August 4, 201412 yr The Pit Bull thread got me to thinking about myths. Things that so many people believe to be true. My favorite is the collect pull tabs in exchange for time on a kidney dialysis machine. This one is so believed that school systems and churches across the country have collected them at times. The National Kidney Foundation: News False rumors about an NKF pull tab program have circulated throughout the country since the early 1970s. Consequently, churches, community centers, schools and other groups have collected tabs and brought them to the NKF, only to find that they cannot be donated in exchange for a patient's dialysis time. "We've recently seen a dramatic upswing in calls from people asking where they can exchange the aluminum pull tabs they've been collecting," says NKF Chairman Joe Brand. "There's no such thing as a tabs-for-dialysis program.
August 4, 201412 yr Author All black men have larger "features" than other men. Bigger socks and gloves. :lol2:
August 4, 201412 yr All black men have larger "features" than other men. Soooooo, you know that to be a myth, do you?
August 4, 201412 yr Bigger socks and gloves. :lol2: Which leads me to another myth...that you can tell the size of a man's "features" by the length of his hands or feet.
August 4, 201412 yr The Pit Bull thread got me to thinking about myths. Things that so many people believe to be true. My favorite is the collect pull tabs in exchange for time on a kidney dialysis machine. This one is so believed that school systems and churches across the country have collected them at times. The National Kidney Foundation: News Been turning them into the Ronal McDonald house for years.
August 4, 201412 yr Author Another favorite is that rice can kill birds or make them blow up. Does Wedding Rice Make Birds Explode? While pigeon pyrotechnics would certainly be a unique way to cap off your special day, throwing wedding rice won't make birds blow up. It's not clear where this urban legend came from, but it got a popularity boost in 1985 when a Connecticut state representative proposed a law to prevent the tossing of rice at weddings. Then, in 1988, advice columnist Ann Landers printed a letter from a bride-to-be worried about "sounding like some kind of a nut" for asking her guests not to toss rice at her. Both the state representative and the anonymous advice-seeker expressed the same concern: That rice would expand after being eaten by wild birds, bursting open their digestive tracts and killing them. Landers advised the reader to ask the wedding party to pass along the no-rice rule to guests. (Presumably, any out-of-the-loop revelers could be tackled mid-toss in the name of avian conservation.) But there was just one problem with her advice: There is no evidence that rice poses any danger to birds. Landers printed a retraction just three months later in the form of a letter from Cornell ornithologist Steven Sibley.
August 4, 201412 yr Wrigleys gum in wrapper will not kill moles... Three prong spear traps, and a .22 long rifle will!
August 4, 201412 yr Here's a few 1. Columbus never reached any land that now forms part of the mainland United States of America. Most of his 4 trips he landed in the Caribbean. 2. George Washington did not have wooden teeth 3. It is not harmful to baby birds to pick them up and return them to their nests, despite the common belief that doing so will cause the mother to reject them
August 4, 201412 yr There is no such thing as a "sugar high/rush." There is no biochemical relation between sugar and hyperactivity.
August 4, 201412 yr Been turning them into the Ronal McDonald house for years. I think what charitable organizations who received them did find out that the tabs are made of a higher grade aluminum than the rest of the can, and are worth more on a per-pound basis while not taking up space the same way cans do.
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