http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2009-07-10 23:29:01 - About.com Urban Legends : A photo of Barack Obama apparently showing him checking out a youngwoman's derriere during the recent G8 summit has set jaws a-flappingand inspired a new name for thehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119009.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/119009.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-09 06:19:34 - About.com Urban Legends - If you're still in a numerological frame of mind, you'll probably enjoy —and perhaps even find deep meaning in — TMZ's list of coincidencesinvolving Michael Jackson and thehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/118373.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/118373.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-09 00:44:12 - About.com Urban Legends - Like me, you probably slept through both of this morning's"once-in-a-lifetime events," namely: the clock striking 12:34:56 on07/08/09; the clock striking 04:05:06 on 07/08/09 Lest you think itwashttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/118253.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/118253.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-07 22:21:37 - About.com Urban Legends - Like similar rumors circulating about actress Jamie Lee Curtis andhip-hop diva Ciara, the claim that popular Transformers star Megan Foxis a "transvestite," "transsexual," or "hermaphrodite" is nothingifhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/117768.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/117768.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-02 23:13:34 - About.com Urban Legends - Billed as an "Unknown Life Form in North Carolina Sewer," this creepyYouTube video of what looks like nothing so much as a pulsating blobof meat lodged inhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/116498.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/116498.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-02 01:22:17 - About.com Urban Legends - Alex Boese has put together a terrific analysis of last weekend's spateof celebrity death rumors, including these pithy observations: Statusseeking is an important motive in why people spread thesehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/116081.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/116081.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-01 17:03:43 - About.com Urban Legends - Is it true that the private parts of Prohibition-era gangster JohnDillinger were preserved in a jar of formaldehyde and are still ondisplay at the Smithsonian Institution Long storyhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/115866.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/115866.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-01 02:06:44 - About.com Urban Legends - It was a bumpy weekend for the rich and famous, with the entertainmentindustry mourning the loss of three pop icons as the Internet churnedout one hoax after anotherhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/115612.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/115612.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-26 07:53:35 - About.com Urban Legends - Pop star Michael Jackson died today at the age of 50 after apparentlysuffering cardiac arrest Actor Jeff Goldblum did not die today afterallegedly tumbling off a cliff in Newhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/113972.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/113972.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-25 23:20:04 - About.com Urban Legends - Via Boing Boing: "With a sea of information coming at us from alldirections, how do we sift out the misinformation and bogus claims,and get to the truth Michaelhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/113832.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/113832.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-23 00:51:31 - About.com Urban Legends - Some of those folks the mainstream media have labeled "Birthers" — youknow, the ones who keep pestering the Supreme Court with lawsuitsclaiming Obama isn't eligible to be Presidenthttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/112447.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/112447.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-16 20:50:51 - About.com Urban Legends - Finally addressing anecdotal reports circulating since 2006 to the effectthat using Zicam zinc-based intranasal cold remedies may cause anosmialoss of the sense of smell, the US Foodhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/110398.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/110398.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-13 04:04:40 - About.com Urban Legends - The tragic loss of Air France Flight 447 off the coast of Brazil 11 daysago prompted the recirculation of a three-year-old hoax comprisingphotos supposedly taken inside the cabinhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/109277.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/109277.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-11 01:10:48 - About.com Urban Legends - Make no mistake, when a group of adolescents stands in front of a mirrorchanting "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary," or "I believe inMary Worth, I believe inhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/108255.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/108255.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-10 03:16:04 - About.com Urban Legends - Just how scary does former Procter et Gamble executive Lou Pritchett findour new president, Barack Obama Very The infamous "Lou PritchettLetter" aka the "You Scare Me Letter" listshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/107787.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/107787.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-09 22:22:35 - About.com Urban Legends - Via Dailymotioncom, a funny short video by filmmaker Gilles Guerrazpromoting HoaxBustercom, the online resource for info on scams,rumors, and Internet hoaxes en français The piece is clever,well-executed, andhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/107665.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/107665.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-08 22:56:25 - About.com Urban Legends - Anybody who's ever watched a zombie movie knows how to define the term:we're talking living dead; walking corpses; brainless ghouls who preyupon the living According to lexicographer Grant Barrett,http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/107148.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/107148.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-03 23:14:21 - About.com Urban Legends - According to Buck Wolf there's a new wrinkle in the old saga of MichaelJackson's nose, namely an anonymously-sourced tabloid story claimingthat Jacko has skin cancer and is "convincedhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105579.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105579.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-03 18:45:14 - About.com Urban Legends - It's the year 2000 all over again for gun rights advocates, who've beenpassing around an old email rumor warning of a bill in Congress thatwould require gun ownershttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105474.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105474.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-02 06:19:29 - About.com Urban Legends - The concept of man as "the rational animal" has taken a beating of late,what with the acknowledgment on the part of some economists thatprevailing paradigms based on rationalhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/104676.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/104676.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-31 00:20:38 - About.com Urban Legends - "I have had it with you and your administration, sir," begins an openletter to Barack Obama purportedly written by an elementary schoolteacher in Hillsboro, Missouri "Your conduct onhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/103663.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/103663.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-28 03:42:02 - About.com Urban Legends - A forwarded email making the rounds since last weekend chastises themanager of a Cracker Barrel Restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee ofrefusing to allow a member of the Marine Corpshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/102542.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/102542.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-23 00:04:36 - About.com Urban Legends - Reporter Peter Mucha revisits the legend of the Jersey Devil in today'sPhiladelphia Inquirer, recalling an outbreak of hysteria that tookplace following alleged sightings of a bizarre, winged creaturehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/100811.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/100811.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-20 06:07:28 - About.com Urban Legends - Via Hollywood Reporter: Fans of Patrick Swayze and the actor himself, nodoubt will be relieved to learn that contrary to a fast-spreadingrumor started by a Jacksonville, Florida radiohttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/99334.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/99334.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-13 03:51:38 - About.com Urban Legends - Not to be confused with the Great Montauk Monster Incident of 2008 akathe discovery of a bloated raccoon carcass on a Long Island beach lastJuly, this year's "Montaukhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/95287.