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

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I mean, if you know it didn't actually happen, then it's morally correct to say so, right? Then again, you might cause someone to lose face, and urban legends are mostly just good yarns, so maybe there's no real harm done in letting people believe it?

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 September 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I often just say, "Did you check snopes on that?"

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 September 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

And they understand you?

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm still correcting people about "Captain Pugwash".

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i got a myspace chain letter thing from someone petitioning to stop james bulger's killers being released t'other day, a link to snopes and a 'LOL welcome to 2001' seemed the appropriate reaction

The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i hate this shit

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

im totally cool with the gross/funny urban legends (tell em myself! lobster dildo 4eva) but co-workers always seem to be real into the right wing police state supporting ones- dead baby full of coke, terrorists in our midst, racial profiling works, pedophile chicanery, etc and when i say uh yeah that isnt true its either 'you calling my sister a liar?' or 'you think youre so smart dont you'

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

You didn't have that little smirk on your face by any chance?

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't often hear them repeated as gospel, but as a curious, hmm -- MYTH -- which isn't quite true-or-false, real-or-made-up.

EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I reckon let them hang themselves, or maybe say "that's funny, my cousin in America had a friend who saw the same thing". Or something. You do look like a smartarse if you use your best special voice to say "Actually, I think you'll find that's an urban legend".

DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

"ok he shot the albatross but he didn't REALLY have to go round telling everyone."

EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I don't mind so much if someone is telling a story because they think it's a good story. What bugs me most is what my Mom does, and continues to do no matter how much my uncle and brother and I remind her this this is NOT COOL, which is to forward everything that is forwarded to her to everyone in her address book. She clearly doesn't even read most of it. "Mars is going to be as big as the moon tonight!" I mean, come on, Mom. Think about that for a second. Anyway, what's to do but sigh and send her a link to snopes?

always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

"Mars is going to be as big as the moon tonight!"

Man, I'd be happy if someone said that to me. Pure comedy.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

dude like i said im cool with shit about worms in big macs or whatever - i LOVE gross-out stories!! but like 'did you hear about the guy at grady hospital in the emergency room who had a dead baby stuck on his dick? they need to kill all those motherfuckers' 'wait what? when did this happen? last week? why wasnt it reported??' and then you get this smug unearned skepticism - 'oh, ethan, you really believe what the NEWS tells you?' yeah cuz local news they hate sensationalist tabloid reporting about pedos & dead babies and will cover it up at every chance

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

for real whiny christians & old ladies love to talk about the most sadistic fucked up shit you ever heard in your life

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I agree that with the nastier right-wing legends you should the society a favour and try to stop people spreading them.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

enough snopes links and they learn to stop forwarding the emails to you.

i've spent years trying to get parents and relatives to be properly afraid of the internet, to limited success.

kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

al qaeda put anthrax in cans of coke!!! ALERT!!!

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

the fearmongering right wing ones are never even good stories, theyre just nasty or dumb

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

The most recent one I defused was a batch mail to friends about the heroic dog that saved thousands of lives on 9/11. Uh-huh. Found the snopes page, sent the person back a link, and she complained a bit.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Remember this?

I was at a UNC lecture the other day where they played a video of Oliver North during the Iran-Contra deals during the Reagan administration. I was only 14 back then but was surprised by this particular clip. There was Olie in front of God and Country getting the third degree. But what he said stunned me. He was being drilled by some senator I didn't recognize who asked him:

'Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?'

Oliver replied, 'Yes I did sir.'

The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, 'Isn't this just a little excessive?'

'No sir,' continued Oliver.

'No. And why not?'

'Because the life of my family and I were threatened.'

'Threatened? By who.'

'By a terrorist, sir.'

'Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?'

'His name is Osama bin Laden.'

At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued.

'Why are you so afraid of this man?'

'Because sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of.'

'And what do you recommend we do about him?'

'If it were me I would recommend an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth.'

The senator disagreed with this approach and that was all they showed of the clip.

It's scary when you think 15 years ago the government was aware of Osama bin Laden and his potential threat to the security of the world. I guess like all great tyrants they start small but if left untended spread like the virus they truly are.

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a bit of a reputation in my last job as the person who would respond to mass-emailed myths with a Snopes rebuttal within about 10 seconds. Funnily enough, it doesn't exactly enhance your standing with your work colleagues.

Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The senator disagreed with this approach and that was all that was shown of the clip. If anyone is interested, the Senator turned out to be none other than ... Al Gore.

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Coworker who really should have known better who claimed Jagermeister contains deer blood in Germany (or used to contain it, or... etc)? I let that one hang a while before passing out the Snopes link.

mh. (mike h.), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

This is kind of strange. Makes you wonder.

Verse from none other than the Koran.
Prophetic?

A verse from Muslim teachings.

Koran Chapter 9 Verse 11 -- For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced; for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah; and there was peace.

(Note the number of the section)

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Right, race for the Snopes link, GO!

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Subject: Re: LETTER WRITTEN BY STEVEN SPIELBERG

THE FOLLOWING LETTER WAS WRITTEN BY STEVEN SPIELBERG

Please forward if you agree...........

August 1st 2006

Dear Mr. Gibson,

I am one Jew who doesn't accept your apology today.

I don't accept it, because you have spit on the graves
of the Goldwyns, the Warners, the Mayers, the Cohns,
the Foxes, the Thalbergs, the Selznicks, the Zukors
and the thousands of other Jews both living and dead
who have made your questionable career possible.

When you do get out of "rehab" and recount your
millions, please consider how much of your fortune you
would have if you had made your true feelings known,
when you were starting out in the film industry.

You are a despicable human being, one that doesn't
even have the sense to realize that he has repeatedly
bitten the hand that fed him. Whatever you (or your
publicity agents) say today, does not even begin to
redress your long standing theories about the Jewish
people. Apparently the apple does not fall far from
the tree. If you haven't yet distanced yourself from
your father's views of the Holocaust, why should the
Jewish community meet with you, or believe anything
you have to say now.

Your words are a thinly veiled attempt to admit that
you really messed up this time, and you want to cover
yourself, so that you can continue to be adored and
further your revenue stream.

The truth is, you are an unreformed, unrepentant anti
semite of the worst kind, and your hollow outreach is
worth less than the price of your next drink, which
will surely find itself in your hands before long. I'm
buying.

Of course, if I am wrong, you could start by donating
$1,000,000 today to the State of Israel in her time of
need.

Surely that is a small public relations price to pay
for a man of your stature who "honors all of God's
children".

