quote:Originally posted by Joe Joe Joey Junior Shabadoo: [QUOTE]I apologize for commenting so heavily on this comment, but this urban legand really irrates me for some reason. I hate blantly false anti- drug warnings like this. (I'll get off my soapbox now)
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quote:Originally posted by Joe Joe Joey Junior Shabadoo:I apologize for commenting so heavily on this comment, but this urban legand really irrates me for some reason. I hate blantly false anti- drug warnings like this.
One of my main problems with the current "War on Drugs" is how often blatantly false scare tactic stories are spouted as fact.
Even offical government backed and mandated anti-drug programs such as D.A.R.E are rife with drug based urban legends. I remember the officer in my D.A.R.E. class in junior high telling the story of Diane Linkletter jumping to her death on L.S.D.
I'd wager that despite being proven false the infamous "Jimmy's Story" article that appeared in the Washington Post is still the most common image most people have in their minds about heroin.
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quote:Originally posted by Joe Joe Joey Junior Shabadoo: Also, trips just don't last that long. 12 hours or so, at the absolute longest.
Ahem...while I absolutely agree with the rest of your great post, I have to address this issue. I have...a friend who...experiences unusually long and/or extreme reactions to hallucinogens. This...friend of mine...regularly would have tripping episodes that were much longer than the ones that...other people...would experience. 12 hours seemed to be the average for most of the people...my friend...knew, but not for...my friend. 20 - 26 hours was more normal for...my friend...when using LSD. Less for mushrooms.
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The problem with the gomment coming clean about the true dangers of various drugs is that they'd have to then face the question of whether or not to legalize the ones that are clearly not as dangerous as alcohol or tobacco. So they have to keep that charade going.
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Comment: THIS IS TRUE!!! One afternoon in the early 1980's, I was at work at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton WA when my boss came down the hall roaring with laughter. His wife has been at the Navy Federal Credit Union during lunch hour of a Friday payday. This was prior to direct deposit and ATMs, and the bank was packed. My boss recalled his wife's phone call to him after she had arrived back home.
She had stood in line for an hour waiting for a teller. A lady with a 5 year old stood in line a few people in front of her. He played with the water fountain, deposit slips, a bored child waiting for an hour in a crowded place, trying to occupy himself. After many "come here", "don't play with that", "leave that alone" etc., he finally knocked over the sand filled ash tray. In frustration she told the little boy to "come here and be good or I'll tell your daddy and he'll deal with you when he comes home". To which he replied "I wouldn't do that Mommy, or else I'll tell everyone you had Daddy's pee-pee in your mouth last night". The bank went quiet and the lady (who was almost to the teller) grabbed the kid and left.
My boss's wife got to the teller, went home and called her hubby with the story. I got on the phone and called my hubby who worked at the shipyard, and by this time the story had already filtered through the whole waterfront.
This story is TRUE!. It happened at the Navy Federal Credit Union in Bremerton WA. I was suprised to see this story (with a few changes) appear in Readers Digest about 10 years later, and then start appearing in e-mails 10 years after that.
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Comment: I am commenting on the food prep article; I was an army cook and we did use meat that said grade B for prison and intitutional use, there was nothing wrong with the meat and I did consume it.
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quote:Originally posted by snopes: Comment: I am commenting on the food prep article; I was an army cook and we did use meat that said grade B for prison and intitutional use, there was nothing wrong with the meat and I did consume it.
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Comment: re: Sharks in New Orleans after Katrina.
While I certainly wouldn't expect you to take my word for it, I can promise you that there was at least 1 shark swimming in New Orleans, as it was found (and filmed) in the parking lot of my company in New Orleans East when some staff and management went out a couple of days after the storm to check damage to our facility.
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Comment: The article about a hot dog used for sexual purposes is indeed an old one. I thought it was more of a myth than anything. However, it does have at least some basis in truth. One of my closest female friends did have this happen to them.
This friend of mine, whom I will Jane for ease of referance, lives alone. She is a very sexual person. This isn't to say she's very promiscus. She just loves expressing herself in everything she does, including anything sexual. She's as open minded with sex as with anything else. So it's not to say that anything bad against her.
One night, about a year ago now, I recieved phone call late at night. I forget the pricise time, but it was probably around two in the morning. I learned that my friend Jane had a predictiment, and needed some help. With thoughts of all the horrible things that she could be talking about, I rushed to her apartment.
It wasn't till I got there that she had told me her situation. Her and her current boyfriend had been having problems at the time, and this had been going on for a while. As such, she claimed she was "overcharged with sexual energy" and needed a release. She had taken the first phalatic item that came to her mind. A hot dog.
