FOAF tales

[snopes]

Comment: I'll tell the story anyways.
Back a few years ago I was having an alternator repaired at the local
repair shop in town.
Its a family business started by the grandfather and now he runs it with
his son and grandson. Anyhow, we got to talking about gas prices and the
grandfather props up on the counter and begins to tell me this story about
his brother who bought a brand spanking new 1954 Ford car. Said he bought
it and brought it home where he still lived with his mother and father and
two brothers. He said it was a really pretty car and had plenty of power.
And they drove it all over the countryside for weeks showing it off and
enjoying it.
Well he says that they got to noticing that it didn't seem to burn much
fuel and that it ran for quite a spell with what was in the tank when they
bought it new, "full I'm assuming". So they proceeded to check it and he
told me it got right at 80 miles per gallon.
Now remember, this was in 1954. Well a few weeks went by and early one
morning they heard a knock at the door. It was the fellow who sold his
brother the Ford and he had what looked to be like 2 FBI or government
officials with him, and two scientist looking men dress in grey lab coats.
One of the official looking fellows proceeded to tell the owner of the car
that they would need to retrieve the carburator from his new 54 Ford and
replace it with a brand spanking new one. And then went on to say
something about the carb on his car was never suppose to leave the factory
and was an "experimental" version they were working on and didn't want the
competition to get wind of it. So they swapped the carbs out and the
strangers disappeared. Funny thing is, after the carb swap, the Ford did
good to get 18 to 20 mpg. Now that might have been a bunch of hooey. But
if it was true, then we been getting screwed by the system from day one!!!

[snopes]

Comment: I can confirm the existence of at least one "La-a" that
pronounces their name "Ladasha". My wife works in HR for a Fortune 500
company which I will not name, and she came across this spelling and
pronunciation on a pre-employment screening. It is something she
experiences personally, and not a retelling of a co-worker's story.

[snopes]

Comment: "Received a text from my cousin earlier. When her dad got to
church this evening, the pastor told him that a woman in the congregation
said her best friend's daughter was admitted to the hospital a few days
ago with flu-like symptoms that ended up being liver failure. She was told
if she didn't receive a liver transplant in 48 hours, that she would die.
Prayers were answered & she received a liver. But, not only did she
receive a liver, she received the perfect match liver of a Sandy Hook
victim. Shows me that in such tragedy, God can still work miracles. I'm
still in awe, but I know my God prevails!". From facebook post

[Dropbear]

Yeah - God makes spare parts - by letting a guy mow down children with a gun.

Praise the freaking lord.

Dropbear

NB that's aside from the cousin's father's pastor's parishioner's best-friend's daughter connection - which turns FOAF into FOAFOAFOAFOAFOAFOAF.

[rockland6674]

Thank you, Dropbear. You said what was on my mind.

[snopes]

Comment: http://www.snopes.com/military/buffer.asp

I'm not sure if it was the same incident but this did happen in july 1997
at Ft. Benning GA. B. Co 219 Infantry Training brigade. I don't remember
the dolt's name but we were cleaning our rifles on a sunday morning after
church when the dumbass tossed out the window and almost hit my drill
instructor. After it hit the ground he tried to hang himself on the third
floor stairwell.

[snopes]

Comment: Saw someone post on Facebook about entering your ATM number in
reverse to summon police. Person got told it was an urban legend, and I
called a friend who works at Bank of America. She said she wasn't sure if
it works at other banks, but it does at Bank of America.

[snopes]

Referred by: http://www.snopes.com/medical/emergent/exams.asp

Comment: I have to attest to the accuracy of the article on Exam Follies
in the medical section. It once took me three days and a trip around the
internet to prove to my entire family that it is NOT called a "mild cardio
infarction" ... should I also mention that three of my family members were
actually in medical school at this time.

[snopes]

Comment: I came across one of your entries "Le-a" where a mother names her daughter
said name and says it's pronounced "Ledasha". I've actually met a woman
named that at Central Senior High School in St. Paul, Minnesota.

[snopes]

Comment: This is a comment on the strawberry quick meth story. I saw where
you say there hasn't been one confirmed report of flavored meth, but I am
here to tell you, I have a friend that is a former addict, that (he) has
personally ingested meth that was coconut flavored and burned blue. This
was back in 2006-2007, but users at the time were told it was called blue
hawaiian or blue heaven. When smoked or injected, a distinct coconut
flavor was prevalent. Now these forms of meth were always clear or maybe
slightly yellow. It was only when heated that they turned blue. Ergo, law
enforcement would be clueless when they came across flavored meth as they
didn't ingest any. Hope this helps you.

[snopes]

Comment: a guy at my boyfriends work said he saw on fox news about this
microchip inplant, you say its false. if it is false why are they
reporting it on the news? can you explain please?

[snopes]

Referred by: http://www.snopes.com/embarrass/feminine/leftbag.asp

Comment: The Bag Lady. I was visiting Edinburgh in early January 2007 from
Australia and my son encouraged me to meet a friend of his who lived
there. She and I met up and with another friend of her friends and we
went out for dinner. She told me this story about a friend of hers who
told her about it and we were all a bit stunned and amused. She said her
friend took a guy home to her place, left him in bed, the toilet blocked
etc and she left her place without the key and remembered she left the
package in the flat. I wonder if this is where this started - I may be
able to track her down.

[snopes]

Comment: I was a teacher at the Boston Public Schools for 38 years and I
have some insight into the whole "La-a/Le-a" (Ladasha) urban legend. It
was the first day of school sometime in the 1990's and I was conducting
roll call when I saw that now infamous name on my attendance report. I
called it out phonetically a few times when the girl herself shouted out,
"It's Ladasha! The dash don't be silent!" I told my family the story years
later at Christmas probably 2006 or 2007 and my son decided to put the
story exactly as I told it on Facebook and from there it went viral. I
have no idea how the setting changed so drastically from Boston, MA to the
Deep South to the gulf coast but I guess it's all like the old game
operator we played when we were kids. The thing that really bugged me
about this whole thing was the racist undertones in the titles of these
emails and Facebook postings I keep seeing, "We let these people vote?!" I
wanted to get the word out that the girl (who now spells her name
phonetically Ladasha) does exist and still lives in Boston.

[snopes]

Comment: In the story about spiders biting a woman's cheek and baby
spiders coming out of it was deemed false. You said that spiders don't
lay eggs in humans but that is the same thing my doctor said when I pulled
the gauze bandage off my chin and an egg sack popped out. They do indeed
lay eggs in humans, maybe not very often but they do...I have the scar and
hospital records to prove it. The worst is that I have arachnophobia to
boot. So you should at least say that this e-mail going around was false
but that it has happened before.

[Dasla]

Originally Posted by snopes

I was conducting
roll call when I saw that now infamous name on my attendance report. I
called it out phonetically a few times when the girl herself shouted out,
"It's Ladasha! The dash don't be silent!"

I have an unusal name that most people don't get right from reading it. I didn't far into school before I would know when my name came on the roll, wait for the teacher to get to it and the usual pause. I would tell them how to pronounce it. I never let them call it out incorrectly several times before it would occur to me they might be saying my name.

It's pronounced Dearne if you are playing at home.

[snopes]

Comment: You have labeled an article as False when it it indeed true.
Richard Gere and the Gerbil is true. I would know because my mom worked in
the ER when he came in.