Steven Spielberg
New Rochelle, NY

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Begin forwarded message:
> >
> Subject: France-Very Scary
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>>
>> Once again, the real news is conveniently not being reported as it
>> should.
>> At present, in my Hebrew class, there is a woman who recently made
>> aliya
>> (immigration to Israel) from Paris with her family. I have spoken
>> with her
>> about anti-Semitism in France and she confirmed that it is very, very
>> serious and getting worse every week. She and her family fled Paris
>> and
>> came to Israel, fearing for their lives - literally. This is
>> firsthand.
>> To give you an idea of what's going on in France where there are now
>> between 5 and 6 million Muslims and about 600,000 Jews, here is an
>> email
>> that came from another Jew still in France. Please read! Will
>> theworldsay
>> nothing-again-as it did in Hitler's time?
>> He writes, "I AM A JEW -- therefore I am forwarding this to everyone
>> on
>> my e-mail lists. I will not sit back and do nothing." Nowhere havethe
>> flames of anti-Semitism burned more furiously than in France:
>> In Lyon, a car was rammed into a synagogue and set on fire.
>> In Montpellier, the Jewish religious center was firebombed;
>> so were synagogues in Strasbourg and Marseilles; as was a Jewish
>> school in Creteil - all recently.
>> A Jewish sports club in Toulouse was attacked with Molotov cocktails,
>> and on the statue of Alfred Dreyfus in Paris, the words "Dirty Jew"
>> were painted.
>> In Bondy, 15 men beat up members of a Jewish football team with
>> sticks and metal bars.
>> The bus that takes Jewish children to school in Aubervilliers has been
>> attacked three times in the last 14 months.
>> According to Police, metropolitan Paris has seen 10 to 12 anti-Jewish
>> incidents PER DAY in the past 30 days. Wake up, world! Walls in Jewish
>> neighborhoods have been defaced with slogans proclaiming "Jews to
>> the gas chambers" and "Death to the Jews."
>> A gunman opened fire on a kosher butcher's shop (and, of course, the
>> butcher) in Toulouse, France; a Jewish couple in their 20s were
>> beaten-up by five men in Villeurbanne, France. The woman was pregnant.
>> A Jewish school was broken into and vandalized in Sarcelles, France.
>> This was in the past week.
>> So I call on you, whether you are a fellow Jew, a friend, or merely a
>> person with the capacity and desire to distinguish decency from
>> depravity,
>> to do, at least, three simple things:
>> First, care enough to stay informed. Don't ever let yourself become
>> deluded into thinking that this is not your fight. I remind you of
>> what
>> Pastor Neimoller said in World War II: First they came for the
>> Communists,
>> and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist .Then they came
>> for
>> the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they
>> came
>> for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant.
>> Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to
>> speak up for me.
>> Second, boycott France and French products. Only the Arab countries
>> are
>> more toxically anti-Semitic and, unlike them, France exports more than
>> justoil and hatred. So boycott their wines and their perfumes.
>> Boycott
>> their clothes and their foodstuffs. Boycott their movies. Definitely
>> boycott
>> their shores. If we are resolved we can exert amazing pressure and,
>> whatever else we may know about the French, we most certainly know
>> that they are like a cobweb in a hurricane in the face of well
>> directedpressure.
>> Third, send this along to your family, your friends, and your
>> co-workers.
>> Think of all of the people of good conscience that you know and let
>> them
>> know that you and the people that you care about need their help. The
>> number one best selling book in France is "September 11: The
>> Frightening
>> Fraud," which argues that no plane ever hit the Pentagon.
>> Is it any wonder that aliya from France to Israel has increased
>> dramatically?

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

>> Is it any wonder that aliya from France to Israel has increased
>> dramatically?

lol

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Racial urban legends, including the myth of a "black" social security number (i.e., if the fifth number is even, you must be black).

Slumming it on ilx (section241), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Quotes To Go Down In History.
And, if anybody thought that 'Dubya' was stupid........read on!

"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."
- John F. Kerry

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
- John F. Kerry

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
- John F. Kerry

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
- John F. Kerry

"The future will be better tomorrow."
- John F. Kerry

"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world."
- John F. Kerry

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
- John F. Kerry

"We have a firm commitment to NATO. We are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."
- John F. Kerry

"Public speaking is very easy."
- John F. Kerry

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
- John F. Kerry

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
- John F. Kerry

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
- John F. Kerry

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
- John F. Kerry

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
- John F. Kerry

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
- John F. Kerry

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

My fifth number is even...?

Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

MY SISTA

Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

you and me both sister. fight the man, kill whitey, etc.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Those Kerry quotes.

All Quayle or pseudo-Quayle, with one paraphrase of something GWB said.

Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

"More and more of our imports come from overseas." (Although not all imports necessarily come from "overseas," when President Bush made this statement he was specifically referring to foreign oil imports, even though the two largest foreign suppliers of oil to the U.S. are the fellow North American countries of Canada and Mexico.)

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Some of you may have seen the news yesterday where a woman was carjacked at Cobb Parkway and Highway 92 (Acworth). While fleeing, the carjacker crashed into a cement truck and the victim was killed instantly. (She was 30 yrs. old and a mother of two small toddlers) As the carjacker was fleeing, (with a gun) a citizen shot and killed him! (thankfully). The police think this is the same man who raped a woman last weekend, (school teacher 2 months away from retirement), took her to her bank and had her! clean out her ATM, and then stabbed her! (thankfully she did not die). The police also think this man is from New Orleans.

Today here at the office we had a patient who came in who is a 9-1-1 operator. She said that calls are coming in like crazy over the past 2 weeks with carjackings! (right around the time we have had this influx of new residents!)

You won't hear this on the news as the media will not let this out.... But I did hear on Fox News this morning that there are 4,500 sex offenders that were let out of prison in New Orleans that have NOT re-registered! All the communities who have taken in these folks are now at risk.

The purpose of this email is to put all of you on ALERT! Lock your car doors the minute you get in. Keep your homes locked. This is not the same community we had 2 weeks ago. Hopefully things will get back to normal but be AWARE!

Please let others know about this, as I would feel horrible if something happened to one of my friends or family members and I had this! knowledge.

Be Safe!

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

On December 9, 2005, CNN covered an interview of a US Special Forces soldier, a member of an elite sniper team. A Reuters reporter trying to milk the interview for all it was worth asked the young soldier, in a less than respectful tone, and in an effort to make him feel guilty, "What do you feel, if anything, when you shoot an Al Quaeda freedom fighter from such a long distance?" The young soldier shrugged his shoulders and replied "Recoil" and turned and walked away.

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i did this once at thanksgiving when my cousin repeated some stupid mexican spider/plant/cheek story attributing it to a friend of a friend (i can't remember the details) and i repeatedly told her that it was a tall tale that could be found in many books and everyone looked at me like i had peed all over the turkey. so just nod and so ORLY!

scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

how about that post-katrina one about how badly the evacuees were behaving, that's kind of the ultimate example of this

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

dude i just pasted that

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

If anyone is interested, the Senator turned out to be none other than ... Al Gore.

hahaha. i love the structure of this, putting it exactly like a Paul Harvey anecdote, even with the pause. They need to work a bit on getting the sing-songy vibe in there.

I'M Paul HARvey, good DAY!

kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Plus that one about "WTF someone sued McDonalds cuz their coffee was too hot" old chestnut. Twas true, but only half the story (coffee used to be way too hot to drink etc de blahdeblah)

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

(Scott is leaving out the part of the story where he peed all over the turkey.)

Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Telephone Scam: The Georgia National Guard has reported receiving information that people are getting telemarketing-type calls prompting them to press #1 to continue to hear information about a nuclear attack in the U.S. The recordings use individuals with a "Middle Eastern" accent. If you receive one of these telemarketing calls - hang up. Do not stay on the line and follow any instructions made by the recording. By pressing #1, you are saying you agree to additional charges, even though you have received the call. By calling you they have your number, thus your phone account. Additionally, these telemarketing calls may have a secondary purpose to cause fear in the U.S. The purpose of terrorism is to instill fear in the population. They don't have to use a bomb to instill fear. This is an excellent example of psychological warfare, in addition to scam money to fund more terrorist operations.

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Everyone knows the terrorists are around and planning something big. What the FBI and CIA won't tell us is that there is a MAJOR conspiracy afoot which could affect us all here in the USA, THIS WEEK!

Everyone knows the 7-Eleven convenience store chain. They are EVERYWHERE, in every city and small town in the USA. In large metropolitan areas, they are sometimes only a few blocks apart. Anyone who has shopped in a 7-Eleven knows that they are owned predominantly by people of middle-eastern origin; in fact, the parent company of the franchise (7-Eleven Limited Partnership) is owned by a group with ties to Osama bin Laden.

Every single 7-Eleven store has been instructed to unleash attacks on their surrounding neighborhoods. This includes blowing up the stores themselves, possibly using 'dirty' nuclear bombs as well as conventional explosives, as well as outright assaults on the American people. This will cause a major disruption in ALL major American cities. If you live near a 7-Eleven, please be aware of this danger.

