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You'd be looking for this very professional looking website.

The hoax-checking site Snopes has their $0.02 here fyi.

http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/hell.asp
According to some hell has already frozen over and can't accept any more fallen priests.
To get back on topic. My question is when is the sale of all of their electronic equipment going up for sale on Ebay.com?
SCO imploded about 2 years after litigation ceased. Is Murdock going to prop up his share price with his own wealth? Or do we see the beginnings of another bailout?
   

Like the trace amount of cocaine on bank notes (it must be true)? Because, hey, you might not like the suspect's attitude..

http://www.snopes.com/legal/arizona.asp

maybe it's just me, but I'd really think someone who was geeky enough to read slashdot would run silly stories through snopes first...

Do they return false positives for people who eat poppy seed cake? http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/poppyseed.asp

According to snopes, it was because they didn't want to have to pay licensing fees to the commonwealth of Kentucky for using the word Kentucky.

Not true - That's actually from one of Snopes' gotcha pages - a false entry to teach people to trust no source on the net entirely, not even a site given entirely to debunking net myths and legends. Read here http://www.snopes.com/lost/false.asp

According to snopes, it was because they didn't want to have to pay licensing fees to the commonwealth of Kentucky for using the word Kentucky.

That's in Snopes's The Repository of Lost Legends (TROLL) section. Everything published in that section is a lie, designed to teach you how to evaluate facts, and discern reliable from unreliable sources... a lesson you would do well to learn.

And if you click on the More information about this page link at the bottom of that page, Snopes debunks that one, too.

- RG>

According to snopes, it was because they didn't want to have to pay licensing fees to the commonwealth of Kentucky for using the word Kentucky.

...there would HAVE to have been a monkey/human hybrid born at some point

I know there's a GWB joke in there, I just know it... too bad he wasn't the one whose birth certificate is missing, that would be a zinger now!

Whose birth certificate is missing? It isn't Obama's.

My favorite is "Keeps pigeons off the balcony" from the approved uses list submitted to http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/wd-40.asp

Kind of like how Skin-so-Soft works better than most standard mosquito repellents.

OT but what the hell, it's Friday.

Really? I can give you two apples that have the same nutritional value but one has cyanide in it. Are you going to trust the study that doesn't look into the affects of poison in the food?

Actually I think all apples have cyanide in them... http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp

http://msgboard.snopes.com/politics/graphics/bookdisplay.jpg

Rat meat if very good and tasty for you: http://www.snopes.com/photos/food/rats.asp Just think of how blue meat would sell!

or else David Lee Roth would definitely refuse this treatment!

He'd probably trash the OR, too.

Sorry, but the full facts do not follow from your evidence.

More on how spraying seals with dye probably isn't hurting anyone

2) Texas can activate its clause in its original constitution and treaty with the US and secede from the Union - unfortunately this Constitution was amended after the Civil War and this option would no doubt be messier than any Patent Litigation. I'm sure you blue guys would say good riddance but all of you red staters out there would be too envious and we'd probably end up with Civil War II

Texas cannot secede, that's just a myth we Texans hear in junior school Texas History class. See http://www.snopes.com/history/american/texas.asp for a more thorough breakdown.

I get the joke but a frightening number of people do not.

Please pass this link to these people should you know any; truth banishes ignorance.

Nope, not true.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

It was a birthday party, with 15 people. More than enough people to constitute a "public performance".

Maybe the SWAT team was deployed once they found out that they hadn't payed the royalties for the birthday song?

Consider this: The Ten Commandments contain 297 words, the Bill of Rights 463 words, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 266 words. A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

Nice try but that is a very old troll indeed.

Consider this: The Ten Commandments contain 297 words, the Bill of Rights 463 words, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 266 words. A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

I'm shocked nobody has called bullshit on this one yet. Damn, dude. Check snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp

Unless of course you also read this on snopes and decided it was a good time to perpetrate an urban legend. *shrugs*

What's truly silly about this urban legend is that there are plenty of *real* examples of excessively long government documents. Google for "military brownie specification" for an example ("wc" tells me it's only 9660 words, but I'm sure there are some others that can equal or exceed the 26,911 number).

