Chris Packham and other celebs
Following the invention of the Chris Packham needs anasthetic to have his hair cut story in the 90's and fooling my mate's sister (though she now earns at least 4 times as much as I do; bugger), we then continued with celebrity-based rumour-mongering:

Going for Gold, as hosted by Henry Kelly, switched from pan-European contestants to English only in the late 90's. The reason: a smug Swede who kept winning - Mr Kelly punched him and put him in a coma. What am I? A violent racist...

Allegations that Roy Walker of Catchphrase had been implicated in a kiddy fiddling ring...

Darren Day: Fully paid up member of the Khmer Rouge.

Nothing topped Packham though.
(baltax, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 18:58, Reply)

RAM
I remember the good old days, where people believed you could download more RAM for your PC.

It never got old.
(tranmerefan, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 18:53, Reply)

prove he is alive
Not really a legend but I did get the missus banned off digital spy for posting Russ Abbots obituary
Complete with "quotes" from Bella Emburg and Les Dennis
It was up for a good few days and was full of the usual "rip he was great" rubbish
(Barry Chuckle has gone out in the thong to feed the pigeons, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 18:42, Reply)

Piston Broke. . .
. . .heard of the London Monster?
www.fa-b.com/monstchapter.htm

Nothing like a good urban legend;legends explained the world before humans invented religion and then they filled in the gaps afterward.

I wish I could remember where I read it,but I have heard that the fellows in Greek myths reputed to be giants and all the winged horses and whatnot were thought to be so because fossil bones of dinosaurs and extinct land mammals had been discovered and needed explaination.
(louveciennes , Volvospotter, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 18:17, Reply)

I can confirm...
That Chris Packham did tell did whopping fib. I was always think about it when I see him with a haircut, and wonder did it hurt?

www.b3ta.com/questions/urbanlegends/post46504/
(Cryptoprocta has abandoned the username of Voodoo Mary, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 18:00, Reply)

and again...
RE: This

summary:
spanish girl, ricky martin, dog, paté, live tv!!!
( mns 2️⃣2️⃣9️⃣0️⃣7️⃣, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 18:00, Reply)

you mean bears don't hoot?
This is a bit of "rural legend" from Vermont (USA). I grew up in a very remote area with lots of wildlife (moose, bears, etc.) and always believed that the "hooting" sounds I heard were a couple of black bears communicating across the ridges.

Well, last year I was working at a mountain camp in southern VT. I got there first in the morning and when I was getting my gear together I heard a bear hooting really close by. When the homeowner showed up later I told him about it and he said he had never heard of bears hooting and what did it sound like and why did they do it. He said he had seen a black bear in the tree right next to the camp last summer but had never heard the hooting.

When I got home I did some googling hoping to find a recording I could send the poor flatlander. I should have known right away that something was amiss when google didn't return anything. I did find a good website about bears with lots of info and actual recordings. www.bear.org/Black/Sounds.html They have recordings of a growl, a moan, a bear family conversing, something called "blowing and chomping" and more but nothing about hooting.

"What gives?" I say to myself. So I emailed the site admin and the very next morning, the bear guru himself, Dr. Lynn Rogers, replied to me. Here's his reply:

"Nik, I knew as soon as I saw that subject line that this email was from Vermont, possibly New Hampshire. That is where this legend exists. I have not heard anyone ask about it or believe it anywhere else. Barred owls make the sound that people in Vermont have described to me as hooting bears. If you want to test it, get a CD of barred owls, play it on a boombox where you hear the hooting, and see what comes. You can make a pretty good imitation yourself. My best success was to call three barred owls at once doing that...."

Oh well.
(n1k, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:53, Reply)

Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower
can rotate 180 degrees to face the other way.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were true. Mind you, after spending a year of my life in Portsmouth, not much surprises me any more.
(Ash Oops, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:37, Reply)

Moonat8
I've heard a similar story, but in this case a TV programme (it was in spain) set up cameras in her house for a Noel Edmonds NTV style prank.

She came in from school, stripped off, got the ice cream out etc etc on live national TV
(Scary, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:28, Reply)

Dogging
Someone managed to convince a mate of mine that dogging was people driving to carparks to have sex with dogs.
(BearWithLittleBrain, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:27, Reply)

Anagram
I heard that an anagram of James Blunt is "Man fucks chimps." And I tend to believe it.
(stusut79, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:24, Reply)

Chris Packham's hair
Re: www.b3ta.com/questions/urbanlegends/post46504/ I've heard this too, in fact I'm sure I heard him talk about it on TV when I was a kid.

You could be right after all
(Scary, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:19, Reply)

ok candles
this isnt quiet an urban legend cos its not that old.... but we had fun creating it!!
a few years back me and a friend were going for a night time walk to what is known as 'devils peak' by local scallies. They all used to talk about it as being haunted. So one night as we went for our night time walk we spotted some scallies creeping around talking about the ghosts. Not wanting to let them down we proceeded to take out some candles i had brought , light them, hold them high and go crashing round and round in cirles around the group. Bearing in mind its pitch black, freezing cold. all they could see was some very eerie lights a ways back in the trees spinning round them. They went ape shit and legged it shouting in fear. Thus the legend of haunted devils peak was created! no scallies dare go back there now. It was worth it!!!
(Serbitar Has a furry shit canon called Whitey., Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:19, Reply)

My mate's am animal right's activist
and he went bonkers when those stories and pictures started going around about "Kitten Bonsai." He went around trying to get people on the street to sign a irritating pention to end kitten bonsai. He also set up an anti-bonsai website and a bunch of other stuff. Turns out none of it was true and some shits at MIT had made the kitten bonsai website as a joke. My mates and I had a few good laughs about that one.
(Pants Chasing Pants is going to make you all so beautiful on, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:17, Reply)

Moonat8
yup, heard a variation on that one involving nutella instead of icecream.
Would certainly be nice on the ladybits.

