Comments on: Friday Happy Hour: Urban Legends

By: sd

sd — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:48:56 +0000

oh! i also love the videos on liamshow.com

By: sd

sd — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:48:19 +0000

MentalFloss.com is of course my favorite. aside from facebook.com, myspace.com, & gmail.com, it’s where i spend all my time.
i also check out postsecret.com every sunday
as well as making all sorts of lists on 43things.com, 43places.com, allconsuming.net, listofbests.com, 43people.com …

but i’m glad for these comments – now i have all sorts of other places to visit!

By: elizabutt

elizabutt — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:28:16 +0000

Almost everyone I work with believes that all spiders are Brown Recluses (aka Fiddlebacks), and that all Brown Recluses (and therefore, all spiders to them) are predatory toward humans, willful and capable of great injury. The “recluse” part is – to them – a misnomer. My boss believed her shingles were caused by spiders. When I asked if she had seen or felt the army of spiders that attacked only her right leg, she just stared, unfazed. Apparently they drugged her first – the clever devils!

Snopes should be mandatory reading for anyone who forwards stories that do not involve anyone they personally know. Just a thought.

By: amywithlemon

amywithlemon — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:03:38 +0000

my friends and i save our funky bad forwards (typically either an urban legend or something involving cute cats-bleh) all week, then we send them to each other for ‘vote for the worst forward of the week’. (it’s a small group of us.) anyway, my aunt, thankfully, has helped me win more than once.

keep sending the crappy kittens and the crazy crap auntie.

i love thesneeze.com, defectiveyeti.com, and today, i’ve been addicted to clips of robot chicken on youtube.

By: Lalita

Lalita — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:20:53 +0000

1. Love the one where an attorney insures Cuban cigars, smokes them, files a claim, wins in court, gets charged with arson, and sent to jail.

2. Fave websites have to be Linkedin.com, fastcompany.com and Wired.com.

By: Daniel Kim

Daniel Kim — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:34:48 +0000

My favorite is still the neverending story of Craig Shergold. I had thought this (semi-true) UL was finally dead, when a co-worker came to our office asking for business cards to send to a child with cancer.

I referred her to Snopes.com for the history of this meme, possibly saving her from further embarrassment.

Hmmm . . . favorites? Well, I love mentalfloss and Neatorama. One not yet mentioned here is Arts and Letters Daily (www.aldaily.com)

By: Tdave

Tdave — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:34:40 +0000

The “Never run over a paper bag on the road” possibly started with a “true?” story from the 1950′s. A truck driver who would occasionally run over bags or boxes that were in the road decided one day to stop and move a box off a road instead. When he picked up the box, a small boy was under it. The boy had been crawling around with the box over him, and had crawled onto the road. It was reported by Bishop Fulton Sheen as an example of Divine Intervention.

By: heather

heather — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:29:35 +0000

My absolute favorite is about the trombonist who put a firecracker n his mute ton liven up the end of the 1812 overture and ended up sending the slide of his trombone into the conductor. Anyone who used to play in an orchestra and had a mean orchestra conductor will know why that made me happy.

Also, any myth that has to do with Disney or some kind of secret that’s found in everyday media (subliminal messages in Beattles tunes and such) are fun.

Mentalfloss.com is my ultimate fave for random fun info and myth debunking, and how could anyone forget discovery.com/mythbusters? I’ve got to check out snopes.com now, everyone seems to love it and I’m just out of the loop.

By: ann minor

ann minor — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:27:11 +0000

“If you pick up a guinea pig by it’s tail, it’s eyes will fall out”. I beleived that one for too many years.
And I get nervous, too when I see a car driving with it’s headlights out.
And then there’s “Never run over a paper bag on the road – it might have a baby in it”, since the people I heard it from were deadly serious in their belief that this was a common practice.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:54:32 +0000

I love Snopes. When I was teaching, my students would bring in some of the most outrageous rumors–Tommy Hilfinger said he didn’t want black people to wear his clothes, Snapple was backed by the Klan, and the ship was a slave ship. Snopes was a great adjunct educational tool.