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• SubUrban Legend - Marin or Marine?

  
  MoreMarin Buzz Home — Authority: 438
  Water, water everywhere--the Pacific Ocean, the San Francisco Bay, Richardson Bay, San Anselmo during flooding season… Its no surprise that Marin Countys original name was Marine County, until the e was removed by the state legislature. One possible reason for the abbreviation was that California already had too ...
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• Urban Legend Hits the Real Estate World

  
  The Gory Details...of Real Estate — Authority: 100
  Be forewarned -- no, this is not about kidney harvesting , Nigerian Lottery winnings , or Bill Gates giving everyone lots of money for forwarding an email -- there is an email making the rounds titled "HR 2454: CAP AND TRADE ENERGY BILL", which purports that new legislation will require all homes to retroactively ...
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• Talk Amongst Yourselves

  
  The AnswerLady — Authority: 123
  University at Buffalo students and associated gray matter challenged Buffalo residents, talking amongst themselves, have come up with the amusing theory that you can make as much noise as you want until 11 pm. Oops, Wrong. Buffalo rewrote the City Charter over a year ago in response to the window ratting car stereos ...
  3 days ago

• A slip of the dung

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 584
  By most accounts, Thomas Crapper did not actually invent the flush toilet, but he did sell rather a lot of them in England, incorporating the latest improvements, which he may or may not have invented . “Crapper” itself, as a surname, seems to be a variation on “Cropper”; it likely doesn’t have much to ...
  3 days ago

• SubUrban Legend - Wild Turkeys

  
  MoreMarin Buzz Home — Authority: 438
  Wild turkeys running rampant in Marin are descendants of fowl served at the first Thanksgiving feast shared in 1621 by Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag. It was during that celebration when, yes, some toms and hens got wise and ran (well, trotted) west. Eventually a few made it all the way to Oregon and California, ...
  1 week ago

• Urban Legend: The Hook

  
  Paranormalknowledge.com — Authority: 137
  Here is a very interesting video talking about “The Hook” urban legend:
  1 week ago

• “The Shadow of the Urban Colossus”: black and white urban cityscape painting with the gigantic shadow of a man, abstract surrealism, surreal abstract human shadow, acrylic painting #8994, 2009 | Kazuya Akimoto Art Museum

  
  Kazuya Akimoto Art Blog0 — Authority: 118
  Kazuya Akimoto Art Museum “The Shadow of the Urban Colossus”: black and white urban cityscape painting with the gigantic shadow of a man, abstract surrealism, surreal abstract human shadow, acrylic painting #8994, 2009 | Kazuya Akimoto Art Museum named and added to gallery #16 ,2009  at ...
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• Perry Hall Mansion

  
  Paranormalknowledge.com — Authority: 137
  photo taken from perryhallmaryland.orgLocated in Baltimore, Maryland, Perry Hall Mansion is home to one of the most historic urban legends in the United States. It begins back in the 1700s, where the original owners died in the mansion on Halloween night.Brave people have entered the old mansion on Halloween night for ...
  1 week ago

• SubUrban Legend - Dueling in San Anselmo

  
  MoreMarin Buzz Home — Authority: 438
  The site first proposed for the infamous duel in 1804 of Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton was what is today San Anselmo. What could be more neutral than this California enclave far from the madding political crowd in the east?  Former Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton was a Federalist and Vice President Burr was a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Urban Meyer to Notre Dame? (WTSP-TV Tampa)

  
  Newsalistic — Authority: 169
  It was a parenthetical pause. An aside in a column I wrote last week comparing the differing coaching styles between the University of Florida’s Living Legend (Steve Spurrier) and current legend, or Urban Legend, (Urban Meyer). Originally posted here: Urban Meyer to Notre Dame? (WTSP-TV Tampa)
  2 weeks ago

• The Stupid Gene

  
  The World According to Xenocrates — Authority: 93
  “Stupidity is an unfortunate but necessary by product of cognitive evolution.” - Xenocrates Every once in a while, we hear about someone doing something so profoundly dumb, that it makes us wonder what compelled them to do it in the first place. However, stupidity is not exclusive to people who are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Travel Etiquette: Thanksgiving Travel Tips For Flying Travelers

