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

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

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!

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i thought you were joking....

ugggghhhhhhh.....

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

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.

who saw nip/tuck last night?

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

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.

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.

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

Worst koan ever.

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

THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A MOMENT

The Mining Journal News, Marquette, Mi.

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

WEATHER BULLETIN

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

FYI:

George Bush did not come.

FEMA did nothing.

No one howled for the government.

No one blamed the government.

No one even uttered an expletive on TV.

Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.

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

Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else either

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

No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.

No one looted.

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

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

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

Nope, we just melted the snow for water.

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

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

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

Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.

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

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

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

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

It does seem that way, at least to me.

I hope this gets passed on..

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

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

(or howabout just do "Strikethru") xpost

Funny that.