Favorite Urban Legends
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Iknowhim claiming Dick Vitale dropped a huge deuce in the men's room at the Pavilion just prior to tip off of a game (Oklahoma maybe)
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There's a one-upsmanship that occurs when Iverson stories start going around:
Throwing wife out of house naked.
Parking in handicap spaces.
Peeing in casinos.
Hijinks at TGI Fridays/Houlihans.
Abandoning Bentleys because they forgot where they were parked.
Had a tiny piece.
Ran a 4:20 mile in practice.
Hungover for important games.
Could have been an NFL QB.
Drag racing on west river drive.
Anything involving his mom.
and so on...
All of these could be true. But a couple probably aren't.
Don't forget never packed for road trips, just bought clothes in every city and then left them behind for his "cru".
Businessman picks up attractive lady at the hotel bar, they venture upstairs, he wakes up hours later in the bathtube full of ice, with a note stating that he should go to an emergency room a kidney has been removed.
Med student creatively paying her way thru school.
Med student creatively paying her way thru school.
I can tell you one that isn't an urban legend - his mom would routinely shop at FoodSource while wearing a fur coat while her limo was parked in the handicap spaces.
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/storms/question681.htm
"If lightning strikes the phone line outside your house, the strike will travel to every phone on the line -- and potentially to you if you are holding the phone. So, if you are indoors during a lightning storm, stay off the phone. If you must call someone, use a cordless or cell phone -- that way, you're not in contact with any wires that run outdoors.
Stay away from plumbing pipes like your bath tub or shower, as well. Lightning has the ability to strike a house or near a house and impart an electrical charge to the metal pipes used for plumbing. If you're touching those pipes or anything connected to those pipes, that electrical charge has a path to you."
Ba da bing, ba da boom!
"If lightning strikes the phone line outside your house, the strike will travel to every phone on the line -- and potentially to you if you are holding the phone. So, if you are indoors during a lightning storm, stay off the phone. If you must call someone, use a cordless or cell phone -- that way, you're not in contact with any wires that run outdoors.
Stay away from plumbing pipes like your bath tub or shower, as well. Lightning has the ability to strike a house or near a house and impart an electrical charge to the metal pipes used for plumbing. If you're touching those pipes or anything connected to those pipes, that electrical charge has a path to you."
Ba da bing, ba da boom!
I cant tell you if it was her or not. But I did personally witness, multiple times, women in expensive coats paying for things at foodsource with EBT cards.
Water coming out of your pipes cannot complete a current as its not a steady stream. You'd have to physically be touching the pipes.
This is closely related to the pissing on the third rail myth. Mythbusters (remembered?) squashed that myth.
Remember when ODB (may he RIP) went to pick up his welfare check in a limo?
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Bronson Arroyo was squatting 250 lbs at age 7.
http://deadspin.com/the-pitcher-who-couldnt-lose-1736262596
http://deadspin.com/the-pitcher-who-couldnt-lose-1736262596
It wasn't a flight. It was from the time the game ended in New York until they landed in Seattle with a stop to refuel somewhere in flyover country. He started with 8 or 9 in the clubhouse. And the world is a better place if this really happened.
The jolt was from touching the metal water knob which was connected to the water pipes, hence the charge that was felt when attempting to turn the water off.
As for the phone, it rang and upon picking it up it was buzzing/vibrating and there was no one on the other end.
As for the phone, it rang and upon picking it up it was buzzing/vibrating and there was no one on the other end.
Cal Ripken showing up late to a home game during his stream because he walked in on his wife with Kevin Costner.
No, that was the night they cancelled the game and said it was due to an electrical issue. Told this is a true story.
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