True or False With Snopes.com

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I've made a list of Urban Legends researched by Snopes.com and put them into two Columns. Can you tell which Column is True, and which is False?

No peeking at Snopes.com.

COLUMN A

·Charles Chaplin's remains were stolen and held for ransom.
·JELL-O brand gelatin is made from bones and hides.
·Graham crackers were invented to suppress sexual appetite.
·The color of the plastic tags used to close bread bags indicates what day the loaves were baked on.
·The song Happy Birthday is still protected by copyright.
·Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham after being challenged by his editor to produce a book using fewer than fifty different words.
·When the Titanic hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic, the silent version of the film The Poseidon Adventure was being screened aboard ship.

COLUMN B

·A stuntman was killed during the filming of the chariot race scene in 1959's Ben-Hur.
·Ronald Reagan was the actor originally selected to play the role of Rick Blaine in Casablanca.
·The Japanese and American versions of King Kong vs. Godzilla had different endings.
·President George W. Bush proclaimed, "The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."
·The flush toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper.
·The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from the moon.
·The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" is a coded reference to the Black Plague.

(The answer is now posted on the middle of this Page. If you'd like to play without seeing the answer, make your Reply without scrolling down.)

 

[Mischka]

I'll go with B as true.

 

[Lasher]

Column B is true.

 

[Mischka]

Damn.

 

[Starfish]

I am not playing your game, but gelatin is derived from cow bones.












See? if you listened to me, you won.

 

[MagicMan]

Haven't got a clue....so i'll say column A is true..just to be different

 

[Freya]

B is true.

 

[Guest]

I choose column A

Mind I'm the person barred from playing Trivial Pursuit and forbidden from watching Jeopardy with others so I choose column A. I recall in fact after Chaplin's death the news about his mausoleum being vandalized and the intered remains were removed..... For what it's value, after Benny Hill passed away a similar incident happed to his gravesite......

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

after Benny Hill passed away a similar incident happed to his gravesite.

I heard the cops chased them followed by six naked women and a fat, bald guy in a suit of armor.

 

[WhatsHerName]

I would have to go with column b

 

[Mischka]

The Japanese and American versions of King Kong vs. Godzilla had different endings.

Hey! This one's misleading: "The omission of Godzilla's roar at the end of the US version certainly could create the impression in viewers that only King Kong had survived."

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I have to pack it in soon, so I'm going to give the answer in about 15 minutes...

 

[Sillyman]

B is true. I'm familiar with that ring around the rosie thing.

 

[Never]

A is true... wait, both are true.

 

[Sillyman]

I'm having a sneaking suspiscion that both are partly true and DCL is just fucking with us.

 

[patient1]

Most likely, I've been misinformed.

I thought that the Jello, Chaplain, Thomas Crapper, & Ring around the rosie were true.

While the Great Wall of China is visible from the moon, I believe it's the oldest, not the only.

 

[freakygirl]

column A

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I'm going to post the answer below...if you want to play, don't look.






























Column A is True, and Column B is False.





















For disputes please see detailed explanations at snopes.com and snopes2.com.

I find this whole thing fascinating.

 

[patient1]

I'm having a sneaking suspiscion that both are partly true and DCL is just fucking with us.

Even so, it's better than some of the arguing in other threads.

 

[LadyG]

I think points in both are true.

 

[Guest]

For the sake of trivia

Should anyone care, the original Godzilla shown in America differed greatly than the film made in Japan. Not only did we get Raymond Burr inserted *uncomfortable shiver at the implication of that* to explain everything but lost were nearly 12 minutes of the film. On average, most Godzilla films brought to America get shaved for time by the importer and not for cultural content......

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I had thought to just make a list and ask people to pick which ones were True or False individually, but I thought it would be more interesting to put them into two columns, because even if there's one item you're pretty sure is fake you're forced to reconsider because another item in the same list sounds likely.

Weird, isn't it, how pervasive myths are?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I think points in both are true.

Well, no.

Snopes has a separate rating for myths that are ambiguous or difficult to prove. I avoided all of those, and only picked those that are asbolutely True or False.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

Well, no.

Snopes has a separate rating for myths that are ambiguous or difficult to prove. I avoided all of those, and only picked those that are asbolutely True or False.

I thought only CV was an Absolutist.

 

[LadyG]

In that case, I say column b.