Personal Favorites: Memorable "Urban Legends"
Submitted by slipkid71 on Fri, 08/09/2002 - 11:54
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- John Denver was once a Army sniper who recorded several kills in Vietnam.
- Eating Pop-Rocks and downing them with Coke will kill you (the "Little Mikey" rumor).
- Ronald Reagan was originally selected to play Rick in "Casablanca".
- "Baghdad Betty", an Iraqi propaganda broadcast, warned American troops that Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner and Bart Simpson were making love to their wives and girlfriends.
- The Chevy Nova failed miserably in Latin America, because "no va" in Spanish means "won't go."
- The original name for the country music group Alabama was "The Alabama Redneck Shitstompers."
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Thanks to Snopes.com, the authoritative site for urban legends everywhere.
How about this urban legend: The global elite wants to reduce the population of the earth to about a third of what it is is now so that we can be more easily controlled and kept in a handful of oversized cities. To do this, the WHO has developed vaccines fitted with a specially engineered strain of the Herpes virus that makes women STERILE. They've already been caught in South America and claimed it was "an accident."
Next, you stage a series of terrorist threats involving anthrax and small-pox. That, combined with a rise of nationalism and general fear, gives you the power to have MANDATORY VACCINATIONS for every man woman and child in the country!!! Man, is that a silly rumor or what?
Wait, isn't this why the Office of Homeland Security was created???