You are urged to boycott all 7-Eleven stores to keep yourself and your families safe from the terrorists.

Please pass this email on to any and every person you know, you may just save a life or two.

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

at several points, i've had to restrain myself when talking to these people. i think that much grief and energy could have been saved with "jesus CHRIST, dad/mom/uncle, ALL forwards on the internet are bullshit. if it doesn't have a link to an actual article from a legit news source(newsmax/WND don't count), the thing is bogus. bogus bogus bogus. And no, cell phones don't blow people up at gas stations. stop sending me that."

kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Plus that one about "WTF someone sued McDonalds cuz their coffee was too hot" old chestnut. Twas true, but only half the story (coffee used to be way too hot to drink etc de blahdeblah)
-- mark grout (mark.grou...), September 25th, 2006.

errrr, hang on this isn't an urban myth. it happened. shockingly the full story was simplified in the retelling, but same goes for everything.

EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

dude i just pasted that

-- and what (an...), Today 11:44 AM. (ooo) (later)

i was talking about this:

I thought I might inform the few friends I have on my recent traumatic experience. I am going to tell it straight, blunt, raw, and I don't give a damn. Long read, I know but please do read!

I went to volunteer on Saturday at the George R. Brown convention for two reasons.

A: I wanted to help people to get a warm fuzzy.
B: Curiosity.

I've been watching the news lately and have seen scenes that have made me want to vomit. And no it wasn't dead bodies, the city under water, or the sludge everywhere. It was PEOPLE'S BEHAVIOR. The people on T.V. (99% being Black) were DEMANDING help. They were not asking nicely but demanding as if society owed these people something. Well the honest truth is WE DON'T.

Help should be asked for in a kind manner and then appreciated. This is not what the press (FOX in particular) was showing, what I was seeing was a group of people who are yelling, demanding, looting, killing, raping, and SHOOTING back at the demanded help! So I'm thinking this can't possibly be true can it? So I decide to submit to the DEMAND for help out of SHOCK. I couldn't believe this to be true of the majority of the people who are the weakest of society. So I went to volunteer and help folks out and see the truth. So I will tell the following story and you decide:

I arrived at the astrodome only to find out that there are too many volunteers and that volunteers were needed at the George R. Brown Convention Center. As I was walking up to the Convention Center I noticed a line of cars that wrapped around blocks filled with donations. These were ordinary Houstonians coming with truckloads and trunks full of water, diapers, clothes, blankets, food, all types of good stuff. And lots of it was NEW. I felt that warm fuzzy while helping unload these vehicles of these wonderful human beings. I then went inside the building and noticed approximately 100,000 sq. ft. of clothes, shoes, jackets, toys and all types of goodies all organized and ready for the people in need. I signed up, received a name badge and was on my merry way excited to be useful.

I toured the place to get familiar with my surrounding; the entire place is probably around 2 million sq. ft. I noticed rows as far as the eye can see of mattresses, not cots, BLOW UP MATTRESSES! All of which had nice pillows and plenty of blankets. 2 to 3 bottles of water lay on every bed. These full size to queen size beds by the way were comfortable, I laid on one to see for myself. I went to look at the medical area. I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing! A makeshift hospital created in 24 hours! It was unbelievable, they even had a pharmacy. I also noticed that they created showers, which would also have hot water. I went upstairs to the third floor to find a HUGE cafeteria created in under 24 hours! Rows of tables, chairs and food everywhere - enough to feed an army! I'm not talking about crap food either. They had Jason's Deli food, apples, oranges, coke, diet coke, lemonade, orange juice, cookies, all types of chips and sandwiches. All the beverages by the way was put on ice and chilled! In a matter of about 24 hours or less an entire mini-city was erected by volunteers for the poor evacuees. This was not your rundown crap shelter, it was BUM HEAVEN.

So that was the layout: great food, comfy beds, clean showers, free medical help, by the way there was a library, and a theatre room I forgot to mention. Great stuff right?

Well here is what happened on my journey -

I started by handing out COLD water bottles to evacuees as they got off the bus. Many would take them and only 20% or less said thank you. Lots of them would shake their heads and ask for sodas! So this went on for about 20-30 minutes until I was sick of being an unappreciated servant. I figured certainly these folks would appreciate some food! So I went upstairs to serve these beloved evacuees some GOOD food that I wish I could have at the moment!

The following statements are graphic, truthful, and discuss UNRATIONAL behavior. Evacuees come slowly to receive this mountain of food that is worth serving to a king! I tell them that we have 2 types of great deli sandwiches to choose from - ham and turkey. Many look at the food in disgust and DEMAND burgers, pizza, and even McDonalds! Jason's deli is better than McDonalds! Only 1 out of ten people who took something would say "thank you" the rest took items as if it was their God give right to be served without a shred of appreciation! They would ask for beer and liquor.

They complained that we didn't have good enough food. They refused food and laughed at us. They treated us volunteers as if we where SLAVES. No not all of them of course... but 70% did! 20% where appreciative, 10% took the food without any comment and the other 70% had some disgusting comment to say. Some had the nerve to laugh at us. And when I snapped back at them for being mean, they would curse at me! Needless to say I was in utter shock.

They would eat their food and leave their mess on the table... some would pick up their stuff, many would leave it for the volunteers to pick up. I left that real quick to go down and help set up some more beds. I saw many young ladies carrying mattresses and I helped for a while. Then I realized something... there were hundreds of able bodied young men who could help! I asked a group of young evacuees in their teens and early twenties to help.

I got cursed at for asking them to help! One said "We just lost our ****ing homes and you want us to work!" The next said "Ya Cracker, you got a home we don't" I looked at them in disbelief. Here are women walking by carrying THEIR ****ING BEDS and they can't lift a finger and help themselves!

WHY THE **** SHOULD I HELP PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT TO HELP THEMESELVES!

I waved them off and turned away and was laughed at and more "white boy jokes" where made at me. I felt no need to waste my breath on a bunch of pitiful losers. I went to a nearby restroom where I noticed a man shaving.

I used the restroom, washed my hands and saw this man throw his razor towards the trash can... he missed... he walked out leaving his disgusting razor on the floor for some other "cracker" to pick up. Even the little kids were demanding. I saw only ONE white family and only TWO Hispanic families.

The rest where blacks...sorry 20% to 30% decent blacks... and 70% LOSERS! I would call them ******S, but the actual definition of a ****** is one who is ignorant, these people were not ignorant......they were ARROGANT S. The majority of which are thugs and lifetime lazy ass welfare recipients. We are inviting the lowest of the low to Houston. And like idiots we are serving the people who will soon steal our cars, rape, murder, and destroy our city while stealing from our pockets on a daily basis through the welfare checks they take. We will fund our own destruction.

By "US" I don't mean a specific race, I mean the people who work hard, work smart, have values and morals. Only people who want to help themselves should be helped, the others should be allowed to destroy themselves. I do not want to work hard, give the government close to half the money I earn so they can in turn give it to a bunch of losers.

I don't believe in being poor for life. My family immigrated here, we came here poor, and now thank God, and due to HARD WORK we are doing fine. If immigrants, who come here, don't know the language can work and become successful... WHY THE **** CAN'T THE MAJORITY OF THE HOMEGROWN DO IT!

If we continue to reward these losers then we will soon destroy our great country. I just witnessed selfish, arrogant, unappreciative behavior by the very people who need help the most. Now these same people who cursed me, refused my cities generosity, who refuse to help themselves are DEMANDING handouts on their own terms! They prance around as if they are owed something, and when they do receive a handout, they say it's not good enough! Well you know what......these types of people can go to hell for all I care!