  
  Seriously McMillan's "She So Ghetto" — Authority: 127
  It’s coming, folks. That busy time of the holiday season…Thanksgiving! Be prepared with some awesome tips from Seriously McMillan’s book, You Suck When You’re Rude: A Guide To Traveling The Country With Courtesy. (Available On AMAZON.COM right now!) Listen to tips that come straight from the book.  Problem ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is She Still “So Ghetto”?: What Author Seriously McMillan’s New Podcast Chat Is About?

  
  Seriously McMillan's "She So Ghetto" — Authority: 127
  Youll love The Seriously McMillan Show on BlogTalk Radio! Now, she’s talking! Yes, Seriously McMillan has written the books and those mannerly looks, but what the heck is she saying in the new Seriously McMillan Show? I just love doing radio and podcasts, goodness forbid that I have to do a video and I am not ...
  2 weeks ago

• NEVER SWEATING THE TECHNIQUE: J-RADICAL AND KOOL KOJAK TAKE URBAN LEGEND COLLABO TO NEXT LEVEL-THIS TIME WITH A TROPICAL SWAGGER

  
  MVRemix Urban — Authority: 156
  NEVER SWEATING THE TECHNIQUE: J-RADICAL AND KOOL KOJAK TAKE URBAN LEGEND COLLABO TO NEXT LEVEL-THIS TIME WITH A TROPICAL SWAGGER Dynamic production duo, J-Radical and Kool Kojak-AKA Urban Legend-is back on the scene with Tropical Techniques-the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed debut, Tranqulidad Cubana-the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Big Boob Blooper - A Story on FAIL Journalism

  
  My Little Moments — Authority: 110
  This is about a news article in The Star (published on November 12, 2009 ) that turned out to be a fake news fabricated by a supermarket tabloid 6 years ago. To save myself the trouble of telling the whole story again, let me attach the complaint letter I wrote to The Star here: Dear The Star Editor, I am writing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Canyon Road Urban Legend

  
  Paranormalknowledge.com — Authority: 137
  photo taken from flyrodder.smugmug.comThe Canyon Road urban legend is located in Beemer, Nebraska. As the legend goes, you must go to the golf course towards the gravel road. From the corner of this gravel road and the golf course, you can see a graveyard.At precisely 12:35 A.M., shut the car lights off and honk the ...
  2 weeks ago

• SubUrban Legend - Pigs in San Anselmo

  
  MoreMarin Buzz Home — Authority: 438
  Around the turn of the 20th century, San Anselmo was being overrun by blind pigs—scores of them. These fat and frenzied ungulates were charging all over town and wreaking havoc in all kinds of ways. (Not the least of which was creating an abundance of unwanted fertilizer.) At their wits end, citizens banded together ...
  3 weeks ago

• North Rolling Fork River

  
  Paranormalknowledge.com — Authority: 137
  photo taken from freewebs.comNorth Rolling Fork River runs parallel to the town of Bradfordsville, Kentucky. According to legend, in the summer of 1965 several kids of the town heard a strange sound coming from the river.The sound was interpreted as a whip being cast. As the kids went closer to the sound by the river, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama Exposed As a Fraud

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 140
  According to urban legend Barack Obama attended and graduated from Princeton and recieved a JD from Havard law School where legend also has that he edited the Harvard Law Review .  I say trust but verify.   As the assine notion that Obama ever attended college, must less actually graduated, I present, Scott ...
  3 weeks ago

• SubUrban Legend - Treasures from Mt. Tam

  
  MoreMarin Buzz Home — Authority: 438
  In 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson stood atop Mt. Tamalpais, marveled at the panorama below, then through his spyglass zeroed in on a small mound of land between San Francisco and Oakland. His tour guide whispered, "Sir, thats known as Treasure Island." It was a moment of revelation for the Scottish author, and his ...
  4 weeks ago

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