Now, once again, it's time to play, "Name your favorite Urban Legend!"

Do you have one?

and it turns out to be a water rat.

I loved that one.

That is an urban legend, right? :evilgrin:

:shrug:

:o Still can't believe how many people actually thought it was true.

Is that the one where a little boy is standing by a curtain, and no one should have been there.

bathtub full of ice with a phone next to the tub and a note saying to call 911 right away. Your kidneys have been stolen! :crazy:

Like, criminals who steal live human tissue are going to take the time to keep you alive, and also risk leaving a witness. :eyes:

Don't disillusion me... :(

I heard they were able to identify the vehicle from the wheelcovers, the only thing that survived the fire. Story was the hubcaps flew off at mach1, shortly after the car went airborne.

People were afraid to sit on toilets (yoiks, what an image).

is a Satan loving cult.

Until I did a reserach paper on it for my Urban Legends folklore class last semester. Now I never want to hear it again as long as I live.

Smith, Paul. The Book of Nasty Legends.
Glasgow: Fontana/Collins, 1984. ISBN 0-00-636856-5 (p. 97).

He was my professor. Nice guy. Had a friendly english accent.

Very impressive indeed.

I was fooled by that one years ago before there was such a thing as the Internet!

The babysitter receiving creepy calls that turned out to be coming from inside the house, and the teenage lovers attacked by the man with the hook for a hand.

I heard both of those at about age 12, when I had no idea what an "urban legend" was. I now collect books on the subject!

Wherein street gangs initaited new members by having them drive around after dark sans headlights, then requiring them to execute the first person to blink 'em. It's apparently never actually happened.

Simply because of that - urban legend or not.

Someone at work told me that someone told them who knows...finally it gets down to a probation officer. I ask the name(since I know a few of them). Of course, no one knows the name.

Little idiots! they fell for the legend hook, line and sinker.

:eyes:

about the vanguard of Thelessian pod people who came down and took over the chi of all those born on February 29 and redirected their energy into their quantic energy propulsion beams so they could send a meesage back through tesseract-folded sub-space to their home planet in NGC-A-1353 to let their kindred know that they were almost out of Pringles and Diet Coke.

Remember when everybody was telling that one?

Sorry Bike Writer. So much for "quality" huh?


:hi:

:shrug:

and their room has been ransacked. They called hotel security and upon investigation the couple realized that nothing was stolen. Their camera was even sitting right on the dresser and that wasnt stolen. Very strange or very fortunate? Who knows?

So....the couple finishes their vacation and flys home to Nebraska. They send the film from the camera to be developed and printed. Going through the prints they see a picture that they didnt take. A pic taken in their hotel room of a big naked ass with their toothbrushes stuck up in it.

Heard that one some years ago and got many people to beleive it.

super duper security system.

Drives me nuts when I hear this one.

Debunked by KamaAina!

That has been around for decades!

Every girl and every boy sleepover has probably had at least one game of Bloody Mary. Sometimes it's the whole group, sometimes it's not.

My first reaction to your opst was "cool, ostension!"

Happy New Year to you, hoss.

Redstone

Many more of the same to you!

happy holidays and all that, hope you are doing ok at least. It can be very tough, been thinking about you and hoping you are ok.

Urban Legend favorite has got to be the microwaved pet, second only to bush was elected in 2000.

have suffered that fate. I once had a man I worked with get a call from his wife saying their cat had gone through the wash with the clothing.

the boy gets out to look, the guy with the hook gets them both. It's happened in every lover's lane in the country and maybe even in Europe.

If anyone is, they probably have heard of the Ultimate Warrior. Well for the past 15 years there's been the rumor of multiple Ultmate Warriors existing due to his constant disappearances from wrestling, each replacing one killed in some accident, usually involving Being burying alive in a casket, killed in a match, shooting himself, Overdosing on drugs, taking to many steroids and his vains exploding, this is just mostly silly playground rumors that grown very large, I'm actually been suprise the amount of adults that have told me some of these crazy tales and believe it and they know wrestling isn't real. The truth is the real Ultimate Warrior is alive and not really well. This guy's birth name is Jim Helwig, He legally changed it to the Ultimate Warrior (Seriously) named his daughter Indiana so her name is full name is "Indiana Warrior" and I was once flipping thru the channels on the TV and he was on CSPAN speaking about Conservative ideology. The guy gets speaking engagements at colleges and almost starts riots with students because of his crazy Conservative values. Trust me this guys the most far out there Repuke out there, O'Reilly, Rush, Coulter would blush if they were next to him.