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

HAHAHAHA, i searched on amazon for that book with the apple & razor blade on the cover, and got the noxzema chick's chest instead:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0767824954.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V58769372_.jpg

kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

hilarious

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

wow shakey mo has really gone off this time

xpost

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

The most recent one I defused was a batch mail to friends about the heroic dog that saved thousands of lives on 9/11. Uh-huh. Found the snopes page, sent the person back a link, and she complained a bit.

oh yeah, you debunkers are always on the case of that heroic little dog.

DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I arrived in Moscow, Idaho (Home of Idaho University one block from Best Western) and went to dinner at Best Western. About 85-100 people were in the Restaurant. I'm at a table for about 5 minutes when this "Group" comes in (20 people). They have Anti-War Picket Signs with them. It appears that two of these demonstrators are Professors.

They all sit at a large round table behind me and begin to talk very loudly about US atrocities in Afghanistan. One of the "Professors" stands up and gives a brief talk about how the "US is famous for atrocities" and Afghanistan will be no different. One of the students asked a question about Viet Nam POW's. The "Professor" makes a comment about how that was only US propaganda about poor treatment of POW's.

OK - I'm really mad now and I jump up and go over to their table. (In retrospect - Over the entrance to the Restaurant is a huge American Flag. On each table is an American Flag and a small hand painted sign "United We Stand"). I excuse myself and ask the Professor if I can ask him a question. He says yes. I said that he appears to be of age to have served in Viet Nam, and asked him if he had served. His answer was, "NO - I defended this Campus and told the truth to the students. I then asked if he remembered what he was doing on February 16, 1969. When he answered, "Of course not - that was too long ago," I responded, "Really, I remember what I was doing. That was the second day of my capture and I had been standing in a bamboo cage for 24 hours with water up to my chest". I then said "Sir, your comments about how POW's in Nam were treated are a lie and I personally say to you, you are a ******* liar, as you never were there. I was a POW and they did not treat our POWs humanly. The only other person I have ever heard make the statements like you have is Jane Fonda. Is she telling the truth and not me?" He stood up and after about 10 seconds said, "Jane is a great patriot and I cannot visualize her lying." With that, I reached over and grabbed the small American Flag and United We Stand sign and said, "I'm taking this back to my table where it can be appreciated".

No one said a word to me as I started to walk back. However after a few seconds, people started standing up and applauding all around the restaurant. Two men got up from a table across the room and walked over to me. The first identified himself as former US Marine Lieutenant Flynn and the other man was former Gunnery Sergeant Graboski. In a loud voice after introducing themselves, Lt. Flynn said they were former Marine Guards at a US Embassy. He then said, "We are over at this table to defend the US Flag from all foes, both foreign and domestic." They then sat down and asked their Waitress to bring their meals over to my table. A few more minutes went by with loud comments from the "Anti-War" table. All of a sudden, "Gunny" Sergeant Graboski stood up and in a loud voice said "All of you heard what the President said the other night. You are either with the United States or you are with the terrorists." He then said, "Please stand and join me in God Bless America."

As he started singing, people all around the restaurant stood up and joined in. Several of the students at the "Anti-War" table also stood up half way through the song and joined in. Both Professors and the majority of the students remained seated and refused to sing. At the end there was a great ovation.

The manager came up to my table. (He and his staff came out from the kitchen and sang). He thanked me for what I started and then went over to the Anti-War table and asked them to leave. "I will pay for what you have had so far but I cannot in good conscience serve you - get out now!!"

One of the Professors then made a remark "Well, we are not going to pay one dime for how shabbily we have been treated." As they were leaving, one customer stood up and said, "Manager, here is $5 towards their bill, anyone else willing to chip in to get this scum out of here?" All over the restaurant, people stood up reaching for their wallet and saying, "I'll chip in" The Manager, in tears said, "My family is from Poland, I am now a citizen and am so proud of what I see tonight." He started crying and a couple of the waitresses helped him into the kitchen.

The two Marines and I were there for about another 20 minutes and finished our meal. The Hostess came up and showed us more than $100 dollars that all the other tables had told their Waitresses to give towards our bill. I thanked her but said I could not take the money. Lt Flynn suggested donating it in the Restaurant's name to the New York Relief Fund, so I guess that's what will happen. I just can't believe how Americans are coming together now.

Just thought you would like to hear how the rest of the country is reacting to what happened!!!

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

hilarious

well, i was amused. I'm still trying to find that book, tho.

kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Thought you'd like to know what happened in a town north of Bakersfield California. After you finish reading this, please forward this story on to others so that our nation and around the world will know about those who laughed when they found out about the tragic events in New York, PA and the Pentagon.

September 11th, a Budweiser employee was making a delivery to a convenience store in a town called McFarland. He knew of the tragedy that had occurred in New York. He entered the business to find two Arabs whooping and hollering and really cheering it up. It was obvious they were elated with what had happened earlier. The Budweiser employee went to his truck, called his boss and told him of the very upsetting event. He didn't feel he could be in that store with those horrible people. His boss told him, "Do you think you could go in there long enough to pull every Budweiser product and item our beverage company sells there? We'll never deliver to them again."

The employee walked in, proceeded to pull every single product his beverage company provided and left with an incredible grin on his face. He told them never to bother and call for a delivery again.

Budweiser happens to be the beer of choice for that community. Just letting you all know how Kern County handles this situation!! [And now the rest of the story: It seems that the Bud driver and the Pepsi man are neighbors. Bud driver called Pepsi driver and told him. Pepsi called his boss who told him to pull all Pepsi products as well!! That would include Frito Lay, etc. Furthermore, word spread and all vendors followed suit! At last report, the store was closed indefinitely. Good old American Passive-Aggressive Butt-Whoopin'!]

Pass this along. America needs to know that we're all working together.

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeff Benoit, a man in our church who has a friend who served on President Elect Bush's campaign in Austin. She called him to tell this story. Last week, Gov. Bush appeared at the thank-you banquet for his campaign staff, and was going table to table to shake hands with the 1000+ campaign volunteers. He got to one lady, who by a brief comment she made, indicated she was a Christian. She was there with her 16 year old son. Gov. Bush asked him if he was a believer, too. He said he didn't think so. Gov. Bush then asked, "Do you mind if I tell you how I came to know Christ as my Savior?" The boy agreed, and Gov. Bush pulled up a chair and witnessed to him for 30 minutes, and led him in the sinners prayer!! Jeff's friend was so choked up, she could hardly tell the story through tears.

Yes, my dear friend, we are living in the end times. How glorious to know that our new president is a man that doesn't feel the political pressure to glad-hand 1000 people, but would take 30 minutes of his precious time to lead a teenager to Christ.

