Space.com presents: the Top 10 Apollo Hoaxes
by Robert Myers and Robert Pearlman
Urban legends about urban legends
Ever wonder about the origins of Spiderman’s black costume? Or, what the Superman Returns producer Ilya Salkind’s wife’s dentist and Christopher Reeve have in common? You can find out in Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #101 posted by Brian Cronin.
In #1 through #100, you can find out such things as: what The Fantastic Four and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang have in common; who owns the trademark of the words “super hero”; and how The Hulk became green.
Update: “Japanese fooled in poodle scam” hoax exposed
Thanks to Marcy LaViollette for submitting this Snopes.com update.
Friday April 27, 2007
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Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.
Flocks of sheep were imported to Japan and then sold by a company called Poodles as Pets, marketed as fashionable accessories, available at $1,600 each.
That is a snip compared to a real poodle which retails for twice that much in Japan.
The scam was uncovered when Japanese moviestar Maiko Kawamaki went on a talk-show and wondered why her new pet would not bark or eat dog food. Continue reading “Update: “Japanese fooled in poodle scam” hoax exposed”
Watch where you step!
According to David Emery of About: Urban Legends and Folklore and DogsInTheNews.com:
This dog Hercules, purported in emails circulating around the Internet, to be the World’s Biggest Dog, is actually…
a hoax!
In fact, no living dog has, as yet, beat the gargantuan size of the real Hercules, who since 2001 has had that distinction.
Read more at The Scoop from DogsInTheNews.com.