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/95287.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-12 22:29:18 - About.com Urban Legends - Released today: "Sony Ericsson has been made aware of an online emailcampaign claiming that Ericsson will give away a free laptop computerto users who forward the promotional informationhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/95136.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/95136.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-08 21:23:13 - About.com Urban Legends - The old canard about seven "dog years" equaling one "human year" receiveda trouncing in yesterday's Explainer column on Slatecom According towriter Christopher Beam, the American Veterinary Medical Associationsayshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93804.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/93804.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-05 23:27:48 - About.com Urban Legends - No, though it's understandable why some folks might think so Per theonline buzz of the past 24 hours, if you type wwwniggabookcom into aWeb browser, you wind up onhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/92424.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/92424.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-05 19:54:33 - About.com Urban Legends - Re: Dork definition In spite of what you're apt to read on any of over10,000 Web pages, the word "dork" does not mean and has never meant"whalehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/92351.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/92351.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-05 05:37:06 - About.com Urban Legends - A news story credited to the BBC reports that a new strain of the H1N1flu virus has emerged, dubbed "H1Z1" by health authorities, or "zombieswine flu" "After death," thehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/92070.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/92070.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-01 04:40:05 - About.com Urban Legends - An email sent out by a New Braunfels, Texas emergency room physicianclaiming that swine flu H1N1 flu is spreading faster than officialsadmit — allegedly infecting 10 to 25http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90812.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90812.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-29 20:31:43 - About.com Urban Legends - And I quote: "Do not accept a friend request from a CHRISTOPHERBUTTERFIELD he is a hacker Tell everyone on your list because ifsomebody on your list adds himhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90068.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90068.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-27 22:17:47 - About.com Urban Legends - How do you make a potential pandemic worse By spreading misinformationand panic Don't do it Don't assume that everything you read inemails, on unofficial websites, or via social networkinghttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/88820.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/88820.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-24 21:10:35 - About.com Urban Legends - A fast-circulating email claims a tsunami will occur in Asia on July 22 —which happens to be the date of the next solar eclipse The problemis, eclipses don'thttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/87864.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/87864.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-22 10:20:50 - About.com Urban Legends - Not only does President Obama deserve no credit for the Somali hostagerescue, a popular viral email declares, he actually prolonged thecrisis by refusing to authorize lethal force Ishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/86488.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/86488.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-20 10:19:20 - About.com Urban Legends - 420 isn't the number of a bill in Congress to legalize pot, though manypeople believe it is 420 isn't the police or penal code for marijuanapossession in California orhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/85458.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/85458.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-18 00:08:14 - About.com Urban Legends - Okay, the news out of Russia, albeit several days old, is that a28-year-old Izhesvsk resident named Artyom Sidorkin checked into ahospital last week coughing blood, so doctors performedhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/84919.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/84919.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-17 00:22:57 - About.com Urban Legends - Domino's USA went into crisis mode earlier this week after homemadevideos surfaced showing a Domino's employee sticking cheese up hisnose and purposely sneezing on the food nor washttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/84430.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/84430.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-14 19:28:40 - About.com Urban Legends - The humble Singer sewing machine, which can normally be bought for aslittle as US$50 in the streets of Riyadh, is currently going for asmuch as US$50,000 apiece inhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/83132.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/83132.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-10 03:37:32 - About.com Urban Legends - If you've ever wondered how folks got their misinformation before theInternet was invented, wonder no more Via Google Book Search,full-issue scans of everyone's favorite tabloid, Weekly World News,http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/81751.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/81751.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-08 06:09:05 - About.com Urban Legends - You all know the old story about the kid with the backpack sneaking ababy penguin out of the zoo, right Well, it's back, this time inChattanooga, where officialshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/80841.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/80841.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-08 00:18:03 - About.com Urban Legends - You all know the old story about the kid with the backpack sneaking ababy penguin out of the zoo, right Well, it's back, this time inChatanooga, where officialshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/80732.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/80732.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-06 21:51:56 - About.com Urban Legends - It's not true that University of Massachusetts kitchen personnelroutinely add laxatives to meals prepared on campus to make sure theypass through diners' systems before food poisoning sets in,http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/80192.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/80192.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-01 23:43:25 - About.com Urban Legends - Emailed "hacker warning" picking up steam in recent weeks urgesrecipients not to accept messages or friend requests from an allegedidentity thief named Simon Ashton Alerts like these arehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/78156.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/78156.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-30 22:34:30 - About.com Urban Legends - Yes, there is an Internet worm called "Conficker" sometimes misspelled"Conflicker" Yes, more than 10 million computers are believed to beinfected with it And yes, experts think onehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/77049.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/77049.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-28 21:41:56 - About.com Urban Legends - The Egyptian Gazette reported on Wednesday that a Mallawi man died"vomiting blood" after receiving a mysterious text message from"unknown foreign quarters" The report appeared to confirm rumorsclaiminghttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76349.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76349.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-28 02:25:06 - About.com Urban Legends - Via Weird News: Boston Latin School Headmaster Lynne Moone Teta says theprestigious secondary institution is not — I repeat, not — infestedwith vampires The statement was issued to addresshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76166.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76166.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-27 19:21:37 - About.com Urban Legends - The crew of the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters show detonated 500 poundsof ammonium nitrate in a quarry just outside Esparto, California lastweek, sending a shock wave through the smallhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76032.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/76032.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-26 19:36:32 - About.com Urban Legends - Sports apparel manufacturer Lacoste, whose world-famous logo is builtaround the image of a crocodile, will roll out a new sneaker thisspring paying homage to the urban legend abouthttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/75623.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/75623.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-25 19:15:55 - About.com Urban Legends - Last Friday the 13th a New York man decided to flout superstition andblow $3 on a Mega Millions lottery ticket He won $26 million Moral:Flouting superstition is goodhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/75145.