Also, anyone heard the one about two girls from (****) school getting it on, involving malteasers in their lady bits?
Anytime we wanted to gross people out, or insult someone, we'd call them a malteaser.

*And we accused people of being lesbians by leaving malteasers on their desks/pillows etc*.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:13, Reply)

Pyramid-penis
oh yeah... another one

jean-Claude van Damme has a pyramid penis cos he had sex too soon after a penis enlargement and pushed all the fat to the base.

apparently hes admitted it in public and everything... I like this one... I want it to be true
(angelabutton, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:13, Reply)

Pam and Moira
Pam st Clement and Moira Stewart are a couple right?

me and my friends have been convinced of this for a while and was confirmed by someone else being told by someone else who works in a bank that theyve seen their joint bank account

ive searched... other people seem to believe it too... I reckon its real but i have a nagging doubt
(angelabutton, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:11, Reply)

Gullible girlfriend
Not sure if this counts but...

We were out shopping one day and just to add to the monumental boredom my gf decides to ignore me totally while she tries to renew her mobile phone contract. She was struggling with the swathes of "press button one to report your phone stolen" rubbish; so I told her a brilliant lie:

If you say 'help' a voice recognition system will switch you through to the first available operator.

I then stood back and watched her as she stood standing in the centre of the high street saying "Help" repeatedly into her mobile phone. The looks she got were hilarious.

Luckily she saw the funny side.
(breakfastwithjam, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:10, Reply)

Dogs can't look up..
......nuff said....i lost.
(The Horizontal Monster Mash Mr. T Pitties Me, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:10, Reply)

Not strictly an urban legend
But I once convinced a friend of mine if you left toast long enough it turned back to bread. It took me nigh on three hours to tell her the truth since I was laughing so hard.
(Peter Sutcliffe's Right Bollock, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 17:09, Reply)

At the Acropolis
Ex Girlfriend moaning incessantly about the intense heat and asks why the hugely famous rickety piece of architecture is there.

My answer of "it was built in 1973 as a tourist attraction" caused her to go ballistic and storm back off down the hill swearing, while I and everyone else in earshot disolved in hysterics.

I told her the truth later which just caused another argument, miserable cow!
(El Cabron, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 16:53, Reply)

Bad News
I was told this morning that Sharon was close to death.

Crushed when I found out it was Ariel as opposed to Osbourne.

relurks
( skivesagain is now no longer in Australia., Fri 6 Jan 2006, 16:50, Reply)

Pasties
Y'know how some names are from olde worlde jobs-for example Mason=stone worker, Fletcher=arrow maker, etc?

Were you all aware that the name for a person who sweeps up in the abbatoir is a Ginster?
(Otaku-Joe, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 16:45, Reply)

Pervilicious
It's always fun if you can convince large-breasted girls that while men can't touch their shoulders together behind their backs, women can.
( wangmaster2000, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 16:43, Reply)

Grade 5 triangle
I once convinced an old girlfriend that I had passed my grade 5 triangle examination. I also made her believe that it takes longer to fly from Hong Kong to the UK than the other way because from Hong Kong the plane is flying up hill.
(mefromhere, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 16:42, Reply)

thursday
back in the heavy smoking days of sixth form college we convinced one of the more gullible members of our social circle that thursday was going to be have to be renamed. The reason we gave was that thursday was named after Thor (dunno if that is true or not...) and in these PC times reference to Norse Gods was not on, Thursday would now be renamed 'monkfastday'He bought it for hours. Moo ha ha.
Brilliance.
(Man Worm, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 16:34, Reply)

Chris Packham
From the Really Wild Show.

I was about 21 at the time. I got told he had nerve endings in his hair, and every time he had a haircut he had to have local anesthetic injected into his scalp.

I wondered how it must have felt when he dyed it.

Damn my gullibilty and my boyfriend.....
(aretha, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 16:30, Reply)

Moonat8
( www.b3ta.com/questions/urbanlegends/post46501/ ) It can't be true - no woman would want to put something so horrifically cold on her ladybits.
( Bob Todd whee, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 16:23, Reply)

Lactation
Thanks brainiacs,you have convinced me!

I now have to go tell Mr S & Mother that they were right all along.

Did you hear the one about the kid at school who was drinking from a small carton of delmonte orange juice. As he started to get to the bottom he felt something bumping around inside the carton. After finishing the beverage he cut open the carton to find a dead puppy foetus inside. I swear I don't drink from those types of cartons now, and I have to look inside drinks cans by holding them up to the light.
(Sameranda, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 16:21, Reply)

Urban Myth??
Not sure if this one is an urban myth or not...

Some girls from our school said that some other girls from school had gone round their friends house (you can see why I think it's an urban myth!) only to find said girl naked from the waist down, legs akimbo, lying on her back with her pet dog finishing off the last of the ice cream she had carefully placed in her lady part.

Anyone else heard that one?
(moonat8, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 16:04, Reply)