| # |
Legend |
Category |
Edition |
Used |
| 1 |
Adulterous couple gets stuck in automobile during tryst. |
Love:
Betrayal |
1 |
Yes |
| 2 |
Ghostly handprints appear on cars at a San Antonio railway crossing. |
Horrors:
Ghosts |
1 |
Claimed |
|
|
| 3 |
A well-guarded car proves not to be so well guarded after all when it's found one morning turned around in its parking spot, sporting a "If we want it, we'll take it" note from the mischievous thieves. |
Autos:
Theft |
1 |
Yes |
| 4 |
Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide. |
Cokelore |
1 |
No |
| 5 |
Combining Coca-Cola and aspirin will get you high. |
Cokelore |
1 |
Claimed |
|
|
| 6 |
Student returning to dorm room naked is surprised by his girlfriend and her parents. |
College:
Embarrass |
1 |
No |
| 7 |
Female student asks biology instructor why semen tastes so salty. |
College:
Risque |
1 |
No |
| 8 |
Actor disguised as a beggar used to test divinity students' compassion. |
College:
Exam |
1 |
No |
| 9 |
Statues bow or call out messages when a virgin walks by. |
College:
Halls |
1 |
Yes |
| 10 |
Odd-looking building got that way because someone read the plans wrong and built it backwards. |
College:
Halls |
1 |
No |
| 11 |
Famous psychic predicts Halloween murder on campus. |
Horrors:
Madmen |
1 |
Yes |
| 12 |
University of Texas student loses both kidneys to organ thieves. |
Horrors:
Robbery |
1 |
Yes |
| 13 |
Angry fraternity exacts revenge on its enemies with adulterated donuts. |
College:
Pranks |
1 |
No |
| 14 |
Hooker sent to a john's room turns out to be his daughter. |
College:
Risque |
1 |
Claimed |
|
|
| 15 |
Summer intern at prestigious law firm sends embarrassing message to co-workers. |
Embarrass:
Email |
1 |
Yes |
| 16 |
Japanese software replaces Microsoft error messages with haiku poetry. |
Computer:
Internet |
1 |
Yes |
| 17 |
Account claims Dell is selling computers with keyboard loggers installed at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security |
Computer:
Internet |
1 |
No |
| 18 |
Police fool a criminal into confessing through a ruse involving a photocopier and a colander. |
Legal |
1 |
Yes
Claimed |
|
- McKay/Sheppard story claimed by js1gump
|
| 19 |
Rapists lure victims by posing as police officers and initiating traffic stops. |
Horrors:
Mayhem |
1 |
No |
| 20 |
Crooks unintentionally turn themselves in by calling 911. |
Crime:
Dumdum |
1 |
No |
| 21 |
Prospective gang members are initiated by killing the drivers of cars who flash their headlights at them. |
Horrors:
Madmen |
1 |
No |
| 22 |
Gang members are depositing a deadly mixture of LSD and strychnine on pay phone buttons. |
Horrors:
Mayhem |
1 |
Yes |
| 23 |
Gang initiates in the Memphis and DeSoto areas must kill a woman and small child in a Wal-Mart. |
Crime:
Gangs |
1 |
No |
| 24 |
Three streakers had their car stolen while they were running nude through a restaurant. |
Crime:
Deserts |
1 |
No |
| 25 |
Clever people enticed thieves into "stealing" their trash during garbage strikes by gift-wrapping it. |
Crime:
Mootloot |
1 |
Claimed |
|
|
| 26 |
Thieves make off with a suitcase, only to find it contains a wildcat. |
Critters:
Farce |
1 |
No |
| 27 |
Dough from an exploded biscuit canister leads a woman to believe she's been shot. |
Crime:
Safety |
1 |
No |
| 28 |
Old lady pulls gun on men she finds sitting in her car, then discovers that it's not her car. |
Crime:
Justice |
1 |
No |
| 29 |
Some older model cordless phones call 911 by themselves when their batteries are dying. |
Crime:
Safety |
1 |
Yes |
| 30 |
Gun-toting Australian granny blows the testicles off two men who raped her granddaughter. |