And, as true to the story, she had inadvertitly broken a piece off, which was now "missing." She wanted to go to ER to have it removed. being one of her closest friends (and one of the few who had a car, as she didn't own one) she had me take her.
About 20 minutes after she was taken back, she came out, with nothing more than a little bit of embarrassment.
I figured I might as well sned this in, so as you can keep up-to-date about your articles. You article dates this origin to way before this event, but doesn't have any proof that anything like this had ever happened. I know that one person's story is as good as the next, but this wasn't a rumor or casual story I heard. This actually happened to me.
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quote:Originally posted by snopes: Comment: re: Sharks in New Orleans after Katrina.
While I certainly wouldn't expect you to take my word for it
Trust me we are not.
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Comment: Water moccasins do congregate during mating season and several people have died from accidently swimming into nests of them.
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quote:I learned that my friend Jane had a predictiment, and needed some help. ~~snip~~ I know that one person's story is as good as the next, but this wasn't a rumor or casual story I heard. This actually happened to me.
That's odd. I thought you said it happened to your friend.
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Comment: In the legends of funny names, the name placenta is true. When my mom was in the hospital with me there was a lady next to her and the nurses were trying to get her to change the name on the birth certificate but the lady insisted on her childs name being Placenta. She said she thought it sounded nice.
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quote:Originally posted by snopes: Comment: Water moccasins do congregate during mating season and several people have died from accidently swimming into nests of them.
I have a former co worker who believed this despite the proof to the contrary. I wonder if this message was written by her.
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quote:Originally posted by snopes: Comment: In the legends of funny names, the name placenta is true. When my mom was in the hospital with me there was a lady next to her and the nurses were trying to get her to change the name on the birth certificate but the lady insisted on her childs name being Placenta. She said she thought it sounded nice.
Well I had a hard time deciding on a name for my son... it was either Push, Vagina, or Alexander. Guess which one I chose
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quote:Originally posted by Squishy0405: Well I had a hard time deciding on a name for my son... it was either Push, Vagina, or Alexander. Guess which one I chose
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Well I didn't want to think about a penis while I was giving birth (had other things on my mind, sorry) and I figured I could just say it was foreign...
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Yes, he teethes his sister, Gonhoria, constantly!
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I have a friend who used to have two cats. Syfilis and Gonhoria. Sy is still around, but Gony is not... Her late husband told her that she could have the cats, as long as he got to name them...
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Comment: The "Why Does it Taste So Salty?" actually happened in my high school biology class. It was hilarious.
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Comment: Regarding the hotdog masturbation story. One version of this is from my home town, and I know the girl involved. This was a widespread story for some time, beginning when we were in middle school. In this version the girl, I probably shouldnt name her, while playing truth or dare inserted a hotdog inside her. The hot dog broke and she panicked. Afraid to tell her parents, the only person left at home was her brother who had to retrieve it. I was not at the alleged gathering where this happened, but I do know the young lady, and I always wanted to ask her if it was true, but thought that it would be too rude. I wish I could either confirm or deny this story, but I guess this is a mystery that will never be solved.
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Comment: Dear Snopes.com, Your article saying that the gang initiation is false appears to be true. People need to be warned!
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Several teachers and I talked to one of the Village police officers at Family Fair this afternoon, and he told us that this information is not a hoax. We questioned him after another teacher sent this same email to the entire campus today.
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Comment: I really enjoy this website, but I am finding that I must have a terrifically interesting life, because a couple of these netlore legends actually happened while I was in attendance. I'm not saying that I was at the origin of these legends, I'm just saying that sometimes these things really do happen, and though they may seem horrible or embarrassing, they happen again and again. Take for instance the story on the High School Cofidential page "Female student asks Biology teacher why semen tastes salty." In 1990, at XXXXXX XXXXXXX High School, during Biology I, seventh period, Mr. XXXXX XXXXX stood at the front of the class and told us that the composition of the tail of a sperm sell was composed of long chain sugars, and elaborated several other characteristics of the cell. A female senior raised her hand and asked if he had said sugar, and he answered yes he had. "Then why does it taste salty?" she asked, and ol' Ray froze, mouth open, for about three seconds, during which the girl realized what she had asked. She did not get up and run out of the room, but she did cover her face with both hands. Only a few students caught on, and began to giggle, but Mr. XXXXXX said in a very reasonable and frank tone that it is a common misconception that sugar equals sweet and that salt equals sour, citing several examples of long chain sugars and various metal salts. Aside from the first few seconds where he was shocked, he completely refused to acknowledge that there was anything even remotely sexual about the question, just answered the science aspects of the question. I was less than ten feet from the girl when she asked the question. She kept her head down and stared at her desk for the remainder of the period, and gathered her things a slouched out of the room when the bell rang. Of course the story was all over the school the next day, but as this girl was a popular student, it actually improved her reputation.