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/75145.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-24 22:00:08 - About.com Urban Legends - A "pharm party" aka "pharming party" is a teenage get-together in whichparticipants toss all the prescription drugs they can pilfer fromtheir parents' medicine cabinets into a communal bowlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/74708.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/74708.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-20 02:31:23 - About.com Urban Legends - It's Day 3, and the Walmart gang initiation rumor rages on There are toomany reports from too many sources to attempt a formal tally, butjudging from the sheerhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/72896.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/72896.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-18 23:03:46 - About.com Urban Legends - Police in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama worked overtime yesterday toquash rumors about supposed gang initiation killings planned at localWalmart stores The rumors, which circulated all day Tuesday viahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/72382.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/72382.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-17 17:18:59 - About.com Urban Legends - Excerpt from an article in London's Sunday Mirror on February 18, 2001:LOONY Americans are set to ban the Shamrock in Boston followingcomplaints from minority groups They have bizarrelyhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/71784.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/71784.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-16 19:16:44 - About.com Urban Legends - The egg being the most literal and obvious of all fertility symbols,ancient eggish customs survive not only in the form of egg rolling andEaster eggs, but alsohttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/71426.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/71426.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-14 22:45:42 - About.com Urban Legends - The New Yorker's Joan Acocella reviews the evolution of vampire lore fromits origins in ancient superstition to Bram Stoker's fictiveromanticization of "the undead" in Dracula: Stoker did not inventhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/71134.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/71134.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-14 21:13:40 - About.com Urban Legends - Hugh writes: Has anyone else noted that the "Good Luck, Mr Gorsky" urbanlegend is referenced in the movie Watchmen I think it's due for awhole new leasehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/71131.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/71131.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-13 18:42:57 - About.com Urban Legends - Some folks refuse to go to work on Friday the 13th; some won't eat inrestaurants; many wouldn't think of setting a wedding on the date Areyou superstitious abouthttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/70872.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/70872.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-12 18:42:20 - About.com Urban Legends - An article in today's New York Times discusses the "Grass-Mud Horse"phenomenon in China, an Internet craze fueled by censor-tweakingpostings of songs and videos about a pseudo-mythical beast whosehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/70508.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/70508.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-11 22:30:44 - About.com Urban Legends - Even if this isn't the first time you've seen pictures of the world'slargest land-dwelling arthropod, the coconut crab, you'll do adouble-take when you gaze upon a popular viralhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/70240.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/70240.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-11 02:32:30 - About.com Urban Legends - Reports National Geographic: Among the many medieval plague victimsrecently unearthed near Venice, Italy, one had never-before-seenevidence of an unusual affliction: being undead The partial body andskull of onehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69894.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69894.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-10 22:01:35 - About.com Urban Legends - Cleveland's I-90 Innerbelt Bridge across the Cuyahoga River is not indanger of collapsing, Ohio Department of Transportation officialsinsisted on Monday, despite rampant email rumors to the contrary "Itseemshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69819.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/69819.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-09 21:00:49 - About.com Urban Legends - On his way across the American continent in search of answers to globalwarming, the BBC's "Ethical Man" Justin Rowlatt takes time out to gojackalope hunting on the greathttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/68782.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/68782.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-08 18:42:16 - About.com Urban Legends - Geographer Matt Rosenberg explains: Daylight Saving Time was institutedin the United States during World War I in order to save energy forwar production by taking advantage of the laterhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/68456.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/68456.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-07 21:58:40 - About.com Urban Legends - A letter from Dr Harvey Rowe, Curator of Antiquities, PaleoanthropologyDivision, Smithsonian Institution: Dear Sir: Thank you for your latestsubmission to the Institute, labeled "211-D, layer seven, next tothehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/68411.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/68411.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-07 01:12:35 - About.com Urban Legends - Come to find out, the odds of people believing an outrageous statementare inversely proportional to the amount of indisputable scientificevidence supporting it If they saw it on Oprahhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/68256.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/68256.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-06 01:29:05 - About.com Urban Legends - That the popular drinking game beer pong is a font of contagion I do notdoubt, but it's my job to separate rumor from fact, so let thehairsplitting beginhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/67888.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/67888.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-05 18:53:01 - About.com Urban Legends - Via Denver Business Journal: "Websites may advertise that they can helpyou get money from the stimulus fund,” says Eileen Harrington, actingdirector of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protectionhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/67760.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/67760.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-03 18:39:33 - About.com Urban Legends - An email warning Michigan drivers to beware of state troopersmasquerading as DOT truck drivers to catch highway speeders is a hoax,State Police officials say The bogus message, whichhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66953.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66953.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-03-03 07:14:02 - About.com Urban Legends - Not to be confused with the Amazonian pink river dolphin a differentspecies altogether, this pinkish-white specimen photographed bycharter boat Captain Erik Rue in Calcasieu Lake, Louisiana is ahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66814.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66814.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-28 21:59:46 - About.com Urban Legends - A viral image in which a book called Monkeys is featured prominently in aBarnes et Noble window display devoted to Barack Obama has elicitedwidespread criticism and a publichttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66301.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/66301.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-21 03:32:45 - About.com Urban Legends - Like sugarholics peering into the window of a candy store, the conspiracytheorists among us are salivating over a YouTube video purporting toshow the owner of a Magnavox digital-to-analoghttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/63802.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/63802.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-20 21:38:40 - About.com Urban Legends - Bibles do it, iPods do it, and now, apparently, even hair weaves do it —stop bullets from killing people, I mean; at least that's what we'rehearing from policehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/63726.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/63726.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-16 18:05:50 - About.com Urban Legends - Question #1: In 1938, a nationally broadcast radio drama by Orson Wellesconvinced many listeners that the United States had been invaded by: •Undocumented immigrants • Communists • Giant cockroaches •http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/62170.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/62170.