Crime:
Justice |
1 |
No |
| 31 |
A serial killer in Baton Rouge lures women from their homes by playing a recording of a crying baby. |
Crime:
Warnings |
1 |
Yes |
| 32 |
Rapists are using little children who appear to be lost to lure victims. |
Crime:
Warnings |
1 |
No |
| 33 |
Elephant kills zookeeper by defecating on him. |
Critters:
Malice |
1 |
No |
| 34 |
Seeing eye dog named Lucky causes the deaths of four of his owners. |
Critters:
Malice |
1 |
Yes |
| 35 |
Carpet installer pounds bump flat, then discovers family pet is missing. |
Critters:
Mishaps |
1 |
No |
| 36 |
Destructive act is blamed on convenient pet. |
Critters:
Mishaps |
1 |
Yes |
| 37 |
Dutiful son sends expensive talking bird to Mom, who mistakes it for a game bird and eats it. |
Critters:
Mishaps |
1 |
No |
| 38 |
Family pet startles man by sticking its cold nose into his genitals. |
Critters:
Farce |
1 |
Yes |
| 39 |
Kids leave turkey neck sticking out of Dad's pants; Mom faints when she sees cat gnawing on it. |
Risque:
Penile |
1 |
No |
| 40 |
Birdwatcher returns the call of rare bird only to discover he's been warbling at another birdwatcher. |
Critters:
Farce |
1 |
No |
| 41 |
Woman pens hilarious account of family's efforts to rescue trapped cat from garbage disposal. |
Critters:
Disposal |
1 |
No |
| 42 |
Swedish navy mistakes minks for enemy submarines. |
Critters:
Gnus |
1 |
Yes |
| 43 |
Alligators dwell in the sewers beneath New York City. |
Critters:
Lurkers |
1 |
No |
| 44 |
Giant catfish frighten divers sent to repair dams. |
Critters:
Lurkers |
1 |
No |
| 45 |
Waterskier falls into underwater nest of snakes |
Critters:
Snakes |
1 |
No |
| 46 |
Bargain-hunting shopper is fatally bitten by snake lurking in winter coat. |
Critters:
Snakes |
1 |
No |
| 47 |
Woman is impregnated by octopus eggs. |
Pregnant |
1 |
Yes |
| 48 |
A man stuck in cat door without his pants is mistaken for a work of art. |
Embarrass:
Buff |
1 |
Yes |
| 49 |
A man who tries to retrieve his morning newspaper in the altogether is inadvertently locked out of his home. |
Embarrass:
Buff |
1 |
Yes |
| 50 |
A hotel guest unwittingly chooses the skylight over a restaurant as the perfect place to get an all-over tan. |
Embarrass:
Buff |
1 |
Claimed |
|
|
| 51 |
Africans were horrified by an American baby food company's product packaging. |
Business:
Market |
1 |
No |
| 52 |
Food-related cultural differences lead to humorous incidents. |
Travel:
Foreign |
1 |
No |
| 53 |
International cookbook compiled by California home economics teachers includes recipe for "Stuffed Camel." |
Food:
Prepare |
1 |
No |
| 54 |
Bride wonders about family tradition of cutting the ends off of roasts before cooking them. |
Weddings:
Newlywed |
1 |
No |
| 55 |
Mountain Dew will shrink testicles and lower sperm count. |
Medical:
Potables |
1 |
Yes |
| 56 |
The combination of shrimp and Vitamin C tablets will cause arsenic poisoning. |
Medical:
Toxins |
1 |
No |
| 57 |
A death curse threatens U.S. Presidents elected in years evenly divisible by twenty. |
History:
American |
1 |
No |
| 58 |
Town's haunted house attraction is so scary that no one has ever completed a tour of it. |
Horrors:
Mayhem |
1 |
Yes |
| 59 |
Chanting "Bloody Mary!" thirteen times in front of a candlelit mirror will summon a vengeful spirit. |
Horrors:
Ghosts |
1 |
Yes |
| 60 |
A blow-up doll left as a Christmas gift caused hilarity one Christmas. |
Holidays:
Christmas |
1 |
No |
| 61 |
Terrorist attempting to light the fuse to a bomb hidden in his rectum is foiled by airline personnel. |
Humor:
Iftrue |
1 |
No |
| 62 |
