What's your favorite "Urban legend"?

bellydancer wrote:

Well I heard this one quite some years ago.....this guy goes into an ER (apparently this happened in the US) and wants only to be attended by a male doctor. The doctor asks him what the problem was and he points to his nether bits and says he was having problems urinating - he is obviously quite embarassed that he has a problem there. Eventually the doctor convinces him he needs to actually take his pants off so he can examine him. The doctor then takes a look and sees not only is the guy missing a testicle BUT the one that is left is looking rather black and nasty and swollen to the size of a grapefruit. The doctor decides that immediate surgery is warranted. Upon surgery, they extracted forty, rusty, industrial sized staples.

After the surgery, the surgeon had to satisfy his curiousity and asked the man what happened. The man worked at a factory. He was in his forties and a bit of a loner. At lunchtime, when no-one else was around, he had taken to getting a bit of pleasure from the vibration of one of the conveyor belts. Unfortunately this particular time, he got a bit too close to it and his whole package got severed off. He panicked, so re-attached what he could find with a staple gun! Apparently the missing testicle was never found........

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!! >P

The Paul is Dead one. He is too. Rargh, I'm a zombie pepper!

<b><font color = "crimson">ThomasQuinn wrote:

Inu Yasha<h6>a.k.a. Lum's Stormtrooper wrote:

Farlander wrote:

That toilets flush clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern. So ridiculous and yet so commonly believed.

Really?? I thought it was true, honestly!

Gotta stop watching the Simpsons now...oh wait, nevermind, I did a long time ago

Er...that IS true. It has to do with magnetism.

It isn't and even it it were, it would have nothing to do with magnetism.

I believe you'll find that I am the inventor of the Coriolis effect so I know everything about said swirling of water.

I have never seen my toilet flush in a clockwise manner nor has water ever been evacuated in a clockwise manner. Therefore I am the inventor of the acorn.

Also I am celebrating my 3000th post. Take that Hem!

I believe this will explain Monseiur Coriolis slightly better...IF YOU'RE A PHYSICS FUCK! I mean enjoy physics. That was a Freudian Slip.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/bathtub.html

Sorry...what's the Bloody Mary one? Is it like Candyman?

Yep. You say Bloody Mary into a mirror three times in a dark room and supposedly she slashes at you through the mirror, mainly attacking jewelry laced areas.

...honestly, ive heard that different things happen to different people. like to some people, she may appear and to others she may actually do something...im sure there are many versions of this legend...and wut exactly is the Candyman? ive heard of it...but wut do u have to do?

Playful as a pussycat wrote:

...honestly, ive heard that different things happen to different people. like to some people, she may appear and to others she may actually do something...im sure there are many versions of this legend...and wut exactly is the Candyman? ive heard of it...but wut do u have to do?

I saw "Candyman" the movie. One of the few horror movies i did NOT laugh at but actually thought was scary. Something about some guy in the ghetto that died and had a hook for a hand and he makes you have blackouts where he makes you commit murders you don't remember..or that;s what was in the movie.