On the same page, there is a story about a girl that broke a hot dog off inside herself. When I was nine years old, my older sister had a slumber party at our house. The entire upper floor was placed off limits to me, and I had to sleep on the sofa in the den. At a very early hour of the next morning, I was awakened by a ruckus, and got up to see what was going on. My mother was leaving with one of the girls from the party and my father was calling the parents of the other girls. I asked him what was going on, and he told me to shut up and go back to bed. My sister was bawling and the other girls were gathering their stuff. I kept trying to figure out what was going on. When my dad trooped out with two of the girls that were sisters and lived a couple of doors down, I asked my sister what was going on and she told me that the girls had been playing truth or dare, and one of the girls had dared another girl to stick a hot dog into her vagina. several plates of hot dogs, bags of chips and bottles of soft drinks had been laid out on a table upstairs for the girls. The girl had taken the dare, and broke it and part of it had gotten lodged inside. They couldn't get it out, and called for my mother. My mother, worried for the girl, had immediately put her in the car and left for the hospital. I never saw the girl that gave the dare or the the girl that took the dare again.
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quote:The girl had taken the dare, and broke it and part of it had gotten lodged inside. They couldn't get it out, and called for my mother.
Thsi particular UL is recited by men/boys; and they don't know much about female anatomy.
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Comment: There is a story on your site about the man in the parking lot with the "perfume" story. He is then to knock women out with ether and rob them. THIS IS A TRUE AND JUST HAPPENED TO MY DAUGHTER. You now need to take it off of the "urban legend" list. It really happens.
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Comment: I have just read your article about the guy who put pencils up his nose in a test and committed suicide. Well this story sounded familiar to me and I couldn't quite place it. I mentioned it in passing to my stepdad and he told me that indeed this story is true and happened to him at his high school. In the same exam room as him someone did the same thing as mentioned in the article. This took place somewhere in Northern Ireland. What you do with this information is entirley up to you but I thought I would just make a point.
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quote:What you do with this information is entirley up to you
I suggest you stick it up your nose with a rubber hose!
Er, sorry.
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quote:Originally posted by snopes: What you do with this information is entirley up to you
I first tried using your information as an insect repellent. It failed miserably. Flies swarmed around it as they would around a pile of manure.
I then tried using your information as a paperweight. This didn't work either. It seems that your information carries no weight whatsoever.
I've since given your information to my neighbor. He was most grateful, since he has a new puppy.
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quote:Originally posted by snopes: I mentioned it in passing to my stepdad and he told me that indeed this story is true and happened to him at his high school.
... thus ensuring either his lack of smell unto perpetuity or a prompt removal from the gene pool.
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quote:What you do with this information is entirley up to you
I suggest you stick it up your nose with a rubber hose!
Er, sorry.
My brother had a novelty 45 of the cast of Welcome Back, Kotter singing their insults. And now it's stuck in my head. Thanks for the 70's flashback, my little Canuckie.
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quote:Originally posted by snopes: Comment: There is a story on your site about the man in the parking lot with the "perfume" story. He is then to knock women out with ether and rob them. THIS IS A TRUE AND JUST HAPPENED TO MY DAUGHTER. You now need to take it off of the "urban legend" list. It really happens.
Does this person think by saying it happend to their child that it will make people believe it. Either that or the daughter told her parent this to see how gullible her mom or dad really is. I like the all caps too. That's going to make me believe it really happend. Since we all know all caps equals truth.
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Comment: well i don't know if you can use this or not seeing as my mom is and her family are the only ones to know this, but back when the vietnam war was going on and they were drafting people, (not women right) she got a draft notice in the mail, her dad was outraged and they went to the place to ask why she a girl was drafted, her name is sander, so i guess they thought she was a boy, but when they got there they said she was pretending to be sander to save her brother from being drafted, only she had one brother who had already inlisted previously. they apoligized for the mistake and as she was leaving my mom said they passed an 80yr old man who also recieved a draft summons. i guess thats military intellenge for you. hahah if you can use it feel free, but i have no proof of this only my moms word, and i know she wouldnt lie about this. it is way to bizarre, and i love her, but she's not that bright to make it up. thank you.
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quote:Originally posted by snopes: i love her, but she's not that bright to make it up.
I love you mummy, but you're an idiot.
How sweet.
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