Pacific Palisades High School placed an unusual message on their school telephone answering system. |
Humor:
Iftrue |
1 |
No |
| 63 |
Researchers have developed genetically engineered fruit trees that bear meat. |
Humor:
Iftrue |
1 |
No |
| 64 |
Roto-Rooter men find lots of strange things found in customers' drains. |
Humor:
Iftrue |
1 |
Yes |
| 65 |
A medical study has determined that working with idiots is 'one of the deadliest forms of stress.' |
Humor:
Iftrue |
1 |
Yes |
| 66 |
A man comes up with an inventive way to get even with two rude fellows. |
Humor:
Jokes |
1 |
No |
| 67 |
Thieves mistakenly break into sperm bank and consume 'vanilla pudding' they find there. |
Humor:
Jokes |
1 |
No |
| 68 |
Naked woman distracts drivers by washing their windshields while her partner robs the car. |
Humor:
Jokes |
1 |
No |
| 69 |
Man tricked into believing he's won the lottery confesses to adulterous affair. |
Love:
Betrayal |
1 |
No |
| 70 |
Young man discovers pharmacist who sold him condoms is his date's father. |
College:
Risque |
1 |
Yes |
| 71 |
Wife traps husband and his mistress in the back of a recreational vehicle. |
Love:
Revenge |
1 |
No |
| 72 |
Abandoned wife receives diet ad emblazoned with "Try it!" post-it note and is inspired to kill the husband's new girlfriend, who she believes sent it to her. |
Love:
Revenge |
1 |
No |
| 73 |
Tourists who have taken rocks from Hawaiian beaches have returned them in hopes of ending streaks of bad luck. |
Luck |
1 |
No |
| 74 |
AIDS was created by the CIA. |
Medical:
Disease |
1 |
No |
| 75 |
Typhoid Mary caused the deaths of thousands of people. |
Medical:
Disease |
1 |
No |
| 76 |
The drug Premarin is produced from the urine of pregnant horses. |
Medical:
Drugs |
1 |
No |
| 77 |
Man dressed as superhero knocks himself unconscious after tying wife to bed. |
Risque:
Kinky |
1 |
Yes |
| 78 |
Sane people are mistaken for lunatic asylum inmates. |
Medical:
Asylum |
1 |
No |
| 79 |
Fighting on opposite sides, father and son meet one last time on a Civil War battlefield. Found in the dying boy's pocket is the melody now known as Taps. |
Music:
Songs |
1 |
No |
| 80 |
Soldier serving overseas during the Gulf War receives a video of his wife having sex with other men and demanding a divorce. |
Military |
1 |
No |
| 81 |
Aircraft carrier orders lighthouse to change course. |
Military |
1 |
No |
| 82 |
After the Germans constructed a phony wooden airfield as a decoy during World War II, the British sent a plane to drop a wooden bomb on it. |
Military |
1 |
No |
| 83 |
General George S. Patton Jr. discovered the French were honoring a latrine pit. |
Military |
1 |
No |
| 84 |
Custom allows marriage-minded gals to propose to their boyfriends on February 29. |
Oldwives |
1 |
No |
| 85 |
Girl is impregnated by sperm in swimming pool. |
Pregnant |
1 |
No |
| 86 |
A man who has had an embryo implanted in his abdomen is engaged in the world's first human male pregnancy. |
Pregnant |
1 |
Yes |
| 87 |
Childless couple discovers the cause of their infertility is a lack of sex. |
Pregnant |
1 |
No |
| 88 |
Adulterous couple discovers their spouses are also having an affair. |
Risque:
Adultery |
1 |
No |
| 89 |
Green M&Ms are an aphrodisiac. |
Risque:
Aphrodisiacs |
1 |
Yes |
| 90 |
The drug clomipramine can cause orgasms in yawning patients. |
Risque:
Aphrodisiacs |
1 |
Yes |
| 91 |
Men think about sex every seven seconds. |
Science:
Stats |
1 |
No |
| 92 |
Police officer catches man screwing a pumpkin. |
Risque:
Caught |
1 |
No |
| 93 |
Naked woman invites her husband to "come and get it" in front of surprise party guests. |