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-11 02:20:56 - About.com Urban Legends - It's a veritable case study on how rapidly hoaxes can mutate and spreadvia social media An unofficial Amber Alert that apparently originatedin Salt Lake City on Sunday nighthttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/60553.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/60553.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-08 21:30:49 - About.com Urban Legends - The sixth day of the week and the number 13 have foreboding reputationssaid to date from ancient times, and their inevitable conjunction fromone to three times ahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/59676.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/59676.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-04 18:54:15 - About.com Urban Legends - Many Native American mythologies share a curious and enigmatic figurecalled the Trickster He often wears the guise of this or that animaldepending upon which tribe you are dealinghttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/58336.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/58336.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-02 17:42:29 - About.com Urban Legends - GOBBLER'S KNOB -- The bucktoothed rodent known in these parts asPunxsutawney Phil saw his own shadow this morning, which means, if youbelieve in this sort of thing, wehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/57455.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/57455.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-02-01 02:39:37 - About.com Urban Legends - So says a "news story" currently making the rounds via email and theblogosphere: "A spokesman for General James Cartwright, the ViceChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, states thathttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/57164.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/57164.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-30 22:43:40 - About.com Urban Legends - "Cello scrotum," a medical condition described in a 1974 issue of theBritish Medical Journal as a rash caused by the chafing of a celloagainst a player's crotch, hashttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/56900.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/56900.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-23 22:21:52 - About.com Urban Legends - A new email making the rounds bemoans the fact that while GW Bush'ssecond inauguration in 2005 racked up a paltry $42 million price tagcompared to the alleged $120http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/54594.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/54594.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-19 21:45:41 - About.com Urban Legends - In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday, we resurrect one of themaster horror writer's best-known tales, "The Premature Burial"Though fictional, the story was based on a popularhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/52829.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/52829.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-17 03:13:45 - About.com Urban Legends - CNN and other news outlets are warning about a so-called "sleeper virus"aka the Downadup or Conflicker worm which currently infects millionsof Windows-based PCs This is not a hoax Experts sayhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/52398.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/52398.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-16 21:36:41 - About.com Urban Legends - MSNBC reports that a robber who held up six people in Reading,Pennsylvania over the past two weeks by posing as a driver in distresshas been arrested "It’s onehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/52318.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/52318.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-13 22:27:51 - About.com Urban Legends - Ever wondered how people would react if one of the best classicalmusicians in the world played for tips in a crowded subway stationduring rush hour Wonder no more Ahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51074.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/51074.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-12 20:12:15 - About.com Urban Legends - "Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885,escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times Caught by Pinkertondetectives, convicted and hanged in 1889" So reads the inscriptionhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/50676.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/50676.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-07 21:37:55 - About.com Urban Legends - Evidently prompted by recent Israeli military actions in Gaza, rumorshave been flying in the US and Israel for the past several daysabout a possible terror attack in Newhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/49477.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/49477.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-05 20:30:04 - About.com Urban Legends - Certain types of manure used to be transported as everything was backthen by ship In dry form it weighs a lot less, but once water atsea hit it,http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/48720.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/48720.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-01-02 20:32:44 - About.com Urban Legends - "Cats tend to sprout up like weeds in the folklore of peoples all overthe map, and all over time," muses our resident mythographer PeterKohler "They are always slinkinghttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/48205.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/48205.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-24 20:50:33 - About.com Urban Legends - Best wishes of the season to folks of all faiths and no faith, and aHappy New Year • Can't wait for Santa's visit Watch his progress enroute from thehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46348.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46348.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-23 17:59:37 - About.com Urban Legends - Question #1: True or false: The popular Christmas carol "The 12 Days ofChristmas" was originally composed as a secret catechism by and forBritish Catholics during the Protestant reignhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46106.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/46106.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-22 19:08:53 - About.com Urban Legends - The discovery of a still-unidentified carcass that washed up on a LongIsland beach last August has won fourth place in Animal Planet's "Top10 Animal Stories from 2008" videohttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/45893.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/45893.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-18 00:10:54 - About.com Urban Legends - An email questioning the wisdom of entrusting government officials withhundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to "fix" the economy offersthis historical tidbit to bolster its case: Back in 1990,http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/44882.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/44882.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-17 21:00:40 - About.com Urban Legends - Sunday Mercury conspiracy buff Ben Goldby has compiled a list of his tenfavorite crackpot theories "in order of stupidity" Number one on thelist is the longstanding belief amonghttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/44820.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/44820.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-16 20:05:34 - About.com Urban Legends - A not-so-new scaremail warns that carjackers have taken to leavingstickers, flyers, or other printed materials on the rear windows ofvehicles to trick drivers into getting out to examinehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/44362.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/44362.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-11 20:58:43 - About.com Urban Legends - Police have arrested a man for posting false reports on the Internetclaiming that several women were shot and killed as part of a ganginitiation rite on Halloween evehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/43080.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/43080.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-09 00:24:25 - About.com Urban Legends - If you can believe what you read on the Internet, parents need to startmonitoring their teenagers to ensure they're not partaking of yetanother kooky adolescent craze: soaking tamponshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/41917.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/41917.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-08 20:52:25 - About.com Urban Legends - Nevermind the naysayers That ubiquitous video featuring an animatedChristmas lights display computer-synchronized to a recording of"Wizards of Winter" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra is the real dealSadly, Carsonhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/41864.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/41864.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-07 09:01:48 - About.com Urban Legends - Discovered, we are told, in an old footlocker in an unnamed location,this set of snapshots purportedly taken by an American sailor using acheap Kodak Brownie camera chronicles thehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/41212.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/41212.