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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject: Hoaxes and BS that you've fallen for. Come clean. |
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Name a famous BS story that you've swallowed
Mine include:
The idea that natural blondes will 'go extinct'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_blonde_gene
that's an embarrassing one. some ideas just slip into your head without passing any kind of critical judgement.
The idea that you need 8 glasses of water a day
http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp
This one I heard so often, from teachers and whatnot, that I was really convinced. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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According to Penn and Teller's Bullsh*t
Recycling (still not sure about this but they made a convincing argument)
Mother Teresa (a perspective on her that i had never heard before and was truly shocking. She's going to be a saint!
I love that show and it was the first thing I thought of when u posed this question. |
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teachingld2004
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:54 pm Post subject: Famous BS story |
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| Doe's it have to be a famous BS story, or would you like to hear a real BS story that I swallowed? |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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Neat! The ROK made it into this Wikipedia article about hoaxes on Wikipedia. No, I'm not being redundant. Just read the snippet:
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Hoaxes vs. articles about hoaxes
Wikipedia does have articles about notable hoaxes describing them as hoaxes, such as Piltdown Man, the Dihydrogen monoxide hoax or the South Korean fan death urban legend. This is completely different from an article presenting a hoax as factual. Like everything else, hoaxes must be notable to be included in Wikipedia � for example, a hoax may have received sustained media attention, been believed by thousands of people including academics, or been believed for many years. Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day. |
Ding! South Korea makes it in again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-Suk
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
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Here's a hoax that Dan Brown seems to have fallen for. Perhaps he didn't fall for it, and wrote the Da Vinci Code just because he liked the idea. Millions of people (perhaps including yourself) have helped to propogate this venerable old hoax and make him megabucks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I tried to order a bonsai kitten... |
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kermo
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| Have any of you ever seen a drop-bear? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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Every once in a while a hoax comes along on the Internet that I fall for. Can't remember any examples right now.
My wife tricked me a few years ago when we were eating in a restaurant that advertised it used Jeju pork. She told me they have a system in Jejudo to ensure only the best pigs get to your table. They throw all the pigs in the ocean, and only the ones that are strong enough to swim back get slaughtered for eating. So we only eat the fittest pigs. I had no reason to disbelieve her. |
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
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my fiance's father told me that when he was young and he milked the cows in sasketoon the milk came out half frozen and in strings like spaghetti. I also remember he said something about pee freezing mid stream.
Im tropical! I believed! |
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endofthewor1d
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| i remember i just about crapped myself one time when i was a kid because ed mcmahon (sp?) sent us a letter telling us we may have already won $10,000,000. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| JMO wrote: |
According to Penn and Teller's Bullsh*t
Recycling (still not sure about this but they made a convincing argument)
Mother Teresa (a perspective on her that i had never heard before and was truly shocking. She's going to be a saint!
I love that show and it was the first thing I thought of when u posed this question. |
Yeah I guess there are some things on BS! that I've always assumed as true, notably the recycling thing. The Mother Teresa show was a real eye opener.
I'm trying to think if I've ever fallen for a scam. I guess we've all played a couple Carnie games. That's being scammed:
1) Ring toss... the rings are generally a very light plastic and bounce and skip when they hit a bottle.
2) The ball in the peach basket: The back has a spring. The angle the "rube" thrower has is pretty much guarenteed to hit the spring dead on and bounce the ball back.
3) The milk bottles: One of the bottles super heavy. When the carnie sets up the three, he puts the lead one on top. Easy as pie. But when he sets them up for you, the lead is on the surface. It's pretty hard to knock all three down.
4) Guess your weight: The prize is never worth the money you pay.
The other scam I saw was this guy selling a miracle cleaner. He had some places and even an oven just super covered in oven grease. He brought a couple kids up on stage and gave them some nickels and tried to get them to scrape the baked on grease off with the nickels. Try as they might, they couldn't do much to the grease. Then he took some water, added a couple drops of miracle cleaner, and with a sponge... WOOSH. Good as new. That oven and those plates were clean.
The scam was it wasn't grease. It was some water based paint meant to look like grease. Of course you didn't have to add the miracle cleaner to the water. There were some plates on a table you could examine and I showed my GF that even a bit of spit on the end of your finger would clean up those plates well.
I bet I could have claimed I had a miracle spit. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Amway. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| I was a Christian until I was almost 30! |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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I believed that Peppermint was Seoul Trader  
I also believed that I had 6 extra brothers and sisters, but we were so poor we had to eat them (thanks dad  ) I was one of the lucky ones... and if you'd just come and have a look at these chops in the freezer, that's all that's left of my siblings 
but they're not famous...
Famous ones? I was worried for a while about dyed white tampons and deodorants clogging my sweat glands and causing cancer... but thank goodness for snopes. |
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HapKi
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Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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