Risque:
Caught |
1 |
No |
| 94 |
Couple accidentally returns erotic tape of themselves to video store. |
Risque:
Porn |
1 |
Yes
Claimed |
|
|
| 95 |
Copulating couple becomes stuck together in a case of penis captivus. |
Risque:
Penile |
1 |
No |
| 96 |
A wife punishes her husband's infidelity with a hot curling iron up his backside. |
Risque:
Revenge |
1 |
No |
| 97 |
Woman superglues cheating partner's penis to his leg. |
Risque:
Revenge |
1 |
No |
| 98 |
A man seeking sexual pleasure catches his penis in a swimming pool suction fitting. |
Risque:
Penile |
1 |
No |
| 99 |
The penis of gangster John Dillinger is on display at a Smithsonian museum. |
Risque:
Penile |
1 |
No |
| 100 |
Tent trailer collapses at campground, exposing couple engaged in intercourse. |
Risque:
Caught |
1 |
Claimed |
|
|
| 101 |
An American tourist picked up pacing outside a foreign hotel is mistaken for a streetwalker; she avoids going to jail by purchasing a license to practice prostitution. |
Risque:
Hookers |
1 |
Yes |
| 102 |
FAA instructs British train engineers in the proper use of a chicken cannon. |
Science |
1 |
No |
| 103 |
Scientists are predicting that the sun will explode in less than six years. |
Science |
1 |
No |
| 104 |
A planet-dissolving dust cloud will wipe out the solar system in 2014. |
Science |
1 |
No |
| 105 |
Golfer is poisoned by chewing on his tee. |
Horrors:
Poison |
1 |
No |
| 106 |
Waterproof sunscreen causes blindness. |
Inboxer:
Household |
1 |
Yes |
| 107 |
Airplane pilot's risqué comment into open mike is overheard by passengers. |
Risque:
Tattled |
1 |
Yes |
| 108 |
Imported cactus explodes and spews baby tarantulas everywhere. |
Horrors:
Insects |
1 |
Yes
Claimed |
|
- McKay/Sheppard story claimed by krysalys
|
| 109 |
Clown statue that spooks babysitter turns out to be a man hiding in the house. |
Horrors:
Madmen |
1 |
No |
| 110 |
Bug enters person's ear and eats its way through his brain. |
Horrors:
Insects |
1 |
Yes |
| 111 |
A hand-held police radar unit successfully tracked a military aircraft on maneuvers, nearly causing the aircraft to fire a missile in response. |
Horrors:
Techno |
1 |
No |
| 112 |
Bride-to-be sends over-the-top list of instructions to her attendants. |
Weddings:
Embarrass |
1 |
Yes |
| 113 |
A couple who return to the hotel where they honeymooned are shocked to discover their wedding night activities were videotaped and made available to other guests. |
Weddings:
Newlywed |
1 |
No |
| 114 |
A vengeful Muslim wife does in her husband's new wife by hiding a scorpion in the bride's wig. |
Weddings:
Horrors |
1 |
No |
| 115 |
Tampon used to stanch deadly wound saves Marine's life. |
Military |
2 |
Yes |
| 116 |
A mechanic working in a car's trunk mistaken for a kidnapping victim. |
Autos:
Mishaps |
2 |
No |
| 117 |
The military puts saltpeter in the food and drink of enlisted men to control their sexual urges. |
Military |
2 |
Yes |
| 118 |
Cake inscriptions gone wrong. |
Food:
Prepare |
2 |
Yes |
| 119 |
An adulterous couple trysting in a sports car becomes trapped inside the automobile (and each other) and has to be cut out by the fire department. |
Love:
Betrayal |
2 |
No |
| 120 |
A motorist who has a run-in with ruffians afterwards finds the severed fingers of his assailants caught on his car. |
Horrors:
Gruesome |
2 |
No |
| 121 |
The remains of a smoldering JATO-equipped Chevrolet Impala were found embedded in the side of a cliff in the Arizona desert. |
Autos:
Dream |
2 |
No |
| 122 |
An older woman takes revenge on the sassy young thing who brazenly zips into the parking space she'd been waiting for. |
