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Offline Questor

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Your favorite urban legend?
« on: December 07, 2006, 08:08:54 AM »
What's your favorite urban legend?

Mine is the one about how the Nevada state patrol investigated what they thought was the site of an airplane crash. It turned out to be a crashed 1967 Impala that had had a pilfered jet assisted take-off unit (JATO) mounted to it. A guy that worked at one of the air bases stole it and mounted it to his car to get super speed. Once a JATO starts, it cannot be shut off. The car's speed at impact was about 325mph.

Or so the story went. Turned out to be debunked, but I love it still.
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Re: Your favorite urban legend?
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2006, 08:15:09 AM »
Some years back, there was one that was supposed to be from a professor in Great Britain who said that all the world's civilizations lasted such-and-so years, marked by so many years of ascendancy, then so many years of stasis, then so many years of decline. The piece went on to make the correlation to the US and how we are supposed to be in the final stage, that of decline.

Total baloney but fun to spark discussion about history.
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Re: Your favorite urban legend?
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2006, 02:19:14 PM »
That Lee Harvey Oswald could make 3 hits with an old Italian Bolt action rifle in just about 6 seconds. At a moving target!!! ::) Or that he acted alone!!! :o
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Re: Your favorite urban legend?
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2006, 03:32:27 AM »
I like the one about somebody actually finding a honest politician.
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Re: Your favorite urban legend?
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2006, 04:37:28 AM »
The one about the little ankle biter dog that was given a bath by it's owner and then put in the micro wave to dry always cracked me up. The really scary part about that one is there are people out there that are that stupid.
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Re: Your favorite urban legend?
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2006, 08:52:48 AM »
Quote from: nabob on December 07, 2006, 08:15:09 AM
Some years back, there was one that was supposed to be from a professor in Great Britain who said that all the world's civilizations lasted such-and-so years, marked by so many years of ascendancy, then so many years of stasis, then so many years of decline. The piece went on to make the correlation to the US and how we are supposed to be in the final stage, that of decline.

Total baloney but fun to spark discussion about history.

The such and such is 200 years and we are in the delcine period. Not sure that this is an urban legend.
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Re: Your favorite urban legend?
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2006, 03:36:15 AM »
Nabob,this country is in a decline,if you can't see that,you must have been hiding somewhere.The morals of the people are going downhill fast,there are whole generations of people living off the goverment dole,sex and violence are everywhere you look,violence is everywhere,its not safe to walk out on the streets in a lot of places,some people would rather steal than work,homosexuality and degeneracy is wherever you look.Can you honestly tell me you think this country is in fine shape?If this country doesn't get back to God,we are sunk as a nation.Now you all can flame away,have at me. sj
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Re: Your favorite urban legend?
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2006, 10:06:54 AM »
The National Guard is a State Agency.
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Re: Your favorite urban legend?
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2007, 09:09:44 AM »
Big Gator in the sewers of New York. 
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Re: Your favorite urban legend?
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2007, 09:26:38 AM »
TN JIM:  That's not a legend, that really happened, Base Housing Eielson AFB Alaska Summer 1985.  It was a cat, not a dog.  The parents told the kids to wash and dry the cat for a show that afternoon.  The kids procrastinated, and in a panic, stuck it in the microwave to dry it.  No the microwave did not blow up.  But it was a bloody mess in the kitchen, the cat did blow, and the door was opened by the pressure, causing blood and cat parts to be expelled onto the floor, one wall, and counter.  I was the maintenance man on duty that afternoon, and I arrived at the same time as the Fire Dept. 

Big Gators in the sewers of all major cities.
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Re: Your favorite urban legend?
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2007, 02:45:17 PM »
"THIS plan is going to work..." ::)
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Re: Your favorite urban legend?
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2007, 03:04:37 PM »
so far I like sjones's post best and I agree with him, the only trouble is it's not a legend, urban or otherwise, it's the truth ....<><.... :o



" this country is in a decline,if you can't see that,you must have been hiding somewhere.The morals of the people are going downhill fast,there are whole generations of people living off the goverment dole,sex and violence are everywhere you look,violence is everywhere,its not safe to walk out on the streets in a lot of places,some people would rather steal than work,homosexuality and degeneracy is wherever you look.Can you honestly tell me you think this country is in fine shape?If this country doesn't get back to God,we are sunk as a nation. "
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Re: Your favorite urban legend?
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2007, 03:53:58 PM »
Quote from: gypsyman on December 08, 2006, 03:32:27 AM
I like the one about somebody actually finding a honest politician.

I thought the subject of this thread was "'urban legends" not "fairy tails". 
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