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-06 21:28:52 - About.com Urban Legends - "This may sound fanciful," writes our roving mythographer Peter Kohler,"but Lao Tzu is said to have lived in his mother’s womb for sixty-fouryears before emerging with his flowinghttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/41178.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/41178.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-06 03:35:59 - About.com Urban Legends - This is to confirm that some email alerts currently going around warningof malware attacks on Facebook members via the network's internalmessage service are true The attacks are particularlyhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/41084.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/41084.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-04 21:16:58 - About.com Urban Legends - Lending credence to some viral show-and-tell presentations we've seen inthe past -- the mouse caught in a printer cartridge, for example, andthe snake in the computer -- Australia'shttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/40713.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/40713.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-12-02 21:59:54 - About.com Urban Legends - An email currently making the rounds informs us that the country in whicha potentially hazardous product was made can easily be determined bydeciphering the first three digits ofhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/40082.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/40082.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-28 22:11:24 - About.com Urban Legends - Today is known as "Black Friday" by US retailers, who named it that,allegedly, because the day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shoppingday of the year and the pointhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/39268.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/39268.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-26 20:43:07 - About.com Urban Legends - An email circulating in South Africa warns patrons of the Wimpy burgerchain not to use tomato sauce or ketchup unless it is offered insealed packets The reason Somehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/38905.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/38905.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-22 22:03:09 - About.com Urban Legends - If you haven't seen it yet, you probably will soon enough I'm referringto a forwarded email that purports to list upcoming store closures bythree dozen or so majorhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/38112.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/38112.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-20 22:32:10 - About.com Urban Legends - According to news reports the town of Hamelin in northern Germany isoverrun with rats Officials say the infestation is the result of alocal garbage dump serving as ahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/37465.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/37465.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-18 20:32:02 - About.com Urban Legends - I see by a spate of denials over the weekend that the Miley Cyrus deathhoax was resurrected via a YouTube video since deleted attributed tothe teen star's besthttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/36939.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/36939.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-13 23:02:34 - About.com Urban Legends - In case you weren't properly terrified at the prospect of President-electObama and his "terrorist pals" remaking this country into a communistpolice state, the right-wing blogosphere would like youhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/35884.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/35884.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-13 08:10:21 - About.com Urban Legends - Self-styled "culture jammers" the Yes Men put out a 14-pagealternative-reality edition of the New York Times and distributed atleast a million copies in New York and Los Angeleshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/35713.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/35713.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-13 02:29:13 - About.com Urban Legends - "Yesterday, the brass at ABC News issued orders forbidding reporters towear lapel pin American flags or other patriotic insignia," accuses apopular forwarded email "I urge you to boycotthttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/35681.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/35681.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-11 19:48:12 - About.com Urban Legends - Via Museum of Hoaxes: Michiganders are reminiscing about the Little BlueMan hoax of 1958 In April of that year, folks driving between thesmall towns of Elkton and Bad Axe,http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/35282.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/35282.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-07 17:29:42 - About.com Urban Legends - The lab results are in A PR firm for Arnold Bakers emailed me a copy ofa certificate from Maryland food testing laboratory Strasburger etSiegel stating that microscopic analysis hashttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/34120.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/34120.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-06 21:01:41 - About.com Urban Legends - Police in Canada and Australia are advising citizens to disregard viralemails warning that women have been approached at gas stations by menhanding out business cards soaked with anhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/33967.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/33967.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-04 22:56:15 - About.com Urban Legends - The Washington Redskins lost a home game to the Pittsburgh Steelers lastnight, which, if you believe in the ballyhooed "Redskins Rule," meansBarack Obama will win the presidential election Ithttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/33506.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/33506.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-04 20:45:35 - About.com Urban Legends - The Washington Post reports that hackers commandeered a George MasonUniversity mailing list and sent a message to some 35,000 students,faculty, and staff members advising them vote on Wednesdayhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/33474.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/33474.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-03 22:44:06 - About.com Urban Legends - Via BoingBoing: It's the stuff of urban legends, to be sure -- man opensbag of freshly-bought hot dog buns and finds what looks to be afull-grown mouse, completehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/33217.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/33217.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-03 17:29:36 - About.com Urban Legends - Another weekend, another celebrity death hoax on the Internet OnSunday, American rap artist Lil Wayne real name Dwayne Carter wasreported shot dead by four gunmen in a "BBC Newshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/33162.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/33162.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-11-01 00:49:28 - About.com Urban Legends - Emails and text messages are circulating across the country warning thata "Bloods initiation weekend" or, in another version, "Cripsinitiation weekend" commences on Halloween, and 31 women will behttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/32904.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/32904.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-31 16:27:24 - About.com Urban Legends - In celebration of All Hallows Eve, when according to ancient belief theveil separating the living from the dead shrinks to gossamer, I giveyou a selection of horrifying urbanhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/32783.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/32783.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-29 20:56:24 - About.com Urban Legends - Is it true that Michelle Obama racked up a $44739 room service bill forsteamed lobster and caviar at the Waldorf-Astoria earlier this monthNo Despite Internet smears to the contrary,http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/32381.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/32381.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-28 21:45:06 - About.com Urban Legends - Obama supporters claim that someone in the crowd at a Sarah Palincampaign stop hollered the "N-word "during a portion of the speechaddressing Obama's alleged "redistribution of wealth" economichttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/32167.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/32167.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-28 20:15:14 - About.com Urban Legends - In a repeat of the Election Day Switch hoax circulated during previouselection years, Virginia officials are reporting that a phony flier isbeing distributed telling Democrats to vote onhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/32136.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/32136.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-28 16:52:24 - About.com Urban Legends - Microsoft and Yahoo have announced a plan to join Western Union and theAfrican Development Bank to raise global awareness about lottery scamemails It's not a joke According to ahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/32085.