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   <title>About.com Urban Legends: Most Popular Articles</title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Urban Legends Photo Quiz: Spot the Fakes!]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[quiz spot photo quiz urban legends: Real or Fake? The Urban Legends Photo Quiz]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin Bikini Picture - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_sarah_palin_bikini_pic.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image purports to show Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin posing for a photo sporting an American flag bikini and a rifle.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[POSTCARD or POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK Virus Hoax - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_postcard_virus.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Hoax email alert warns of 'the worst virus ever' circulating in the form of an attachment labeled 'POSTCARD' or 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK']]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Is Barack Obama a Muslim? - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_barack_obama_muslim.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email rumor alleges that U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is a Muslim who has lied about his religious background, including his claim to being a devout Christian]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Amazing Tsunami Picture - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_tsunami_picture.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image purports to show the devastating tsunami of December 26, 2004 washing ashore on the Thai island of Phuket (or Indonesia, depending on version]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Test Your Urban Legends IQ]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_quiz1.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[urban legends iq: Urban Legends Quiz: Test your urban legends IQ!]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hercules, World&#039;s Biggest Dog - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_hercules_worlds_biggest_dog.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image of a gargantuan dog named Hercules, purportedly the Guinness Record holder for World's Biggest Dog]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Current Hoaxes / Netlore]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/current_netlore.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[From About.com: Current Internet hoaxes, email rumors and urban legends debunked - your resource for information on all the latest misinformation on the Net]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[New Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/reference/a/new_uls.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Find info on the latest Internet hoaxes, rumors, and the most popular stories circulating today.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Top 25 Urban Legends]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Most popular urban legends topics of the past week]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Burundanga Drug Warning]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/crime/a/burundanga.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded emails warn that criminals are using business cards impregnated with a potent street drug called burundanga (aka scopolamine) to incapacitate victims before attacking them.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cell Phone &#039;Do Not Call&#039; List?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/cell_directory.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email warns that a directory of cell phone numbers will soon be published and urges users to enter their cell phone numbers on a federal 'Do Not Call' list to prevent unsolicited calls from telemarketers]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Legend of Bloody Mary]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/bloody_mary.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Bloody Mary: Legend has it that if you stand in front of a mirror in a darkened room and chant 'Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary' several times, a terrifying ghost will appear.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hair Bands Made from Used Condoms in China - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_hair_bands_condoms.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Authorities in China have reportedly discovered instances of used condoms being recycled to make cheap elastic hair bands.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Breast Infestation - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_breast_larvae.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Ladies, wash your underwear in boiling water! Emailed image and video purport to document the medical case of anthropologist Susan McKinley, who failed to seek treatment for a rash and wound up with an infestation of larvae in her breast.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Barack Obama Antichrist]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obamaantichrist.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email rumor claims charismatic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama is the Antichrist prophesied in the New Testament.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Jamie Lee Curtis]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/jamieleecurtis/a/jamieleecurtis.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Longstanding (and unproven) rumors claim actress Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaphrodite or was born intersex and underwent surgery to become a woman]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bogus Sarah Palin Quotes]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/sarahpalin/a/bogus_quotes.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating via email, a series of preposterous quotes attributed to Repubican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on the subjects of evolution, oil drilling in ANWR, and Alaskans serving in the military in Iraq.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[World&#039;s Biggest Dog]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/World-s-Biggest-Dog.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image of a gargantuan dog named Hercules, purportedly the Guinness Record holder for World's Biggest Dog.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Eye of God? (Hubble Telescope Photo) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_eye_of_god.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[NASA photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope has been labeled the 'Eye of God' by frequent forwarders]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hercules the Liger (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_liger_hercules.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[AUTHENTIC: Emailed photos of a 10-foot 'liger' (a cross between a lion and a tiger) named Hercules]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[FW: Don&#039;t Feed Your Cat Table Scraps - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_2004_giant_cat.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[guinness world record guinness world record holder cat lore quiz image table scraps: Emailed photo of a really, really big housecat]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Richard Gere &amp; the Gerbil]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/celebrities/a/richard_gere.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[I don't mean to sound cranky, but all too often when I tell folks I debunk urban legends for a living, the first question that pops out of their mouths is: 'What about that thing with Richard Gere and the gerbil? Is THAT true?' ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Eminem Dead in Car Crash?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/celebrities/a/eminem_dead.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Web hoax claims famed rapper Eminem died in a car crash in December 2000]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Top 10 Scariest Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/tp/top10scariest.