Urban Legend
Way of Knowing and Testing
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For this activity you will be working in groups of three or four
1. Pick one urban legend
2. Create a flow chart (similar to the steps of scientific research) detailing how you
would find out if your urban legend is true or untrue
• Must incorporate all four ways of knowing
• Must complete the first three steps of scientific research-(steps
4 and 5 are
not necessary because we will not actually be testing these ©)
• Must use color
• Must be neat and easy to read
• Must have title
• Must have a visual representation of the urban legend (school appropriate ©)
3. Explain in a complete paragraph (more than 5 sentences) how all four forms of
knowing can be used to prove something true.
4. Explain in a complete paragraph (more than 5 sentences) whether you believe your
legend to be true or untrue and why?
Kentucky Fried What?
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.hen people eat at KFC do they really know what they are eating? During a recent study of KFC done at the University of New
.ampshtre, they found some very upsetting fads.
First of all, has anybody noticed that just recently. the company has changed their name? Kentucky Fried Chicken has become KFC.
Does anybody know why? We thought the real reason was because of the "FRIED" food issue. It's not. The reason why they call it
KFC is because they can not use the word chicken anymore. Why? KFC does not use real chickens. They actually use genetically
manipulated organisms.
These so called "chickens" are kept alive by tubes inserted into their bodies to pump blood and nutrients throughout their structure.
They have no beaks, no feathers, and no feet. Their bone structure is dramatically shrunk to get more meat out of them. This is great
for KFC because they do not have to pay so much for their production costs. There is no more plucking of the feathers or the removal
of the beaks and feet.
The government has told them to change all of their menus so they do not say chicken anywhere. If you look closely you will notice
this. Listen to their commercials, I guarantee you will ot see or hear the word chicken.
I find this matter to be very disturbing. I hope people will start to realize this and let other people know. Please forward this message
to as many people as you can. Together we make KFC start using real chicken again.
Buggy Burrito
Ira was driving home from work one day and she was starving. Not wanting to worry about cooking dinner once she got home. she
'ecided to stop for some take out. She pulled into her local Taco Bell and ordered a burrito. She enjoyed her quick meal and when
"he was done she headed home.When she woke up the next day, her tongue felt sore and a little swollen. It bothered her all day, so she went to see her doctor to find
out what was wrong. The doctor didn't find anything on his initial examination, so he told her to come back if it got any worse.
Days later her tongue swelled up considerably
and became very sore. She went back to the doctor and he decided to do a minor
surgery. When the doctor had cut open her tongue he found a cyst among her taste buds filled with cockroach eggs. They traced the
eggs back to the burrito from her fast food dinner.
Fatal Tan
It was the day before a couple's wedding. The bride to be wanted to look beautiful in her white wedding dress so she went to a local
salon to get a "healthy looking" tan. Afterward, she felt like she was still pretty pale so she lathered herself up with deep tanning lotion
and visited every tanning salon in her town.
The next day, right after the couple said "I do", the bride fell over dead. The autopsy reported that her organs had been cooked ten
times.
$20 Bills
------~. currency is the currency of the drug trade. No matter where you go in the world top drug dealers and King Pins will be using
.nerican money to finance their trade, complete transactions, and but supplies. Therefore. it goes to reason that at any given time,
rty-five percent of the $20 bills in circulation in the United States are contaminated
with cocaine.
The Message Under the Stamp
...Juringthe war a soldier faithfully wrote his mother every week so she would know he was all right. One week she didn't get a letter
and immediately
began to worry.
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A couple of weeks later, she got a letter from the Army saying that her son had been captured and was being held in a Prisoner-ofWar camp. They assured her that they had no reason to believe the American prisoners were being mistreated in any way.
A few weeks later the woman finally received another letter from her son, it read: "Dear Mom, Try not to worry about me, they are
treating us well and I'll be released as soon as the war is over. Make sure that little Teddy gets the stamp for his collection. Love you,
Joe"
The woman was overjoyed to hear the news, but was confused because she had no idea who "little Teddy" was. She decided to
steam the stamp from the envelope and have a look. When she did she saw that written on the back of the stamp were the words:
"They've cut off my legs".
