The perils of a shovel salesman....

Hilarious!

Even better than hilarious.

I've already sent it out to three people.

I thought it was pretty hysterical myself, I could see the poor woman feeling some sort of an explanation was in order...

Really funny.

Reminds me of the time my sister ran to my father for a hug, and plowed into him giving herself a black eye on his belt buckle.

The next day at school when the teacher asked her about it, she said she'd been hit with her fathers belt.

My other sister, when she was really little had to go to the ER once because she cut her hand up when she was running and fell with a bottle of cough syrup, for my mother. It was an old brand, called REM.

She told them in the ER she cut her hand bring her mother a bottle of rum.

My grandmother and grandfather were married on September 19, 1919. They had twin daughters the day after their first anniversary, September 20, 1920. My grandmother found out that in school, they were telling people that they had been born the day after their parents were married.

hehehe.

My son had to write up what he'd done the night before, when he was about five.

"Mum and Dad left me and went down the pub. I watched telly and went to bed."

No mention was made that my older brother, who was living with us, stayed home to babysit for us.

when my son was like 4 I was carrying him around on my shoulder (we were playing some scene from a movie) and I forgot about a low hanging old lantern .I I ran right into the lantern without looking andMy Kid hit his head pretty bad and I ran him to the hospital cause he sustained a bump on his nose and left eye and nasty cut beneath the eye , so I quickly ran him to the ER and yelled to my wife to come after us .
When we got to the ER the nurses asked him how it happened and his answer was
"my daddy hit me against this big lantern" Those words still resonate almost 30 years later
I then had to meet with some abuse counselor till my wife came in and cleared it all up.

Everybody at the hospital was giving me the evil eye.

It's quite funny but too bad it isn't true.

http://www.snopes.com/embarrass/mistaken/shovel.asp

Here is another one that is funny (and not true.)






http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/sailors.asp

Snopes is not the final authority on everything which happens in the world and he is not omniscient.

For instance, Snopes claims that the famous incident involving children's radio host "Uncle" Don Carney is an urban legend.

My father heard the thing as it happened. In fact, my father never listened to the thing, his sister did and he'd gone into the house to ask the sister about something just in time to hear the thing about 'taking care of the little bastards for another day'.

I guess you don't understand what an urban legend is. Of course people actually heard it or saw it. It's what makes it an urban legend. For instance, my wife's hair dresser knows the woman that bought a cactus that she noticed seemed to breathe and when she called the place that bought it they yelled at her to get it out of the house. She did just before it exploded with the millions of black widow spiders that had just hatched inside it.

I don't really care if it's true or not. Someone still thought it up and it is still pretty funny.

Me too, Boom.

Snopes is what people call a pseudoskeptic or professional skeptic.