OT - Great/sad story...

[mtaystl03]

I heard this on Leno and got it in an email recently. It's in my inbox at school so I will try to tell the story as well as I can. Let me know if you've heard this...and this is a true story...

A woman and a man are getting married and it is a huge wedding, over $30,000 invested in it, including the reception.

People from all over the country came to support the bride and groom in their matrimony. It was a perfectly wonderful day. Things were going great. As the reception was coming to a close, the groom took the mike and thanked everybody for coming, esp. his family, his brides family and those who traveled far distances to celebrate with them.

To thank them all he told everybody to look under their seats and they would find a manilla envelope. He explained that this was his token of appreciation for everybody that came.

Enclosed in the folder was...get this...an 8x10 glossy of his wife having sex with the best man! He proceeds to turn to his wife and says, "F--- you", then to his best man, "F--- you, I'm outta here!" He then went right after that to get the marriage annulled.

He had suspisions a while ago and had a private investigator follow them around. He got pictures and instead of blowing up and calling off the wedding he waited until her parents spent all the money on the wedding and put those two through unexplainable embarrassment and shame. What a great way to get back at somebody!!! I love it!

[VPI97]

I heard this one when I was in high school....and I'm 29. :)

[mtaystl03]

Really? Maybe its fake. Still a great story.

[VPI97]

Originally posted by mtaystl03
Still a great story. Agreed.

[SFL Cat]

Sounds kind of low class to me. Why make her parents suffer and drop $30 grand on the wedding? She's the one screwing around. Plus, why make his own friends and family take time off from work and pay traveling expenses to attend some sham of a wedding?

The guy's got a legitimate reason to walk, but to do it the way he did puts him in the same class of his unfaithful girl. They're both a couple of losers IMO.

That said, this sounds like an urban legend to me.

[Draft Dodger]

it's true. The bride is a friend of a friend of a friend of my cousin - she's the same chick who got the hot dog stuck in her vagina.

[Draft Dodger]

btw, did you REALLY see this on Leno? because, if so, someone there needs to visit Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/weddings/embarras/bothered.htm) a little more often.

Our radio station in town is terrible - about a year or so ago they broke the big story of the Nieman Marcus cookie... :rolleyes:
They've reported a number of urban myths as "news" - and not new urban myths either. The wedding chestnut that's been around for years is probably something they'd want to report.

[pjstp20]

Originally posted by Draft Dodger
it's true. The bride is a friend of a friend of a friend of my cousin - she's the same chick who got the hot dog stuck in her vagina.

Oh my God that was soooooo funny

[JeeberD]

Just an FYI, but my dad is an OB-GYN and he has lots of stories about the things he's found inside some of his patients...

[ice4277]

Originally posted by JeeberD
Just an FYI, but my dad is an OB-GYN and he has lots of stories about the things he's found inside some of his patients...

And they are???

[sterlingice]

Originally posted by JeeberD
Just an FYI, but my dad is an OB-GYN and he has lots of stories about the things he's found inside some of his patients...

I dunno, but these would not be the types of stories I'd want to share with my dad.

SI

[QuikSand]

One of the great things about a good urban legend (like the wedding day story in this thread) is the way people semi-wittingly alter the delivery of the story to them in order to make it sound better. It's as if we really want to believe the story so much, and we're conscious of the my-friend's-girlfriend's-sister-saw-this-one-time syndrome (which just reeks of being bogus), that we shrink the chain of storytelling -- sometimes without really thinking about it. I don't mean to point out anyone here -- but it most certainly happens.

Back in college, when I first got really interested in these, I heard a friend tell the fables story about the "Mexican dog." He said this really happened to his sister-- that his sister brought home a dog from Mexico, and later it was revealed to be a rat. After I found the story listed in a book (one of Grunvand's) as a widespred urban legend, he confessed that what really happened was that his sister heard this story from her friend. But in his mind, he was self-conscious enough to amend the story from "my sister's friend" to "my sister." My best guess is that his sister probably did the same thing in re-telling it... she didn't get the story first hand from someone who actualy experienced it, but she re-told it as if she had.

That, to me, is one of the most fascinating things about urban legends -- that many or even most of the people in the chain are essentially complicit in knowing how far-fetched the stories are, and contribute to their re-telling by adding their own verification just to make the story sound more plausible than it obviously is. Well, that and my eternal question: what do these people
really end up doing with all those aluminum can tabs donated for kidney dialysis?

[Ksyrup]

Originally posted by VPI97
I heard this one when I was in high school....and I'm 29. :)

Ditto. And I'm...(2, carry the 1)...32.

[FrogMan]

Originally posted by Ksyrup
Ditto. And I'm...(2, carry the 1)...32.

Woah, ranking right there on the oldometer ;)

FM

[Drake]

Originally posted by QuikSand
Back in college, when I first got really interested in these, I heard a friend tell the fables story about the "Mexican dog." He said this really happened to his sister-- that his sister brought home a dog from Mexico, and later it was revealed to be a rat. After I found the story listed in a book (one of Grunvand's) as a widespred urban legend, he confessed that what really happened was that his sister heard this story from her friend. But in his mind, he was self-conscious enough to amend the story from "my sister's friend" to "my sister." My best guess is that his sister probably did the same thing in re-telling it... she didn't get the story first hand from someone who actualy experienced it, but she re-told it as if she had.

