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i saw this derelict cinema
i saw this | July 2nd 2008 by tina
in rathmines the other day. i wish i'd taken the photo from another angle to avoid the lamp post. but i quite like it as it is. i googled stella and found some interesting information. it was opened in 1923. the boomtown rats played there in the seve read more
July 2008 Blu-Ray Release Schedule
Tech Talk | June 30th 2008
July 1st Batman: The Movie (1966) Drillbit Taylor Ganges Gangs of New York Get Smart’s Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control In the Line of Fire Mad Men - Season One Tyler Perry’s Meet The Browns Point Break Sex and Death 101 Vantag read more
RIP “Subway Sandwich Eatin’ Jared”: Sike Your Mind!
Seriously McMillan's She So Ghetto | June 26th 2008 by Seriously McMillan
Jared S. Fogel, best known as the spokesman for Subway sandwich shop “The Subway Guy” Born December 1st, 1977 – Died yesterday at 4:43pm EST. The autopsy has not been performed, early medical reports indicate that he has died due to abn read more
Cellphones Popping Popcorn? Could it be true?
RochesterChiro | June 19th 2008 by Brett Kinsler
It never ceases to amaze me that people will see something outrageous and their first instinct is to, well, actually believe it. Skepticism is dead in this country and I am certain it is the Internet, and probably YouTube, that killed it. “Bu read more
Ghostly Urban Legends - Phantom Travelers
Voodoo Who Do | May 31st 2008 by LK
By Lisa PageWe have all heard of Urban Legends, today I am going to talk about phantom travelers or hitchhikers.They are ghosts of humans or sometimes animals that haunt a specific location, usually roads or rest areas. Sometimes even vehicles!! They read more
Is It True That Orgasms Kill Brain Cells? (Video)
Ask Dan and Jennifer - Dating, Relationships, Love, and Sex | May 25th 2008 by Dan and Jennifer
While that may seem like a silly question, it’s actually not. What it is, however, is urban legend. Many people hear these types of urban legends from their friends or from their relatives, and they were probably started to discoura read more
Barack Obama: Just the Facts, Please
IsraPundit | May 24th 2008
Urban legends help Obama while hurting McCain and therefore our country by Bill Levinson We recently showed how the National Jewish Democratic Council cut out part of a statement by John McCain to suggest that he, like Obama, is open to unconditional read more
Shot by the Pilsbury Doughboy
Jeff Herz - My View of the World | May 15th 2008 by Jeff Herz
Note added: This is not news or new or real (thanks for pointing this out Kevin). This was tagged as humor and was posted simply because I found it really funny, and thought I would share it with my readers, hoping you would find it funny too. A lady read more
Myths We Might Have Believed At One Time (Part 1)
Boughetto News | May 14th 2008 by cassyfatnastee
Urban legends, myths, fables, straight-up lies: They permeate society as we know it. We obviously believe many of them because they dictate our behavior, actions and decisions. Let's look at a few for the sake of striking down some long-held beliefs read more
Stalkers, Gawkers and Big Talkers
Back of the Cereal Box | May 13th 2008
True or false: A Facebook glitch allows you to see who most often searches for you.According to a rumor that just spread through my office like wildfire — thank you, Spencer — if you go to the main page and type a simple period into the box where read more
Whataburger- San Marcos; Exit 200
Double Cheese Blogger | May 5th 2008 by Esmeralda
Whataburger is a regional chain in the south that boasts there are 36,834 different ways that they are prepared to fix your burger. They’ll add bacon, two slices of cheese, pickles, etc etc. This may just be an urban legend but supposedly you c read more
Magnolia, 1999
FauxNixon | April 16th 2008 by Nathan Thoms
Paul Thomas Anderson was allowed to make Magnolia only after the commercial success of his previous film: Boogie Nights. Anderson was given free reign, or as close to it as a Hollywood studio would ever get, to complete his project which is deeply read more
You can't believe everything you read, especially on the internet…
Rebecca's Happy Blog | April 9th 2008 by Rebecca
Have you noticed that the majority of emails these days are 'forwards'? And often forwards telling you things and you wonder if they're actually true? Well it's a good thing if you question theses emails, and don't just read them and take them as fac read more
The Guillermo Habacuc Vargas Hoax
harmonicminor.com | April 7th 2008 by Kris Petersen
I am not usually inspired to write about something (in my opinion) so silly, but the uninformed furore over alleged cruelty during an art exhibition has truly bothered me. As the story goes, a Costa Rican artist named Guillermo Habacuc Vargas used a read more
Roh Kelly Masih Berkeliaran
Fazamania - Melangkah Ke Alam Misteri | April 6th 2008 by fazamania
Sekitar musim luruh 1979, penduduk Liverpool di England gempar dengan cerita aneh membabitkan seorang lelaki, Frank Haines, 56. Kejadian berlaku ketika dia dalam perjalanan pulang selepas menziarahi ibunya yang uzur.Jam menunjukkan pukul 1.45 pagi. H read more
