December 20, 2004

Instant nostalgia: This years Top 10 Urban Legends, Fakes and News... of particular interest is the skeleton of a GIANT man! ARGHHHHH.... GOZIRA take over the world! oh, and what is this jelly bracelet bizness? and where do I get one?
posted by Warrior 20 years ago
  • Geez...these things just crack me up. I didn't realize that the Bill Gates one was still alive & kicking.
  • I fell for the cel phone one. *weeps, gnashes teeth, shakes fist at heaven* I did. And I never fall for those damn things, I've always been the one who replies to all with a Snopes reference and a snarky note to whichever fool has sent me a virus warning. I guess this is my comeuppance. At least my cel phone # is now on the do not call list, even though I don't believe in the do not call list.
  • I don't believe in the do not call list. yes, virginia, there IS a do not call list. it exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no do not call list!
  • The jelly bracelet thing was basically some kids being asked by a reporter..."so, are there any, like, weird sex games you kids play?" And one kid looked at her bracelets and was like "oh yeah, if someone snaps a bracelet off you have to give them a sexual favor." Instant national news.
  • oooh...damn it, you mean I've missed several opportunities at having sex? this is unnacceptable. serves me right for not being "in the know"...you know?
  • The top 10, and every one sent to me by my mother in law. Ah, good times.
  • wow, my brother had a phase of wearing a bunch of those madonna plastic bracelets now i gotta wonder
  • Without intent of hijacking, could someone tell me what's up with about.com? I've always wondered. I mean, a couple years ago suddenly every google search began turning up what seems like 99% about.com pages. If you're looking for how to clean a keyboard that's been smeared in peanut butter, you're almost guaranteed to end up at the About.com Peanut Butter Smeared Keyboard Maintenance Page (from your guide to Keyboard Affairs, Barbara Sigmundsdottir).
  • "In reality, entomologists say, camel spiders are neither venemous nor a threat to human safety." That may be, but they always scared the BEJEEZUS out of me whenever they decided to visit my apartment.
  • In Maine the equivalent of 'jelly bracelets" was taking the blue liner from a bottle cap, tearing out the inner circle, and stretching the remaining part into a circle big enough to wear on your wrist. I think it was generally accepted that the snappee owed the snapper an orgasm, didn't matter how. The obligation wasnt enforced though.
  • The Altoids one is no legend.
  • For us it wasn't jelly bracelets but the tabs on cans of soda. If you pulled it off and gave it to someone they owed you a kiss. If you managed to pull it off with the smaller, inner ring in one piece they owed you sex. We never enforced it though.
  • You know, because it would take the tab off a soda can to get a teenage guy to have sex. They'd have no interest in it otherwise...