Urban legends

That Mel Renfro was in The Client.

 

That Obama was born in Kenya.

 

That BYH and JDV are one and the same.

 

Didn't Stuttering John try and ask her about that during some interview for the Stern show? "Jamie Lee is it true you have a penis?"

 

well done.

 

Sports related one:

Many, many Cubs fans are convinced that the Cubs had home-field advantage taken away in the 1984 NLCS because of a lack of lights.

 

Stig has been dead for a long time, honestly.

Also, that if you flash your high beams at a car driving with its lights off at night, you'll likely get shot by a gang member.

 

The corollary to this is a youtube clip that gets emailed to my newsroom at least once a day with some variation of "When will you report the TRUTH!!1!!" attached.

It shows Obama giving a speech, but you hardly ever see his face, and the "speech" is edited together using single words from various speeches -- the audio equivalent of a ransom note made with words cut out of magazines. The speech basically says "It's... true... I.... was... actually... born... Kenya..." It's not even edited by someone who particularly knows what they're doing. Just a mess. And still, we get it every single day.

Also, we're now getting the emails insisting that Snopes.com is a propaganda website operated by the White House to stop the truth from getting out.

 

Richard Gere and a gerbil.

Angie Bowie finding Bowie and Jagger in the rack together.

Jerry Mathers was killed in Vietnam.

 

Or the other gas station one, that someone has taped AIDS-laced syringes to the inside of the gas pump handles. So when you pick them up, you get pricked and get AIDS.

I'll also add Rod Stewart swallowing so much semen that he had to have his stomach pumped.

 

I thought that was Alanis Morrisette.

 

Mikey, from the Life commercials was killed in an unfortunate Pop Rocks accident.