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The Top 10 scariest urban legends ever told]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ericsson &#039;Free Laptop&#039; Hoax]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/ericsson_hoax.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email chain letter claims phone manufacturer Ericsson will give away free laptop computers to those who forward the message to at least eight people]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Mr. Rogers a  Sniper?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fredrogers/a/mr_rogers.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Was Fred Rogers, longtime host of the children's TV show Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, a trained sharpshooter with dozens of kills to his credit as a Marine sniper (or Navy Seal)?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Brown Recluse Spider Bite (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_brown_recluse_bite.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos purport to show the progressive deterioration of a wound caused by the bite of the poisonous brown recluse spider]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[World Record Grizzly Bear (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-grizzlybear.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Are emailed pictures of a giant, 1,600-pound, man-eating grizzly bear allegedly killed in Alaska by a hunter or Forest Service employee real?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Was a Giant Human Skeleton Found in Saudi Arabia Desert? - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_giant_skeleton.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Recent gas exploration activity in the southeast region of the Arabian desert uncovered skeletal remains of a human of phenomenal size']]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Did Nostradamus Predict 9/11?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/nostradamus.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Internet rumors claim French seer Nostradamus predicted the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon 500 years before they happened.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[World&#039;s Tallest Woman - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_worlds_tallest_woman.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos purport to show the world's tallest woman at 7 feet, 4 inches tall and 320 pounds]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) Recall - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blppa.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded emails warning that non-prescription medicines containing phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride may have adverse health effects were accurate at the time they were issued but are now outdated]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Why the Ocean Is So Salty - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_blue_whale.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Is it true that a blue whale produces over 400 gallons of sperm when it ejaculates, and that explains the saltiness of the ocean?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[On Oct. 17 the Sun Will Rise Continuously for 36 Hours (1.5 Days) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_sun_will_rise_continuously.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Baseless online rumor claims 'the sun will rise continuously for 36 hours' on October 17, 2008, turning three regular days into 'two big days' - an event which supposedly only happens once every 2,400 years.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Camel Spider (Photo) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_camel_spider.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Attack of the Camel Spider! Emailed photo taken by U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq shows a pair of huge, scary-looking insects known as camel spiders.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bill Gates Is Sharing His Fortune! - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blmsaol.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Sorry, folks. Microsoft and AOL have not merged, nor has Bill Gates decided to share his fortune with people who forward silly chain letters]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Rumor: Biden to Quit on Oct. 5]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/joebiden/a/octobersurprise.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Internet rumor predicts an Obama campaign 'October surprise' -- Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden will 'excuse himself' from the ticket for health reasons and be replaced by Hillary Clinton.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Test Your Urban Legends IQ - Advanced Level]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_quiz2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[urban legends level test iq: Urban Legends Quiz: Test your urban legends IQ!]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Shark Attacks Helicopter]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/Shark-Attacks-Helicopter.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Is that a great white shark lunging out of the water to attack a scuba diver dangling from that helicopter rescue ladder?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[No Electioneering at the Polls]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/government/a/electioneering.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email rumor warns Barack Obama supporters not to wear Obama shirts, pins, hats, or other paraphernalia to polling places because it is considered campaigning (electioneering) under the law and grounds for officials to turn voters away.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Giant Catfish Caught in Lake Texoma (2004) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_2004_catfish.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photo of a huge catfish supposedly caught in Lake Texoma, Texas]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - The Eye of God]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow6a.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow6a.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ashley Flores, Missing Person - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_ashley_flores_missing.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Ashley Flores hoax: Email flier seeks help locating Ashley Flores, a 13-year-old girl allegedly missing in Philadelphia]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Marks &amp; Spencer Hoax]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/marks_spencer.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Chain letter claims recipients will receive a free gift voucher from Marks &amp; Spencer and Persimmon Homes if they pass the message along to at least eight other people.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Do They Eat Babies in China?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/eating_babies.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Do they eat babies in China? Photos circulating on the Internet purport to show a Chinese man cooking and eating a human baby or fetus. Are they real?]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Shark Attacks Helicopter! - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blsharkattack.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Photo purporting to show a great white shark lunging out of the water to attack a scuba diver dangling from a helicopter ladder]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blsharkattack.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ciara&#039;s Secret Sex Change]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/celebrities/a/ciara.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Internet rumors are flying to the effect that hip-hop/R&amp;B star Ciara was born a man and is either a transvestite or underwent a sex-change operation to become a transsexual]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[David Letterman Email Hoax]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/davidletterman/a/spoiled_brats.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Article attributed to late-night talk show host David Letterman labels the majority of Americans &quot;ungrateful, spoiled brats&quot; for saying they're unhappy with the current direction of the country.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pit Bull vs. Porcupine (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_pit_bull_vs_porcupine.