Ultimate Warrior was my fave wrestler back in the day. I heard how there were a "few" UW's but I hadn't heard about his post wrestling downfall.

Check out his official website, I just have an image of him sitting behind a computer in his wrestling gear, full face paint getting made shaking the desk when someones makes him mad in email!

My favorite urban legend is the one about Mikey from the old LIFE cereal commercials, dying after ingesting pop rocks and coke.

in the history of the free world. Followed by *


I hate to bring politics to the Lounge but I couldn't resist. :)

in his own right.

:) Status: Undetermined.

Actually, I find the Lounge an excellent venue for free-form gratuitous Bush**-bashing...

http://www.snopes.com/risque/penile/scrotum.htm

A true urban legend.

Still have the photocopy I made from the back of the journal that reported it (a doctor gleefully pointed it out to me). Even with all the stuff that goes on in medical centers, that one was wince-inducing.

Much less stapling himself back up!

Well, he did after they swelled up, anyway. :scared:

YIKES!

he could still breed with just the one. :-(

Not the cocktail, this Bloody Mary .

:eyes:

Been around since the early 1960's.

Woman gets hair done in one of those lacquered beehive styles, and then doesn't take it down for weeks and weeks. Goes to the hairdresser to get it redone and when they take down the beehive there are roaches inside.


First time I heard it the beautician and woman in question were in southern Kentucky, but since I have heard several versions with the location being the major change.

Contents of stomach was 1 gallon of semen/sperm.

I always heard it was Elton John. :shrug:

being told by a friend that a woman was murdered in the next room while Love Rollercoaster was being recorded. (the song was current at that time; I think I was 11 or 12)

I couldn't listen to it after that. :hi:

The business man who has a one night stand with a hot chick. He wakes up in a bathtub full of ice with his kidneys cut out so she can sell them on the blackmarket.

It's got everything: sex, violence, knives, surgery without anasthestic, victimized yuppie businessmen, evil sexy women, capitalism run wild, random casual sex. What more do you want?

Joe Bob Khash says:

Two breasts.

15 buckets of blood.

Casual sex Fu.

Bad capitalism Fu.

Surgery Fu.

4 stars - check it out. Twice.


Khash

A galactic tyrant named Xenu kidnapped certain individuals who were deemed "excess population" and loaded these individuals into space planes for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Earth. These space planes were said to have been copies of Douglas DC-8s, with the addition of rocket engines. He then stacked hundreds of billions of these frozen victims around Earth's volcanoes 75 million years ago before blowing them up with hydrogen bombs and brainwashing them with a 3D super colossal motion picture for 36 days, telling them lies of what they are and what the universe should be like and telling them that they are 3 different things: 'Jesus, God, and The Devil.'

The traumatized thetans subsequently clustered around human bodies because they watched the motion picture together, making them think they are all the same thing, in effect acting as invisible spiritual parasites known as "body thetans" that can only be removed using advanced techniques. Xenu is allegedly imprisoned in a mountain by a force field powered by an eternal battery. He is said to be still alive today.

http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/ironeyes.htm

Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera DeCorti on 3 April 1904 in the small town of Kaplan, Louisiana. He was the son of Francesca Salpietra and Antonio DeCorti, she an immigrant from Sicily who had arrived in the USA in 1902, and he another immigrant who had arrived in America not long before her. Theirs was an arranged marriage, and the couple had four children, with Espera (or Oscar, as he was called) their second eldest. In 1909, when Espera was five years old, Antonio DeCorti abandoned his wife and children and headed for Texas. Francesca married again, this time to a man named Alton Abshire, with whom she bore five more children.

I think nationally this was said about Richard Gere. Here it was a local newscaster that someone had a vendetta against. It seems everyone has a cousin or acquaintance that was a nurse and right there when it happened. Ruined the guy in Philly but he now has a National job on Entertainment Tonight.

From eating Pop Rocks and drinking Coke?

If the Washington Redskins win their last game before the election of President, the party in power will win the Presidency. If they lose, the other party wins. Of course this was debunked in 2000. The Redskins lost and Gore won the Presidency.

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finally gets fed up and calls the cops. They tell her the call is coming from inside the house!! Ooh! Scary!

:hi:

:shrug:

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