Correcting someone who's repeating an urban legend as something that "really happened": c or d?

Are you saying there is some kind of problem associated with that?

Worst koan ever.

i did this once. it was pretty much the final nail in the coffin of an unrewarding acquaintanceship. i'd heartily recommend it.

THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A MOMENT

The Mining Journal News, Marquette, Mi.

This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of Michigan state after a snow storm last winter.

WEATHER BULLETIN

Up here in the Northern Plains we just recovered from a Historic event--- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.

FYI:

George Bush did not come.

FEMA did nothing.

No one howled for the government.

No one blamed the government.

No one even uttered an expletive on TV.

Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.

Our Mayor's did not blame Bush or anyone else.

Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else either

CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5 snow storm nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.

No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.

No one looted.

Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.
Nobody expected the government to do anything either.

No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.

No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.

Nope, we just melted the snow for water.

Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.

The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny.

Local restaurants made food, and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snow bound families..

Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.

We Fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.

We put on an extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".

We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks.

Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."

It does seem that way, at least to me.

I hope this gets passed on..

Maybe . SOME people will get the message .. The world does Not owe you a living!!!

> The Plan!
>
> You gotta love Robin Williams......
> Even if he ' s nuts! Leave it to Robin
> Williams to come up with the perfect
> plan. What we need now is for our
> UN Ambassador to stand up and
> repeat this message.
>
> Robin Williams ' plan...(Hard to
> argue with this logic!)
>
> "I see a lot of people yelling for peace
> but I have not heard of a plan for
> peace. So, here ' s one plan."
>
> 1) "The US will apologize to the world for our
> "interference" in their
> affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler,
> Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo,
> Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those
> "good ole boys", we
> will never "interfere" again..
>
> 2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the
> world, starting with
> Germany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the
> Philippines . They don
> ' t want us there. We would station troops at our
> borders. No one
> allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
>
> 3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their
> affairs together and
> leave.We ' ll give them a free trip home. After 90
> days the remainder
> will be gathered up and deported immediately,
> regardless of whom or
> where they are. They ' re illegal!!! France will
> welcome them.
>
> 4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked
> and limited to 90 days
> unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a
> terrorist nation will be
> allowed in. If you don ' t like it there, change it
> yourself and don ' t
> hide here.. Asylum would never be available to
> anyone. We don ' t need
> any more cab drivers
> or 7-11 cashiers.
>
> 5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones
> are the bombers. If
> they don ' t attend classes, they get a "D" and it '
> s back home baby.
>
> 6) The US will make a strong effort
> to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will
> include developing
> nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a
> temporary drilling of
> oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have
> to cope for a
> while.
>
> 7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing
> countries $10 a barrel for
> their oil. If they don ' t like it, we go someplace
> else(like Canada !
> or Oklahoma !). They can go somewhere else to sell
> their production.
> (About a week of the wells filling up the storage
> sites would be
> enough.)
>
> 8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe
> in the world, we
> will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or
> whomever, for seeds,
> rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of
> what we give them is
> stolen or given
> to the army. The people who need it most get very
> little, if anything.
>
> 9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island
> someplace. We don ' t
> need the spies and fair weather friends here.
> Besides, the building
> would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for
> illegal aliens.
>
> 10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty
> school. That way , no one
> can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The
> Language we speak is
> ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn ' t that a
> winner of a plan?
>
> "The Statue of Liberty is no longer
> saying "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled
> masses." She ' s got
> a baseball bat and she ' s yelling, ' you want a
> piece of me? ' "
>
> If you agree with the above forward it to friends..
> .If not, and I would be amazed, DELETE it!!

(or howabout just do "Strikethru") xpost

Funny that.

wait, is this true?? I gotta start watching this show.

they've got a point there

so do 90% of the people

Our house was burgled in June, the year before our donkey was stolen, and now this.

the question is, why do they catch on? how do they gain purchase and why do people forward them on?

because an awful lot of people are really, really, really fucking stupid?

"Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don ' t need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens."

Yellow #5 decreases sperm count!

best urban legend is the blowjob gone awry because of braces and pubes

nah its the dog head party surprise

doing this nowadays gets you attacked as if you want the megacool story that didn't really happen to not be true or something or that you made it false with your correction.

so....dudsic?

My brother swears the Dock Ellis LSD no-hitter story was made up and it's such a wet blanket sentiment

_I experienced a guy ineffectually trying the other great New Orleans KFR ("Hey Mister, I bet you got your shoes on your feet - no wait come back I said it wrong").

a friend of mine keeps telling people that Lucy Lawless is the daughter of Blackie Lawless and I didn't correct him the first time because I figured this was a one time story he would tell, only now he keeps repeating it, so now me telling him is going to make it look like I was laughing at him by letting him tell it the whole time.

it is kind of funny to me though in that he's only 12 years older than her and she grew up in an entirely different country. not to mention his real name is Steven Duren.