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images show the result of an unfortunate encounter between a 'pit bull' and a porcupine]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_pit_bull_vs_porcupine.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Halloween History FAQ]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/halloween/ss/halloween_3.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The ancient Celts of Ireland and Scotland observed an annual harvest festival on November 1 known as Samhain (pronounced sow'-en or sow'-een), which marked the beginning of winter and was thought to be the time when the souls of those who had perished during the year journeyed to the 'otherworld.']]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Amazing&#039; Satellite Photos of Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-shuttle-explosion.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Are dramatic photographs allegedly taken by an Israeli satellite of the Columbia Space Shuttle explosion real?]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-shuttle-explosion.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[90# Telephone Scam - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa021898.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The 90# Telephone Scam - Patrick Crispen of The Internet Tourbus weighs in on a PARTLY true Net rumor]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Animal-Human Hybrid (Photo) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_half_human.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating via email, an unsettling photograph of what appears to be a half-human, half-animal creature suckling her hybrid offspring]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_half_human.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Altoids Effect - Altoids Mints and Oral Sex - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blaltoids.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Altoids Lore: Does chewing this 'curiously strong' brand of mint before fellatio (oral sex) enhance the pleasure?]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blaltoids.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Brain Maggots / Sushi Worms - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-brainworms.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos of a man whose brain allegedly became infested with maggots (or worms) as a result of an ingrown hair (or eating sushi)]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-brainworms.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Animals &amp; Insects - Net hoaxes, urban legends &amp; rumors]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxanimals.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[clarion county pennsylvania black lab puppies west liberty kentucky beneful dog food flotsam and jetsam: Current Netlore: Animals &amp; insects]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Current Netlore - Internet hoaxes, rumors, etc. - A to Z Index, cont.]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxatoz4.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[anthropologist susan mckinley internet hoaxes rumors actor lee marvin 24k gold ring flotsam and jetsam: A-Z listing of current Netlore, p. 4]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Giant Texas Rattlesnake - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_texas_rattlesnake.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed picture of a giant rattlesnake killed in Texas, allegedly measuring 9 feet 1 inch in length and weighing 97 pounds]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_texas_rattlesnake.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bill Cosby&#039;s Pres. Platform]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/billcosby/a/cosby_write_in.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating online, a 'presidential platform' attributed to 'write-in candidate' Bill Cosby. He had nothing to do with it.]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/billcosby/a/cosby_write_in.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Obama Not a U.S. Citizen?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama_citizen.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email rumor claims that Barack Obama is ineligible to become president because according to the laws in effect at the time of his birth he is not a natural-born citizen of the U.S.]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama_citizen.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bottled Water Safety Alert]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/medical/a/bottled-water.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email warns women not to drink bottled water that has been left in a car because the heat supposedly releases cancer-causing toxins which 'leak' from the plastic into the water.]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/medical/a/bottled-water.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Origin of the F-Word - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-f-word.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[In which we are told -- with a straight face -- that the word 'fuck' originated as the acronym of 'Fornication Under Consent of the King' (or some variation thereof)]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-f-word.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Hercules the Liger]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow98.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow98.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Leno on Spoiled Americans?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dubiousquotes/a/jay_leno.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Article attributed to Tonight Show host Jay Leno labels the majority of Americans 'ungrateful, spoiled brats' for saying they're unhappy with the current direction of the country]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dubiousquotes/a/jay_leno.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Obama Explains Flag Salute]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama_anthem.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating via email, an alleged quote from Barack Obama explains why he doesn't wear a flag pin or salute the flag during the national anthem.]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama_anthem.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Secret Cell Phone Tips?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/cellphone_tips.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email flier purports to clue readers in on various 'unknown' tips and tricks for cell phone use]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/cellphone_tips.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Dr. James Dobson vs. Petition No. 2493 (Religious Broadcasting) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_petition_2493.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[New email variants of decades-old petition expressing outrage over alleged attempt by atheists to force a government ban on religious broadcasting in the United States]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_petition_2493.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Dead Mermaid Found in the Philippines - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_mermaid_philippines.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos purportedly show the carcass of a dead mermaid found washed up on a beach in the Philippines]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_mermaid_philippines.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Brain Maggots / Sushi Worms]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Brain-Maggots---Sushi-Worms.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A set of photos showing a man whose brain allegedly became infested with maggots (or 'worms') as a result of letting an ingrown hair go untreated (or eating sushi, depending on version).]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Brain-Maggots---Sushi-Worms.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Strawberry Meth Drug Warning - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_strawberry_meth.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email fliers warn of a new, candy-flavored form of methamphetamine targeted at young people called 'strawberry meth' or 'Strawberry Quick']]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_strawberry_meth.