The government has regulated the cost of food for a long time for many reasons...

Hey dude, as someone else has pointed out in this thread, your tale of cabbage regulation is an urban myth

Do you have anything to back up anything you're saying - or are you just trolling?

Snopes says... http://www.snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp

There's some validity to your point, though I think you're overstating things. Larger populations with more communication and more encompassing economies require more regulation. However, instead of engaging you further on this interesting political question, I would merely like to point out that the thing about cabbage regulation is a long-time rhetorical legend with no basis in fact. Please take more care about repeating stories without checking them.

See Snopes for more info.

Consider this: The Ten Commandments contain 297 words, the Bill of Rights 463 words, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 266 words. A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

I'm shocked nobody has called bullshit on this one yet. Damn, dude. Check snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp

Unless of course you also read this on snopes and decided it was a good time to perpetrate an urban legend. *shrugs*

Oblig. Snopes Post: http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/pepsijet.asp

What isn't mentioned in the wikipedia article OR the Snopes article was a rule in the system that you had to have at least HALF of the points for anything you were trying to obtain, THEN you could make up the other half of the points with so many cents per point.

In rick of seeming like a dork, I know this because I got everything in their actual catalog twice over. My buddy ran a bar and I got all of the points off of their 24 packs they went through.

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/newcoke.asp The New-Coke as a clever marketing ploy is a common misconception.

Beware of urban legends : http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tadpole.asp

Coca-Cola's translation in Chinese is especially good and very successful. As it is composed of very simple characters, it is also one of the first words I learned :)

Another classic urban legend is the Chevrolet Nova : http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp

Bing is translated with biying in Chinese (meaning roughly : "must answer", sorry I didn't manage to use sinogramms to add that little scholarly touch). Microsoft of course did not choose the character of "illness" or "ice". It still must be a little confusing for a Chinese user because he has to type "bing" on the address bar, while he sees another name on the page.

Beware of urban legends : http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tadpole.asp

Coca-Cola's translation in Chinese is especially good and very successful. As it is composed of very simple characters, it is also one of the first words I learned :)

Another classic urban legend is the Chevrolet Nova : http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp

Bing is translated with biying in Chinese (meaning roughly : "must answer", sorry I didn't manage to use sinogramms to add that little scholarly touch). Microsoft of course did not choose the character of "illness" or "ice". It still must be a little confusing for a Chinese user because he has to type "bing" on the address bar, while he sees another name on the page.

Or, hmmm... maybe Einstein didn't say that. But even if he didn't, he should have.

Bill gates is (incorrectly) alleged to have said: "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." To which GM is supposed to have come back with a caustic comeback. Imaginary as this story may be, let's stick with it for a second. What would a Microsoft hurricane look like? Random intermittend freezes? Nagging bogus error messages when in the proximity of Mountain View, California? Would it suck up, slowly, over time, all the humidity from the atmospehere in a huge overengineered barely moving vortex that would come to a grinding halt over time ('time to buy Hurricane 8.0')?

I don't know, but I'm bored and I'll take a go at finding some stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity

Higher speeds can be attained if the skydiver pulls in his limbs (see also freeflying). In this case, the terminal velocity increases to about 320 km/h (200 mph or 90 m/s), which is also the terminal velocity of the peregrine falcon diving down on its prey. And the same terminal velocity is reached for a typical 150 grain bullet travelling in the downward vertical direction — when it is returning to earth having been fired upwards, or perhaps just dropped from a tower — according to a 1920 U.S. Army Ordinance study.

Okay, not exactly a shotgun bb, but let's assume the speed is not going to be too terribly different. 200 mph is about 290 feet per second. A typical airgun will fire pellets/bbs at 1000-1200 fps, and muzzle velocity for a shotgun is upwards of 1200 fps. I don't know how it would feel to be struck by a piece of shot that's moving at a mere 290 fps, but I did find this comment on a Snopes messageboard:

I've been near falling bb's from a shotgun before, and they did not hit the ground with anything close to the force they had on the way up.

