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Entries Tagged as 'urban legends'

Meteoritics Gumshoeing

October 3rd, 2022 · Comments Off on Meteoritics Gumshoeing

The Nakhla meteorite is one of the most famous objects to ever smash into this planet of ours. Originally produced by a Martian volcano some 1.3 billion years ago, the meteorite disintegrated over Egypt in 1911, producing at least 40 individual shards that currently reside in a range of museums. Locals who witnessed the event […]

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The Myth of the Mickey Slim

June 9th, 2010 · 16 Comments

Last week, the long discussion spurred by this post led one of our most trusted readers to offer this startling factoid: Bizarre note: there was a cocktail in the 40s and 50s called the Mickey Slim that was made with gin and a pinch of DDT. Sure enough, The Tubes abound with mentions of this […]

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The Lowdown on Brown-Brown

April 12th, 2010 · 24 Comments

If you haven’t read it already, Jon Lee Anderson’s latest dispatch from Guinea is well worth your time. The piece does an excellent job of conveying the chaos of Moussa Dadis Camara‘s brief reign, which was marred by one of the great atrocities of recent vintage. Suffice to say that Dadis and his cronies come […]

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In Defense of Hitchhiking

January 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments

It’s not often that we read a piece as boldly contrarian as this letter to the editor from the pages of The Bellingham Herald. The correspondent comes out hard in favor of a practice that’s likely to get you arrested if you don’t take care: hitchhiking: As a person who has traveled thousands of miles […]

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The Colombian Necktie Half-Truth

November 17th, 2009 · Comments Off on The Colombian Necktie Half-Truth

One of our favorite slept-on tracks of recent years is “Cali Hustle”, off the criminally hard-to-find Bay Bury-Ya compilation. In the song’s final verse, Mac Mall kicks off his bars with this clever line: Colombian neckties for small fries We’ve always taken it for granted that such a grisly fate has befallen many a criminal […]

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