Myth poppers

[Bubba Wheels]

Just saw a good one on ESPN Classic last night. Apparently the real reason Jim Brown retired from football was that he hadn't quit finished filming his first movie 'Diry Dozen' and with training camp starting he had to choose between his old career or his new one. First time I have heard this and puts to rest all those tired and wrong 'he just wanted to go out on top' stories you hear all the time.

So it got me thinking, how many other 'stories' are out there that are taken as truth at face value but may not really be true at all? Or that really have a reason behind it that somehow gets 'left out' in the modern versions?

[Maple Leafs]

[Subby]

It turns out that HornsManiac and Kevin from Dell were actually the same person and puts to rest all those tired and wrong 'he's just a good buddy of mine that happens to post in the same threads I do like five seconds after I do' stories you heard all the time.

[Bubba Wheels]

Yes, you can pretty much throw out every baseball record between 1994 to present if want any reality to the numbers at all.

[Senator]

THROWING IT AWAY!!! HE WAS THROWING IT AWAY!!! (still crying)

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by Senator

THROWING IT AWAY!!! HE WAS THROWING IT AWAY!!! (still crying)

I'm not a Niners fan, but I love anything that brings pain to Cowboys fans. Where's my Dave Campo portrait?

[Bubba Wheels]

Other myth 'poppers:' George Washington did not have wooden teeth.

Hockey is not the official Canadian national sport.

Cell phones will not cause an explosion when filling up your car.

[Samdari]

Originally Posted by Bubba Wheels

Just saw a good one on ESPN Classic last night. Apparently the real reason Jim Brown retired from football was that he hadn't quit finished filming his first movie 'Diry Dozen' and with training camp starting he had to choose between his old career or his new one. First time I have heard this and puts to rest all those tired and wrong 'he just wanted to go out on top' stories you hear all the time.

So it got me thinking, how many other 'stories' are out there that are taken as truth at face value but may not really be true at all? Or that really have a reason behind it that somehow gets 'left out' in the modern versions?

Gosh, I have read many times that he quit football to concentrate on his film career. It was hardly a secret. I think many sports columnists, who often substitute their opinion for fact, have romanticized his retirement into what they wanted it to be, rather than what it was, but Brown has never hidden this from anyone.

[Bubba Wheels]

Originally Posted by Samdari

Gosh, I have read many times that he quit football to concentrate on his film career. It was hardly a secret. I think many sports columnists, who often substitute their opinion for fact, have romanticized his retirement into what they wanted it to be, rather than what it was, but Brown has never hidden this from anyone.

Yes, I've heard the football vs film career thing in general, but never that his decision was forced by finishing his movie vs. training camp starting. Guess the point is that he didn't really plan to retire, just chose differently when forced to.

[Ksyrup]

He was anxiously awaiting the script for Gonna Git You Sucka, but mis-timed it by a few years.

[Franklinnoble]

1,000 + posts on an internet message board does not make you any better than anyone else.

[Subby]

Sadly, also a myth

If you read one disgusting story this year . . . LET IT BE THIS ONE !

Susy DeLucci and the Miracle of Life. One morning around 5am 22 year old Susan DaLucci of Kittery Maine, woke up with a painful need to urinate. At first she thought she had diarrhea, but when she stood up out of bed, she realized that it was urinary pain. It was very similar to the feeling of having diarrhea, just out the wrong hole.

She wobbled to the toilet and upon sitting on it, her vagina erupted into the most horrific messy farting noise anyone has ever heard. In paralyzing pain, Ms. DeLucci for the next few minutes continued to push and squirt out of her vagina a burning tide of wretch and filth while she gripped the sides of the toilet, white-knuckled. She was screaming wildly, and the neighbors called the police.

When medics arrived they found Ms. DeNucci unconscious lying on the floor of her bathroom wearing nothing but her bath robe. Running down her leg, was a stream of brown and green syrup. The medic This is no place for the likes of me! had to transfer her to a stretcher, so he grabbed her left leg which was bent crossing her other leg, to straighten her out. She was lying there all twisted up. When he lifted her left leg to straighten her body out, he exposed her vagina at which point a creature, no larger than the tip of a finger wormed its way out of her genitals and landed on the floor with a wet popping sound. Shocked, the medic stared at the creature that was lying on the tile bathroom floor in a casing of mucous. It was a tiny mud shrimp and it sat there on the cold floor gasping for water while flipping itself back and forth. The horrified medic turned to the toilet as he felt the nausea setting in. When he put his face down into the toilet to puke what he saw was so horrific that to this day he cannot look into a toilet without convulsing.

