I heard what sounded like an urban myth this week, and being the grizzled, veteran reporter that I am, decided to investigate.
Someone told me that in the opening of Law & Order ("duh-duh-duh-DUH-DUM-DUM"), a certain male appendage shows up: a willy, Dewey the One-Eyed Worm, a phallus, a johnson, a wang, dick, or whatever one of the hundreds of other names for penis you think sounds most delicate and proper.
My attempt at finding information about it via Google was fruitless (nutless?). I record the show every Friday night, so just minutes ago, I went through the opening repeatedly, pausing on the pictures of the guys in handcuffs, which I was told is where the trouser snake supposedly appears.
Unless someone can prove me wrong, it is just as I suspected: an urban myth. No pecker shows up.
Now, the dog with the proportionately gigantic human-looking schlong in the IKEA catalogue is for real! It's as plain as the nose on your face, or (insert pee-pee reference here).
Any other urban myths we should try to debunk, you and I? Like, did Elvis really die on the toilet (the King dying on the throne: kind of poetic, ain't it?)? Or that entering your PIN backwards into an ATM will summon the police?
Bring 'em on!
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Bobby, don't be a ding-a-ling...potty humor is for Ma and JB and Milky and N@...that and I don't know of any urban myths. :)Unless you've heard the one about the hussy...
lol, CQ. Good for you, holding on to the bitterness. Sometimes, holding a grudge can be very therapeutic.
Bobby, if only you knew the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth...lol
As far as urban nmyths that need de-bunking are concerned - One of our morning shows here (we have three stations) used a story that a station producer had sent around via email, claiming it was 'true', 'the most hilarious lawyer story ever', etc.
Well, they got called on it almost immediately by a savvy listener who uses the same site I like to use to de-bunk the myths of urbanites everywhere - snopes.com
If it is in doubt, snopes.com will ferret it out. The story the morning show used was a variation of this story from snopes.com:
http://snopes.com/crime/clever/cigarson.asp
If you haven't been to snopes.com, you're missing out.
DUH...how about REDRUM? Not that I've ever watched the movie,or can remember the name of it, hell, I still cannot sit through the Wizard of Oz...
Snopes.com is great.
Aside from that kind of urban myth, I like the kind that you hear about So-and-so's brother-in-law's third cousin twice removed living in an apartment, and muddy water starts dripping through the ceiling, because the family upstairs is growing vegetables on the living room floor.
tube steak.
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