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What is your favorite internet urban legend?

Mine is the Smithsonian's rejection letter to the amateur paleontologist.

http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/smithsonian.as...

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    That's awesome! I loved reading it. Sadly, I don't have any to contribute, but I just wanted to say that I enjoyed your link. :)

  • 1 decade ago

    This one started before the Internet even but the case of the twins that everyone claims their aunt or neighbor or whoever went to school with named Lemonjello and Orangejello. I'll admit when I first heard this I even fell for it! Then I did some research and was pissed that I had been "had"! Here's snopes take on these and other fictitious names.

    http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

    You can even type those names into this forum and see many people who claim they know people by these names, ridiculous....

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    a while back some one hacked google and if you typed in french military victories it would say no sights were found did you mean french military defeats. It was awesome. now it doesn't work anymore but here's a video of what it used to be

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFhcALPiYlI

  • 1 decade ago

    Candy Man!

    Accually, my aunt did teach two twins named Lemonjello and Orangejello. I'm serious I'd bet my life on it!

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    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    There was that one called "Lights Out!" It's not my favorite since it's freaky, but yeah.......

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