Chicken Gun
'Chicken
Gun' Proves Essential
to Revival of Space Shuttle
Program
NASA scientists have commandeered a chicken gun - a device normally used in aircraft safety testing to fire chicken carcasses into
airplane windshields at flight speed, approximating the damage caused by bird strikes - to simulate the impact of loose tank foam
hitting vulnerable parts of the space shuttle.
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Jrban legend has it that a group of foreign aerospace engineers once tried to use the American-made
tests, with disastrous results -
unaccountably,
chicken gun in their own safety
the poultrified projectile shattered every windshield sample it was fired at, no matter
how thick.
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U.S. experts brought in to solve the problem did so by passing along four simple words of advice: ''Thaw the chicken first."
The Watchfull Painting
About 15 years ago, I was attending university outside of London. The school is famous for its art gallery that draws visitors from all
over England. My final exams were given in a cavernous hall with dozens of enormous oil paintings covering the walls, from floor to
ceiling.
I noticed that one painting hanging to my right had been covered with a large British flag. Although I didnt think much of it at the time,
I asked several of the 3rd year students if they knew anything about it and they told me the following story.
Apparently, the university had always given exams in this hall because it was the largest building on campus. A number of years ago,
there was one student who could not concentrate on his final exams. He just kept staring at a certain painting, oblivious to everything
around him. He stared and stared at this one particular painting.
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While everyone else was scribbling down answers, he took two of his sharpened pencils, inserted them into his nose and slammed
his head into the desk. The pencil tips penetrated straight into his brain, killing him instantly.
Ever since then, there has always been one painting in the gallery that is covered up during final exams. I went into the gallery one
day to see the painting. and it is a portrait of a British nobleman from the 19th century. It is utterly unremarkable except for the fact
that his eyes stare straight back at you the kind of painting that follows you wherever you move.
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The only certainty in this story that I can vouch for is that every years hundreds of students shuffle into the hall to take their final
exams and try, against all instincts and urges, to keep from continually glancing uP at the British flag hanging from the wall above
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r<idneys On the Black Market
The crime begins when a business traveler goes to a lounge for a drink at the end of the work day. A person in the bar walks up as
they sit alone and offers to buy them a drink. The last thing the traveler remembers until they wake up in a hotel room bath tub, their
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body submerged to their neck in ice, is sipping that drink. There is a note taped to the wall instructing them not to move and to call
911. A phone is on a small table next to the bathtub for them to call.
The business traveler calls 911 who have become quite familiar with this crime.
The business traveler is instructed by the 911 operator to very slowly and carefully reach behind them and feel if there is a tube
protruding from their lower back. The business traveler finds the tube and answers, "Yes." The 911 operator tells them to remain still,
having already sent paramedics to help.
The operator knows that both of the business traveler's kidneys have been harvested.
Lead in Lipstick
Recently a lipstick brand called "Red Earth" decreased their prices from $67 to $9.90 because it contained lead.
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causes cancer and the lipstick brands that contain lead are:
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LANCOME
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ESTEE LAUDER
SHISEIDO
RED EARTH (Lip Gloss)
CHANEL (Lip Conditioner)
MARKET AMERICA-MOTNES
LIPSTICK.
The higher the lead content, the greater the chance of causing cancer. After doing a test on lipsticks, it was found that the Y.S.L.
lipstick contained the most amount of lead.
Here is the test you can do yourself:
1. Put some lipstick on your hand.
2. Use a Gold ring to scratch on the lipstick.
3. If the lipstick colour changes to black, then you know the lipstick contains lead.
Please send this information to all your girlfriends, wives and female family members. This information is being circulated at Walter
Reed Army Medical Center> Dioxin Carcinogens cause cancer, especially breast cancer.
Gang Lights
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are driving after dark and see an on-coming car with no headlights on, DO NOT FLASH YOUR LIGHTS AT THEM! This is a
~ommon gang member "initiation game" that goes like this:
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The new gang member under initiation drives along with no headlights, and the fiJ car to flash their headlights at him is now his
"target", He is now required to turn around and chase that car, and shoot at or into the car in order to complete his initiation
requirements.
Make sure you share this information with all the drivers in your family!
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