Autos:
Insurance |
2 |
No |
| 123 |
Sober patron staggers out of bar at closing time to lure police away from his drunken friends. |
Autos:
Law |
2 |
No |
| 124 |
Motorist caught speeding by photo radar pays fine with picture of money; police send him photo of handcuffs in return. |
Autos:
Law |
2 |
No |
| 125 |
Driver sets the cruise control on his vehicle, then slips into the backseat for a nap. |
Autos:
Techno |
2 |
No |
| 126 |
Car's bad performance is caused by the driver's hanging her purse on the choke lever. |
Autos:
Techno |
2 |
No |
| 127 |
Mold that forms in pancake mix can cause life-threatening allergic reaction. |
Medical:
Toxins |
2 |
Claimed |
|
- McKay/Sheppard story claimed by krysalys
|
| 128 |
Cars equipped with remote keyless entry systems can be unlocked via cell phone. |
Autos:
Techno |
2 |
Yes |
| 129 |
Adding acetone to gasoline in an effort to improve gas mileage is a good idea. |
Autos:
Techno |
2 |
No |
| 130 |
American Express issues a special black card that allows its holders to buy anything. |
Business:
Bank |
2 |
No |
| 131 |
A bank issued a credit card to a tree. |
Business:
Bank |
2 |
No |
| 132 |
Apology letter sent to a wronged customer is marred by attached instructions to send the recipient the standard grovel. |
Business:
Consumer |
2 |
No |
| 133 |
Customers whose guaranteed hotel reservations were not honored protest by preparing humorous PowerPoint presentation. |
Business:
Consumer |
2 |
No |
| 134 |
Famous fix-it man charges $1 for marking an 'X' and $4,999 for knowing where to make it. |
Business:
Genius |
2 |
No |
| 135 |
A store made good on its offer to sell stereos for "299 bananas" when customers proffered the fruit as payment. |
Business:
Deals |
2 |
No |
| 136 |
Respected instructor is forced by university regulations to obtain an advanced degree in the subject he already teaches; the first class he enrolls in uses a textbook he wrote. |
College:
Admin |
2 |
No |
| 137 |
Students who arrive to find a tape recorder spewing the day's lecture retaliate by leaving tape recorders of their own behind to capture it. |
College:
Admin |
2 |
No |
| 138 |
College fills open faculty position through cynical job posting. |
College:
Admin |
2 |
No |
| 139 |
A physics professor gives a final examination that requires his students to explain how to measure the height of a tall building using a barometer. Instead of the expected answer, one student provides several unique but technically correct alternative solutions to the problem. |
College:
Exam |
2 |
No |
| 140 |
Student provides clever support for his answer about the physical properties of Hell. |
College:
Exam |
2 |
No |
| 141 |
Professor enters classroom through transom to spring pop quiz. |
College:
Exam |
2 |
No |
| 142 |
Student under the influence writes bizarre exam paper. |
College:
Exam |
2 |
No |
| 143 |
Student mistakes example of unsolvable math problem for homework assignment and solves it. |
College:
Homework |
2 |
Claimed |
|
|
| 144 |
Professor recognizes resubmission of his own term paper. |
College:
Homework |
2 |
No |
| 145 |
Class trains professor to stand in one corner of classroom. |
College:
Pranks |
2 |
No |
| 146 |
Microsoft is marketing the iLoo, an Internet-capable portable toilet. |
Computer:
Internet |
2 |
No |
| 147 |
Japanese thieves send a 'thank you' note to a bank after robbing it. |
Crime:
Clever |
2 |
No |
| 148 |
Mistaken belief that car radios in Fords contain chips that pick up satellite TV spurs car vandals. |
Crime:
Mootloot |
2 |
No |
| 149 |
Man who can't motivate police to investigate a break-in attempt at his home reports a shooting instead. |