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Snake Swallows Man - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa061101a.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Series of photos circulating via email purports to show a gigantic snake - said to be an anaconda, python, or boa constrictor - swallowing a human being whole]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa061101a.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - World&#039;s Tallest Woman (#2)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow92.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow92.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Microwave Ovens, Plastic Wrap and Dioxin - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-microwave-dioxin.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Does microwaving foods in plastic containers or covered with plastic wrap expose consumers to deadly cancer-causing dioxins?]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-microwave-dioxin.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Gas Pump &#039;Clear&#039; Button]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/clear_button.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email advises service station customers to press the 'clear' button after using a debit or credit card at the gas pump so subsequent users won't be able to 'piggyback' charges on their accounts.]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/clear_button.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Don&#039;t Turn on the Light!]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/turn_on_light.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[After coming home late and getting ready for bed in the dark, a college coed wakes up the next morning to receive the shock of her life...]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Urban Legends Sex Quiz]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_sex_quiz.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Quiz: Urban Legends about romance, sex, and scandal]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[*77 or #77 Cell Phone Feature - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcellphone77.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Female college student pulled over in her car by a cop-impersonating would-be rapist is rescued by a real officer after dialing #77 (or *77) on her cell phone]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcellphone77.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[New Dollar Coin Omits &#039;In God We Trust&#039; - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_dollar_coin.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email rumor claims the motto 'In God We Trust' was omitted from the new one-dollar U.S. coin issued in February 2007]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_dollar_coin.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The \$250 Cookie Recipe]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fooddrink/a/cookie_recipe.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Here is a 'true story' almost everyone has heard by now - the infamous $250 Cookie Recipe, most recently associated with the Neiman Marcus company, but previously (during the 1980s) the bane of cookie diva Mrs. Fields]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Current Netlore - A to Z Index]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxatoz.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[warsaw ghetto uprising clarion county pennsylvania flotsam and jetsam khao lak thailand nazi oppression: A-Z listing of current Netlore]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Why Friday the 13th Is Unlucky]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/friday_the_13th.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[As folklorists, we may not be able to cure paraskevidekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th), but we can at least lend its sufferers a few good excuses.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Jelly Bracelets - An Invitation to Sex? - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_jelly_bracelets.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[It is widely believed - apparently more so by adults than by the teenagers themselves - that the 'jelly bracelets' currently popular among junior high school students are color-coded according to the wearer's willingness to perform certain sexual acts]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Polar Bear Attack (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_polar_bear_attack.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos graphically document injuries sustained by the survivor of a polar bear attack]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Brain Maggots / Sushi Worms (#1)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow25.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Texas Tornado / Oil Rig Photo - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_texas_tornado.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Dramatic image purportedly captures a massive nighttime tornado illuminated by lightning not far from an oil rig near Ft. Stockton, Texas.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Giant Catfish]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/Giant-Catfish.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photo of a huge catfish supposedly caught in Lake Texoma, Texas.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Quiz: Celebrity Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_celeb_quiz.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[urban legends iq quiz celebrity: Quiz: Celebrity Urban Legends]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Doctors Find Live Worm in Patient&#039;s Eye - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-eye-worm.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[When the doctors operated, what was thought to be a growth or cyst actually turned out to be a live worm; what was thought initially to be mere dust in the patient's eye was actually an insect's egg...]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Obama&#039;s Wall Street Friends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/wall_street.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email outlines alleged improprieties on the part of three former Fannie Mae executives and claims they are all now serving as economic advisors to Barack Obama.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[World&#039;s Highest Bridge - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_worlds_highest_bridge.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photo of the world's highest bridge, the Millau Viaduct in southern France]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Dead Mermaid Found After Tsunami - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_mermaid_tsunami.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos allegedly show the carcass of a dead mermaid washed up on a beach at Chennai, India by the devastating tsunami of December 26, 2004]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Maureen Dowd/Obama Hoax]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama_funds.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Phony op-ed column attributed to New York Times writer Maureen Dowd claims Barack Obama has accepted campaign donations from foreign countries including Saudi Arabia and Iran.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Cell Phone Popcorn Video]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1a.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1a.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Obama on the Phone (Photo) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_obama_phone.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photo shows presidential candidate Barack Obama speaking on the phone while apparently holding the receiver upside-down]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Crocodile Eats Golfer (Photo) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcroc.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The impatient golfer was not located, but his clubs were found on the hole. Three days later, Ole Mose was spotted on the seventh hole and was an immediate suspect...]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Email Petitions, Politics and Protest - Current Netlore]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxprotest.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[warsaw ghetto uprising jim neugent flotsam and jetsam civil liberties union aclu objects: Internet hoaxes, email rumors and urban legends]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Animal-Human Hybrid]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19d.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19d.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cook County Correctional Center (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_cook_county_correctional.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos purportedly show the stylish and comfortable new digs of prison inmates in Chicago's Cook County Correctional Center]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Brain Maggots / Sushi Worms (2)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Brain-Maggots---Sushi-Worms-2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A set of photos showing a man whose brain allegedly became infested with maggots (or 'worms') as a result of letting an ingrown hair go untreated (or eating sushi, depending on version).]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Black and White Twins (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_black_and_white_twins.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images show a pair of twin sisters - one black, the other white - born to a British couple who both had mixed-race parents]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fw: New Summer Trends (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_new_summer_trends.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos purportedly depicting 'new summer trends' show women with symmetrical rows of skin-piercings on their torsos laced up like old-fashioned corsets]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Citgo / Petro Express Boycott - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_citgo_boycott.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[AFA email flier urges Americans to boycott Citgo-branded gas stations in response to anti-U.S. statements made by Venezuela president Hugo Chavez]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[How Clean Are Dogs&#039; Mouths?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dogs/a/dog_breath.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[If you don't mind my falling back on a gut feeling, I'd rather be French-kissed by a human being than a dog any day...]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Herman the Giant Bunny Rabbit - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_giant_bunny.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image of a very large 'German Giant' rabbit named Herman, in the arms of his owner, Hans Wagner]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Amy Bruce Chain Letter - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blamybruce.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The sad, untrue story of 7-year-old lung cancer victim Amy Bruce - another 'dying child' who doesn't really exist]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Card Trick: I Can Read Your Mind!]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_card_trick.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[I can read your mind! Don't believe me? Here, I'll prove it...]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Is Steve Burns Really Dead?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/celebrities/a/steve_burns.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Did Steve Burns die of a drug overdose? Nope, he's alive and well. Internet rumors prove false once again...]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Does Freezing / Microwaving Plastic Containers Release Dioxin? - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_frozen_plastic_dioxin.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email flier purporting to relay information from a Johns Hopkins newsletter claims that freezing water in plastic bottles and microwaving foods in plastic wrap releases toxic dioxin and may cause cancer]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[You&#039;ve Received a Postcard (Trojan / Virus) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_you_received_greeting_card.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Real virus: Messages with subject headers such as 'You've received a postcard from a school-mate!' or 'You have recieved a Hallmark E-Card,' etc. may contain links to malicious Web pages]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Chimera]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/Chimera.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating via email, an unsettling photograph of what appears to be a half-human, half-animal creature suckling her hybrid offspring.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Weightlifting Mishap]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Weightlifting-Mishap.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[This shocking image, origin unknown, purports to show a weightlifter suffering from a prolapsed rectum after attempting to lift more weight than his innards could bear.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Can coughing save your life during a heart attack? - Self-CPR - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcpr.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Self-CPR? According to this 1999 email rumor, you can save your own life during a heart attack ... by coughing]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ben Stein: Christmas Confessions - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_ben_stein_christmas.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating via email, a commentary on the state of American culture attributed to author and game show host Ben Stein]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Origin of the S-Word: &#039;Ship High in Transit&#039; - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-s-word.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[In which we are told, with a straight face, that the word 'shit' originated as the acronym of 'Ship High in Transit,' a nautical phrase]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Crocodile Eats Golfer]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Crocodile-Eats-Golfer.--2G.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The impatient golfer was never located, but his clubs were found on the hole. Three days later, 'Ole Mose' was spotted on the seventh hole and was an immediate suspect...]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Brain Maggots / Sushi Worms (#2)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow26.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Boyfriend&#039;s Death]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/boyfriend_death.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[They picked the worst possible night to go necking on Lovers' Lane...]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Email: Joe Biden a Cheat]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/joebiden/a/character.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A widely-forwarded email written by Maryland accountant Bruce D. Riddle calls vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden a 'liar and a cheat' and a 'man of bad character' for failing to pay for services rendered to his political campaigns.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Man-Eating Catfish]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fish/ss/furong_catfish.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Internet photos purport to show a giant, man-eating catfish caught in the Furong Reservoir in Huadu, China.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Obama on the Phone]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1b.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Tootsie Pop Mystery]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/tootsie_pop.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Where did the rumor come from that you could get a free Tootsie Roll Pop if you found a star (or an Indian) on your wrapper? ]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[FJapanese ashion Craze: Faux See-Thru Skirts! - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-see-thru.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Are women's skirts designed to look as though they're transparent really the latest fashion craze in Japan?]