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahahaha President Bush

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i love that "yes, we are living in end times" is like a high-five thing to say

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

thats why i used to watch jack van impe

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.thewavemag.com/images/articles/6001-7000/6581.jpg

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

My company once employed a lead IT guy who would pass along e-mails about impossibly lethal viruses whose existence Snopes debunked ages ago. IT IS ONE THING WHEN GRANDMA DOES THIS BUT I EXPECT A LITTLE SAVVY FROM YOU, MR. IT GUY.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

hey as somebody who worked at the wtc can you tell me if you ever happened upon any of the guys who loaded it with explosives before 9/11 while making coffee or something

and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

A Gentile's View of Today's Germany by William E. Grim
>
>- William E. Grim is a writer who lives in
>Germany and is a native of Columbus, Ohio. -
>
>I'm not Jewish. No one in my family died in the Holocaust. For me,
>anti-Semitism has always been one of those phenomena that doesn't really
>register on my radar, like tribal genocide in Rwanda, a horrible thing that
>happens to someone else. But I live in a small town outside of Munich on a
>street that until May of 1945 was named Adolf Hitler Strasse. I work in
>Munich, a pleasant metropolitan city of a little over a million inhabitants
>whose Bavarian charm tends to obscure the fact that this city was the
>birthplace and capital of the Nazi movement.
>
>Every day when I go to work I pass by the sites of apartments Hitler lived
>in, extant buildings in which decisions were made to murder millions of
>innocent people, and plazas in which book burnings took place, SS troops
>paraded and people were executed. The proximity to evil has a way of
>concentrating one's attention, of putting a physical reality to the
>textbook narratives of the horrors perpetrated by the Germans.
>
>Then the little things start to happen that over a period of time add up to
>something very sinister. I'm on a bus and a high school boy passes around
>Grandpa's red leather-bound copy of Mein Kampf to his friends who respond
>by saying "coooool!" He then takes out a VCR tape (produced in Switzerland)
>of "The Great Speeches of Joseph Goebbels." A few weeks later I'm at a
>business meeting with four young highly educated Germans who are polite,
>charming and soft-spoken to say the least. When the subject matter changes
>to a business deal with a man in New York named Rubinstein, their nostrils
>flair, their demeanor attain a threatening mien and one of them actually
>says, and I'm quoting verbatim here: "The problem with America < BR> is
>that the Jews have all the money." They start laughing and another one
>says, "Yeah, all the Jews care about is money."
>
>I found that this type of anti-Semitic reference in my professional
>dealings with Germans soon became a leitmotif (to borrow a term made famous
>by Richard Wagner, another notorious German anti-Semite). In my private
>meetings with Germans it often happens that they will loosen up after a
>while and reveal personal opinions and political leanings that were thought
>to have ceased to exist in a Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945. Maybe it's
>because I have blond hair and my last name is of German origin that the
>Germans feel that I am, or could potentially be, "one of them." It shows
>how much they understand what it means to be an American.
>
>Whatever the reason, the conversations generally have one or more of these
>components:
>
> (1) It was unfortunate that America and Germany fought each other in
>World War I I because the real enemy was Russia.
> (2) Yes, the Nazis were excessive, but terrible things happen during
>wars, and anyway, the scope of the Holocaust has been greatly exaggerated
>by the American media, which is dominated by Jews.
> (3) CNN is controlled by American Jews and is anti-Palestinian. (Yes,
>I know it sounds incredible, but even among the most highly intelligent
>Germans, even those with a near-native fluency in English, there is the
>widespread belief that the news network founded by Fidel Castro's friend
>Ted Turner, who was married to Hanoi Jane Fonda, is a hotbed of pro-Israeli
>propaganda.)
> (4) Almost all Germans were opposed to the Third Reich and nobody in
>Germany knew anything about the murder of the Jews, but the Jews themselves
>were really responsible for the Holocaust.
> (5) Ariel Sharon was worse than Hitler and the Israelis are Nazis.
>America supports Israel only because Jews control the American government
>and media
>
>For the first time in my life, then, I became conscious of anti-Semitism.
>Sure, anti-Semitism exists elsewhere in the world, but nowhere have the
>consequences been as devastating as in Germany. Looking at it as
>objectively as possible, 2002 was a banner year for anti-Semitism in
>Germany. Synagogues were firebombed, Jewish cemeteries desecrated, the No.
>1 best-selling novel, Martin Walser's Death of a Critic, was a
>thinly-veiled roman a clef containing a vicious anti-Semitic attack on
>Germany's best-known literary critic, Marcel Reich-Ranicki (who was a
>survivor of both the Warsaw ghetto and Auschwitz); the Free Democrat Party
>unofficially adopted anti-Semitism as a campaign tactic to attract
>Germany's sizeable Muslim minority; and German revisionist historians began
>to define German perpetration of World War II and the Holocaust not as
>crimes against humanity, but as early battles (with regrettable but
>understandable excesses) in the Cold War against communism.
>
>The situation is so bad that German Jews are advised not to wear anything
>in public that would identify them as Jewish because their safety cannot be
>guaranteed. How can this be? Isn't this the "New Germany" that's gone 60
>years without a Holocaust or even a pogrom, where truth, justice and the
>German way prevail amidst economic wealth, a high standard of living that
>is the envy of their European neighbors, and a constitution guaranteeing
>freedom for everyone regardless of race, creed or national origin?
>
>What's changed? The answer is: absolutely nothing. My thesis is quite
>simple. While Germany no longer has the military power to enforce the
>racist ideology of the Nazis and while all extreme manifestations of Nazism
>are officially outlawed, the internal conditions -- that is, the
>attitudes,world view and cultural assumptions - that led to the rise of
>Nazism in Germany are still present because they constitute the basic
>components of German identity. Nazism was not an aberration; it was the
>distillation of the German psyche into its essential elements. External
>Nazism may have been utterly defeated in May of 1945; internal Nazism,
>however, remains, and will always remain, a potential threat as long as
>there exists a political and/or cultural entity known as Germany.
>
>Now hold on a second, I hear many people saying. You can't possibly claim
>that Germans are as anti-Semitic today as they were during the years
>1933-1945. It is true that Germany today is much different than during the
>Third Reich. What is different is that due to its total defeat by the
>allies, Germany today is a client state of America and must do its bidding.
>That means repression of overt anti-Semitism. It's bad for business. The
>other thing that has changed is that, even though Hitler lost World War II,
>he was phenomenally successful in carrying out his ideological agenda.
>Germany, indeed virtually all of Europe, is essentially Judenfrei (free of
>Jews) today due to the efficiency and zeal of the Germans as they
>perpetrated the Holocaust during the Third Reich. In fact, a very
>convincing case can be made that Nazism is one of the most successful
>political programs of all time. It accomplished more of its goals in a
>shorter amount of time than any other comparable political movement and
>permanently changed the face and political structure of several continents.
>
>Germany is wealthy, stable, relentlessly bourgeois, and for all intents and
>purposes, free of Jews. Yes, there is a tiny minority of Jews, mostly
>centered in Berlin, and yes, there have been a number of Jews from the
>former Soviet Union who have emigrated to Germany, but most of the
>immigrants from Russia are not practicing Jews and do little if anything to
>promote a unique Jewish-German identity. The result of all this is that
>Germans today are able to reap the benefits of Hitler's anti-Semitic
>policies while paying lip service to the "need to remember." Young Fritz
>doesn't have to be overtly anti-Semitic today because his grandfather's
>generation did such a bang-up job of the Holocaust. There just aren't that
>many Jews left to hate any more, and besides, the Germans have their old
>buddies, the Arabs, to do their hating for them. You might call the
>overwhelming German support for the Palestinians to be a form of
>anti-Semitism-by-proxy. The German government has made cash payments to the
>State of Israel, as well as to individual Jews, to settle claims of murder,