Crime:
Safety |
2 |
No |
| 150 |
Kryptonite brand locks can be picked with ordinary Bic pens. |
Crime:
Warnings |
2 |
Yes |
| 151 |
Some residence locks are vulnerable to unauthorized entry through the use of "bump keys." |
Crime:
Warnings |
2 |
No |
| 152 |
Kitten is catapulted over treetops during rescue attempt. |
Critters:
Mishaps |
2 |
No |
| 153 |
Firemen successfully rescue stranded cat then run over it. |
Critters:
Mishaps |
2 |
No |
| 154 |
Tranquilizer given to cat causes opposite reaction. |
Critters:
Mishaps |
2 |
Yes |
| 155 |
Frustrated soldier throws snooty lady's dog off train; bystander comments he'd gotten rid of the wrong irritant. |
Critters:
Mishaps |
2 |
No |
| 156 |
Match used to splint a budgie's injured leg ignites and causes the bird to explode. |
Critters:
Mishaps |
2 |
No |
| 157 |
Dog leads wife to home of husband's mistress. |
Love:
Betrayal |
2 |
No |
| 158 |
A child smuggles a penguin out of an amusement park. |
Critters:
Farce |
2 |
No |
| 159 |
Crafters have been asked to knit sweaters for oil-soaked penguins. |
Critters:
Crusader |
2 |
Claimed |
|
- McKay/Sheppard story claimed by sidrin
|
| 160 |
The Oregon Department of Transportation blew up a dead whale. |
Critters:
Disposal |
2 |
Yes |
| 161 |
Wild pachyderm wreaks havoc on Indian village after falling in love with domesticated elephant. |
Critters:
Gnus |
2 |
No |
| 162 |
Amorous moose woos a lawn ornament. |
Critters:
Gnus |
2 |
No |
| 163 |
Snakes have been used as weapons in hold-ups. |
Critters:
Gnus |
2 |
No |
| 164 |
Woman smuggles snakes into Sweden by carrying them in her bra. |
Critters:
Gnus |
2 |
No |
| 165 |
Attorney General John Ashcroft believes calico cats are a sign of the devil. |
Critters:
Gnus |
2 |
No |
| 166 |
Love Bugs are the result of a genetic experiment gone wrong. |
Critters:
Lurkers |
2 |
No |
| 167 |
Boy mistakes baby snakes for worms while fishing. |
Critters:
Snakes |
2 |
No |
| 168 |
Porcupines can throw their quills from a distance. |
Critters:
Wild |
2 |
No |
| 169 |
Bonobos and dolphins are the only animals other than humans who engage in sex for pleasure. |
Critters:
Wild |
2 |
No |
| 170 |
Indonesian villagers captured a 49-foot, 983-pound python. |
Critters:
Wild |
2 |
No |
| 171 |
A mysterious bolt in a bedroom floor turns out to be holding up the chandelier in the room below. |
Embarrass:
Accident |
2 |
No |
| 172 |
Law firm secretary sends caustic reply to senior associate's e-mail request for a £4 cleaning bill reimbursement. |
Embarrass:
Email |
2 |
No |
| 173 |
A stock clerk's mishearing leads to an embarrassing question being broadcast over the store's P.A. system. |
Embarrass:
Feminine |
2 |
No |
| 174 |
A youngster embarrassingly confuses sanitary pads with dinner napkins. |
Embarrass:
Feminine |
2 |
No |
| 175 |
Intern for U.S. senator sends embarrassing break-up e-mail to his girlfriend. |
Embarrass:
Email |
2 |
No |
| 176 |
A woman stuck to a toilet seat provides a physician with an opportunity for the perfect bon mot. |
Embarrass:
Doctor |
2 |
No |
| 177 |
Restroom user responds to cell phone user's conversation overheard from the next stall. |
Embarrass:
Mistaken |
2 |
No |
| 178 |
Clueless cooks in the process of commiting Thanksgiving mayhem call turkey hot lines. |
Holidays:
Thanksgiving |
2 |
No |
| 179 |
For twenty-five years, two brothers-in-law traded the same pair of gift pants back and forth between them, each time finding more inventive ways to wrap them. |
Holidays:
Christmas |
2 |
Yes |
| 180 |
Bride cancels her wedding after announcing that the groom slept with the maid of honor. |