Don't Laugh
United States of Motherhood | April 3rd 2008
Shhhh...Seriously.Must stop laughing.Stop it.Don't tell anyone, but I just killed a beautiful one of my husband's boyhood dreams.Yep, I am mean like that.You see... don't laugh ... he really thought John Denver was a most highly decorated army sniper read more
Science and the Urban Legend
ScienceJunkies.com - Teaching kids that science can be FUN! | March 20th 2008 by Linda
The following are actual science related urban legends that have been circulated as truth - some of them for decades. All have been busted by various sources but as urban legends are wont to do, stubbornly persist to this day. Here are five parti read more
Nadine Dorries is Confused Again
davblog | March 20th 2008
You have to feel sorry for the electorate in Mid Bedfordshire. When they elected Nadine Dorries in 2005, I'm sure they couldn't have know what a huge mistake they had made.You might recall how she accused Ben Goldacre of publishing parliamentary secr read more
How To: Smash A Penny With A Train
shab00ty's madness | February 27th 2008
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video An in-depth how-to video of flattening pennies or other coins on a train track, and debunking the derailment urban legend at the same time. requirements: 1+ Penny 1 Train 0 Life J read more
Three Men and a Baby - Celebrity Ghosts
My Paranormal Life | February 24th 2008
I'm can almost remember the first time I heard about the ghost in the movie, Three Men and a Baby, I think I was around 9 or 10 years old, it made me not want to watch the movie again, hadn't noticed anything ghostly first time watching it. Over the read more
I've got this friend
Heresy Corner | February 20th 2008 by The Heresiarch
The Times has an alarmist story about students turning to prostitution to pay their way through university. "Handcuffs and condoms are replacing textbooks for a growing number of students" it warns, citing among others "Catharine" who earns £900 a read more
Was Fanta Really Invented By The Nazis?
AndyMurphy.net - History Blog | February 8th 2008 by Andrew Murphy
There are some who claim that Fanta, a popular soft drink produced and distributed by the Coca-Cola company, was actually invented by Nazis during the Third Reich. Others go so far as the say that Coca-Cola produced this product themselves to sell in read more
Boeing 797, To Good To Be True? Sadly Yes
Tripinator - Travel 2.0 | February 6th 2008 by Chris Christensen
There have been a number of stories about the new Boeing 797 aircraft. Boeing is preparing a 1000 passenger jet that could reshape the Air travel industry for the next 100 years.The radical Blended Wing design has been developed by Boeing in coopera read more
Urban Legends Revealed
Life in the Fast Lane | February 5th 2008 by Deborah Petersen
An urban legend or urban myth is any modern, fictional story told as truth, similar to a modern folklore consisting of stories thought to be factual by those retelling them that reach a vast number of people, spread from person to person. Photo Gr read more
Odds & Ends
shab00ty's madness | January 26th 2008
Download the FHM 2008 Calendar Bonus: Download The Playboy Girls Next Door 2008 Calendar here Guitar Hero franchise nets a billion Steve Jobs criticizes Microsoft on Zune, says Blu-ray won Tony Pierce leaves LAist for the LA Times Alexis Heart Pr0no read more
Urban legend
Cody Sortore's Ramblings | January 22nd 2008 by Cody Sortore
It’s kind of funny the things we believe. Stuff that is passed down from generations and simply taken for face value without investigation because it comes from a source we trust. Jordan was starting to get sick yesterday so I gave him the be read more
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg et Sweeney Todd
Marie des anges | January 22nd 2008
Aujourd'hui j'étais trés heureuse de trouver ça dans mon courrier ! Une lettre extrêment gentille et une photo dédicacée de l'auteure qui , avec George Chaulet, a bercé mon enfance, Angela Sommer-Bodenburg. La série en question c'est le petit read more
Case Closed
Heresy Corner | January 17th 2008 by The Heresiarch
Since my scepticism about the "married twins" story began attracting attention, I've become increasingly conscious that while I did express a fairly widespread (and growing) sense that something about the story didn't quite add up, I wasn't able to d read more
Welcome Heretics
Heresy Corner | January 16th 2008 by The Heresiarch
The Heresiarch would like to welcome the many neophytes who are visiting this blog for the first time. I don't quite feel like Lord Byron, who awoke one morning to discover himself famous, but my attempts to raise doubts about the "married twins" st read more
Pub philosophy
Heresy Corner | January 15th 2008 by The Heresiarch
As I noted yesterday, the "married twins" story is probably too widely disseminated to be finished off entirely. Still, it looks like a smidgeon of doubt is at last beginning to creep in. Writing in today's Guardian, Jon Henley wonders how seriousl read more
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