>torture, false imprisonment, slave labor and genocide. Talk to most Germans
>and you'll soon discover that they think that the score has been settled
>between Germany and the Jews, that somehow the return of just a portion of
>what the Germans stole from the Jews is fair recompense for the deliberate
>murder of millions of people. If you think the Germans are truly sorry for
>what they did to the Jews, think again. There's never been an official "tut
>mir leid" offered by the Germans to the victims of the Holocaust and their
>descendants because that would admit culpability. Germany has paid off all
>claims against it without acknowledging responsibility in the same way that
>the Ford Motor Company engages in recalls of automobiles. It's all done to
>avoid liability.
>
>I have previously mentioned that Germans overwhelmingly support the
>Palestinians as opposed to the Israelis, and that this overwhelming support
>represents a form of anti-Semitism-by-proxy. Germans may claim to be
>supporting the Palestinians because they think they are an "oppressed
>people," but let's be honest - they are supporting the Palestinians and
>their Arab handlers because the Palestinians and Arabs share the same
>ideals as the Nazis. There's a long-standing history of German co-operation
>with the Arabs. In 1942 Hitler personally assured the Grand Mufti of
>Jerusalem that as soon as German forces conquered Great Britain, the Jews
>in Palestine (which was then under control of the British Mandate) would be
>exterminated.
>
>We should also keep in mind that the Arab terrorists who perpetrated the
>9/11 atrocities did their planning in Germany. There are several reasons
>for this. The first is the well-known bungling and de-centralized chaos of
>the German federal bureaucracy where literally the "linke" hand doesn't
>know what the "rechte" hand is doing. The second is that Arab terrorists
>can count on a substantial number of Germans who share their anti-American
>and anti-Semitic views. The former members of the SS and Hitler's
>praetorian guards, along with their neo-Nazi supporters, who gather weekly
>in Munich beer halls, made Osama bin Laden an "honorary Aryan" after the
>9/11 attack. Mein Kampf is also a best seller in the Arab world, especially
>in Saudi Arabia, America's putative "friend." Indeed, there is very little
>difference between the anti-Semitic rantings of Hitler and those of the
>so-called "spiritual leaders" of al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Fatah. The Arabs also
>owe Hitler and the Germans big time. Hitler killed off the Jews, and Konrad
>Adenauer and his "democratic" descendants replaced them with the Turks.
>Yes, the Turks aren't Arabs, but they are Muslim, and although Turkey is a
>member of NATO and has relations with Israel, many Turks identify and
>support their radical Arab co-religionists. Turkey remains as fragile a
>democracy as Weimar Germany during the 1920s. It wouldn't take much for
>Turkey to fall into the dark side of Muslim extremism. The end result of
>Muslim immigration into Germany has been twofold:
> (1) It allows the Germans to feign liberalism and being open
>to freedom and diversity; and
> (2) By replacing the Jews they murdered with Muslims, who for
>the most part are as viciously anti-Semitic as were the Nazis, the Germans
>have cynically assured that those few Jews who remain in Germany will be
>unable to reassert political power even in a minority role.
>
>A final point I would like to make concerning the reasons for the a
>resurgence of anti-Semitism in Germany is one that many will find at odds
>with the prima-facie evidence, or even appear to stretch the boundaries of
>common sense. Yet, I ask you to consider carefully my line of reasoning. In
>many respects Germany got away with the Holocaust without paying much of a
>price. Yes, many Germans died as a result of German perpetration of World
>War II and the Holocaust, and yes, there was much physical destruction in
>the country, but the situation is like the little boy who steals a cookie
>from the tray when it is cooling on the kitchen table. For his efforts he
>may have gotten his hand slapped by his mother, but the stolen cookie
>remains eaten nonetheless.
>
>After having committed the worst crimes in the history of humankind, the
>Germans were allowed to regain their sovereignty after only ten years;
>their infrastructure was completely rebuilt thanks to the generosity of the
>American people; and relatively few Germans were brought to trial for their
>monstrous crimes. Even those who were tried and convicted received
>relatively short sentences or had those reduced or commuted in general
>amnesties. For example, some members of the Einsatzkommandos, those Germans
>who, before the construction of the death camps, hunted and murdered Jews
>by the hundreds of thousands, received sentences of as little as five years
>imprisonment. If there were true justice in the world, Germany would no
>longer exist as a separate country, but would have long ago had its
>territory divided up and dispersed among the Allies.
>
>It was an unfortunate historical coincidence that the Cold War began just
>as Germany was at last being brought to task for its many crimes and
>atrocities extending back to the First World War. The new threat of the
>Soviet Union took precedence over a just settling of accounts with Germany.
>The tragic result is that many of the countries raped and despoiled by
>Germany, such as the Czech Republic and Poland, are just now coming out of
>decades of economic decline, while Germany - fat, sassy, arrogant,
>self-satisfied, and essentially Judenfrei- has enjoyed four decades of
>undeserved economic prosperity. We can't turn back the clock to redress all
>of the historical wrongs that have been committed by the Germans, but there
>are a number of things that can be done to assure that Germany can never
>again be in a position to threaten the rest of the civilized world.
>
>First and foremost is the realizat ion that, while not all Germans are
>anti-Semitic, there is an anti-Semitic tendency within German culture that
>extends back to the time of Martin Luther. Germans are instinctively
>anti-Semitic in the same way that Americans are instinctively freedom
>loving. Anti-Semitism has been and unfortunately remains the default
>ideology of the German people. All things being equal, Germans will
>instinctively support the enemies of the State of Israel. Therefore,
>America will need to monitor closely and be ready and politically willing
>to intervene at a moment's notice in German affairs when it appears that
>Germany is back-sliding into anti-Semitism. Additionally, it should be a
>goal of American foreign policy to oppose and to accelerate the
>dismemberment of the European Union. We must not allow German domination of
>the EU to accomplish through parliamentary maneuvering and brokered deals
>what Hitler and the Germans were unable to accomplish during the Third
>Reich.
>
>Given Germany's resurgent anti-Semitism (and that of France as well), a
>strong, German-dominated EU that tolerates and even benignly encourages
>anti-Semitism, and is diplomatically allied with the Arab world, is
>potentially the greatest threat to Judaism since Nazi Germany and a major
>threat to the United States as well. The enemies of Israel are the enemies
>of the United States. Let all Jews and Americans stand united as we
>proclaim never again to both the Holocaust and 9/11.
>
>_________________
>
>* This is the very first post-Holocaust picture of Germany that i have ever
>seen published that depicted the post-Holocaust country of the nazis
>with absolute accuracy in every detail. Over the years I have often written
>about the reunification of the two Germanys and described it as one of the
>greatest mistakes ever made in history, and wrote that instead naziland
>should have been divided into the four historical parts that is its nature,
>never to rise to brutalize its neighbors or the world again! A crucial and
>horrible error!
>
>It took only a few minutes during my first visit back to the land of my
>birth for me to realize that the place was clearly no different than when
>my
>parents and I had the good fortune to be among the very last Jews to
>escape, literally "minutes before midnight", when the gates of that
>man-made hell slammed shut with a resounding clang for the final time,
>dooming those of my people left behind, including over 50 of my immediate
>family.
>
>I recall the words of my beloved grandfather as we came to Breslau to say
>our final farewell, knowing that there was no likelihood of ever seeing
>each other again. He ran alongside the slowly rolling departing train we
>were on, knowing he was bidding a final farewell to his only son and his
>family. Even then he optimistically maintained that "no harm will come to
>us. After all, I served my country and my Kaiser as an officer, and have
>always been a good citizen."
>
>I do not know Mr. Grim, but I salute him for his clear view and thank him
>for writing this piece, which, had it been written by a Jew, would never be
>believed nor given its proper credence.
>
>Please do forward this article to your lists and see that it gets the
>widest possible circulation.
>- harry
>

