It's a lot of fun to visit Snopes and read the incredibly outrageous crapola that people actually believe is true and in many cases, spend an inordinate amount of effort and time trying to convince others it's true. If you've ever been "victimized" by a chain email promoting some dire warning or desperate plea based on complete malarkey and you've dared to hit "Reply All" or post on a forum the truth and nothing but the truth, you know you risk becoming Public Enemy Number One. People are in love with their legends, after all. Only a meanyhead would insist on telling the truth.
So with pure meanyheadedness in mind, here's another smattering of "stuff" that Snopes either confirms or denies. You'll have to visit the webpage for that particular claim to see its full answer.
CLAIM: "Newspaper reporter falls for the old 'Heywood Jablome' funny name gag." ANSWER
CLAIM: "Geraldo Rivera was born Jerry Rivers but changed his name to appeal to Latino viewers." ANSWER
CLAIM: "An Oregon girl's message-in-a-bottle was found by a boy in Hawaii." ANSWER
CLAIM: "Girl impales herself on gearshift lever after being slipped some Spanish Fly by her boyfriend." ANSWER
CLAIM: "A speeder caught by photo radar mails the police a picture of money to pay his fine." ANSWER
CLAIM: "Quick-thinking cop has a bit of fun with a drunk stuck in the snow by pretending to run alongside his car." ANSWER
CLAIM: "As a teenager, Colin Powell learned to speak Yiddish while working in a Jewish-owned baby equipment store in New York." ANSWER
CLAIM: "A foreign family unknowingly consumes the ashes of a relative shipped to them for burial." ANSWER
CLAIM: "A swelling on a girl's cheek breaks open and disgorges hundreds of baby spiders." ANSWER
CLAIM: "A vengeful co-worker made it his practice to urinate into the office coffee pot." ANSWER
CLAIM: "Service station customers are getting stuck by HIV-loaded syringes affixed to gas pump handles." ANSWER
CLAIM: "Venomous snakes lurk in the ball pits of fast food restaurants." ANSWER
CLAIM: "Man high on drugs slices off pieces of his face and feeds them to his dogs." ANSWER
CLAIM: "Infants have died or suffered debilitating respiration problems after aspirating baby oil." ANSWER
CLAIM: "The charred remains of a scuba diver were discovered in a tree after a forest fire." ANSWER
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