The entire toilet bowl was boiling with baby brown mud shrimp flipping and splashing at a furious pace. If you think that is bad - wait until you hear how it happened:

Ms. DeLucci official death was the result of a combination of shock and severe head trauma. She stood up over the toilet in pain and when she saw what she had done, she went into shock and fell, smashing her head on the toilet and then on the floor. It is believed by medical police that on two nights before the accident she had purchased a live lobster at a fish market. While lying in a tub, she gently inserted the creature's tail into her vagina to derive pleasure. At that point, she held a lighter under the creature's face causing it to flip its tail in a violent snapping motion.

The medics found a lesbian XXX video in the VCR and the TV was positioned on a table in front of the tub. The lobster was found in the kitchen garbage can wrapped in a paper bag. Traces of Ms. DeLucci's DNA were found on the lobster along with pubic hairs that had wedged themselves between the lobster tail joints. The lobster's face was lightly burned with the same fuel used in lighters. The lobster's digestive track and colon were found to be full of mud shrimp egg casings. Doctors believe that the lobster had eaten them (they are common in the water at fish markets and are usually harmlessly boiled to death) and the lobster had crapped them out into Ms. DeLucci's cunt when she was torturing it. Maine mud shrimp only take two days to gestate and Ms. DeLucci was only four days away from getting her period, doctors believe that at that point of her menstrual cycle, her womb was the perfect PH balance to grow these mud shrimp which are a much larger version of the popular "Sea Monkey" pets sold throughout the US. Over night the eggs had hatched and the mud shrimp began doubling in size every ten minutes. You can imagine the pain she was in when she woke up that morning and gave birth to well over 1,000 mud shrimp in her toilet.

[gstelmack]

Mythbusters is a FANTASTIC show.

[Bubba Wheels]

The bigger sadness is that Barry Sanders fooled himself out of besting Walter Payton's record by thinking he was emulating his father's hero.

[Silver Owl]

Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

1,000 + posts on an internet message board does not make you any better than anyone else.

I KNEW IT !!!

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by Bubba Wheels

The bigger sadness is that Barry Sanders fooled himself out of besting Walter Payton's record by thinking he was emulating his father's hero.

He was studying up for his cameo in the 2005 DirecTV Season Ticket commercial.

[JeeberD]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

Mythbusters is a FANTASTIC show.

Reason #1 why you are correct...

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by JeeberD

Reason #1 why you are correct...

....no real response. Just thought I'd quote to double the pleasure.

[Qwikshot]

Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

1,000 + posts on an internet message board does not make you any better than anyone else.

LIAR!@!!!!!

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by JeeberD

Reason #1 why you are correct...

You couldn't find a picture of her on the rack for the Chinese Water Torture myth? I'm losing respect here Jeebs...

[JeeberD]

I have GIFs of her in a bikini during the JAWS episode, but I learned my lesson with Jess Simpson...

Edit:

I find this pic strangely arousing, however...

[digamma]

Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

1,000 + posts on an internet message board does not make you any better than anyone else.

But, get to 10,000, and then...

[dawgfan]

OK, fill me in - I don't have cable TV at home; who's this attractive red-head in the pics?

[TazFTW]

Kari, a mythbuilder on MythBusters.

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by JeeberD

I have GIFs of her in a bikini during the JAWS episode, but I learned my lesson with Jess Simpson...

There's always PM's...(hint hint)

[JeeberD]

Your wish is my command!

[dawgfan]

Nice...she looks like a pretty good reason to watch the show.

[Vince]

Originally Posted by Senator

THROWING IT AWAY!!! HE WAS THROWING IT AWAY!!! (still crying)

I shed a tear too, but for an entirely different reason

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by dawgfan

Nice...she looks like a pretty good reason to watch the show.

That, and the fact that it's a dream geek show.

As a developer of a realistic tactical shooter that's always been maligned for not having enemies react enough when shot, I loved the episode where they tested the Hollywood "thrown back by the impact of a bullet" and barely got the pig carcass to move no matter HOW big the bullet...

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by JeeberD

Your wish is my command!

Formal request for said bikini pic PM. Thank you.

[Leonidas]

Originally Posted by Bubba Wheels

Just saw a good one on ESPN Classic last night. Apparently the real reason Jim Brown retired from football was that he hadn't quit finished filming his first movie 'Diry Dozen' and with training camp starting he had to choose between his old career or his new one. First time I have heard this and puts to rest all those tired and wrong 'he just wanted to go out on top' stories you hear all the time.

Actually there is a little more to it than that, at least according to Terry Pluto in his book When all the World was Browns Town. While Jim Brown and Art Modell got along very well in the end it came down to Brown wanting time to finish the movie, time that overlapped with training camp. Modell wouldn't let him have it so Brown decided to walk away. In essence what ESPN said is correct, but Cleveland could have had him back if they wanted to give him time off. Modell forced his hand and Brown was never a man to take ultimatums very well. So Modell not only forced Paul Brown out and moved the team, he also helped pushed Jim Brown out of the game, if you choose to look at it that way. You could also say Brown should have been committed to the team and Modell was well within his right to call Brown in on it.