Urban Legends

At www.snopes.com you can find the Urban Legends Reference Pages. I heard about this yesterday, these people investigate the incedible emails ("this is a true story..."), the mad stories you hear ("this happened to a friend of a friend of mine..."), the chainletters ("forward this to as many people as possible..."), the photographs which can't be real, and some of the dubious material printed by gullible news paper editors trying to fill space.

Just as entertaining though are the stories which you didn't believe, or assumed were jokes, which subsequently turn out to be true, like the 6lb beef burgers...