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A really strange one was the persistent belief among almost half my school that the world was going to end on January 1st, 1999 (not 2000, because of ancient bible math or something). This was around 97-98 that it really picked up. There were a few minor variations on it, but the general scope was: The sun is going to be eclipsed by the moon on that day. All technology is going to fail and start to attack humans. One extremely weird detail was that Christmas trees would all ignite as the lights try to burn down everyone's house (assuming you still had your tree up at this point) and TVs would just start screaming and laughing at you as you died. And then all your pets would start talking and would attack humans, too. I feel like this must have been a scene in a TV show around that time because every kid would recite the details about technology and pets rebelling against humans, and that just seems way too specific to be made up. I'm guessing the History Channel played some crazy end of the world dramatization or something like that.
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Atlas Hugged posted:We were literally dealing with a prank phonecall incident at my school this morning.
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This was primary school, so mainly age 7-10. There was a myth about how a German bomber crashed into the school grounds when his plane malfunctioned during the blitz. The upper school (age 9-10) section's boys toilets was completely destroyed, and the classrooms around it were damaged. They rebuilt the whole thing, but if you go in there at the time of the crash (which just coincidentally happened to be about ten minutes after the last class) and said Heil Hitler into the mirror three times he would appear and kill you. This was mostly older kids goading the younger ones into doing it, and watching them get petrified and running away. NB: My school was at least 40 miles away from anywhere near an area hit during the blitz, of course, and in completely the opposite direction of anywhere the planes could possibly have come from.
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Jun 13, 2019 15:53
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Oh, and it was Prince that had his ribs removed so he could suck himself off. That changed to Marilyn Manson some time in the mid 90s. I did a completely ad hoc 'study' about this in a pub one night, where some friends and I ended up asking 50-odd people of various ages who it was that had his ribs removed. We got Prince, Marilyn Manson, Michael Jackson and Dave Grohl. Prince and Jackson were common amongst the older people, Manson among the younger gen-Xers and millennials, and the two people that said Grohl were only like 18.
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Jun 13, 2019 15:55
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Dave Grohl? lmao
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Jun 13, 2019 16:08
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Actually it was the guy from Crazy Town.
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Keith Atherton posted:More 70’s stuff In the version I heard it was Frank Zappa Keith Atherton posted:KISS stood for Knights In Satan’s Service and AC/DC stood for Anti Christ Devil’s Child!
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Jun 13, 2019 17:00
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The reason our headteacher had such a thick moustache? Clearly during his time in the Navy he had a naked woman tattooed on his upper lip and grew the moustache to hide his shame.
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Jun 13, 2019 17:31
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IIRC our 8th grade science teacher had periods so heavy that blood would actually pool on the floor if she stood/sat in one place for too long. And there was a house not far from our neighborhood where I think the dad supposedly murdered his whole family, and on the garage door you could still see the last handprint of one of the kids or his wife. There was a real handprint on that garage, but 8 year old me asked mom and dad about it, and evidently the rest of the house was filthy too, so it was a dirty print that had just never washed off, not a murdery one.
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Jun 13, 2019 17:34
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There was a great website to order pens from called Pen Island dot com.
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Jun 13, 2019 17:46
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pen15 club member checking in
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Quote-Unquote posted:and said Heil Hitler into the mirror three times he would appear and kill you. Whossat? Hitler or the Pilot? #PenIsland #Pen14 #Influencer
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Jun 13, 2019 18:36
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Brock Samsonite posted:Whossat? Hitler or the Pilot? The pilot
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Jun 13, 2019 18:44
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Grem posted:Alicia Leone put a hot dog in her vagina in the girls bathroom and had to be taken out by the ambulance. This was popular at my middle and high school. Every couple of years, a girl became known as "Hot Dog" and usually carried the torch for a year or two before another girl was crowned as the new Hot Dog. Toward the end of my high school career and as my brother was finishing middle school, CDs were finally taking over the music scene and the "so and so hosed a CD"-rumor hit full steam.
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Oh, yeah. I forgot about Pig Man. This one was more of a town urban legend but was super popular throughout elementary and middle school. It didn't matter boys or girls...we all loved the legend of Pig Man. Spending precious class time talking about various sightings and typical "telephone game"-type stories where he became bigger and badder every time the story was told. There was an old school house just outside town that had become known as his house and from what I understand, Pig Man was possibly based on a real person (a kid's disfigured grandfather who they saw at little league games) that some kids in the late 70s made the story up about. It blew up from there and persisted throughout the 80s.
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Ralph Hurley posted:In the version I heard it was Frank Zappa When Alice Cooper was first starting out, he was signed to Zappas record label. Frank calls him up one day, and says "hey man, I heard this crazy rumor about you eating poo poo on stage." Alice says " I don't know how that rumor ztarted, but I definitely didn't do it." Franks advice to him? "Don't tell anyone it's not true."
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A Fancy Hat posted:A really strange one was the persistent belief among almost half my school that the world was going to end on January 1st, 1999 (not 2000, because of ancient bible math or something). This was around 97-98 that it really picked up. This is from a TLC special on Armageddon. The scene in question relates to the Mayan 2012 thing. They go to the Popol Vuh Apocalypse where humanity's tools turn on them, animals turn on them, and their own houses collapse to kill them. They then talk about what this would look like in 2012 and that's why you have all that crazy imagery.
