True Stories

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Or not, as the case may be.

I'm talking about those slightly amusing but completely untrue anecdotes that often get circulated by email, like the one about Neil Armstrong and Mr Gorsky. It isn't the story itself that gets my goat, but the fact that I'm expected to be gullible enough to believe it.

I'd like to devote this thread to exposing other urban myths that are totally without foundation. But please, no lobster stories!

― Trevor, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, i thought this was another Talking Heads thread. i like the True Stories film/album. though i don't like the urban myths spam. it seems to have died down of late though, cross fingers.

― katie, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We live in the city of spam. We drive on the highway of liars.

― Trevor, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"you're the VDU Operator..."

― katie, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The one about the person who comes home to find that their house has been broken into, but nothing has been stolen or disturbed and their Dobermann Pinscher is lying dead on the floor of the kitchen with no visible wounds or cause of desk. The vet does an autopsy on the dog to discover two human fingers lodged in its throat.

― MarkH, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't belive I typed DESK rather than DEATH. We have been discussing office moves this afternoon.....

― MarkH, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i like "cause of desk" though.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm just thankful that here is a forum bright enough to realise that these hoaxes are just that, or at very least to maintain a healthy cynicism. How many times at work have I endured stares of blank hostility when I've tried, ever so gently, to point out that most drivers of black cabs AREN'T likely to rape and murder them, and they're reasonably unlikely to have their kidneys stolen, etc. But then these are the same people who believe their horoscopes, so I suppose I shouldn't expect anything else.

― Mark C, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A co-worker today told me to stay away from the Frankfurter Weinachtsmarkt today. Why? Well, this Arab guy dropped his wallet, see . . .

― Colin Meeder, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I know that Weihnachtsmarkt is usually spelled with an "h".

― Colin Meeder, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That story about a guy listening to too much MASONNA and getting sent to a madhouse. Though I'll probably fulfil it in a couple of years.

― Kodanshi, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

We live in a world of falsehood. You only see what you think you see. Ergo.....

― Joyce_Sarah, Thursday, 21 August 2003 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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