An excellent article from the Cox News Service surveys the phenomenon of grassroots boycotting in the Internet age and offers tips for telling the occasional worthy cause from hoaxes and ... Read More

From the "Things That Sound Like Urban Legends but Aren't"  file... A woman dining at a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, California received the shock of her life last Tuesday when ... Read More

"Rule 1: Life is not fair -- get used to it! Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you ... Read More

"This crocodile was on the beach in front of the Petroleum club, Plage Sportive in Pointe-Noire," claims an email making the rounds since 2003.  "21 ft. long, 4,500 lbs, around ... Read More

I just learned while perusing the indispensible Museum of Hoaxes blog that you can now purchase meat-scented condoms for your dog online. "Just as forced sterilization isn't the answer for ... Read More

When I was about 10, I was drinking the last can of Coke. I wanted some more, so I took a Pepsi that was in the refrigerator since it's pretty ... Read More

Scientists exhumed the corpse of Hogzilla and performed a battery of tests on it during a National Geographic TV special shown last Sunday in hopes of establishing once and for ... Read More

The "Good Luck of Flanders" letter is a classic example from the 1930s. It promised prosperity to all who copied it and sent it on to four other people within ... Read More

It had been bad during the reign of King Yon-san, with mayhem loose all throughout the land and the most wicked of evils set in motion by the king himself. ... Read More

Was it a slow news week, or what? I don't know how else to explain major media coverage over the past few days of SaveToby.com, the Web site where a ... Read More

The Hindustan Times reports that hysteria has broken out in Outer Delhi because of a rumor claiming that witches are responsible for several unexplained deaths in the region. "According to ... Read More

A woman was working in a post office in California, one day she licked the envelopes and postage stamps instead of using a sponge. That very day the lady cut ... Read More

Lest non-Canadians who receive this email urban legend be confused, dialing *677 on one's cell phone for emergency services does work, but only in Ontario, Canada, where the number connects ... Read More

Well-traveled tabloid tale recounting the exploits of 81-year-old Ava Estelle of Melbourne, Australia, who took revenge on the two thugs who raped her granddaughter by tracking them down and shooting ... Read More

Rumors questioning R&B/hip-hop star Ciara's gender and/or sexual orientation have been circulating since late 2004. One version claims the singer "came out" as a transsexual on The Oprah Winfrey Show. ... Read More

Someone has dredged up and recirculated a 2001-vintage email advocating a boycott of gasoline produced from Middle Eastern oil — Saudi Arabian oil, specifically, in this slightly revised version. ... Read More

Circulating anew: "Although this looks like a picture taken from a Hollywood movie," reads the caption of this emailed image of a shark lunging at a diver clinging to the ... Read More

In which we authenticate, better late than never, senatorial candidate John Glenn's rousing rejoinder to opponent Howard Metzenbaum's alleged barb about the career Marine and ex-astronaut never having held a ... Read More

"The fabulist Aesop, if there ever was such a person, was an ugly son of a bitch," writes Peter Kohler. "Some compared him to a turnip, others to a pot ... Read More

In answer to the urgent emails that are still coming in three weeks after a grammatically impaired death notice appeared on the Web claiming that "Napoleon Dynamite" star Jon Heder ... Read More

Last week I reported with the help of John Marcario that SaveToby.com appeared to be out of business, since neither of the PayPal accounts provided for donating money to the ... Read More

A lady said that when she was visiting her cattle rancher Uncle in Billings, MT a few years ago, they went to dinner at a restaurant that does not take ... Read More

Did the son of a Scottish farmer who allegedly saved the life of the young Winston Churchill grow up to become the inventor of penicillin, which supposedly saved the life ... Read More

As if there weren't too many things to waste our time on the Internet already: "Hello everyone. It will be interesting to see who responds! I told a guy that ... Read More

Rumor has it that President Bush attended a meeting of Native Americans recently and was christened "Walking Eagle" by tribal elders. It was later explained to reporters that the name ... Read More

American University journalism grad student John Marcario informs me that as of Feb. 28 the PayPal link on SaveToby.com — the Website claiming that a cute bunny named Toby will ... Read More

The Sunday Mirror is reporting that the "notoriously right-wing Christian and reformed alcoholic" George W. Bush has let it be known through aides that newlyweds Prince Charles and Camilla Parker ... Read More

Proving that a forwarded email can, on rare occasions, purvey entirely useful information: Did you know it's a good idea to rinse the lint filter of your clothes dryer in ... Read More

"Hollywood still has a few who are worth their salt," begins this new addition to the Netlore Archive. "Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC (Brooke Army Medical Center, in San Antonio, ... Read More

"Every few years," writes Anita Szoke in today's Peoria Journal Star, "central Illinois businesses are deluged with requests purportedly for a good cause: They're asked to send a business card ... Read More