Yes, yes, did a friend of yours admit to you that he had made this up, or are you just validating the story by making it a friend of yours when you're really just re-telling someone elses debunking story as if it was your own?

Is there a list of urban debunking myths?

;)

The best policy is simply never to believe anything anyone tells you. If it isn't on television, it isn't true.

[mtaystl03]

Hey Quik, just because you have like 11,415 more posts than me doesn't make you any smarter!!! :) I learned my lesson.

[cthomer5000]

Right on topic, I just got an email from a friend who states "This was in the Washington post the other day" and goes on to post an alternate version of this story (http://www.snopes.com/risque/caught/pumpkin.htm)

Naturally, it was complete crap. Urban legends are great fun though...

[Ksyrup]

That one's a little too much like a joke to be effective as an urban legend. It came complete with a one-liner at the end and everything.

[JeeberD]

Originally posted by ice4277
And they are???

Rings, vegetables, light bulbs, etc. He also has a great story about when he was an intern and had ER duty one night a guy came in with a relish bottle stuck in his rear. They tried everything they could to remove it but it was stuck tight. They wound up having to break the bottle and remove it piece by piece.

Then there's the story he heard from a urologist friend about this guy who can in to the ER with peanuts stuck up his willy. Apparetnly his wife/girlfriend had wanted to play "feed the elephant" and the moron had let him...


Originally posted by sterlingice
I dunno, but these would not be the types of stories I'd want to share with my dad.

SI

Dude, that was dinner table conversation every night. He woud get home from work just in tim e for dinner, we would sit down and my mom would ask him what he had done at work that day. He would tell her, and he would go into detail. It is now impossible to gross me out verbally...

[Eaglesfan27]

During my 8 weeks of OB/GYN, I saw one woman who really did get a large vegetable stuck in her vagina. But that is the only foreign object in a woman I saw in medical school. I saw two guys on my surgery rotation, one who swears he "accidently" sat on a pencil which went up his rectum and punctured his colon. The other guy says his friend stuck the lightbulb in his anus while he was sleeping. *The guy came to the ER because the bulb broke and caused severe lacerations requiring stitches*

[Subby]

The best urban myth ever has got to be <a href="http://www.snopes.com/risque/juvenile/lobster.htm">the woman and the mud shrimp</a>.

[Eaglesfan27]

One of the best urban myths I ever heard which I'm embarassed to admit I thought was real. :redface: In medical school, a fellow student told me a story about how during premed work he worked for a coroner's office. He was told about a man his coworker found who awoke in a bathtub full of ice with a message written in blood on the mirror which said don't get out of the bath tub. This man then realized the bathtub was covered with blood and his kidneys had been cut out. I know I'm forgetting some details, but this was one of the first days of medical school and I believed this was a real story at the time (he told it to me as we were preparing to dissect the kidneys from our cadaver) :o I eventually realized this was a urban myth.

[Ksyrup]

Thank you for that one, Subby. I now have a title for the album I'll probably never record:

"A Burning Tide of Wretch and Filth"

Eaglesfan27,

That one probably got as much play as any I've heard in a long time. I think quite a few people wre hard-pressed to discount that right off hand.

[Maple Leafs]

My wife once told me an embarrasing story that happened to a classmate (which she witnessed). It was only after I showed her the Snopes entry about it that she realized she must have heard it somewhere.

In other words, she actually remembered something happening that never did. Which actually explains a lot of the fights we have.

[SplitPersonality1]

Originally posted by Maple Leafs
In other words, she actually remembered something happening that never did. Which actually explains a lot of the fights we have.

LOL. I think I married your wife's twin. :)

[heybrad]

Originally posted by JeeberD
Then there's the story he heard from a urologist friend about this guy who can in to the ER with peanuts stuck up his willy. Apparetnly his wife/girlfriend had wanted to play "feed the elephant" and the moron had let him...
So... anybody else double over and grab their unit when they read this or was it just me?

[CamEdwards]

Originally posted by Subby
The best urban myth ever has got to be <a href="http://www.snopes.com/risque/juvenile/lobster.htm">the woman and the mud shrimp</a>.

No, that actually happened to Mrskippy's mom.

[ice4277]

Originally posted by Eaglesfan27
One of the best urban myths I ever heard which I'm embarassed to admit I thought was real. :redface: In medical school, a fellow student told me a story about how during premed work he worked for a coroner's office. He was told about a man his coworker found who awoke in a bathtub full of ice with a message written in blood on the mirror which said don't get out of the bath tub. This man then realized the bathtub was covered with blood and his kidneys had been cut out. I know I'm forgetting some details, but this was one of the first days of medical school and I believed this was a real story at the time (he told it to me as we were preparing to dissect the kidneys from our cadaver) :o I eventually realized this was a urban myth.

I have heard something like this as well, relating to organ theft/selling them on the black market.

[Eaglesfan27]

Yeah, I forgot a lot of details, but that was part of the story. 20,000 dollars as I remember it now for both kidneys. If you ask me, sounds pretty cheap for a pair of kidneys.

[damnMikeBrown]

I suppose it depends on the use. Now, a set of kidneys to a person in kidney failure, well, $20k would be a bargain. For the woman who has everything though, buying them as earrings, well, that would be way on the expensive side.