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Perhaps that's why there's no Nobel Price for mathematics.

The short response: Although there has been some scandalous speculation and conspiracy theories, no one seems to know why.

The long response: http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.htm.

Except perhaps 867-5309.

Then of course, there are the related urban legends like this, this, and this.

Then of course, there are the related urban legends like this, this, and this.

Then of course, there are the related urban legends like this, this, and this.

According to the band the reason for this clause was to assure that the contract had been read and understood and therefore, all technical specifications for stage conditions, power and so forth would be met.

Probably about two-fifty. Where the decimal point goes depends on the gullibility of the buyer.

Or maybe not...

Also, it appears to contain a tweak to the Safari popup blocker, as it now seems to be blocking the new popunders that everyone has been clamoring about.

I'm running 10.3.8 with this latest security update, and I'm still getting popunders in Safari at several websites, like http://www.snopes.com/ and http://www.drudgereport.com/, so I guess it's not fixed afterall.

oh, really?

Fun article, but could have been researched a little better. In its bit on the Fisher Space Pen, it repeats the myth that while we blew millions developing a pen that could write upside down, the Soviets just used pencils, which is a common myth. As one cosmonaut said, "pencil lead breaks...and is not good in space capsule; very dangerous to have metal lead particles in zero gravity"

And chances are that some people will be taken in by obvious hoaxes.

snopes, for one. It's not the only place I've seen it, though.

1. The deep fish story is a hoax.
   
2. So what are these red-tailed deep water fish turning up off the coast of Kerela?
   
3. The tsunami took place in the morning, and took about three hours to get to the coast of Kerela. Did the fisherman have enough time to go out, find "unusual numbers of rare red-tailed deep-water fishes" and report back to the government offices?

The 10% myth is one of the most persistant myths of American culture. It is amazing how many times this obviously bogus figure is quoted by the media and charlatans trying to separate people from their money.

What percentage of our brains do we use? 100%

check it out

The deep-sea fish story was a hoax.

Shocked, I actually looked it up. They did, although ment as a joke to see if they actually read what they were passing bills on. Nope.

Just to be pedantic, Lemmings do not commit mass suicide. Knowing this, your post might have actually had some semantic meaning if you used the term sheep to imply herd mentality.

Wow that doesn't sound like an Urban Legend!

In 1940, Baldwin drafted, and the board of directors passed, a resolution that required ACLU officials to aver that they were not adherents of Communism or fascism and that they supported the civil liberties of all peoples, including those outside the United States.

Getting way OT here, but whatever...

You are calling other people idiots when you strongly support a ponzi scheme. That is all social security is.

Ponzi schemes are generally known for being unstable and crashing because people stop entering into them after a while. This has not been the case with Social Security. It has been stable and working well for the past 60 years.

As long as more people keep coming in to the scam, it will work.

Reducing the poverty rate among the elderly from 50% to 10% is pretty impressive for a scam. Obviously it's pretty safe to assume that more people will continue to be born, so even you agree that it will work!

We are reaching the point where less people are coming in to pay than are expecting to get paid.

BFD, it's not that much less. Start redeeming the bonds in the trust fund, which Reagan and Greenspan set up in 1983 for this exact purpose and to which a portion of your payroll taxes have been flowing in preparation for the baby boom. Unless, of course, the fund has been exhausted because Bush defaulted on us, in order to finance making his tax cuts permanent.

Much larger federal budget shortfalls exist today, but nobody seems to care about them. "Reagan proved deficits don't matter", remember? This phase-out is about ideology, not accounting. If it were about accounting, we'd be talking about the Medicare prescription drug benefit, which over the next 75 years faces shortfalls more than twice as large as the projected Social Security shortfalls. But the president has declared it completely off limits. Welfare for pharmaceutical companies is a sacred cow.

You pay into the system for decades and the money is not yours. The government can change the rules of who gets the money. They could change it so you have to be 80 years old before you can collect and you only get $15 per month.

Yes, that's exactly why the majority of Americans (check his polls lately?) disapprove of what the president is doing. We've been paying into the system all this time and now it's being phased out on us. These crappy private accounts are a booby prize to get us to play along. And they are really crappy as "private accounts" go- you absorb all risk, and if your stocks make money the government takes all your profits- up to 3% over inflation. You get to pay those commission fees at every turn. And you can't even pass them on to your children when you die.

If it is such a great system, then why are all your senators and congressmen exempt from the program.

Oh geez, not this hoax again. Stop filling your head with propaganda.

You are too stupid to live in a free society. At least you recognize this since you are doing everything possible to free yourself from any personal responsibility.

Oh here the true colors come out... I bet this is where you checked the "Post Anonymously" box. You can't even take "personal responsibility" for your own damn posts.

