Urban Myths You've Believed; Or Wanted To

[HonaloochieB]

I've picked this up from another thread, and thought I'd run with it. Actually there was mention on yet another thread about the one where a chap asks a celeb in a restaurant toilet (Sinatra, Jagger, Sting etc) to approach his table and greet him. The celeb does so and is told to "f@ck off Sinatra/Jagger?Sting can't you see I'm busy". Plainly untrue.

But what are the ones that you've heard that you thought, or wanted to think that were true.

Mine is the one about the Queen on a state visit to Ausrralia in the sixties.

She's on a meet and greet with a line of people and is doing her best to take an interest in them.

She moves along the line until she comes to one particular chap.

Elizabeth II - 'Hello, and what is it you do?'

Aussie - 'Your majesty, I'm a photographer'

Elizabeth II - 'Ah, I have a brother-in-law who's a photographer'

Aussie - 'Now that's a real coincindence your majesty, because my brother-in-law's a queen'

Told to me years ago as a true story, but though I know it's not true, I wish it was.

How about you?

[bon3yard]

Didnt that Sinatra anecdote resurface on Danny Bakers show again recently, one of the callers tried to pass it off as his own experience. Didnt fool The Radio titan for a second though.

I remember a few of the filthier ones. The contents of Marc Almonds stomach after having it pumped for instance and Marianne Faithfuls fondness for Mars Bars(prior to King Size I hasten to add. I was also Told by someone that Clint Eastwood was Stan Laurels illegitimate son...Part of me still believes that one. Its too good not too be true.

[PeckhamRose]

This one's lovely - Princess Anne told it herself (she told me never to namedrop but there you are). She was visiting some hospital or hospice in Australia and she was by one old guy who was miserable in his bed and she said something like "You didn't come in here to die" and HE said "No, ma'am, I came in here yesterdie" [Aussie accent].

[benjaminty]

Jimmy Somerville having had some ribs removed so that he could .... errr get better quality personal time. That usually came hand in hand with the contents of Mr Almonds stomach....

[david_carnell]

Jamie Lee Curtis is a hemaphrodite

[bigbadwolf]

Builders contracted to do maintanence/refurb work during the late 60's under the rides at Disney land Florida discovered a large complex of rooms and large warehouse's after knocking through a wall in a boiler room. On further inspection these rooms appearred to have alot of information regarding the launch stations of the USSR's 1st generation nuclear warheads aimed at the U.S.

[bon3yard]

There is no Nobel prize for Mathamatics because Mrs.Alfred Nobel was discovered having an affair with A renowned mathamatician...

[giggirl]

That whole snakes curled up in the loo thing - I'm never able to 'go' in hot countries without having a thorough investigation of the pan first.

[EDOldie]

The best Jimmy Sommerville story I heard was that, passionate animal rights guy that he is, on seeing a load of lobsters in a tank in a very posh Geneva restaurant, he insisted on buying the lot and released them back into the wild into Lake Geneva. Upon which they promptly died in the fresh water lake.

[bon3yard]

Snakes curled up in the loo? Sounds like an acid flasback to me...that or a scene straight from Jacobs Ladder.

[giggirl]

No - for real. Or is it just urban myth?

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/177/177875_snake_loose__check_your_loo.html

[bon3yard]

Cripes! Looks pretty ginuwine to me.

[Moos]

The one about the alligators in the sewer systems in New York. I grew up in a house where the most unfeasibly large spiders could squeeze themselves out of a tiny overflow and into one's bath, so was perfectly ready to believe an alligator could follow.

[Brendan]

Surely a six foot long boa would be at least about 20cm in diameter and find it a bit difficult to squeeze through a 15cm wide u-bend on a normal toilet? Especially since it is filled with water and boas are terrestrial snakes. You?re more likely to find it in the roof, under the car or in your shed.

Anyway didn?t Marilyn Manson used to be the kid in the Wonder Years?

[Moos]

I like the way the article put stress on the fact that houses on the street could go for as much as ?400,000.

"I paid as much as ?400,000 for my house, you know. And I don't expect snakes in it! That's for the common houses 2 streets down, where they only pay up to ?300,000."

[*Bob*]

Surely the king of urban myths is one about Bob Holness playing the saxophone solo on 'Baker Street'.

[ratty]

The steaming hot cup of tea is my fave.

The Jimmi Summerville lobster story is true I believe. My friends ex partner was in the communards (tenuous) and was there for it.

He also appeared in the musical for Cliff Richard's Misteltoe and Wine!

[HonaloochieB]

bon3yard Wrote:

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> Didnt that Sinatra anecdote resurface on Danny

> Bakers show again recently, one of the callers

> tried to pass it off as his own experience. Didnt

> fool The Radio titan for a second though.

> I remember a few of the filthier ones. The

> contents of Marc Almonds stomach after having it

> pumped for instance and Marianne Faithfuls

> fondness for Mars Bars(prior to King Size I hasten

> to add. I was also Told by someone that Clint

> Eastwood was Stan Laurels illegitimate son...Part

> of me still believes that one. Its too good not

> too be true.

I trust Baker left the individual who tried to palm that one off on him feeling like a piece of cheese.

A radio clip round the ear and the directions to the Tony Blackburn show were the order of the day I trust.

But Clint and Stan Laurel, eh? Not heard that one before.

There is a slight resemblance though.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Swallowing chewing gum does something to the guts - can't remember what though.

[Brendan]

I have it on good authority that Marilyn Monroe was kill by the mob by means of a poison enema.

[LostThePlot]

Brendan Wrote:

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> I have it on good authority that Marilyn Monroe

> was kill by the mob by means of a poison enema.

ALMOST true, but not quite...It was not the mob, but the US government, to keep the links with the Kennedy's quiet.......

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Yes....It was the Enema of the State.....

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I'll get me coat.

[citizenED]

Princess Diana was killed in a routine traffic accident.

Yours, Mr Al Fayad

[Jimbob]

clint and stan laurel thats an old one.

richard gere and the hamster !

[Jah Lush]

Keith Richards getting his blood changed in a Swiss clinic to come off heroin back in the 70s was one he started himself just to fob off the media, that, and snorting his dad's ashes. Some journalists are so gullible you've gotta wind 'em up.

[HonaloochieB]

I remember back in the 80s Don Letts (film maker,then part of BAD) talking in an interview about AIDS terrorists in New York City. The story was that there was a group of HIV infected women taking revenge by picking up guys in bars and spending the night with them. In the morning the chap wakes up, women is gone, he goes to the bathroom and finds written in lipstick on the mirror 'WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF AIDS'

Six months later I was told the same story by a work colleague, only this was London based and had happened to a friend of a friend of hers.