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

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

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

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

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

Yellow #5 decreases sperm count!

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

nah its the dog head party surprise

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

so....dudsic?

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

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

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

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