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Fireballn
Skeptic Friend
Canada
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 Posted - 06/01/2003 : 22:37:55
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I think urban legends are some of the most interesting societal phenomena that can occur. This is a pretty good site.....
http://www.snopes.com/snopes.asp
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2003 : 13:07:19 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Fireballn
I think urban legends are some of the most interesting societal phenomena that can occur. This is a pretty good site.....
http://www.snopes.com/snopes.asp
Another place you might find interesting, and read the eventual urban legend is Darwin Awards ( http://www.darwinawards.com )
The site managers are firm believers that stupidity is hereditary, and consequently, people who kill themselves out of stupidity will purge that trait from the human gene-pool by means of "Survival of the Fittest".
Darwin Awards are given posthumous to those persons. And we get a laugh reading about guys like the young man who played russian roulette with a pistol, or the man who tried to open a hand grenade with a chainsaw, or the man who plunged 32 stories to his death after a failed attempt to prove that a sky-scraper window is unbreakable, by charging at it. 
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2003 : 17:49:50 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Darwin Awards are given posthumous to those persons. And we get a laugh reading about guys like the young man who played russian roulette with a pistol, or the man who tried to open a hand grenade with a chainsaw, or the man who plunged 32 stories to his death after a failed attempt to prove that a sky-scraper window is unbreakable, by charging at it.
Yes, the awards are very funny. Not to be too picky but not all of them are posthumous, occasionaly even if someone lives but what they did was too stupid or they are maimed or something, they could get one too.
BTW, a long time ago I already started a folder for interesting web sites, again, not to be picky but why start more than nessassary?
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2003 : 03:21:48 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Snake
Yes, the awards are very funny. Not to be too picky but not all of them are posthumous, occasionaly even if someone lives but what they did was too stupid or they are maimed or something, they could get one too.
True. There was an urban legend that, if it had been true, would have given a reward to a survivor: The guy trying to shoplift a live lobster, hiding it in his trousers. The story goes that the lobster was unhappy with this and using it's pincer, performed a vascectomy (spelling? making the man sterile by pincing him by the balls...). Obviously, though with great pain, the guy survived, but was denied the opportunity to pass his genes to the next generation.
Darwin Award stories that are collected has different status:
Confirmed True, Unconfirmed, and Urban Legend.
To be confirmed true, a reliable source has to be given, like a police-report or several independent newspapers.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 06/03/2003 : 22:39:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
[quote]Originally posted by Snake
True. There was an urban legend that, if it had been true, would have given a reward to a survivor:
In my haste to post information I don't clarify what I say, perhaps I should have used the words 'honorable mention' for the award that survivors get. I tend to lump everything together, in other words an award is an award, dead or alive. Thank you for explaining further. |
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