Another visit to Snopes.com

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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That wasn't chicken

A little pocketknife therapy might be needed here

Authorities in Iowa charged Jesse Fierstine with attempted murder after the 32-year-old allegedly used a pocketknife April 25 to cut out a pacemaker from his 63-year-old father's chest.

Ya think maybe Jesse needs to experience a little "pocketknife therapy" of his own? How could anyone wish harm on their own parent? Do monsters like this ever have an "Ew!" moment? If their souls have been erased, then what's lurking inside that thing that resembles a human being?

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Twin Boys Have Different Fathers

(May 19) -- Mia Washington, of Dallas, gave birth 11 months ago to her sons Justin and Jordan. The boys, who were conceived naturally, were born just seven minutes apart -- but medical tests show they're half-brothers, not full brothers.


Washington, it turns out, had a fling with a man other than her partner and ended up conceiving a child with both men. DNA tests from Clear Diagnostics, a local lab, showed there is no chance the boys have the same father, according to Fox 4 in Dallas.

Fox 4 asked doctor Chris Dreiling how such a pregnancy could happen. If a woman releases more than one egg during ovulation and has sex with more than one man during that time, her eggs can be fertilized by different men, he said.


But Dreiling added that such cases are extremely rare.


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