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Here is a short urban legend quiz for you all.....

15 years ago

I missed three of them....

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caroline94535
15 years ago
That was enlightening!

I missed the one about the figs. Ewwww.....
pattico_gw
Original Author
15 years ago
Yes Caroline...I USED to love fig newtons....lol
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golfergrrl
15 years ago
Golly, I missed 4. And I thought I was pretty good at spotting phony stories. Ditto Caroline.
luckygardnr
15 years ago
OMG! I'm hopeless! I only got 4 right, but I'm relieved that the ones I thought true were really false!
ritamay91710
15 years ago
I got 7 right.
lynn_d
15 years ago
Okay I missed just one. Take a guess which one it was (as I toss my unopened container or fig newtons in the trash).
golfergrrl
15 years ago
I just bought a $7 jar of fig preserves this weekend and WAS enjoying it. Does this mean that if you eat dried figs there's a good chance that there's a whole wasp inside?
A new protein source?
casey_nfld
15 years ago
I got 8/10
susan_on
15 years ago
I missed three. And I'll never eat fig newtons again!
liira
15 years ago
I got 7 right.
okwriter
15 years ago
I got them all correct...probably because every time I get an email from someone, I "snopes" it and---if it isn't true---I send it back to them.

okwriter (who loves fig newtons and will keep eating them, right along with my peanut butter)
trinitytx
15 years ago
I missed the first 3 questions.

Trin
grinch_gut
15 years ago
I used to love fig newtons...LOL nope actually if we knew all the bugs the FDA allows we would never eat again...LOL
I got 8/10 missed the lawyer one also....Stacy
jannie
15 years ago
Good quiz, I got 6/10. EEEwww about Fig Newtons!
jel48
15 years ago
I missed 4.
linda_in_iowa
15 years ago
I missed 2, the figs and the coffee. I will continue to eat Fig Newtons.
vannie
15 years ago
I missed 3 and am glad to say I've never cared for fig newtons!!
barbara3
15 years ago
I got 9 out of 10. I missed the one about the tarantula-spewing cactus!
iowagirl2006
15 years ago
Oh - 10/10!

I have to admit - I probably would have gotten the Fig Newton one wrong if I hadn't read the "spoilers", LOL!

I am sure we eat lots of bugs in our cereal and flour. What I dont' know doesn't bother me ... la la la la la - :)

The coffee one - was in the last Jack Nicholson movie. I had never heard of it before that show.
des_arc_ya_ya
15 years ago
Dang! I only missed one and I guessed like crazy on a bunch of them! LOL
uxorial
15 years ago
I got 8 right!
mary_c_gw
15 years ago
I got them all right, but I'd seen them all before.
grammahony
15 years ago
I got all but the last one right. I've seen some (the one about coffee beans) before. Also the organ theft, and tarantulas.
Leslie
cheryl_down_under
15 years ago
10/10 for me - but it has more to do with me guessing correctly than anything else!
suzieque
15 years ago
I got 8 out of 10.

When I was a kid I loved Fig Newtons. That was until my wretched older brother told me that the little seed were actually maggots. I never ate another one after that, and still haven't to this day. Ack. Now I think I'm glad about that!!!!
danihoney
15 years ago
I missed the one about the spiders, the alligators, and the ghost.

"Alligators in the sewer" (ET)
Happy_Go_Lucky_Gayle
15 years ago
I got 9 out of 10. I missed the one about the ghost.
country_bumpkin_al
15 years ago
10/10!!!! Some of them I'd already heard legends!
sjarz
15 years ago
Well, I don't know if I can eat fig newtons ever again, although we do eat quite a few bugs on a regular basis. The thing is, if I don't know I'm eating a bug or a bug part that's one thing - to know there are wasp parts in a fig newton...hmmm.
I didn't do very well on the quiz, only got 4 right, but I tend to believe in things like ghosts and unexplainables...
something to think about --
" The average person inadvertently consumes almost two pounds of bugs each year."
Suzan J
dilly_dally
15 years ago
10/10

Basically one just has to read the question and gauge if it "makes sense". Bugs in food - yes. Poor judgment demonstrating windows - yes. Ghosts, vibrating cacti, hotel delivering a bathtub full of ice, ect. - no.
stephanie_in_ga
15 years ago
I got them all right, too. A couple I'd heard before, a couple I just didn't believe, the rest were lucky guesses.

I am a skeptic by nature. So you have to convince me the story IS true, rather than prove it's not true. I doubt pretty much everthing until I've seen evidence.

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