What's your favourite Urban Myth?

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I like the one about the laydee wot gets bitten by a spider in some far off tropical land and months later the scab falls off and millions of ickly baby spiders come out.

― Plinky (Plinky), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

b-but that happened to a friend of a friend of mine!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

There's one about a guy that buys a yukka plant and then discovers it's full of baby tarantulas.

― Anonymous (Anonymous), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

busy intersection in germany several yrs ago, minor accident, someone hurt enough to need hospital attention, a bystander walks back down the line of halted traffic to find someone w.a mobile phone

eventually finds a guy sitting at the driving wheel talking on his: taps on window, no response

taps again: still no response

finally gets his attention: he seems v.reluctant to wind down his window, bystander now quite fluent in sign-language for "someone up ahead needs an ambulance soonest bub!!"

guy winds down his window and with tremenous reluctance admits that his mobile is a fake and he only owns one so he can look like the kind of person who talks on his mobile phone while driving

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the one about the woman who fucks a lobster.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never heard of that one! You could at least explain it...

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Noooooooo don't! I've heard it and I might lose my lunch.

― Plinky (Plinky), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The lobster fuck is a great urban myth. Tell it ! Tell it !

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

It is here:

Tell me a story

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

That is one of the most disgusting things I've ever ever read.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Urgh.

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you.

Actually, I think my favourite urban myth is the one about the foul innuendos in Captain Pugwash, mainly because there seems to be some controversy about whether it's a myth that it *is* a myth (started by Victor Lewis-Smith). No doubt this could be settled quite easily, but I like the idea of someone starting a rumour that something is made up.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

mark s. is made up.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the one about how Captain Robert Nairac's body was disposed of by being turned into sausages by a well known Irish meat producer.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

when he ran out of shergar, presumably

haha borrow a cup of shergar

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, I think my favourite urban myth is the one about the foul innuendos in Captain Pugwash, mainly because there seems to be some controversy about whether it's a myth that it *is* a myth

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.htm

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Scabies isn't that dissimilar to the spider story...

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

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