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Another Giant Cat]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow19a.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Camel Spiders]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/Camel-Spiders.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Taken by U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq, this snapshot shows a pair of huge, scary-looking insects known as camel spiders.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Humans Can Lick, Too]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/humans_can_lick.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Netlore Archive: Here's a popular tale from the oral tradition recast as a spooky - if scarcely believable - email chain letter.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Breast Infestation]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Breast-Infestation.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[This image purports to document the medical case of a female anthropologist who failed to seek treatment for a skin rash and wound up with an infestation of larvae in her breast. Not a pretty picture.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Puppy with a Heart (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_puppy_heart.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos show a chihuahua puppy born in Japan with a heart-shaped pattern in its coat]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[PIN Number Reversal - Use Reverse PIN to Contact Police in ATM Emergency? - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_reverse_pin.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email rumor claims ATM users can contact police in the event of an attempted robbery by entering their PIN in reverse]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_reverse_pin.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Polar Bear and Huskies at Play - Image #4]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/polar-bear/polar_bear_huskies4.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images show a 1,200-pound polar bear playing with husky sled dogs in the sub-arctic wilderness of northern Canada.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fatal Spider Bite in North Florida - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blspider-2002.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Recycled email prank warning of the dangers of the Two-Striped Telamonia, purportedly a poisonous spider that hides under toilet seats and has killed five people in North Florida]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Fatal Hairdo]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/fatal_hairdo.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Girl with a 'beehive' hairdo dies a horrible death after a spider crawls inside and lays eggs, hatching a brood of hungry arachnids. Legendary proof that vanity can kill.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Top 10 Grossest Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/tp/top10grossest.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Here is a handpicked collection of our very favorite, absolutely 100% true (heh!) tales of revolting food contaminations, creepy-crawly insect infestations, sexually-transmitted horrors, and all-around nauseating human behavior. Each and every story is guaranteed to disgust. Enjoy!]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Buried Alive!]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/buried_alive.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[It is a fact that once upon a time, before modern embalming techniques were developed, people were found on very rare occasions to have been buried alive.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The 9-11 Tourist Guy (Accidental Tourist) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blphoto-wtc.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The Tourist Guy, aka The Accidental Tourist - A snapshot purportedly taken atop one of the World Trade Center twin towers seconds before the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Can People Look Up My Driver&#039;s License on the Internet?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bldriverslicense.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Website purports to offer free, easy access to personal information contained in state driver's license databases]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bldriverslicense.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Brown Recluse Spider Bite (5)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Brown-Recluse-Spider-Bite-5.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[This rather disturbing sequence of images purports to show the progressive deterioration of a wound caused by the bite of the poisonous brown recluse spider.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Brown Recluse Spider Bite (6)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Brown-Recluse-Spider-Bite-6.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[This rather disturbing sequence of images purports to show the progressive deterioration of a wound caused by the bite of the poisonous brown recluse spider.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Piranha on Steroids (#1)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1c.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1c.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sick, Dying &amp; Missing Kids - Email Alerts, Chain Letters &amp; Hoaxes]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxkids.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Outdated and outright phony chain letters, with rare exceptions]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Hook]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/the_hook.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The Hook: A teenager drove his date to Lovers' Lane for a make-out session before it was time to take her home. The place was very dark and deserted...]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Piranha on Steroids]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/Piranha-on-Steroids.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating via email, a photo of fishermen holding a large fish with a mouthful of razor-sharp teeth, variously captioned: 'Piranha on Steroids' or 'World Record Piranha.']]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Is Obama&#039;s Church Racist?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/government/a/obama_church.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Obama's Church: Email rumor labels presidential candidate Barack Obama a racist for attending a church describing itself as 'unashamedly black' with a 'non-negotiable commitment to Africa.']]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[John Cleese Letter to America (Notice of Revocation of Independence)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blrevocation_cleese.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[December 2004 variant of 'Notice of Revocation of Independence' purportedly authored by John Cleese]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Oliver North Warned About Osama bin Laden in 1987 - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blnorth.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email rumor claims a video clip of Oliver North's testimony in the Iran-Contra hearings of 1987 shows him warning Congress of the threat posed by terrorist Osama bin Laden]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blnorth.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Polar Bear and Huskies at Play]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/Polar-Bear-and-Huskies-at-Play.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images show a 1,200-pound polar bear playing with husky sled dogs in the sub-arctic wilderness of northern Canada.]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/Polar-Bear-and-Huskies-at-Play.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Mold in Pancake Mix Causes Allergic Reaction - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_pancake_mix_mold.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email flier quotes a 'Dear Abby' column in which a parent describes her 14-year-old son's severe allergic reaction to mold in outdated pancake mix]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - World&#039;s Biggest Dog]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow135.