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Blogs > MissAnnThrope > Misanthropic Ramblings

Let's Go To The Archives...  

MissAnnThrope 63F
7708 posts
11/17/2007 7:41 pm

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11/22/2007 3:10 am
Let's Go To The Archives...

I'm thinking it's time to start up writing about various legends again. For instance, there's a weird email forward out there, claiming to be an interview with an illegal alien. Of course, the "interview" contains the Mexican saying all the typical stereotype things. The thing is, the television station that was supposed to have conducted this "man on the street" interview says it never happened and they don't do such interviews. The reporter in question left that station in the 90s. And, there are no transcripts. Basically, it's just a piece of racist propaganda that's making the rounds, that has of course, escaped the hate group circles.

But while I'm mulling over all of this, I figured it's time to do something I do so rarely. Link to the archives. So here are some other legends to keep you occupied while I make up my mind.

Urban Legend looks at the legend that you're going to get killed if you signal another driver that his or her headlights are out. Or of course, if you signal to other drivers that you just passed a cop and they're about to do the same.

Legend Of The Keys examines the legend about letting some guy at Jiffy Lube, Wal*Mart, Sears, Midas, etc. take the keys to your car, he's going to know exactly who's car he's working on, make a copy of your house key and come over in the middle of the night and you. Because, like, they're psychic enough to know what women are single with no roommates or boyfriend and which ones have husbands who are out of town.

Dude, is it 420 Yet is about, well, guess and stuff.

Legend Of The Mutant Chickens answers your questions about where that bucket of extra crispy came from.

Yet Another Gas Boycott Urban Legend presents both sides of the Citgo debate. The chain emails from both sides of the debate, at least.

Fact Or Fiction is an interesting one. I was asked to check out an email forward full of fun "facts." Some are true, some aren't. But of course, the ones that are true add to the validity of the other claims.

Finally, we have Debunking A Myth. Which looks at the actual origin of the word fuck.

Have fun with them all.

Oh yeah. One more thing... Has anyone else been having trouble keeping photos with blog posts in place? I used Tom DeLay's mugshot on the last one and it disappeared.

NickRules999 46M
9458 posts
11/18/2007 2:13 pm

 Pics on posts have always disappeared, but when you put it on a second time, it seems to stay.
Come into my realm! You aren't afraid...are you?


MissAnnThrope 63F
11481 posts
11/18/2007 3:14 pm
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I can't believe you don't get crap like that every year on your birthday. I had never heard the 420 slang until I started chatting on this site. But I found it odd that in every single state, they claimed that was the police code. I'm glad folklorists who have the means and resources (i.e. their grad students,) to do the research for the rest of us.


MissAnnThrope 63F
11481 posts
11/18/2007 3:15 pm
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Yeah. I first heard about it on this site. My 20s were spent as a stoner and I never heard that phrase until a few years ago.


MissAnnThrope 63F
11481 posts
11/18/2007 3:16 pm
    Quoting NickRules999:
    Pics on posts have always disappeared, but when you put it on a second time, it seems to stay.
It seems that whenever I hit the drop down menu to list a post in one of the blog forums, the picture I use disappears. At least, that seems to be the pattern.


gadytfol 65M

11/18/2007 6:23 pm

 Urban legends are such a waste of fucken time arent they!!

I worried for months about that poor woman who had sex with the lobster, only to discover that it was a urban legend!
My blog is a free-fire zone. Come armed with a sense of humor


MissAnnThrope 63F
11481 posts
11/18/2007 9:27 pm
    Quoting gadytfol:
    Urban legends are such a waste of fucken time arent they!!

    I worried for months about that poor woman who had sex with the lobster, only to discover that it was a urban legend!
You've been sending 20 cards a day since the 80s to cancer boy Craig Sherwood, haven't you? His family had to move and leave no forwarding address to get it to stop. The people who live there now still keep getting cards. So please, stop writing to him. He beat cancer years ago.


incidental2006 67F
Ask me for a photo
2215 posts
11/19/2007 6:10 am

 I can't get pictures of Austin Powers or Princess Diana to stick on here. What does that mean?


MissAnnThrope 63F
11481 posts
11/19/2007 12:05 pm
    Quoting incidental2006:
    I can't get pictures of Austin Powers or Princess Diana to stick on here. What does that mean?
Dunno. I see a lot of celebrity pictures around the blogs. But lately, pictures haven't been sticking the way they're supposed to, especially if you pick a forum. I've tried on a few posts to get the picture to post repeatedly and once the blogs update, the picture will be gone again. Yet I can use that same picture in a later post when pics are sticking. This site is odd that way.


MissAnnThrope 63F
11481 posts
11/22/2007 3:10 am
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I wish they would get around to fixing it. It's really starting to piss me off.


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