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 September 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I once stopped a woman halfway through telling a story about something
crazy that happened to her sister. I finished the story for her, and told
her it was an urban legend.
She still insisted that it happened to her sister.
(It was the Eddie Murphy in an elevator story, I think.)

shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link

My brother tried to pull the "we found a dead scuba diver in the burnt out forest" story on me (he's a volunteer CFA during summer) years ago and I bought it! I now know it is a load though.

Ditto captain pugwash, I felt like such a tool when I found out that wasn't true :(

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Dear Penthouse, I often wonder if these letters are true...

S- (sgh), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

tell us the lobster dildo story!

H2-H4 (H2-H4), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The...whaaaa?!

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link

im totally cool with the gross/funny urban legends (tell em myself! lobster dildo 4eva)

-- and what (an...), September 26th, 2006.

H2-H4 (H2-H4), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link

you don't want to know. it involves too many dank caverns, smelly bogs, and snatch cesspools.

kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I once got banned from the work bulletin board for pointing out that an urban myth wasn't true (can't remember exactly which one it was, I think it was "slasher under the car") after they posted it there with a TELL EVRY1!!!!!! PASS THIS TOO ALL UR FRENDS!!!!!11!!!! warning. I was "belittling them" when they were "only trying to help".

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 06:36 (seventeen years ago) link

derailing the thread i know but whoa @ ethan having a real login

nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Come on people, we're talking about JASON'S DELI here!!!!!

grady (grady), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 07:56 (seventeen years ago) link

"slasher under the car"

are these the guys who hide under a car in New Orleans and slash your tendons as you walk past? I was sceptical of these guys, until 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").

DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

are these the guys who hide under a car in New Orleans and slash your tendons as you walk past?

Substitute "guys" for "gang member", "New Orleans" for "Bristol" and "walk past" for "fill your car up with petrol", and yes.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

People, please stop sending me pictures of "Tiger's wife".

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

At least stop sending them to my work address.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Now there are myspace bulletins for just this purpose.

I'm a hard-core reply to all with the snopes link person. I can't stand it when people refuse to demonstrate even the slightest bit of critical thinking skills.

Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Have we mentioned the one that ends up :

he woke up in a bath that was filled with crushed ice, and his kidneys had been removed

No, I didn't even bother!

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah someone was swearing the validity of that one on another board I post on

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

People, please stop sending me pictures of "Tiger's wife".

forward them to me and i'll, uh, "take care of them".

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

also, remember that the more exclamation points your email has, the truthier it has to be. you need at least 2-3 per sentence, otherwise i won't take it seriously.

kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Nobody has ever, EVER been in their room masturbating with their eyes closed and headphones on playing loud music only to then open eyes and see hot cup of tea on the table that wasn't there before.

Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I like charming, un-politically motivated ones and ones you have to wait for ages before being able to prove their falsity. For example, the one I was told a couple of years ago that goes: young couple having energetic buttsex on parents' bed > parents arrive home early > bed full of poop as result of alarmed withdrawl > dog hurriedly stuffed into bedroom to take blame > angry father takes dog outside and shoots it.

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Nobody has ever, EVER been in their room masturbating with their eyes closed and headphones on playing loud music only to then open eyes and see hot cup of tea on the table that wasn't there before.

yeah, i've found cold tea that wasn't there before which was kind of a let down because i like a warm beverage after rubbing one out.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

geez. .. imagine what might have happened if they hadn't thought of making the dog a patsy.

xpost

Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Personally, I first encounted the "cup of tea" one in an NME interview, attributed to either Stretch or Vern of Stretch & Vern fame

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread is brilliant. we fired the guy who used to do the shit ethan's reposting from our program because he got busted surfing porn and jerking off in one of the cubicles at 5:15am

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

so basically I assume everyone who forwards these to be a bald white Promise Keeper and Navy reserve enlisted man who can't jerk off at home with his family around so he gets to work extra early when nobody else is around and yanks it in the office to old lady and preggers internet pr0n

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

that's the logic at work here so fight fire with fire!

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha

kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

did you leave a cup of tea on his desk tom?

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

No, that was the 9/11 puppy.

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Prior to his fatal shooting :(

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

One morning, around 5am, 22-year old Susan DaLucci of Kittery Maine, woke up with a painful need to urinate. At first she thought she had diarrhea, but when she stood up out of bed, she realized that it was urinary pain. It was very similar to the feeling of having diarrhea, just out the wrong hole.

She wobbled to the toilet and upon sitting on it, her vagina erupted into the most horrific messy farting noise anyone has ever heard. In paralyzing pain, Ms. DeLucci for the next few minutes continued to push and squirt out of her vagina a burning tide of wretch and filth while she gripped the sides of the toilet, white-knuckled. She was screaming wildly, and the neighbors called the police.

When medics arrived they found Ms. DeNucci unconscious lying on the floor of her bathroom wearing nothing but her bath robe. Running down her leg, was a stream of brown and green syrup. The medic had to transfer her to a stretcher, so he grabbed her left leg which was bent crossing her other leg, to straighten her out. She was lying there all twisted up. When he lifted her left leg to straighten her body out, he exposed her vagina at which point a creature, no larger than the tip of a finger wormed its way out of her genitals and landed on the floor with a wet popping sound. Shocked, the medic stared at the creature that was lying on the tile bathroom floor in a casing of mucous. It was a tiny mud shrimp and it sat there on the cold floor gasping for water while flipping itself back and forth. The horrified medic turned to the toilet as he felt the nausea setting in. When he put his face down into the toilet to puke what he saw was so horrific that to this day he cannot look into a toilet without convulsing.

The entire toilet bowl was boiling with baby brown mud shrimp flipping and splashing at a furious pace. If you think that is bad - wait until you hear how it happened:

Ms. DeLucci official death was the result of a combination of shock and severe head trauma. She stood up over the toilet in pain and when she saw what she had done, she went into shock and fell, smashing her head on the toilet and then on the floor. It is believed by medical police that on two nights before the accident she had purchased a live lobster at a fish market. While lying in a tub, she gently inserted the creature's tail into her vagina to derive pleasure. At that point, she held a lighter under the creature's face causing it to flip its tail in a violent snapping motion.

The medics found a lesbian XXX video in the VCR and the TV was positioned on a table in front of the tub. The lobster was found in the kitchen garbage can wrapped in a paper bag. Traces of Ms. DeLucci's DNA were found on the lobster along with pubic hairs that had wedged themselves between the lobster tail joints. The lobster's face was lightly burned with the same fuel used in lighters. The lobster's digestive track and colon were found to be full of mud shrimp egg casings. Doctors believe that the lobster had eaten them (they are common in the water at fish markets and are usually harmlessly boiled to death) and the lobster had crapped them out into Ms. DeLucci's cunt when she was torturing it. Maine mud shrimp only take two days to gestate and Ms. DeLucci was only four days away from getting her period, doctors believe that at that point of her menstrual cycle, her womb was the perfect pH balance to grow these mud shrimp which are a much larger version of the popular "Sea Monkey" pets sold throughout the US. Over night the eggs had hatched and the mud shrimp began doubling in size every ten minutes. You can imagine the pain she was in when she woke up that morning and gave birth to well over 1,000 mud shrimp in her toilet.

and what (ooo), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Them: I had a friend...and they stole his kidneys!

Me: A friend, huh?

PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

urgh

I had successfully forgotten all about the lobster dildo story until now

urgh

Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

It's like Tubgirl said "Have you met my even more disgusting younger sister?" urgh

Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

The medics found a lesbian XXX video in the VCR and the TV was positioned on a table in front of the tub.


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and what (ooo), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

what's a non-XXX lesbian video?

kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i love these forwards. they're usually the most horrible things in the world, like "al qaeda survives on a diet of aborted fetuses shipped to them by the democratic party" and the out is usually, "makes you think, doesn't it?"

gear (gear), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.blackopssquadron.com/misc/fox/hmmm.jpeg

sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, there's a very specific "moderate" tone to the writing that's really creepy (xp)

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

not moderate so much as faux-reasonable i guess

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

this is lol-worthy:

The police think this is the same man who raped a woman last weekend, (school teacher 2 months away from retirement)

if only she'd been retired she wouldn't have been raped!

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

'i'm too old for this shit!'

gear (gear), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah exactly

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

what's a non-XXX lesbian video?

http://www.lethaldeath.com/Crimson/Images/ResidentDVDvil/Golden%20Girls%20Season%203.jpg

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

what's a non-XXX lesbian video?

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0006A9GRC.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1101278027_.jpg

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

you don't want to know. it involves too many dank caverns, smelly bogs, and snatch cesspools.

i thought you were joking....

ugggghhhhhhh.....

grady (grady), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

told ya. dank caverns will get ya everytime

kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 20:24 (seventeen 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").

i saw some tourists fall for that one on decatur street a couple weeks ago.