Weddings:
Embarrass |
2 |
No |
| 181 |
Couple is caught taking risqué pictures in an amusement park photo booth. |
Risque:
Caught |
2 |
Yes |
| 182 |
Young couple is surprised by party guests while engaging in sexual play. |
Risque:
Caught |
2 |
No |
| 183 |
Young couple stains a white sofa during anal sex and blame it on the dog. |
Risque:
Kinky |
2 |
No |
| 184 |
Man faints at discotheque after stuffing a cucumber into his pants. |
Risque:
Penile |
2 |
No |
| 185 |
Man staples scrotum back together after slicing it open while masturbating with shop machinery. |
Risque:
Penile |
2 |
No |
| 186 |
Woman who suffers a seizure clamps down on the penis of the man she's orally pleasuring. |
Risque:
Penile |
2 |
No |
| 187 |
Woman is impregnated with sperm carried by bullet. |
Pregnant |
2 |
No |
| 188 |
Daughter uses mother's birth control pills and replaces them with aspirin. |
Pregnant |
2 |
No |
| 189 |
The exotic medallion worn so proudly by a society matron bears an embarrassing inscription identifying her as a prostitute. |
Risque:
Hookers |
2 |
No |
| 190 |
AIDS victim exacts revenge on opposite sex by deliberately infecting lovers. |
Horrors:
Madmen |
2 |
No |
| 191 |
Woman's ribald telephone message describing her previous night's date is forwarded all over town. |
Risque:
Tattled |
2 |
No |
| 192 |
Brain-damaged LSD user believes himself to be glass of orange juice. |
Horrors:
Drugs |
2 |
Yes |
| 193 |
Gnome captured in the woods by drug-tripping teens turns out to be lost child. |
Horrors:
Drugs |
2 |
No |
| 194 |
Zero Population Growth terrorists have taken to boobytrapping toilets in men's restrooms. |
Horrors:
Mayhem |
2 |
No |
| 195 |
A vaguely menacing dream keeps a woman from being involved in a fatal crash. |
Horrors:
Ghosts |
2 |
Claimed |
|
|
| 196 |
Onlookers notice that the stranger dancing with a local girl has cloven hooves. |
Horrors:
Ghosts |
2 |
No |
| 197 |
The spiral stairway at Santa Fe's Loretto Chapel miraculously stands despite having no discernable means of support. |
Horrors:
Ghosts |
2 |
No |
| 198 |
Careless industrial worker is blinded for life when his contact lenses fuse to his eyes. |
Horrors:
Techno |
2 |
No |
| 199 |
Amusement park accident results in scalping. |
Horrors:
Techno |
2 |
No |
| 200 |
A construction worker survived an accident which poked an 18-inch-long drill bit through one eye and out through his skull. |
Horrors:
Techno |
2 |
No |
| 201 |
Motorcyclist on bike that has lost its brakes gives helmet to girlfriend, saving her life at the cost of his own. |
Horrors:
Traffic |
2 |
No |
| 202 |
Microsoft employee tells difficult customer he's "too stupid to own a computer." |
Humor:
Business |
2 |
No |
| 203 |
Insect-infested house is destroyed when too many "bug bombs" set by owner are ignited. |
Humor:
Follies |
2 |
No |
| 204 |
Nostradamus predicted that December 2000 would see "the village idiot come forth to be acclaimed the leader in the home of greatest power." |
Humor:
Iftrue |
2 |
No |
| 205 |
An 83-year-old grandmother beat up six airport security guards. |
Humor:
Iftrue |
2 |
Claimed |
|
|
| 206 |
U.S. Congress considers passage of the "Americans with No Abilities" Act. |
Humor:
Iftrue |
2 |
No |
| 207 |
Native Americans provide NASA with a cryptic message to take to the moon. |
Humor:
Jokes |
2 |
No |
| 208 |
Humorous list compiles a collection of howlers gleaned from patients' medical charts. |
Humor:
Lists |
2 |
No |
| 209 |
Job seeker sends sarcastic employment application to McDonald's and is hired. |
Humor:
Letters |
2 |
No |
| 210 |
