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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.
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So it happened at Cedars? When, exactly? If it were true, someone would have risked job/lawsuit to provide proof by now, and no one ever has. It would only need to be a file room flunky.
Rumors about Gere having teh gay have swirled around him for his entire career. This is just one more, decidedly weird one.
I’m surprised no one has brought this one up. It’s probably the most famous and ridiculous of Korean ULs and is supported by more than one crackpot doctor here:
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Fan death is a South Korean urban legend which states that an electric fan, if left running overnight in a closed room, can result in the death (by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia) of those inside. This belief also extends to air conditioners.[citation needed] Fans manufactured and sold in Korea are equipped with a timer switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes, which users are frequently urged to set when going to sleep with a fan on…
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I only know a handful of Koreans who don’t believe in this to some degree. Those I do know who don’t believe in it are still uncomfortable with having the fan on in that situation. It’s kind of like when you were younger and you decided it was “silly” to believe in monsters, but you still got nervous when reaching for that item under your bed
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I’m surprised no one has brought this one up. It’s probably the most famous and ridiculous of Korean ULs and is supported by more than one crackpot doctor here:
I only know a handful of Koreans who don’t believe in this to some degree. Those I do know who don’t believe in it are still uncomfortable with having the fan on in that situation. It’s kind of like when you were younger and you decided it was “silly” to believe in monsters, but you still got nervous when reaching for that item under your bed
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Heh. According to your link, the belief is that the fan causes hypothermia and hyperthermia.
I wonder whether any believers have noticed all the other fans around, like the ones in peoples’ computers…
[QUOTE=Crocodiles And BoulevardsThe rest of the article is here: Fan death - Wikipedia
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I know it’s stupid to apply logic to something so illogical, but how do Koreans explain the MILLIONS of other people around the world who sleep with fans on in their rooms not dying? And why only when you’re sleeping? What is it about being awake with a fan on that makes it not kill you?
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How about recycling them?
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We recycle the cans. I think by now the tabs have just become a tally of office alcohol consumption. No one’s mentioned any plan to actually do anything with them in a long time.
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I know it’s stupid to apply logic to something so illogical, but how do Koreans explain the MILLIONS of other people around the world who sleep with fans on in their rooms not dying? And why only when you’re sleeping? What is it about being awake with a fan on that makes it not kill you?
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I’ve asked my wife that question (the UL is common in Japan as well), and her response is “I don’t know, but it’s not good for you.”
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We recycle the cans. I think by now the tabs have just become a tally of office alcohol consumption. No one’s mentioned any plan to actually do anything with them in a long time.
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Too bad you’re all the way over in Tokyo. One of my daughter’s friends here makes belts and necklaces out of those tabs. I can always tell when Sammi’s been here - all the cans in the recycling bin have been stripped of their tabs. She’d go bonkers for a stash like that.
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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.
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Rolling Stone asked Rod about that rumor a few years back, and it was nice to see that Rod could acknowledge it and joke about it. Rod just shrugged, laughed and asked, “What am I supposed to have done, sucked off a whole football team?”
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The one I remember most when I was a kid was the myth that you can redeem Tootsie Roll Pop wrappers for a free one if the wrapper has the Indian shooting a star on it. Even as a kid, my bullshit meter was pinged because I noticed that a huge proportion of the wrappers contained the Indian, and that they were all cut from a repeating sheet. One could potentially buy a box of the suckers and get almost a whole new box for free.
Nowadays, I frequently hear that the government will soon release cell phone numbers for telemarketers. While the link provided in the email is accurate, no such list exists.
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Actually, there was a store in my town, that would exchange three (I think it was three) wrappers like that for a free sucker. But the Indian shooting a star had to be complete, not partial on all of them. So it is partially true, because I myself did the exchange more than once.
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Actually, there was a store in my town, that would exchange three (I think it was three) wrappers like that for a free sucker. But the Indian shooting a star had to be complete, not partial on all of them. So it is partially true, because I myself did the exchange more than once.
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I just am not remembering if it was three, or four wrappers… I was about ten at the time, and it was only over that summer break that I did so. I do think it was a limited time offer. Maybe another “UL causes real deal to happen” type thing? ETA: Probably so, thinking about it. It was only that store. I think maybe they figured they’d give the kids a free sucker if they could prove they’d bought three of 'em and it was a fair trade?
Hmm. According to The Ronald McDonald House web site, to date the 400 million soda tabs that have been donated have been converted into $4 million in donations (or in other words a pop tab is about the equivalent of tossing a penny to the cause).
It’s probably a toss-up between “kids aren’t allowed to pray in public schools” and “old houses have windows that are wider at the bottom because glass is a liquid, and flows over time.” The Coriolis Effect water spinning one is a close third.
Back in the late '70’s there was a ‘wave’ of Vietnamese immigrants, many of whom arrived here via boat to the Australian shores as refugees. At the time I heard stories (especially from those opposed to Asian immigration) about how the government was covertly sponsoring these folk by giving them monetary grants to the value of (then $30k), buying them houses and also a brand new top of the range car. :eek:
In the 1980’s we had yet another influx of migrants, mainly from the Baltic region, and I heard the same story again (mainly from the same ‘type’ of person who told me the same story back in the '70’s). :rolleyes:
In the 1990’s Australia received a great number of Middle Eastern refugees from war-torn areas, and yes, I was on the receiving end again of how these *losers * were getting preferential treatment from the gummint whilst the local taxpayers were doing it hard. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
I hadn’t heard the story for a while, until last week when I heard a woman on talkback radio complaining to the host that these damned Sudanese refugees are getting all the goodies from the gummint, AND they get a brand new car on arrival!
Thank christ the radio host guffawed her down as much as I was doing in my kitchen at the time, otherwise I might have spewed, righteously!
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Well, throughout the 1980s and into the early 90’s, the P&G Satanism story swung around about three freakin’ times, with about a 4-5 year gap between
each time. I first heard it around 1982-3, then again around '87, and then about '92, and I THINK it’s finally dead.
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Nope. P&G sued four Amway distributors last year, claiming they’d been spreading the rumor.