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/32085.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-24 00:17:27 - About.com Urban Legends - "I have recently discovered that Snopescom is owned by a flaming liberaland this man is in the tank for Obama," rants the latestpolitically-charged email to make the rounds "Manyhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/31428.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/31428.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-23 01:15:11 - About.com Urban Legends - When Colin Powell announced his endorsement of Barack Obama last Sundayhe said one of the things that has disturbed him most about the tenorof the campaign is thehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/31225.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/31225.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-20 20:58:50 - About.com Urban Legends - A new variant of the In-N-Out Burger 60th anniversary hoax claims thatanother company, Wendy's, will be selling 25-cent burgers during its60th anniversary celebration on October 22: Wendy's 60thAnniversaryhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/30714.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/30714.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-18 21:04:42 - About.com Urban Legends - Argentina's "creepy gnome" returned for a visit last week, this time inthe town of Clodomira, Santiago del Estero province A grainy cellphone video shot by a group ofhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/30464.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/30464.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-18 00:08:44 - About.com Urban Legends - It was interesting to see a spate of news stories this morning aimed atquashing an Internet rumor claiming that Tom Cruise is dead I say"interesting" because although a couplehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/30327.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/30327.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-16 00:28:30 - About.com Urban Legends - A reader writes: An urban legend that I've heard most recently by ateacher during a discussion in a high school English class is thatyou shouldn't throw rice at weddings,http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/29880.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/29880.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-15 15:49:25 - About.com Urban Legends - The messages were short but not sweet They blazed from phone to phone inFlint, Michigan today, spreading fear throughout the city "Apparentlythere is a gang related initiation target tohttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28833.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28833.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-15 15:49:25 - About.com Urban Legends - The New York Times reports that during a TV interview on Fox News thisweek Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari repeated the long-discreditedclaim that Col Oliver North warned Congresshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28832.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28832.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-15 15:49:25 - About.com Urban Legends - Apple Inc shares plummeted this morning after a posting on CNN's"citizen journalism" site iReportcom claimed CEO Steve Jobs wasstricken by a "major heart attack" It wasn't true Stockhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28831.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28831.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-15 15:49:25 - About.com Urban Legends - Yes and no emphasis on no Here's the deal Laboratory tests have shownthat Coca-Cola does have spermicidal properties, but they've alsoshown that in practice it makes for ahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28830.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28830.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-15 15:49:25 - About.com Urban Legends - Query from a reader in the UL Forum: I am looking for any informationanyone has on an urban legend called THE BLACK ALBUM According to thestory I heard, ahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28829.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28829.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-15 15:49:25 - About.com Urban Legends - Forwarded email alleges that three former Fannie Mae executives whopresided over the mortgage company's ruination -- Franklin Raines, TimHoward, and Jim Johnson -- are now senior economichttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28828.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28828.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-15 15:49:25 - About.com Urban Legends - If the following message shows up in your inbox, disregard it: In-n-Out's60th Year Anniversary is Wednesday, October 22nd All hamburgers willbe sold for 25 cents, Cheeseburgers 30 cents, Frieshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28827.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28827.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-15 15:49:25 - About.com Urban Legends - Rare is the occasion when Richard Gere acknowledges the existence of theinfamous gerbil-in-the-butt legend that has tailed him since the earlynineties, but he did just that in anhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28826.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28826.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-15 15:49:25 - About.com Urban Legends - In case you were too busy monitoring the worldwide economic crisis thispast week to keep up on the really important news, let me be the firstto apprise youhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28825.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28825.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-10-15 15:49:25 - About.com Urban Legends - Via UFO Digest: Blossom Goodchild, an Aussie actress and author, has theinternational Ufology community on its ear with channeled informationconcerning the eminent appearance of a massive extraterrestrialspacecraft forhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28824.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/28824.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-05-08 20:02:16 - About.com Urban Legends - Image #1: This picture was taken near the South African coast during amilitary exercise by the British Navy Choose one: Real or Fakehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/23919.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/23919.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-05-08 20:02:16 - About.com Urban Legends - A gallery of odd and arresting viral images -- some real, some fake, somepersistently enigmatic -- as circulated on the Internets Startherehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/23918.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/23918.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-22 09:01:33 - About.com Urban Legends - Choose the most correct answer for each question Remember, all thequestions pertain to urban legends, so a correct answer isn'tnecessarily a true one Good luck Question #1: According tohttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19824.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19824.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-22 05:01:47 - About.com Urban Legends - Choose the most correct answer for each question Remember, all thequestions pertain to urban legends, so a correct answer isn'tnecessarily a true one Good luck Question #1: According tohttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19813.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19813.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-22 01:31:31 - About.com Urban Legends - Choose the most correct answer for each question Remember, all thequestions pertain to urban legends, so a correct answer isn'tnecessarily a true one Good luck Question #1: According tohttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19791.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19791.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-20 09:01:33 - About.com Urban Legends - 420 is not the number of a bill in Congress to legalize pot, though manypeople believe it is 420 is not the police or penal code formarijuana possession inhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19526.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19526.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-18 23:01:40 - About.com Urban Legends - "There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is asymbol of oppression," presidential candidate Barack Obama hassupposedly stated "And the anthem itselfhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19422.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19422.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-18 23:01:40 - About.com Urban Legends - The story continues Via Museum of Hoaxes, we learn that Yale art studentAliza Shvarts is contradicting a Yale spokesperson's claim that thestudent's senior project involving serial pregnancies andhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19421.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19421.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-18 07:02:26 - About.com Urban Legends - Yale art student Aliza Shvarts delivered a one-two punch to the media onThursday, beginning with the announcement of her senior project: anexhibition chronicling a nine-month period during whichhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19220.