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow135.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[World Record Grizzly Bear]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/World-Record-Grizzly-Bear.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[These pictures are of a guy who works for the forest service in Alaska. He was out deer hunting. A large world record Griz charged him from about 50 yards away.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[JFK: &#039;I Am a Jelly Donut&#039;]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/jfk_berliner.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Did Germans chuckle with embarrassment when John F. Kennedy uttered the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner' at a Berlin Wall ceremony in 1963?]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[809 Area Code Scam - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_809_area_code_scam.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[809 area code scam - email alerts circulating since 1996 warn consumers not to comply with telephone, pager, or email requests to dial phone numbers beginning with the area code 809, 284, or 876]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Grizzly Bear Victim]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Grizzly-Bear-Victim.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email caption: 'This is not a joke and is pretty gross. If you are faint of heart or stomach don't look at grizz.jpg. This is why you don't mess with Grizzly bears! Warning the Grizzly picture is pretty gross, it's what's left of one of his victims!']]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Piranha on Steroids (#2)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1d.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1d.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Half-Human, Half-Animal]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Chimera.--2_.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Most copies of this viral image are accompanied by a caption reading, 'Look at the human dog!' In reality, it's a sculpture created by artist Patricia Piccinini.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[GPS Used to Create U.S. Map Corn Maze (Photo) - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_gps_corn_maze.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image shows a corn maze carved in the shape of a United States map with the aid of a GPS unit and a laptop computer.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Letter from Wasilla: Anne Kilkenny on Sarah Palin - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_anne_kilkenny_on_palin.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Authenticated: Widely-forwarded email written by Wasilla, Alaska resident Anne Kilkenny questions Sarah Palin's fitness to be Vice-President.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - &#039;Bill Sux&#039; Etched on Pentium Chip]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1e.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1e.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Wall Street Bailout Nigerian Letter - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_paulson_nigerian_scam.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Dear American, I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.']]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_paulson_nigerian_scam.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Motorcycle / Boating Accident Victim]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Accident-Victim.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Depending on which version you receive, the caption accompanying this emailed photo claims this poor patient was impaled on a fencepost after losing control of his motorcycle or boat.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Man Eats Baby]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Man-Eats-Baby-1.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Dear Guide: I received an email last week which was quite disturbing and, to say the least, disgusting. It is about dead babies that can be bought from hospitals in Taiwan for $70 to meet the high demand for grilled and barbequed babies!']]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Personal Computer in a Pen? - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_pen_pc.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed images purport to show a 'computer of the future,' a full-featured PC comprising five slender objects the size and shape of ball-point pens]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Snake, Fishing]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/A-Snake--Fishing.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image shows a very large snake - evidently a python - pulling its prey - evidently a wallaby, though some have labeled it a 'cow' - out of a body of water in Western Australia.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Tiger Adopts Piglets (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_tiger_and_piglets.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed snapshots taken at a zoo show a mother tiger apparently nursing a brood of piglets costumed in tiger skins]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Sneaky Shark]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1f.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
         <guid isPermaLink="true">http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1f.htm</guid>
         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Harvey Milk Day]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/government/a/harvey_milk_day.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email urges California residents to call the governor and voice their objections to AB 2567, a legislative bill designating May 22 as Harvey Milk Day to commemorate the San Francisco city supervisor slain in 1978.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Companies &amp; Products - Current Netlore]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxcompanies.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Information on all the latest misinformation on the Net]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Man-Eating Catfish]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1g.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Giant Mutant Cat #2]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/Giant-Mutant-Cat--2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email caption: 'Why You Don't Feed Your Cat Table Scraps.']]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[412-Pound Deer]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/412-Pound-Deer.--05.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photo allegedly shows a 412-pound deer killed by a hunter in Clarion County, Pennsylvania - or in Nebraska, depending on version]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[MONDEX: The Mark of the Beast - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_mondex_biochip.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed slide show claims that microchips used in Mondex 'smart cards' are being implanted in people's hands or foreheads and constitute the 'mark of the beast' prophesied in the Biblical Book of Revelation]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[J. Lo&#039;s Billion-Dollar Booty]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/celebrities/a/jennifer_lopez.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Dear Guide: Is it true that Jennifer Lopez insured her butt? Dear Reader: Thereby hangs a tale, so please bear with me.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Brown Recluse Spider Bite]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Brown-Recluse-Spider-Bite-1.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[This rather disturbing sequence of images purports to show the progressive deterioration of a wound caused by the bite of the poisonous brown recluse spider.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Missing Child: Reachelle Marie Smith - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_reachelle_marie_smith.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[TRUE: Via forwarded email, details of the case of 3-year-old Reachelle Marie Smith, who was reported missing in Minot, North Dakota as of May 2006]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Is Canola Oil Hazardous to Your Health? - Netlore Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[False Internet rumors attack the safety of canola oil]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Giant Gator Bagged in Texas / Florida]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/Giant-Gator.