Favorite urban legend?

[Sannum]

Mine is the classic...

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[davidinalameda]

1. that's just wrong

funny as hell but wrong!

:bounce:

[stopbush]

2. Lemmiwinks...

[Borgnine]

3. Paul is dead.

Paul McCartney died in late 1966 and was replaced with an imposter. It's fun in conjection with all of the clues and photographic "evidence."

But Richard Gere and the gerbil is a close second.

[goddess40]

4. that the last two elections were valid

[Sabriel]

5. Mine is, that my vote actually counted in the last couple of elections

Other than that, it's definitely the "bonsai kitten" one:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/bonsai.asp

I gotta get one of those for my kid's birthday!

[Tempest]

6. Saddam had WMD

It's not an urban legend yet, but it will be.

[zbdent]

7. "Compassionate Conservative"

last seen with Bigfoot, riding Nessie . . .

[Cush]

8. dropping a penny off the Empire State Building

or any other tall building

[Moloch]

9. LSD-laced tattoos being distributed to children:

Claim: Rub-on "tattoos" of cartoon characters laced with LSD are handed out to children by unscrupulous drug dealers.

Status: False.

Example:


WARNING TO PARENTS

A form of tattoo "blue star" is being sold to school children. It is a small piece of paper containing a blue star. They are the size of a pencil eraser, and each star is soaked (laced) with the drug "LSD."

The drug is absorbed through the skin simply by handling the paper.

http://snopes.com/horrors/drugs/bluestar.htm

[MercutioATC]

10. "Humans lick too"

A young woman who lives alone in the city hears of a rash of crimes in her neighborhood and buys a dog for protection. She wakes up one night to a noise in her apartment and is too frightened to get out of the bed. She puts her hand beside the bed where the dog sleeps, and he licks it. Reassured, she goes back to sleep.

When she gets up in the morning, the dog is dead and on her bathroom mirror, written in the dog's blood, is the message "Humans lick too".

Ridiculous, but creepy.

[swimmernsecretsea]

11. Ewwww!

Besides, it wasn't Richard Gere--it was a midwestern newscaster. Richard Gere just made it a more interesting story.

My personal fave is the spiders in the beehive hairdo that ate the hipster girl's brain.

[Worst Username Ever]

12. Kidney removal, bathtub full of ice n/t

[CO Liberal]

13. That The Kid in the Oscar Meyer Weiner Commercials.....

...died from eating Pop Rocks.

[Cush]

16. that was Mikey from Life cereal

[CO Liberal]

17. Either Way, It Didn't Happen

:-)

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

14. Tarantulas in the cactus

Cactus just purchased and brought home. Starts vibrating and oscillating wildly. Purchaser told to take outside NOW. Cactus explodes and hundreds of tarantulas come running out. Someone told me that about 16 years ago, and I BELIEVED it!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. My brother told me that happened to his neighbor

hmmmmm...

I once read a story about a family who thought their house was haunted, because they started hearing strange sounds at night.

It turned out that the Christmas tree they chopped down had an owl living in it.

Seems a little unlikely, but it's a great yarn!

[Tuttle]

15. Mine's a classic

"If you burp, sneeze, cough and fart at the same time, you will die."

Tut-tut

[swimmernsecretsea]

18. Sounds like an eventful Sorority luncheon

...or the people I had a sales meeting with yesterday...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. You know, he kind of looks like

a gerbil.

[bigwillq]

20. Ok, I'm a loser-What is the Gere-Mouse connection?

Sorry for being so out of touch.

[American Tragedy]

25. Use your imagination.

O8)

[RebelOne]

28. Here you go.

It's a gerbil.

http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.htm

[driver8]

22. The girl in the college class asking why semen tastes salty...

Have you heard that one? Apparently, according to the legend, a college biology professor was lecturing about semen and made the point to say that semen is mostly a sugar. A girl raised her hand and asked, "If semen is made up mostly of sugar, why does it taste so salty?"

I have had a couple of people tell me this story and both of them told me that it happened in a class that they were in.

[njdemocrat106]

27. Or when looking at cheek cells under the microscope in biology lab...

the guy asks the professor to help indentify a moving "cell", and the professor says it's sperm, thereby "outing" the student.

[mrbill]

23. the "petition against god" is my personal favorite

The rumor sez that Madalyn Murray O'Hair sued to take god off the radio and tv airways.

The reality is quite a funny story and has nothing to do with the most hated woman in America at the time, Madalyn Murray.

In Decemeber 1974, two community radio guys, Lorenzo Milam and Jeremy Lansman, filed petition RM-2493 with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to basically revise the rules on granting new radio frequencies. It appeared to them that the religious broadcasters were getting all the liscenses and creating little empires while the community and educational interests were being left out in the cold.

The fundies got wind of it, tossed in Madalyn for the scary character, mobilized and letter writting campaigns to the FCC began. Within a few months 4 million letters had arrived.

Lorenzo was no dummy. He bought a high-tech at the time Compugraphic typesetting machine about the size of a refrigerator and went into self publishing. He got mailing lists from the FCC and sent direct mailings hyping his book, "The Petition Against God" by Pastor A.W. Allsworthy published by Christ The Light Works, Inc. Order within 30 days and receive a free mini prayer cloth blessed in special water.

Lorenzo moved a lot of cases of books, stuffing envelopes way into the night @ $7.95 each, plus shipping.

The cover was scandalous, "this slim volume outlines the viscous words of the agents of Satan, and makes a good Christian sick with worry." If anyone bothered to read the book, they were in for a surprise. Lorenzo/Pastor Allsworthy was a raging leftist with a sense of humor who saw a major threat with religious broadcasters taking over the airways. He was a visionary and a forerunner of Michael Moore.

Even today letters still arrive at the FCC.

[TheEconomist]

24. That Bush won in 2000....

.... yea, thats my favorite.

[American Tragedy]

26. The kidney heist is my favorite. Very vivid imagery.

The business traveler wakes up in a bathtub stained red with blood, filled with ice up to their neck, with a plastic tube protruding from their lower back.

And yes, at one time I thought that it really happened.

[elperromagico]

29. Dead bodies under hotel beds.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/bodybed.htm

Worst thing is, this actually happens.