Hey! That’s where I grew up. STILL never heard any except the CD one.
Hello. My Name is Shirley
Group: **Hi Shirley **
**Hi. I’m a wet blanket. **
I don’t know if it is being the youngest or that my friends were particularly dense, but most of the UL’s that came down the pipe I never beleived. I didn’t refute them either, not having Google availabe back in the days when Disco was King, I just didn’t trust anything that anyone said so ferverently, if you know what I mean.
The Soda Pop and Pop Rocks one made me, one hot day in July after listening to a kid my age urgently tell his friend about the perils of that combination and I thought to myself, in all the reasonably thinkingness of an 11 or 12 year old, " If the could kill you…wouldn’t they stop making them?"
In all fairness, I do beleive in ghosts, vampires (only sexy male ones, though) and the convicted killer that escaped from prison and has a bent camp spoon in placeof his hand he lost in some gruesome crime, who is wandering the woods looking to kill a pack of skittish teenage girls huddled about a campfire. Could happen.
It seemed like every year starting in middle school, some poor unpopular girl would become the victim of a masturbation UL.
The girl would use a frozen hotdog as a toy and it would get stuck so she’d have to go to the ER to get it removed. Or the UL about the dog not getting all the peanut butter and bugs growing out of her vagina because of it.
It completely amazed me when a coworker in her 20s was repeating these stories. She truely believed them as did the people she was telling.
I guess I was always the skeptic too, as I don’t remember falling for any of these urban legends, but perhaps I merely forgot!
I DO remember being incredibly skeptical about Noah’s Ark, when my grade 4 religion teacher was talking about it (and making it seem like it really did happen). I just couldn’t help thinking that there just wouldn’t be enough room for all the animals, and it really didn’t affect the fish. (In case anyone’s wondering, my family is not particularly religious and so I didn’t learn too many of the stories until around that time and then only because I was forced to in school).
[eddie Izzard] evil ducks…"We normally swim down here, we’re gonna swim up there is all![/eddie izzard]
My sister, though, was incredibly gullible (and still is, though is learning to doubt the things my brother and I tell her!) She fell for the “did you know that the word gullible isn’t in the dictionary?” line.
Would someone please explain the “missing day” one as I’ve never heard of it …
Y’know the hairy armed hitchhiker one? There’s a true story version of that, happened to a girl I knew …
Alas, some ULs die hard. This thread was the result of the irresistible force of enlightenment running into the immovable object of ignorance.
That missing day thing didn’t make any sense to me, but thanks for the links Rjung and Vunderbob 
And I stand by my statement that the “hairy armed hitchhiker” is true!!
I admit that the LSD on the postage stamps one got me. But that’s the only one.
I have a friend who regularly sends me picture emails that have been debunked months previous on Snopes.
However she’s very nice and really doesn’t need me sending her links to the relevant pages.
This is driving me crazy. I MUST find someone to debunk them to! Debunk! Debunk, debunk, debunk!
Also don’t you just love the feeling you get when you’re in a large group and some eejit starts on about, I dunno, a guy getting shot falling past his father’s window… and it’s just not a situation where you can call bullshit. So there’s nothing you can do. You sit there. And you grin. And you try to say as little as possible when everyone keeps going “But don’t you think that’s amazing? Really? But look, REALLY, don’t you think that’s AMAAAZING?”
Then you snap and punch a perfectly nice 55-year-old woman in the face, and suddenly YOU’RE the bad guy!
Is this the society we have created? IS IT?
Especially when you’re in church, and the perfectly nice woman is your own mother. :eek:
Okay, I’m kidding. But Snopes is the first website I steered my mom to when she first got on-line and starting getting email from all her friends. She kept FWD: FWD: FWD: everything to me, warning me about the perfume kidnappers and the lost children and Cracker Barrel gift certficates and everything else, well, God knows I just had to set her straight.
I never believed this rather improbable story! Anyway, the story is this: a teenage boy and his girlfriend went to an amusement park, and deciced to ride the rollercoaster. She decided to make his day, and started to perform fellatio upon him…just at that moment, the car took a steep drop, and in her fright she bit down…hard…and, yeah, pretty messy…suffice to say they boy would never again enjoy fellatio!
Heck of a story, though…did the emergency room recover he uh, missing part? 
Sounds as if maybe John Irving had heard this legend, and re-used it in “The World According to Garp” (remember what happened to Garp’s wife’s boyfriend?).
The only one I ever fell for, although I wasn’t a kid, was the one where the Count brought home a 3 piece meal (white meat) from KFC one Sat. afternoon. While he was munching on his first piece (a wing) his wife, the Countess, said to him “you know there is a Kentucky Fried Cockroach in the bottom of your box”. Yup I believed that one I did, because there was, breaded and fried.