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image of a large alligator allegedly shot in Texas or Florida (depending on version) by a game warden named Joe Goff.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Air Force Jets Fly in USA Formation]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow7.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[How to Submit a Hoax / UL]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/submissions.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[How to submit a suspected urban legend, email rumor or Net hoax for investigation]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Mondex: Mark of the Beast]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow33a.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Brown Recluse Spider Bite (4)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Brown-Recluse-Spider-Bite-4.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[This rather disturbing sequence of images purports to show the progressive deterioration of a wound caused by the bite of the poisonous brown recluse spider.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Doctors Remove Worm from Patient&#039;s Eye]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Eye-Worm.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[When the doctors operated, what was thought to be a growth or cyst actually turned out to be a live worm; what was thought initially to be mere dust in the patient's eye was actually an insect's egg!]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[John Dillinger&#039;s Private Parts]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/celebrities/a/john_dillinger.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Dear Guide: I believe I read an article by Robert Anton Wilson a ways back regarding the Smithsonian or some D.C. museum housing private parts of famous people - John Dillinger, for example. Is there any truth to this folklore?]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Crime - Internet Hoaxes Rumors Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxcrime.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[residential phone customers internet hoaxes rumors flotsam and jetsam child abduction sam s club: Netlore involving crime and criminals]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Celebrities - Net hoaxes, urban legends &amp; rumors]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxcelebs.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[aftermath of hurricane katrina bette midler letter to president bush flotsam and jetsam game show host internet hoaxes: Current Netlore about celebrities]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Lion Cut]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/The-Lion-Cut.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[This image captures the expression of 'one seriously pissed off cat' after its groomer misunderstood the owner's instructions and gave the poor beast a 'lion cut' instead of a 'line cut.']]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bill Gates&#039; 11 Rules of Life - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_bill_gates_speech.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Circulating via email, the text of a speech allegedly given by Bill Gates in which he sets out 11 rules of life for today's high school students]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Amazing&#039; Satellite Photos of Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion (p. 2) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-shuttle-explosion2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[columbia space shuttle explosion space shuttle explosion columbia space shuttle netlore archive satellite photos: Dramatic photographs, cont.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Man Eats Baby (2)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Man-Eats-Baby-2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Dear Guide: I received an email last week which was quite disturbing and, to say the least, disgusting. It is about dead babies that can be bought from hospitals in Taiwan for $70 to meet the high demand for grilled and barbequed babies!']]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Monster Crocodile]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/animalkingdom/ig/Crazy-Critters/Monster-Crocodile.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photo of a gigantic crocodile fished from the sea in the port of Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Email Rumor: Sodium Laureth Sulfate in Shampoo Causes Cancer]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa090998.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Why are people saying those awful things about sodium laureth sulfate?]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[On G.W. Bush&#039;s IQ (or Lack Thereof) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bliq-bush.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email attributed to the nonexistent 'Lovenstein Institute' claims a recent report proves G.W. Bush has the lowest IQ of any modern president]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Brown Recluse Spider Bite (3)]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Brown-Recluse-Spider-Bite-3.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[This rather disturbing sequence of images purports to show the progressive deterioration of a wound caused by the bite of the poisonous brown recluse spider.]]></description>
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         <dc:subject>newsissues</dc:subject>
         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Dead Frog in Can of Peas]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Frog-in-Peas-1.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[In this forwarded email, an irate consumer complains about finding a tiny dead frog inside a can of Kroger peas. Photos attached!]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Queen and the Scottish Soldiers]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gross/ig/Gross-Pictures/Queen-and-Scottish-Soldiers.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image shows Queen Elizabeth of England sitting amidst a group of kilt-wearing Scottish soldiers, one of whom reveals a wee bit too much of his manhood.]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - &#039;Creepy Gnome&#039; Video]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1h.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Urban Legends Slide Show - Human Statue of Liberty]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_slideshow1i.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A gallery of odd and arresting images - some real, some fake, some persistently enigmatic - as circulated via email]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Halloween Surprise (Sex in Disguise) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blbyol7.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[At a Halloween party where everyone is in costume, a woman makes whoopee with a man she thinks is her husband...]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Merman / Mermaid Carcass Found on Beach (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_merman_carcass.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos purportedly show the carcass of a merman (or mermaid) washed up on a beach variously said to be located in Venda, South Africa; Cebu, The Philippines; Malaysia; and Fort Desoto Beach, Florida]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sir Thomas Crapper]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/factoid1/p/thomas_crapper.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Is it true that a 19th-century British plumber named Sir Thomas Crapper (aka John Crapper) invented the flush toilet?]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2008-10-06T10:57:44+0000</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[Swiffer WetJet Toxic to Pets? - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_swiffer_wetjet.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email claims that the Swiffer WetJet disposable floor cleaner contains a substance toxic to dogs and cats]]></description>
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