Internet myths

Sam Or I · Post by **Sam Or I** » 2003-01-30 12:39am

What are some of the ones that you know of, but have been proven false?

That Ducks quacks cannot echo
That science cannot prove how a bubblebee flys

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-01-30 12:45am

Al Gore invented it. Or was it Bush?

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-01-30 01:49am

the five cent tax on e-mail

Exonerate, have you been posting more than usual lately?

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-01-30 01:53am

Exonerate wrote:Al Gore invented it. Or was it Bush?

He never said that, though. He said he was part of the committee that approved development of what became the Internet. People took that comment out of context and blew it all out of proportion.

Back on-topic: That the Federation could beat the Empire

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Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-01-30 02:16am

All people on the Internet are just lonely anti social men looking for porn, might just be me though

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-30 02:18am

There is a little boy who is just a head, with a burlap bag full of dead leaves for a body, and he needs your prayers and charity.

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I shit you not...

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-01-30 02:20am

That's a good one

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2003-01-30 02:26am

Hey, I remember the burlap bag-body kid!! He said his mommy cried alot and he always wanted to play baseball.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-01-30 02:34am

Dont forget the email warnings of people waking up in a bathtub of ice with a kidney missing.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-01-30 02:36am

Or the Hotmail one about send this message to 20 people or you will lose your account

Or send this to 20 people and your crush will fall in love with you

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-30 02:39am

BTW: here's a link to the Burlap Bag Body Boy:

http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/burlap.htm

Boba Fett · Post by **Boba Fett** » 2003-01-30 02:58am

LOL

That's funny, Spanky!!!

Post by **NecronLord** » 2003-01-30 04:12am

There's probably someone out there who fell for that..

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-01-30 05:46am

I don't know if this could be considered an internet myth, but it's pretty stupid:

In 2002, at a local football game, a friend told me how her friend's teacher's grocery man (A supossed Afghani) told the teacher NOT to drink Coke products on the 11th of Septtember, for terrorists would poison the supply, or something like that.

Oh yeah, DON'T GO INTO SHOPPING MALLS ON THE 11th!!!!

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-01-30 07:23am

"Pass this email along and AOL will pay you 0.05 cents for every person who reads it..."

*smack*

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-01-30 01:21pm

AOL is the internet.

Artanis · Post by **Artanis** » 2003-01-30 02:05pm

So the internet just lost $100 million?

edit: typo

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-01-30 05:41pm

ArmorPierce wrote:the five cent tax on e-mail

Exonerate, have you been posting more than usual lately?

Maybe in the recent days. I had finals this week, and got home earlier.

I think I did quite good... Assuming I get 100% on all of them (Yeah right), I can bring my grades all up to an A.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-01-30 10:03pm

Wasn't there also that myth about the e-mail a woman got from her boyfriend on Spetember 10th, telling her to stay home the next day? I bleieve that e-mail was a hoax as well.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-01-30 10:09pm

Artanis wrote:So the internet just lost $100 million?

edit: typo

IIRC It was 99 BILLION. [sic]

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-01-30 10:36pm

How the FUCK can someone fall for that burlap boy scam? They should be forced to use those types of artifical bodies...

That Nigerian scammer trick that's going around is freaking annoying... I got an email sent to my supposedly spamless pay account on Monday... if it happens again, I am totally going play along with the spammer, then tell him that he is an idiot, and should go fuck himself in the ass with a steak knife.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-30 10:41pm

Well, the Burlap Bag Body Boy one is actually a parody of those glurge letters about sick kids, but people have actually asked if it was real.

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2003-01-30 11:50pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:BTW: here's a link to the Burlap Bag Body Boy:

http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/burlap.htm

I was looking for that site, Spanky, but for some reason I thought it was "scopes."

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-30 11:53pm

You're welcome.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-01-31 01:38pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:How the FUCK can someone fall for that burlap boy scam? They should be forced to use those types of artifical bodies...

That Nigerian scammer trick that's going around is freaking annoying... I got an email sent to my supposedly spamless pay account on Monday... if it happens again, I am totally going play along with the spammer, then tell him that he is an idiot, and should go fuck himself in the ass with a steak knife.

Or better yet, YOU'LL fly down to his country and fuck him in the ass with.... A 3 FOOT RAZOR SHARP KATANA!!!! There's more to Katanas then just slicing heads off, ya know!

<EDIT> Typed # instead of 3. Note to self: Don't get too hyper when typing.