The list for December 23, 1996
The Top 16 Least-Known Urban Legends
- And when the couple gets home from their date and gets out of the car, there, dangling from the car door, is the severed… SPEAKER FROM THE DRIVE-IN MOVIE!!!
- Large bands of politicians roaming the sewers of Washington after being flushed down the toilet by voters.
- Cool Whip, at the right temperature, is an effective contraceptive.
- The Yuppie, the Suitcase Full of Cash Left in a Taxi, and the Ethical Dilemma
- The ghost of Keith Richards can still be seen performing with the Stones.
- Not only are the models in the Victoria Secrets catalog all really men, so is Victoria herself.
- Penny Marshall and Rosie O’Donnell actually seen shopping at K-Mart.
- Overweight tabby straps jet engine to its back in futile attempt to catch mice.
- Michael Jackson’s secret “reverse identical twin” whose skin gets darker and darker each year.
- If you look in the background of a particular scene from “Three Men and a Baby”, you can see the dying film careers of Ted Danson, Steve Guttenberg, and Tom Selleck.
- The original “Dr Pepper” was actually a proctologist.
- The “Good Times” Hoax – Frightening rumor that Jimmy “J.J.” Walker will star in a movie version of the bad 70’s sitcom.
- “Frosty” the frozen wino.
- The Prom Queen who got home just fine, but was a little parched.
- After hours of being clubbed by LAPD, a homely man was actually “beaten handsome.”
And the Number 1 Least-Known Urban Legend…
- That really high note on Mariah Carey’s last single? A cat being strangled.
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CREDITS
Selected from 90 submissions from 33 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Meredith Ogden, Ithaca, NY — 1, 16 (6th #1)
- David W. James, Los Angeles, CA — 2
- Jeffrey House, Detroit, MI — 3
- Debbie Lander, Las Vegas, NV — 4
- Perry Friedman, Menlo Park, CA — 5
- Marianne Tatom, Austin, TX — 6
- Alan Smithee, Sugar Land, TX — 7
- Craig Stacey, St. Paul, MN — 8
- Doug Johnson, Santa Cruz, CA — 9
- Chuck Smith, Woodbridge, VA — 10
- Don Horton, Sacramento, CA — 11
- Greg Pettit, Houston, TX — 12
- David G. Scott, Kansas City, MO — 13
- Alexander Clemens, San Francisco, CA — 13
- Bruce Ansley, Baltimore, MD — 14
- Paul Schindler, Orinda, CA — 15
- Entire contributor list — Topic
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