July 3rd, 2008
#543 - Fleetwood
It’s interesting how some rumors can be indistinguishable from fact after they are repeated enough times. Have you ever believed a rumor for a long time only to realize how ridiculous it was when you discover the real facts?
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:06 am
You’d really be surprised how superstitious those rabbits can be.
The Duck Has Spoken.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:29 am
I learned something already today now i dont have to go to school
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:32 am
Washington Irving (wrote ’bout Headless Horseman, Rip Van Winkle, etc.) invented the George Washington/cherry tree story as well as the myth that Chris Columbus proved the world was round (’cause the rumor says before CC people thought the Earth was flat). Humans have known the Earth was round for thousands of years, ever since they took to the ocean in fact, if not before. The “flat Earth” myth about Chris Columbus is widely believed, but thoroughly false.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:38 am
Oh, they believe HIM, but when I tell them that the carrot patch used to be a cemetery, they just laugh at me.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 am
Perception becomes reality… That’s far too common.
I’m not much one for rumors, and never have been - I can’t think of any that were embarasingly far wrong. I try not to listen, and that limits my exposure to the outrageous.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:51 am
You’d think having four rabbit’s feet would offset the haunting.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:56 am
I love that album.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 am
One rumor I recently found out wasn’t real was, holding B when you threw a pokeball in pokemon red and blue made it a 99% chance of catching it.
So many years I pressed B and thought it was working til recently I found out it was fake all along. I was shocked to find something I believed to be so true since my childhood turned out to be fake.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:26 am
Christianity. Still believed to this day.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:30 am
i wonder if biff told the rabbits that the haunted tomatoes have salmonella, or if thats just a myth the FDA is spreading around…
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:38 am
What’s really odd is that even when you discover the facts you still believe the rumor. So many old wives tales are like that.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:56 am
As for figuring out the world was round, I credit Eratosthenes.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:01 am
@ Flashback:
I get the feeling that you want to start a Flame War.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 am
And I get the feeling that Biff for once is doing something smart, if not then smartly Biff Like. Hey Biff! If they dont believe at first, give them more details! The more details, the more believable it is!
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 am
The rabbits probably got wind of it through the grapevine.
…ba-dum pchssh
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:49 am
I hear they taste so much better than ordinary tomatoes.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:05 am
I realized that the flat-earth-before-Columbus thing must be wrong when I learned the Greek myth about Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders. Then I began to notice other pre-columbus literary evidence of knowledge that the earth is round — there’s lots of it, so how did this myth about columbus ever arise?
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:36 am
rofl
simply genius
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:59 am
i’ve seen those haunted tomatoes.
they’re real. scoff at your own risk.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 am
I had my brother (and his friends) convinced for years that our local McDonald’s had a heliport on the roof for food deliveries. He told all his friends and they told thier friends, etc…
He nearly broke my arm when he found out I was messing with him. However, he didn’t tell his friends and they believed it until the day one of them got a job there.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 am
some people refuse to give up their rumors. search for “flat earth society” on wikipedia, you’ll see what I mean
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I convinced my best friend that the school was haunted by the ghost of the kid that died on the first school marathon.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
I use to spread so many rumours. I once conviniced my whole class that a stair-well at school was haunted by the girl who hanged herself in the bell tower above our school.
In reality you couldn’t even get to that bell tower and no one really died up there, but for like a few months no one went near that stair-well
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:34 pm
I’ve heard it said that the word “gullible” doesn’t appear in any Dictionary…
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:36 pm
It never ceases to amaze me at how people are so willing to believe things. It’s said that any strange fact you can think up, you can find at least one person around who’ll believe it…
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I suppose next your gonna tell me the Italians didn’t invent pasta….gah!!
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 pm
They didn’t. The Chinese did.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:50 pm
OO yeah those haunted tomatoes hurt.
@ Jackson - Haha I get it!
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
I used to believe that people were smart.
HA!
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:53 pm
I wonder if anybody got the Fleetwood Mac reference.
July 4th, 2008 at 2:02 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_misconceptions
My favorite Wiki page.
July 4th, 2008 at 3:51 am
@Jackson
You gotta admit, whoever wrote the bible was one great storyteller.
July 4th, 2008 at 9:22 am
I used to believe that we actually landed on the moon.
July 5th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
@CalliopeJane: Atlas couldn’t hold up a flat world?
For the record, I know the world is round, just playing Devil’s Advocate here.
September 5th, 2008 at 2:03 am
Wouldn’t people go to see the ghosts?
October 29th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
The thing about the pokemon easy-catch rumor was that it was confirmed on the Nintendo website… Gah!