New Urban LegendsRecent additions to the Urban Legends Reference Pages at snopes.comIowa Tornado- June 18, 2008 Photograph purportedly shows a tornado that killed four Boy Scouts in Iowa.http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/iowatornado.asp Dry Drowning- June 17, 2008 Account of a 10-year-old boy's death explains dry drowning and its symptoms.http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/drydrowning.asp Favorite Sons- June 16, 2008 Does the U.S. Constitution require presidential and vice-presidential candidates to be from different stateshttp://www.snopes.com/history/american/vicepresident.asp Brown Bagged- June 15, 2008 Did Mrs. James Brown once try to beat traffic charges by claiming she was entitled to diplomatic immunityhttp://www.snopes.com/autos/law/mrsbrown.asp Shark Accounted- June 13, 2008 A perennial linguistic debate: Is someone who cheats at cards properly styled a card shark or a card sharphttp://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/cardshark.asp Oeuf the Wall- June 12, 2008 The "cooking an egg with cell phones" hoax is expanded to include popcorn.http://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp Thrown Puppy- June 12, 2008 Update to the case of the video showing U.S. Marines in Iraq throwing a puppy off a hillside.http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/throwpuppy.asp |