Tag: urban
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October 28, 2007 12:00 PM EDT --
Nowadays, only hermetically sealed candy from the candy corporations will be accepted by most Mom's. It is "safe". Who knows what lurks in that homemade popcorn ball. . . .
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August 28, 2009 06:26 PM EDT --
When they were small their mother used to tell them to go out and play. “Look, the sun’s shining,” she’d say, but they just turned away. “You need sunlight. It’s . . .
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November 20, 2009 11:34 AM EST --
There have been reports of Fidel Castro dying from Nephelococcygia all over the web. I, like many others, had no idea what Nephelococcygia was, much less how to spell or pronounce it.
So the facts . . .
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August 23, 2009 01:56 PM EDT --
Before I get to the main point I need to explain a couple of problems that led to my posting this.
My current home was a bank repo when I bought it last December. In order to make it look habitable . . .
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March 19, 2009 06:52 PM EDT --
In the trend of believing every terrifying email, text message, or verbal warning we hear, tonight the "Don't Go To Walmart Tonight" message has hit Gather, and is furiously being reforwarded . . .
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April 18, 2009 08:26 AM EDT --
I got this from Change.org. They ENCOURAGE SHARING . I am NOT PLAGARIZING .
MY QUESTION:Are they going to start making "Camel Toes" and "Whale Tales" illegal. . . .
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September 02, 2006 08:44 AM EDT --
Evening falls over the neighboring soybean fields in Jinonice, Prague. Not so far away is a busy highway to the west where I live and less than four kilometers east is the Vltava River, . . .
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January 25, 2009 07:39 PM EST --
I don't know the full validity of this, but here's the email, and a link that says there is grain of truth in it. The part that is true is that McDonald's says there isn't . . .
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March 19, 2009 07:46 PM EDT --
From time to time, I like to surf around Snopes.com and see what kind of wacky things I can learn about. There are so many topics to choose from, and so many interesting things to find. Tonight, an urban . . .
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October 25, 2009 11:56 PM EDT --
With Halloween quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to check in to some of the most common scary urban legends. The best creepy campfire stories are always the ones that end with the words, . . .
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November 08, 2009 04:41 PM EST --
This mild November weather in Minnesota has been such a gift, I've never been so ready for winter in my life. I spread ammonium sulfate because we're on top of a limestone bluff, then a layer of . . .
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May 21, 2009 11:38 AM EDT --
Over the weekend, my step-mom called to tell me about a new "First Time Campers" program that was in the paper. She told me a bit about it, and gave me the website, but until today, the website was . . .
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April 10, 2008 09:02 PM EDT --
Here is a cool urban legend, I ran across that is false; as I mentioned earlier urban legends are often based on fear and in this case a fear of not having a life long companion. You will note that . . .
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January 24, 2008 10:43 AM EST --
One of my co-workers sent me this link yesterday, thinking it was something that my fiance and I would like to look at. I'm sharing it with all of my Gather friends now, because it's a neat . . .
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August 12, 2008 05:39 PM EDT --
I never gave a lot of thought to pigeons. I don't live in the city, but in the suburbs. I see the pigeons in the park when I go into town, though. They aren't endangered, or spectacular to the . . .
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September 01, 2009 06:53 PM EDT --
Lunchtime…
Arriving home from my Tuesday morning meeting, I found coffee still in the pot left-over from breakfast. I thought I’d reheat a cup in the microwave, fire up the . . .
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October 26, 2009 12:40 PM EDT --
Here is the 2nd of the 5 "myths" for Halloween. I know with today's technology, it is very easy for master special effects crews to mimic a body....and I'm sure people have wondered if some of the ones . . .
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October 26, 2009 11:33 PM EDT --
This one goes to show you that people are not neccessarily all that bright at times....
"The Curiously Realistic Decoration"
The Legend: What was thought to be your typically charming . . .
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October 28, 2009 10:56 PM EDT --
Sorry, I'm behind in posting number 4, but things here are nuts. We are down to one vehicle, which doesn't work very well with our schedule.
A Halloween Stunt Goes Wrong in the Least Surprising . . .
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November 17, 2006 09:13 PM EST --
Share your favorite urban legend(s). There are sooo many out there, some of them full of laughter, while others are just too eerie for their own good. One of my favorite Urban Legends has always been Bloody . . .
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