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Jun 13, 2019 19:23
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If the teacher is 15 minutes late to class you can leave.
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Jun 13, 2019 19:41
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 Draw this on your book covers and you will be cool.
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Katamari Democracy posted:
An urban legend is something that isn't true, mate. 
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where did that come from, anyway? i heard it's called the stussy s, but it's not. i used to draw it all the time, and extend it into ribbons. it almost looks like a celtic pattern when you do that
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FoolyCharged posted:An urban legend is something that isn't true, mate. The only people that did this were the kids who liked System of a Down and Slipknot. Just pretend the stussyS replaced the letter S. bad posts ahead!!! posted:where did that come from, anyway? i heard it's called the stussy s, but it's not. Nobody really knows for sure but I remember my grandmother telling me kids etched this into concrete back when she was in grade school. And to this day kids still follow through.
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Quote-Unquote posted:Oh, and it was Prince that had his ribs removed so he could suck himself off. That changed to Marilyn Manson some time in the mid 90s. I would've said Cher because they were always mentioning it on MST3K.
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Shaddak posted:When Alice Cooper was first starting out, he was signed to Zappas record label. Frank calls him up one day, and says "hey man, I heard this crazy rumor about you eating poo poo on stage." Alice says " I don't know how that rumor ztarted, but I definitely didn't do it." Franks advice to him? "Don't tell anyone it's not true."
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Katamari Democracy posted:
All of my students are assigned a folder where they keep their work in my room. Of the 120 folders, there were at least 4-5 that had the S on them at the end of the year. I teach a majority of high school classes through the day, but all of the S drawings were from my 8th grade students. This is still a thing in TYOOL 2019.
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Jun 13, 2019 20:39
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The original Ultimate Warrior died because his heart exploded from snorting too much cocaine and he was replaced by the "Texas Tornado" Kerry Von Erich.
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The singer from Crash Test Dummies had such a deep singing voice because he had three balls.
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Metaline posted:The singer from Crash Test Dummies had such a deep singing voice because he had three balls. Hahaha that's an amazing one
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there's a memorial fire place in the woods and everyone used to say they're used to be a whole house that burned down and the guy died and haunts the park
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:where did that come from, anyway? i heard it's called the stussy s, but it's not. The S thing comes from nowhere. There is little evidence about it's origins. Best explanation is that it looks cool and is easy to draw so it keeps popping up.
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Jun 13, 2019 21:18
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Metaline posted:The singer from Crash Test Dummies had such a deep singing voice because he had three balls. Imagine if you had like ten balls you could sing in the subwoofer range
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Testikles posted:The S thing comes from nowhere. There is little evidence about it's origins. Best explanation is that it looks cool and is easy to draw so it keeps popping up. I feel like it's some kind of atavistic Celtic genes that wanna make regularly patterned artwork reexpressing themselves.
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Arrhythmia posted:I feel like it's some kind of atavistic Celtic genes that wanna make regularly patterned artwork reexpressing themselves. it’s the same genes that make people want to paint their face blue and take off their shirt at football games
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Jun 13, 2019 22:33
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Mammal Sauce posted:All of my students are assigned a folder where they keep their work in my room. Of the 120 folders, there were at least 4-5 that had the S on them at the end of the year. I teach a majority of high school classes through the day, but all of the S drawings were from my 8th grade students. This is still a thing in TYOOL 2019. An older relative had this on his classroom binder in the 80's, and I drew it on mine in the 90's. We have that S in our names. I just drew it one day because I saw it that time. I vaguely remember seeing this S elsewhere and wondering if it meant anything beyond just being a shape. My current theory is that it's connected to student boredom. That, and the vertical points roughly correspond to the line that passes through an S in a dollar sign. Extend the ends of those around the S like a corral, and you have a quartz crystal shape. Redraw it with out the intermediary work and retain the S's 's-ness' and you have a pointy cool kid S maybe.
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Smiling Mandrill posted:You must have been at a weird opposite school with some of the worlds most sheltered kids. If anything that would have created more urban legends at my grade school.Our school was in the middle of the ghetto so seeing passed out people on or around our playground was pretty common. Usually they didn't call the cops, a teacher would just go out and tell the person to gently caress off school property. 
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There was another one about Marilyn Manson. The ribs thing was one. But also one where at his concerts he would have sex with a cat until it died, and then cut it in half and threw it into the audience! This scared the crap out of me because lots of kids in school were wearing Manson shirts at the time and I thought they were all severely deranged and dangerous for liking someone who'd do that.
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bartok posted:The original Ultimate Warrior died because his heart exploded from snorting too much cocaine and he was replaced by the "Texas Tornado" Kerry Von Erich. The actual story of the Von Erich family is much more interesting
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There’s also the one about how a singer sucked so many cocks he had to go to the hospital and have his stomach pumped. In my day it was Rod Stewart but I think there have been versions with newer rock stars
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"Say lads, didya hear about that Al Jolson fella what got a hogshead's worth of jism pumped from his stomach? A hogshead, I say!" "That's funny, I heard the same thing about Scott Joplin!"
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Arrhythmia posted:I feel like it's some kind of atavistic Celtic genes that wanna make regularly patterned artwork reexpressing themselves. naem posted:it’s the same genes that make people want to paint their face blue and take off their shirt at football games some kilt-wearing potato famine pict rear end ghost sees us drinking whiskey and hating the british: yes yes yes yes
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