Except that he never said that. That one is from MAD magazine 1991.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/candidate.asp

The Happy Birthday song isn't owned by Disney, it's owned by Warner Music Group. Snopes has an article on it. (Note that at the time the article was written there was still an AOLTW. WMG is no longer part of even TimeWarner.)

If you've ever been in the middle of one of those embarrassing restaurant wait-staff birthday serenedes, and wondered why they were singing a birthday song you'd never heard before, this is way.

The Happy Birthday Song? Yeah, that's owned by Disney.

Wrong global media conglomerate. It's owned by Time Warner.

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

And not to mention, the dust from a pencil could cause massive problems in spacecraft, both medical and maintenance problems. Fine pieces (As well as larger broken tips) of graphite building up between electrical contacts. And wooden pencils are actually quite a fire hazard aboard spacecraft.

For some reason that urban legend reminds me of the Chevy Nova story about how the Nova didn't sell well in Spanish speaking parts of the world, because No Va means "doesn't go." First of all, that would be "No Vas" or something like that. Second, the word Nova means the same thing in Spanish as it does in English, so the same connotation is made. Third, and most importantly, the Nova sold better abroad than most other Chevy's of the time, because the smaller, more fuel efficient Nova (compared to a Caprice with a 350 CI engine...) was a better choice for people in most Latin areas. Might as well get the real info from Snopes.

I might as well go back on topic and link to the Space Pen urban legend as well.

And not to mention, the dust from a pencil could cause massive problems in spacecraft, both medical and maintenance problems. Fine pieces (As well as larger broken tips) of graphite building up between electrical contacts. And wooden pencils are actually quite a fire hazard aboard spacecraft.

For some reason that urban legend reminds me of the Chevy Nova story about how the Nova didn't sell well in Spanish speaking parts of the world, because No Va means "doesn't go." First of all, that would be "No Vas" or something like that. Second, the word Nova means the same thing in Spanish as it does in English, so the same connotation is made. Third, and most importantly, the Nova sold better abroad than most other Chevy's of the time, because the smaller, more fuel efficient Nova (compared to a Caprice with a 350 CI engine...) was a better choice for people in most Latin areas. Might as well get the real info from Snopes.

I might as well go back on topic and link to the Space Pen urban legend as well.

Thought for the day.

After the space race back in the 1960's, armchair scientists were faced with a major problem. Their party routine needed an anecdote that would somehow involve NASA and spending money. The joke-writers went to work. At a cost of 1.5 million hours, they developed the "Space Pen" story. Some of you may remember. It enjoyed minor success on some websites.

The engineers were faced with the same dilemma.

They posted a link to snopes

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

Which pen? This one?

Um, yeah.

Acutally, no.

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

Trains running on time in fascist Italy

Remember, boys and girls, whatever you put in a source code base is on the record. Forever. Emulate Joe Friday.

Does that trash comment refer to this page?

Just curious.

As funny as it is, its really just another urban legend

It is an urban legend, but still funny. The Navy even denies this event.

Snopes

You lose big Karma points for posting a Snopes story as truth.

Snopes... if it sounds too good or too funny to be true, you should probably check Snopes. Otherwise, those of us who have will mercilessly mock you.

Sure, http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm

yeah right... just another Urban Legend http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm

We are already at the point where making a large purchase with paper money is unusual.

Depending on your level of belief, there's also trouble passing certain small bills, too.

$1 million / 1 penny = 100 million pennies. According to Snopes, he got the equivalent of 2.3 million pennies, aka $23,000, after a month and eventually reached his goal of $28,000. Not exactly millions.

Except for the rather massive restriction of having USA only (I'm European) its impressive.
I know what you mean. I wanted to see what they thought of the Norway route...

If you're outside the U.S. and planning a route, I'd be wary of MSN's MapPoint service

Come on, I thought checking Snopes was something we did reflexively. No? It should be.

Lemmings don't jump off cliffs

Maybe there's good reason to be worried about money... Ask anyone who works with money all the time such as a cashier or, worse, a bank teller, and they'll tell you all money is very, very dirty.

Urban legends TV show falls for joke about Blackbeard's using a nursery rhyme to recruit fellow pirates..

Fact: Both space organizations used pencils at first, but pencils have problems because if you little bits of graphite floating in the air, you've got a problem.

And space pens were, in fact, not developed by NASA, but were instead developed by an independent developer.

Source.

(I suppose I shouldn't reply to this, but whatever. It's always good to get the truth out there.)

a) dumb, not funny
b) not true anyway
c) FOAD

...Nasa spent $12 billion dollars developing a pen that would work in space, rather than using a pencil as the Russians did...