lieu, I don’t doubt for a minute that people have some very odd sexual fetishes. And I really hate to call yuor friend a liar. But the thing is, this one has been investigate repeatedly, and consistantly fails credibility. The fact that you heard it from someone you trust honestly means very little. We’ve all heard ULs from someone we trust.
Years ago, the woman I was dating told me that she had personally witnessed a couple who got stuck together during sex and had to go to the ER. Saw it herself. With her very own eyes. Personally. When I pressed her on it, she finally admitted that it was her coworker who actually saw it. This was from a woman that was scrupulously honest.
People who tell these stories always bring the telling a little closer to themselves. That’s just the nature of ULs.
tdn, as I’ve said it would be wrong to think my not personally writing this off as 100% BS is an effort to convince anyone else of the story’s veracity. However, when a respected doctor, the administrator of the hospital itself indicates there’s something to it, I’m gonna leave that possibly open and, again, be thankful it’s of no consequence.
People surprise me on a daily basis and Mr. Gere, conceivably, might not be above doing the same. As Malthus mentioned earlier though, what’s probably not too wise is to get overly troubled by it.
The gerbil story predates Gere’s relationship with Crawford. And I’ve never engaged the person who tells it; I don’t want to draw more attention. In fact, on further reflection, perhaps she doesn’t really believe it. Perhaps she’s just stuck on a tired joke.
I wouldn’t use someone’s position in an institution as an indicator of veracity, as they are just people like everyone else. It’s possible that it has happened a few times, but unless I see it for myself (and I seriously don’t want to), I’m going to remain skeptical.
But yeah, at the end of the day, I really don’t care all that much.
Isn’t it funny how no pet store workers have come forward about how skeevy looking guys have come in wanting to buy a whole box of gerbils, nudge nudge wink wink?
My cousins girlfriends roommate swears that her stepmothers beautician told her about her sons teachers daughter who worked parttime in a store that was next to a pet store where that exact thing happened! It must be true!
2 that I’ve heard repeated as a “no shit, this really happened to me” deal with tech support funnies.
The one where the idiot computer user thought the CD try was a coffee cup holder. The other is where the person is on the phone with tech support and are told to look at something on the computer and reply they can’t because it’s dark because the power is out. This story usually ends with the tech support person telling the user to send the computer back because… “your too stupid to have one”.
The CD tray one goes way back and to when CD’s were rare. I heard it back in 1993 or 1994 and that it was a Dell Call log.
I have actually had a user get white out on her screen, she never explained how, but she was truly dippy. She also left her space heater on overnight and it was aimed at the PC and melted a good part of it. She was lucky the hard drive was in an odd spot and unexpected.
I really had someone else slip a 5¼" diskette into a gap between the frame. So I believe the NCR trouble call where the checks were stuffed inside the computer through a similar gap.
Early on when people were still fearful of computers and mice we had much more interesting trouble calls.
What do you mean by “panned out”? Most drains, in either hemisphere, will periodically reverse direction with no pattern. I hope no one would be dumb enough to flush a toilet, which flushes a jet of water (hence “flush toilet”) and think that Coriolis had anything to do with the swirl.
Seriously, I’m dumbfounded that educated people think that the difference in the rotational speed of the earth from one end of a kitchen sink to the other causes directional draining.
Recently a colleague tried to make me believe the hoary UL that the head of the Patent Office once advocated closing it down because everything had been invented.
Actually, the legend was well-established by 1948, seven years before Debbi Fields was born, and about four decades before her name was appended to the tale.
Back in my support days, I had to remove a 5¼" diskette that someone had slipped between the two drive bays, too.
For some reason, this reminds me of one the best practical jokes I ever pulled. The company I worked for in 1979 used 19" disk pack cartridges (similar to these ). We had a head crash on one of the drives, and I snagged the disk pack that had been damaged and hid it away in my office for later.
Some weeks later, my boss handed me a disk pack and asked me to compress it (we’d call that “defragging” today). I went to my office and took apart the damaged pack. I removed all of the spacers between the platters so they were crunched together, and re-assembled the damaged pack. Then I swapped the protective covers between the good pack and the damaged one. When I presented the “compressed” disk pack to my boss, the look on his face was priceless.
The can top one went around here except in the local case it was the Customs & Excise tags off cigarette packets. They started putting them on packs of smokes about 15 years ago in the Republic of Ireland (I think to differentiate them from smuggled smokes), a small paper tag, like a stamp. Lots and lots of people went on about how they were being collected for some charity or some hospital or some something. A local radio presenter investigated and found it was an urban legend. There was a real scheme in the mid-1980s where bottle tops off washing-up liquid were collected to get computers for schools.
A few other ones I’ve heard.
**Every asylum seeker is given a free car by the government. **
Asylum seekers always leave their prams/buggies at bus stops because it’s a hassle getting them on the bus and they know the government will just give them a new one.
**The swans in the park are going missing because in Poland/Latvia/Lithuania/Czech/Ukraine/off in dem foreign parts swans are a delicacy and they’re capturing them and eating them. **
The first time I heard the last one it was in reference to Israel, apparently vermin were going missing and it was because guest workers from the Phillipines were eating all and sundry.
A very local one was about the 5 Nigerian/4 Latvian/6 Polish/gang of foreign lads who raped a boy in a secluded part of town. I never actually found out what if anything had really happened because I heard a different and more exagerated story from each person who told me it.
That one made the rounds here and was even more specific: they’d kill the driver and abduct any white women (which is evidently 60 points for any gang and double that on National Gang Initiation Weekend) to take them to some sort of After-Gang-Initiation-Ball in an abandoned farmhouse outside of town. There was also the "don’t ride in a convertable with the top down after dark because Gang Initiation 4.0A has to do with tossing Molotov cocktail like incendiaries made of gas and tin foil into them.
I certainly stole it from someone else.