>> Snopes posted a couple of purposefully incorrect things once,
>> in order to prove a point about not blindly trusting people.
>> The fake stories backfired (or worked, depending on your view)
>> and became real urban legends. Hilarious.

> [citation needed]

http://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp and please don't tell me you fell for it.

Citation

How true is that, though? According to the research cited by the Snopes article referred to above, that belief is much less common than you seem to be saying it is (emphasis on "seem"). The more common motivation for rape by HIV positive people in South Africa seems to be anger and despair.

Whoosh

Are you honestly that dense? That's like asking if CD drives are used for anything other than CDs.

I'm sorry, but what else are CD drives used for? If it's used for DVDs, Blue-ray disks, or anything else, it's not a CD drive, it's a DVD drive, Blue-ray disk drive, or something by some other name, such as "combo drive." CD stands for "Compact Disk" which is not music specific. Unless you're talking about using it as a cupholder....

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp

Snopes also indicates it's perfectly legal to sing happy birthday to friends without infringing. It's only if you do a commercial version, or for profit scenarios that you would be in violation of copyright.

BZZT! Incorrect sir.

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp

Adam and Jamie tackled this one on Mythbusters.

Using the same protocols as the 'official' testing, they found that thawed chickens busted windscreens as effectively as thawed chickens.(episode 9, IIRC...it's on youtube.com)

The same principles apply when using a steel cutting tool that cuts the steel with a stream of water. Yes, they use water, not ice to cut the steel.

Physics: learn it, use it, benefit from it. (hint: application of kinetic energy would be a starting point to understanding this)

[citation needed]
Water Jet Cutter:

A water jet cutter is a tool capable of slicing into metal or other materials using a jet of water at high velocity and pressure,[...]Water jet cuts are not typically limited by the thickness of the material, and are capable of cutting materials over eighteen inches (45 cm) thick.

NASA Chicken Gun:

There is a longstanding urban legend about the gun being loaned to some other agency, who fired frozen chickens instead of thawed chickens.[1]

Urban Legend:

In an issue of Meat & Poultry magazine, editors quoted from "Feathers," the publication of the California Poultry Industry Federation, telling the following story:

The US Federal Aviation Administration has a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane's windshield at approximately the speed the plane flies.

The theory is that if the windshield doesn't crack from the carcass impact, it'll survive a real collision with a bird during flight.

It seems the British were very interested in this and wanted to test a windshield on a brand new, speedy locomotive they're developing.

They borrowed FAA's chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired.

The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, broke the engineer's chair and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine's cab. The British were stunned and asked the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything was done correctly.

The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and had one recommendation:

"Use a thawed chicken."

Note:(from the NASA Chicken Gun wiki link above)

The 1970s test of the British High Speed Train windscreens used the Farnborough chicken gun and expertise, not NASA based expertise, busting the Mythbusters myth relating to NASA telling the British "defrost the chickens first".

No, nasa did not spend millions of dollars on a pen. Free enterprise did. http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

Except that the "space shuttle SRBs are the size they are because of old Roman standards derived from the width of a horse's butt" is an urban legend without much factual basis.

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp

Claim: The United States standard railroad gauge derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman war chariot.

Status: False

If you RTFA on snopes, it says that the story is basically true, but not inevitable and not surprising. Immediately following up "Status: False" with an explicit admission that it's almost true, aside from a few minor details tells me that the status should have been listed as something else.

Claim: The United States standard railroad gauge derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman war chariot.

Status: False

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp

How the Fuck is this Insightful?

KFC sells cooked Chicken, just like McDonalds sells cooked beef.

If those moding the parent insightful are basing it on the rumor that supposedly KFC changed its name because they used GM chicken, that's just horseshit and you are fucking morons for believing it.

As a member of the agriculture community I can assure you that KFC changed its name exclusively for marketing reasons. They buy their chickens from the same farms that your local supermarket does. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/kfc.asp

Here I was about to say that tale sounds suspiciously familiar.... then I did a bit more digging. Disturbing stuff.