A one-item psych test will reveal the psychopaths in your life. |
Inboxer:
Hoaxes |
2 |
No |
| 211 |
Hunting for Bambi, a Las Vegas-based business, has been conducting "hunts" of naked women for customers armed with paintball guns. |
Inboxer:
Outrage |
2 |
No |
| 212 |
Young man tries to distract his date's parents from his dinnertime faux paus by inadvertently calling their attention to an even more embarrassing situation. |
Love:
Dating |
2 |
No |
| 213 |
A man having dinner with his fiancée's parents zips the edge of the tablecloth into his pants by mistake. |
Love:
Dating |
2 |
No |
| 214 |
Abandoned wife throws herself out a window and lands on her husband. |
Love:
Revenge |
2 |
No |
| 215 |
A deceived woman exacts revenge on her married lover by slipping his wedding ring onto his penis. |
Love:
Revenge |
2 |
No |
| 216 |
A drug called Progesterex is being used by date rapers to sterilize their victims. |
Medical:
Drugs |
2 |
No |
| 217 |
Drug traffickers are hiding small amounts of ricin in methamphetamine labs to kill law enforcement officers. |
Medical:
Toxins |
2 |
No |
| 218 |
Use of a laptop computer can reduce a man's sperm count. |
Medical:
Toxins |
2 |
No |
| 219 |
The family of a POW are reassured by letter sent by their son until they steam off the stamp and read what's written there. |
Military |
2 |
No |
| 220 |
Bigot who demands the local military provide suitable escorts for his teen daughters is given his comeuppance. |
Military |
2 |
No |
| 221 |
A photograph of a shark jumping out of the water to attack a diver dangling from a helicopter is real. |
Photos:
Animals |
2 |
No |
| 222 |
"Dogs and sailors: Keep off the grass" admonishments were commonly displayed in U.S. naval towns. |
Military |
2 |
No |
| 223 |
The youngest mother on record was a five-year-old Peruvian girl. |
Pregnant |
2 |
No |
| 224 |
Drug test cheater is caught when urinalysis reveals that he's pregnant. |
Pregnant |
2 |
No |
| 225 |
NASA scientists discovered a lost day in time. |
Religion |
2 |
No |
| 226 |
Marking 'Jedi' as your religion on census forms will force your government to grant it official status. |
Religion |
2 |
Claimed |
|
|
| 227 |
A blind girl "saw" the flash of the first atomic bomb test. |
Science |
2 |
No |
| 228 |
The average person swallows eight spiders per year. |
Science:
Stats |
2 |
No |
| 229 |
A study undertaken by the World Health Organization concluded that natural blondes are likely to be extinct within 200 years. |
Science:
Stats |
2 |
No |
| 230 |
Sneezing seven times in a row is the same as an orgasm. |
Science:
Stats |
2 |
No |
| 231 |
It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile. |
Science |
2 |
No |
| 232 |
Pouring salt water into their coin slots will induce vending machines to dispense free product. |
Science |
2 |
No |
| 233 |
Bride's mix-up results in an embarrassingly inappropriate Bible verse being inscribed on her wedding cake. |
Weddings:
Embarrass |
2 |
No |
| 234 |
A scorned woman dumped a bucket of manure onto the bride who ended up with her boyfriend. |
Weddings:
Embarrass |
2 |
No |
| 235 |
Bride and groom are arrested after fighting over cake-feeding custom. |
Weddings:
Embarrass |
2 |
No |
| 236 |
A bride kidnapped on her honeymoon turns up years later as a mutilated freak in a sex show. |
Weddings:
Horrors |
2 |
No |
| 237 |
Pilot locks himself out of the cockpit and has to use a fire axe to get back to the controls. |
Travel:
Airline |
2 |
Yes |
| 238 |
A man soared three miles above Los Angeles in an "aircraft" consisting of a lawn chair tethered to helium weather balloons. |
Travel:
Airline |
2 |
No |