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19220.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-18 01:31:32 - About.com Urban Legends - Updated A fake Amber Alert claiming that two young girls were kidnappedby a suspect driving a brown Jeep Liberty spread across at least tenstates via text message thishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19184.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/19184.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-17 01:32:00 - About.com Urban Legends - Online petitions are calling for the exclusion of Costa Rican artistGuillermo "Habucuc" Vargas from the upcoming Central American Biennialexhibition because he allegedly orchestrated an event last year inhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18935.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18935.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-15 19:01:46 - About.com Urban Legends - True According to the Chicago Tribune, police shot and killed a150-pound cougar in an alley in the Chicago suburb of Roscoe VillageMonday night The shooting capped two weekshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18639.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18639.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-15 11:01:35 - About.com Urban Legends - Bath, England 5 days ago: A British family got more than they bargainedfor when they opened a bag of prepackaged spinach and out jumped atiny green tree froghttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18523.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18523.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-15 09:01:32 - About.com Urban Legends - Bath, England 5 days ago: A British family got more than they bargainedfor when they opened a bag of pre-packaged spinach at a localsupermarket and out jumped ahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18508.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18508.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-15 05:02:10 - About.com Urban Legends - After 15 minutes of jackhammering at an estimated cost of $50,000,construction workers excised a Red Sox jersey buried in the foundationof the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronxhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18494.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18494.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-15 05:02:10 - About.com Urban Legends - In case you were wondering, FreeRicecom is neither a hoax nor a scam,despite its seemingly too-good-to-be-true premise Visitors to thenonprofit website are presented with a word definition challenge,http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18493.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18493.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-14 21:02:34 - About.com Urban Legends - After 15 minutes of jackhammering at an extimated cost of $50,000,construction workers excised a Red Sox jersey buried in the foundationof the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronxhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18409.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18409.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-14 19:02:39 - About.com Urban Legends - Image #1: Meet twins Kian and Remee Hodgson of Nottingham, England Kianis dark-skinned and dark-haired, Remee is light-skinned andfair-haired They were born in 2005Choose one: Real or Fakehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18371.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18371.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-12 05:01:42 - About.com Urban Legends - Question #1: How many spiders does the average person swallow in theirsleep per year • One • Four • Seven • Eight • Nobody knowshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18104.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/18104.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-11 09:16:39 - About.com Urban Legends - Is it a naked woman A space alien Some gangly dude smoking a cigar Oris it nothing more mysterious than the vice-president's arm holding afishing pole Thehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/17918.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/17918.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-10 21:16:40 - About.com Urban Legends - A department store in London is offering kopi luwak -- the legendaryvarietal coffee consisting of beans harvested from the dung of thepalm civet in Indonesia and southeast Asiahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/17821.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/17821.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-10 02:31:35 - About.com Urban Legends - Word has it that a baby born with two faces in northern India last monthis being worshipped by local villagers as the reincarnation of theHindu demon-fighting goddess Durgahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/17608.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/17608.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-07 22:31:39 - About.com Urban Legends - Not that there is a prayer of it ending more than a decade of rumor andspeculation concerning the circumstances of Princess Diana's death,but the coroner's inquest jury returnedhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16935.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16935.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-05 01:31:27 - About.com Urban Legends - Dog bites man, not news Man bites dog, news Woman bites dog, it's atrend • 1997: Pit bull attacks toy poodle, woman fights back bybiting dog's throat • 2001:http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16561.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16561.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-05 00:01:31 - About.com Urban Legends - Dog bites man, not news Man bites dog, news Woman bites dog, it's atrend Strange but true: 1997: Pit bull attacks toy poodle, womanfights back by biting dog's throat 2001: Pit bull attackshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16557.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16557.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-04 21:01:26 - About.com Urban Legends - Remember that Frosted Flake shaped like the state of Illinois that soldon eBay last month Here's your chance to meet the man who forked over$1,350 US dollars forhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16525.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16525.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-04 00:01:28 - About.com Urban Legends - Buck Wolf informs us that the old chestnut about Mountain Dew preventingpregnancy is still very much with us in the enlightened 21st centurySome teens surveyed in Florida admittedhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16309.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16309.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-04 00:01:28 - About.com Urban Legends - Folks are asking if there's any truth to the CNN report that rapper SnoopDogg has converted to Mormonism The answer is no If you check thedate of thehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16308.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16308.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-02 23:29:26 - About.com Urban Legends - Is it true that an Oregon man named Thomas Beatie is the world's firstpregnant man The answer may boil down to semanticsMr Beatie --formerly Ms Lagondino -- ishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16014.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/16014.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-02 21:48:15 - About.com Urban Legends - Two legendary-but-real canine specimens made the news in recent weeks,one living and one dead, both having achieved their 15 minutes ofdoggy fame by winning notice in the Guinnesshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/15997.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/15997.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-02 18:02:20 - About.com Urban Legends - "The very word 'dragon' is related to other ancient words having to dowith vision," writes our maestro of mythology Peter Kohler, "such asthe Sanskrit darc, to see, thehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/15929.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/15929.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-04-01 07:31:58 - About.com Urban Legends - No one knows exactly how or when April Fools' Day originated, but it mayhave had something to do with the adoption of the Gregorian calendarin the mid-1600s, whichhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/15463.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/15463.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-31 18:01:38 - About.com Urban Legends - Updated As of March 31 there have been zero -- I repeat, zero --reported instances anywhere in the US of carloads of MS-13 gangmembers rear-ending other vehicles andhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/15324.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/15324.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-31 09:01:26 - About.com Urban Legends - Updated As of March 30 there have been zero -- I repeat, zero --reported instances anywhere in the US of carloads of MS-13 gangmembers rear-ending other vehicles andhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/15210.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/15210.