say that, I always ask, “How do you know that to be true? Did somebody set up a monitoring system that counts the number of spiders that are drawn into people’s mouths as they sleep?” It’s the sort of claim that defies common sense, yet it’s incredibly common.
I haven’t heard it for a long time, but a few years ago several people warned me of the dangers of using Febreze around your pets.
That 10% of us don’t have the fathers that we think we do.
I know that Cecil debunked this, but danged if I can find it.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=692145 Some interesting information about plastics.
See, this is what keeps this dumb thing going! You say this- “On the one hand, a couple of reputable people, one of whom would definately be in the know, say it’s true.” Are you kidding? Every single person who retells this thing claims that their mom/dad/friend/aunt was in attendance at the gerbil removal, and they are all lying.
I haven’t known any Lemonjellos or Orangellos, but my mother did go to high school with a girl named Godzilla.
Also, I knew a girl named Female several years ago. Her parents weren’t illiterate, they just liked the name.
What the glitter/gynecologist visit? The only one I know about glitter involves a man, and it’s true! eep!
The maddening thing about the Tommy Hilfiger on Oprah thing is people actually claim to have seen it, yet this was in the age of VCR’s, and no one in the world happened to tape Oprah that day as proof it happened? :rolleyes:
I’m not nearly as annoyed by urban myths as some of you. As long as they are neither defamatory nor racist, they are often harmlessly amusing in their own right - which is why people spread 'em. Debunking is only necessary where wrong advice is provided - you don’t want people actually believing Coca-Cola is a good form of birth control, but what’s the harm in someone retelling the “phantom hitchiker”?
Well, EJsGirl, that’s the conundrum in a nutshell now, isn’t it? I can think of no reason he or she would lie about this one way or the other and his (father’s) position at CS was undeniable. A yea or a nay serves no benefit to them so I rely on their basic honesty which was very much intact.
But the whole prospect is just so bizarre. It’s beyond what someone could make up so I’ve little recourse but to scratch my head and hope someday something definitive comes forth. Another one of those times that thankfully it’s of no consequence one way or the other.
That’s your experience though… everyone that’s told you of this claims an intimate relation to the event? That I find strange, as I’ve just heard it once.
A woman sprayed her nether regions with body spray before her gyn visit. Her doctor said that it was nice that she got all spruced up for him. Turns out that she had grabbed glitter spray instead of body spray.
When I was in high school, my mom warned my dad that under no circumstances should he ever flash his headlights at a driver who has his headlights off at night, lest he be killed by gang trainees.
An email that I got from my aunt (who I love, and who is generally a smart woman) a couple months ago absolutely floored me.
Apparently, every school in the United Kingdom has banned teachers from teaching students anything about the Holocaust! And it’s all the Muslims’ fault!
How the hell could anyone for one minute think that this was even remotely true? That every school in fucking England was denying the Holocaust? I don’t usually reply with Snopes, but I fired off a “reply all” on that one immediately.