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

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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


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