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-31 09:01:26 - About.com Urban Legends - Image #1: Meet twins Kian and Remee Hodgson of Nottingham, England Kianis dark-skinned and dark-haired, Remee is light-skinned andfair-haired They were born in 2005Choose one: Real or Fakehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/15209.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/15209.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-29 19:08:31 - About.com Urban Legends - Image #1: Meet twins Kian and Remee Hodgson of Nottingham, England Kianis dark-skinned and dark-haired, Remee is light-skinned andfair-haired They were born in 2005Choose one: Real or Fakehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/14911.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/14911.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-29 16:16:29 - About.com Urban Legends - Updated As of March 29 there have been zero -- I repeat, zero --reported instances anywhere in the US of carloads of MS-13 gangmembers rear-ending other vehicles andhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/14770.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/14770.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-28 21:01:20 - About.com Urban Legends - As of March 28 there have been zero -- I repeat, zero -- reportedinstances anywhere in the US of carloads of MS-13 gang membersrear-ending other vehicles and shootinghttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/14541.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/14541.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-28 16:07:57 - About.com Urban Legends - Image #1: Meet twins Kian and Remee Hodgson of Nottingham, England Kianis dark-skinned and dark-haired, Remee is light-skinned andfair-haired They were born in 2005Choose one: Real or Fakehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/14423.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/14423.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-27 15:01:35 - About.com Urban Legends - Is it true that an Oregon man named Thomas Beatie is the world's firstpregnant man The answer may boil down to semanticsMr Beatie --formerly Ms Lagondino -- ishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/14121.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/14121.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-26 21:01:24 - About.com Urban Legends - Is it true that an Oregon man named Thomas Beatie is the world's firstpregnant man The answer may boil down to semanticsMr Beatie --formerly Ms Lagondino -- ishttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/13975.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/13975.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-24 18:31:08 - About.com Urban Legends - Image #1: Meet twins Kian and Remee Hodgson of Nottingham, England Kianis dark-skinned and dark-haired, Remee is light-skinned andfair-haired They were born in 2005Choose one: Real or Fakehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/13438.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/13438.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-22 04:31:44 - About.com Urban Legends - A gallery of odd and arresting viral images -- some real, some fake, somepersistently enigmatic -- as circulated on the Internets Startherehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/13135.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/13135.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-21 18:02:30 - About.com Urban Legends - "Amazing pictures up around Sturgeon Bay," reads one of severaldifferent captions accompanying a set of emailed photos showing abeautiful, blue-tinted ice formation "Wisconsin has had thecoldesthttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/13040.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/13040.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-21 03:01:34 - About.com Urban Legends - Wouldn't you know it, number three on the Daily Mirror's roster of the"Top 10 Weirdest Rock 'n' Roll Deaths" is that old chestnut about CassElliot of the Mamashttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/12878.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/12878.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-20 07:31:29 - About.com Urban Legends - A gallery of odd and arresting viral images -- some real, some fake, somepersistently enigmatic -- as circulated on the Internets Startherehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/12613.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/12613.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-20 07:31:29 - About.com Urban Legends - This public service announcement brought to you on the occasion ofNational Sweater Day, honoring the late, great children's TV show hostMr Rogers, who would have been 80 yearshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/12612.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/12612.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-18 17:12:28 - About.com Urban Legends - The egg being the most literal and obvious of all fertility symbols,ancient eggish customs survive not only in the form of Easter eggs,but also in the quainthttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/12097.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/12097.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-17 12:28:23 - About.com Urban Legends - St Patrick, the holy and tutular manHis beard down his bosom likeAaron’s ran:Some from Scotland, some from Wales, will declare that hecame,But I care not from whence nowhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/11635.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/11635.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-13 21:46:47 - About.com Urban Legends - Homeowners, if you're missing a garden gnome of late, you might trylooking for it in northwestern Argentina in a town called GeneralGuemes, where, according to a March 11http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/11063.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/11063.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-13 20:44:07 - About.com Urban Legends - One of the convenient fictions we live by holds that there are exactly365 days in a year In point of fact, the earth turns roughly 365 anda quarterhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10641.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10641.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-13 20:44:07 - About.com Urban Legends - A viral video beware, disturbing content showing a pair of US Marinescallously joking as they throw what appears to be a live puppy off acliff somewhere in Iraqhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10640.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10640.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-13 20:44:07 - About.com Urban Legends - Direct from my inbox:"These pictures are from a guy out in Mason, TexasThey were taken from his kitchen onto his deck this year when itsnowed in January Thehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10639.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10639.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-13 20:44:07 - About.com Urban Legends - A gallery of odd and arresting viral images -- some real, some fake, somepersistently enigmatic -- as circulated on the Internets Startherehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10638.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10638.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-13 20:44:07 - About.com Urban Legends - The following quotation has been making the rounds of Republican blogs:"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of theworld I hope you'll join with mehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10637.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10637.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-13 20:44:07 - About.com Urban Legends - St Patrick, the holy and tutular manHis beard down his bosom likeAaron’s ran:Some from Scotland, some from Wales, will declare that hecame,But I care not from whence nowhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10636.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10636.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-01 21:01:46 - About.com Urban Legends - A viral video currently making the rounds warns restaurant patrons tobeware of the lemon slices garnishing their food and beverages, citinga recent study which found that roughly two-thirdshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10028.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10028.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-03-01 21:01:46 - About.com Urban Legends - One of the convenient fictions we live by holds that there are exactly365 days in a year In point of fact, the earth turns roughly 365 anda quarterhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10027.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/10027.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-02-26 22:43:05 - About.com Urban Legends - I'm kidding But the hundreds of thousands of gullible users whoforwarded this chain letter over the past 10 years didn't do it for alaugh They did it becausehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/9443.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/9443.shtml Secuobs.com : 2008-02-25 11:05:38 - About.com Urban Legends - Since the beginning of January, Internet users from Jacksonville, Floridato Queensland, Australia have been finding threatening notes in theirinboxes from senders claiming they were hired to kill thehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/8832.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/8832.shtml