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

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Someone at work sent the "$30,000 worth of UPS uniforms were purchased on ebay" email and I was happy to send the snopes link around in response. People should really know better.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, Mods, delete!

(or howabout just do "Strikethru") xpost

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

There were a large number of Queen videos ordered for manufacture, 2 days before Fred went.

Funny that.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Aside to that first post: the entire Upper Peninsula of Michigan is below 48 degrees latitude (except for the northern half of Isle Royale National Park).

― Bnad (Bnad), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I once worked for an attorney who was to make a presentation to the YWCA about domestic violence. She asked me to help her prepare materials for her presentation, which included a laminated card containing a list of tips to prevent sexual assault. They included things like "If you are thrown into a trunk, bash out the tail light and stick your arm out so people can see -- this has saved lives!" and "Don't go outside if you hear a crying baby, this is a common serial killer's ploy!" Even though I didn't like working for her, I saved her the embarrassment and told her what's what.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

God bless "Gunnery Sergeant Graboski," and God Bless America.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I agree that Robin Williams would be a better ambassador than John Bolton.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

noone saw nip/tuck? melissa gilbert smeared peanut butter on her cunt for her pit bull and then the pit bull gnawed her nipple off so she had to have plastic surgery and then her husband just returned from iraq walked into the recovery room and dumped the pit bull's dead body out of a duffle bag and the anesthesiologist had her kidney stolen.

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

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

'you think youre so smart dont you'

they've got a point there

― Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

"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."

so do 90% of the people

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

When urban myths go wrong.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

best line from that:

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

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

And he's got kidney failure!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

so who writes these things in the first place? especially the xenophobic fundie ones.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Concerned Citizens, i would suspect. Some of them are just copy-pasted speeched from xenophobic fundie politicians.

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

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link

That xenophobic fundie 'peace plan' is pretty funny if you imagine Robin Williams actually saying those things. Like saying it to leukemia patients in Patch Adams.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 02:00 (seventeen years ago) link

we need to recover from the kramer thread for a few days before we go there, guyz.

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 02:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.patchadams.com/images/patchanim01.gif

"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."

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link

wokka wokka!

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

Yellow #5 decreases sperm count!

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 January 2019 05:39 (five years ago) link

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

― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 4 January 2019 05:52 (five years ago) link

nah its the dog head party surprise

― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 4 January 2019 07:39 (five years ago) link

three years pass...

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?

― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 February 2022 02:44 (two years ago) link

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

― frogbs, Sunday, 27 February 2022 03:28 (two years ago) link

_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").

Love this

― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 27 February 2022 17:12 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

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.

― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 06:19 (one year ago) link

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