>> ^Payback:

I am SO getting that shit for my truck. I HATE traffic.


Reminds me of one of my favorite urban legends. http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html

I like how Grayson spends 5 minutes discussing the facts on Haiti having a pact with the Devil. And then I also love how quantummushroom posts a defense by Pat Robertson. The defense is that it's a widely discussed and popular urban legend. Wow. What century am I living in?

>> ^Matthu:
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Did some fellow named Pat Robertson really accuse haiti of having made a pact with the devil, and then haiti responded with ya we made a pact with the devil but it helped you too????

I found that somewhat remarkable as well. The Ambassador didn't actually deny the claim. That was enough to make me go read a little on the topic, and it sounds like the "deal with the devil" is mostly a slave-owner urban legend fueled by the Voodoo beliefs many of the slaves held.

Perhaps it's just not something the Haitian ambassador encounters everyday, and didn't really know how to respond without giving a generic argument about how important Haiti is to the US, which I suspect he uses a lot in his day job.

So, actual terrorist event, or carefully orchestrated government plot to take your minds off the economy, healthcare and other current events?



Okay, I'm gonna put my foot down and demand that our conspiracy theories get a bit more plausible. I will admit that I'm actually a huge fan of conspiracy theories. Not because I'm swayed by any of them, but because I admire it as a genre of science fiction. The hook is that you invent a "secret" history for the world that ties together all the disparate and chaotic events of our world, and provides simple, unifying answers to them.

You know, the urban legend-ized version of Satan for our more secular culture.

In this case, clearly the cabal that both Obama and Bush are a part of only want to turn people into frightened, thoughtless animals. It's also clear that all terrorist plots are really perpetrated intentionally by the evil US government on its own citizens (because in the real world, America is never in danger from anything but the Soviet Union, Muslims, China, and Nazis and only then when they have Nukes). The purpose then is not to "distract" people from real concerns like the economy and health care, but to add the threat of bodily injury that is as unpredictable and random as it is impossible to protect yourself from, to make sure that the cold spike of fear is still there even on Christmas Day, as well as the general tableau of despair about your day to day life.

So no, it's not a fucking distraction, it's a devilishly smart move and we should all put on our tinfoil Santa hats and load up on ammo, because the mind control rays are nearly complete...

Hmmm, or maybe that's a distraction, and the real mind control rays come from these things called "television" and "radio" and "YouTube" and "blogs"... be careful what kinds of ideas you let take root in your mind, you never know if it's going to turn you into a zombie, or worse, a teabagger.

Choggie's Christmas Wish-list:

http://www.choggie.org/
http://www.choggie.com/
http://www.choggie.gov/

Closest evolutionary relative *also known as a cunner-

Also rumored to have been an un-inlisted (General Studies paper does not qualify for UCAS Tariff points) British/French Legionnaire

and then there's THIS Urban Legend (see definition #4) in his own mind piece of internet knuckle-dragging trash, too fucking cowardly and douche-like to come back for another helping of "Shut the fuck up", who left this little tribute to his/her own pathetic and petty attempt at poking a prehistoric monolith. The truly pathetic factoid about this last one is that it was most assuredly some, how you saaaay.... asshat douchebag-left-in-an-orifice, Clondike bar from inside one's trousers?
Yeah, that's the cunt who wins an no-expense spared, vacation for one to "Back The Fuck At Ya!", chintz!

Choggies' anything if not your average asshole.

>> ^holymackerel013:
This reminds of a story I heard about from my Father when I was a kid. (probably just an urban legend though) The story goes as follows; These guys get drunk, somehow catch a rabbit and strap dynamite to it's back. They light the fuse and let it go. The rabbit runs under their truck to hide. Truck goes BOOM!


I'd heard something similar, but with guys throwing a stick of dynamite onto a frozen lake in order to break the ice and go fishing. Their trusty hunting dog then fetches their "stick" and runs under their car, kaboom, and the car sinks to the bottom of the lake.

Just did a quick snopes search, hoping to confirm that - unfortunately appears to be a legend / unconfirmed: http://www.snopes.com/critters/cruelty/dynamite.asp.

This reminds of a story I heard about from my Father when I was a kid. (probably just an urban legend though) The story goes as follows; These guys get drunk, somehow catch a rabbit and strap dynamite to it's back. They light the fuse and let it go. The rabbit runs under their truck to hide. Truck goes BOOM!

I think it will be pretty hard to prove that he was as rabid an anti-semite as urban legend will have us believe. As some have stated, he definitely came from a MUCH less un-pc time than now, you just have to look at the portrayal of minorities in the older Disney flicks to see that they are certainly dated (not necessarily racist unless you choose to judge them by TODAY'S standards). Along these lines, one could easily say that it is likely he probably would not be 100% Kosher so to say...

... That said, he was rabidly anti-communist, to the point of having testified in the "unamerican" trials. He was one of those who "named names" and such.

So in summary, I'm sure Disney was an asshole if nothing else, whether a true anti-semite or not, it will be hard to prove since I doubt there are no accurate records of his private conversations which would make us think so...

I donno. This reeks of urban legend.

Where's my gangsta gov't tellin urban legends?

Chaucer is wrong in that he's got his urban legends wrong. Distilled water boils in a kettle all right, it's the microwave any water without additives shouldn't be put into as it can get superheated (bubbles don't form, and there is a temp buildup way beyond the boiling point). When a spoonful of coffee is introduced to a cup of superheated water, literally an explosive reaction occurs - and people have suffered serious burns from this.

>> ^gwiz665:
A promiscuous friend of mine went to the doctor and found out she had mites, presumably from having sex with a dude that had sex with a corpse. Good times.


I first heard that urban legend about 10 years ago.

The claim they repeat that turkey makes us sleepy is an urban legend. http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/turkey.asp

Summary:
1. The claim is that tryptophan content in turkey is the cause of our sleepiness after holiday meals.
2. But other foods like chicken and beef contain the same amount of tryptophan.
3. And tryptophan doesn't act on the brain in the quantities contained in turkey, or if consumed with any protein.

Snopes states the sleepiness associated with holiday meals is more likely due to the large, rich meals.

Back in high school, I dated a chick who's family was "Argentinian" and yet they all spoke really fluent German to each other... I always suspected ties to Nazi Germany, but couldn't really find a good way to approach the subject head-on. All I knew was that her mom HATED me. I'm from a Jewish family, though I never practiced, I definitely have a Semitic look to me. Man that woman was on my case all the time...

But yeah, getting back to the video, I just can't help to feel sorry for those two old hermits. That one scene where the guy just kind of dismissively waves his hand at them, it's kinda ugly. It's not like these two are living in some sort of Aryan shrine with pictures of Hitler like he's Kim Jong Il or nazi flags all over the place. There wasn't anything in the video to really tell me much about them other than what seemed more like urban legends about the two old men that live up the hill.

I think back to our neighborhood and there was this old lady who lived in a house up the road who didn't socialize much and her lawn was completely overgrown. There were all sorts of stories about her being a witch and whatnot. I'm fairly certain she was just an old woman in retrospect and it very much reminds me of the tone and reliability of what is shown in the video.

Even if there is some tie to the nazis that fled during ww2, again, I doubt these guys were anything but kids at the time and it seems unlikely they had much to do with the war other than being born into it.

Edit: so I just watched it a second time and I really don't like the narrator/host. He's a real dick. I just feel that his "investigation" was somewhat half-assed at best and it was really unclear to me how he made the connection between these two old men and new germania. Anyone know where this is from, what program this is?

You can't make this stuff up, reality blows fiction out of the water once again. A damn WEAVE! Urban legend of the vigilante weave is born.