Fetchboy (Felcher), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't know this one. And seeing as how I'm probably not goint to New Orleans this lifetime, care to fill this one out?

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 06:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been unable to escape thinking about an H-bomb attack on London all day now, and I'm honestly in a bad mental state about it. This came about as a result of a chance remark by a well-spoken, incredibly interesting Vietnam veteran (air force lieutenant-colonel)-turned-private detective dude I met today on the film set we were both working as extras on. He claimed that many Soviet nukes had gone south to the Ukraine, and that six to eight were unaccounted for, probably on the black market and up for purchase. He then claimed that it would be the matter of a moment to conjure one of these bombs across Europe and into London in a container, before detonating both it and our capital (which would, so he said, be the #1 H-bomb target in the Eurasian landmass). "Sometimes I look into the sky and wonder if today's the day I see the mushroom cloud" he muttered, in his rich New York accent.
I grew incredibly worried.

Someone, please disabuse me of this now, the paranoia isn't healthy (or probably correct). What genuinely terrifies me is how insightful, intellectual and clear this dude was with his thinking on all other matters we discussed (and there were many).

C'mon, I want an irrefutable 'Why London won't be nuked' argument, preferably from as many of you as possible, all declaring me a silly, naive little twit who should grow up and just get on with life. As I should.

:(

(He also predicted that there would be either an assassination attempt on the Pope within the next two weeks, or a suicide bomb amidst the packed masses in St. Peter's Square. This I'd say is a more sensible call.)

-- You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (papiermachealamphibia...), September 26th, 2006.

EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

who saw nip/tuck last night?

j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Personally, I first encounted the "cup of tea" one in an NME interview, attributed to either Stretch or Vern of Stretch & Vern fame

I heard that on Newman and Baddiel in the early 90s, not sure if they nabbed it from somewhere.

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

thats where i heard it too, and then more recently on Ricky Gervais stand up dvd.

Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I just got this one from my mom:

McDonalds Playground

Some of you might not be parents, but you may have nieces, nephews, grandchildren or friends with children this will pertain to you too. As I read the following, my heart sank. I urge each and every one of you to pass this on to as many people as you can. I cannot stress how important this is! This is very disturbing news. In addition to the following true story, I will also add that my own sons were playing in the ball pit at Discovery Zone one day. One son lost his watch, and was very upset. We dug and dug in those balls, trying to find the watch. Instead, we found vomit, food, faeces, and other stuff I do not want to discuss. I went to the manager and raised heck. Came to find out, the ball pit is only cleaned out once a month. I have doubts that it is even done that often. My kids will never play in another ball pit. Now read this

Hi, My name is Lauren Archer, my son Kevin and I lived in Sugarland, TX. On October 2nd, 1994 I took my only son to McDonald's for his 3rd birthday.

After he finished lunch, I allowed him to play in the ball pit. When he started whining later on, I asked him what was wrong, he pointed to the back of his pull-up and simply said "Mommy, it hurts." But I couldn't find anything wrong with him at that time. I bathed him when we got home, and it was at that point when I found a welt on his left buttock. Upon investigating, it seemed as if there was something like a splinter under the welt. I made an appointment to have it taken out the next day, but soon he started vomiting and shaking, then his eyes rolled back into his head.

From there, we went to the emergency room. He died later that night. It turned out that the welt on his buttock was the tip of a hypodermic needle that had broken off inside. The autopsy revealed that Kevin had died from heroine overdose. The next week, the police removed the balls from the ball pit and lo and behold. There was rotten food, several hypodermic needles: some full; some used; knives, half-eaten candy, diapers, feces, and the stench of urine. If a child is not safe in a child's play area then where? You can find the article on Kevin Archer in the October 10, 1994 issue of the Houston Chronicle. Please forward this to all loving mothers!

And her message to me reads: "I know you're going to tell me you've seen this before and that it is a hoax - but with all the crazies about these days, I truly believe it."

Whoever taught my mom how to use the internet needs a swift kick in the pants.

luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone ever made the Neiman Marcus cookies?!?!?

grady (grady), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I have many times! They're great.

Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

raised heck

gear (gear), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Discovery Zones haven't even existed since 1999! They're all Chuck E. Cheeses now!

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

When I was a teenager I totally bought the one about the gang initiation ritual where they would drive with their headlights off and chase down & kill the first person to flash their lights.

a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

haha when i was a junior in high school i was walking through my town (pop 1200) with a bro and this car came screeching down the road with its headlights off. it stopped and five dudes jumped out and proceeded to beat the shit out of my friend, then took off. some dude in the backseat leapt out and ran off, screaming, 'they have guns!'

gear (gear), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

it wasn't a random beef, i guess my friend liked this girl one of the dudes liked.

gear (gear), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:56 (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.

j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE POONY

s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

oh wait that's the other gilbert

s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

*reads up*... oh THAT lobster dildo story. I think my mind must have blanked it out for a while... DAMMIT.

This is hilarious though: At first she thought she had diarrhea, but when she stood up out of bed, she realized that it was urinary pain. It was very similar to the feeling of having diarrhea, just out the wrong hole.

She wobbled to the toilet and upon sitting on it, her vagina erupted into the most horrific messy farting noise anyone has ever heard.

Whoever wrote this seems to think we wee out of our vaginas.


UH.

Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 28 September 2006 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Those McDonald's ball pits are all closed now, aren't they?

mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 September 2006 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Note that the woman in the lobster dildo story has to die in the end. Even though her lobster escapades aren't fatal in themselves, she ends up dead when she faints and bangs her head. She has to die, for being wantonly sexual - it's a common theme of these sort of stories

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, no-one to say "Yes, that happened, I was that lesbian"

mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:06 (seventeen years ago) link

if she died before the police got there and there was no one else in the house, how would anyone know what noise her vagina made?

gem (trisk), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link

E-MAIL ABOUT THE LESBIAN GHOST IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link

ah. that would explain how we know that the pain was like diorrhea and how bad it was and such i suppose.

gem (trisk), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:26 (seventeen years ago) link

the woman who was sort of my quasi-boss (she was above me in terms of the administrative chart but she had no idea what i did so i just reported to her boss) was this born-again xian gal who would constantly go on fad diets and not lose any weight because she would bring in a cake for someone's birthday, eat half of it, and say "it doesn't count because..." and so on. she also bought into a million of these urban legends (and some rural ones) and was constantly trying to convince me that i should go to such and such graveyard because if you stay real quiet you hear ghosts talking about x and y. she is about 40 years old.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 30 September 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

my aunt forwards me those "i'm dying of cancer please forward this to 1,000 people" emails. one time i replied to suggest that it probably wasn't legit, and she wrote back to say i was evil and she wouldn't come to my funeral.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 30 September 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

to summarize: credulous people be trippin

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 30 September 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

to summarise further: Correcting someone who's repeating an urban legend as something that "really happened" is the same as saying "you are really stupid to have believed that, actually"

mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 1 October 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Correcting someone who's repeating an urban legend as something that "really happened" is the same as saying "you are really stupid to have believed that, actually"

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

Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 1 October 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

nooo-wah!

mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 1 October 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

if she died before the police got there and there was no one else in the house, how would anyone know what noise her vagina made?

Worst koan ever.

Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 October 2006 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a hard-core reply to all with the snopes link person

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

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 08:39 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...
This post is interesting, considering not only its assuming a snowstorm equal to a flood, but also the fact that said snowstorm never happened (my parents live in the western UP and should know):


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!!!

Bnad (Bnad), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a friend who is linked into the Repugnican FWD: network, so I was getting these all election season. They've decreased somewhat since then.

> 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!!

Bnad (Bnad), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

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.


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