Legendary...

IQ tests have been around for quite a while, MENSA adverts in the newspapers, Tetrapak milk cartons, and online questionnaires.
This is all well and good for Facebook application bragging, or breakfast cereals, but what if you wanted to demonstrate how stupid you were to work colleagues?
Many of these would assume you are a well rounded person, a contributor to society, unaware that the crossword you did at lunchtime contains more fictional words than an American Newsreader's telepromter.
Maybe you are at the other end of the scale, incredibly intelligent, and have a crush on Shania Twain, but wouldn't want her to write you off as a Rocket Surgeon, or Brain Scientist...

Luckily, you can convey these messages loud and clear with the help of an Urban Legend. One Urban Legend states that Urban Legends were created by the government to build a database of who to save in the event that anarchy breaks out from the hysteria related to an Urban Legend.

I'm always impressed by the conviction of the target that the story is true, and the look on their face as you cut them off, mid-tale, and reveal you've heard the story four years ago.

Where it goes from here is my favourite bit, like the anticipation of opening a Kinder-egg, hoping you get the helicopter, and not the scale model of a park bench.

Some of the story-tellers will take the point that you know the story of "Batman in the wardrobe" as further proof that it is true, and happens all the time.
Strike whilst the iron is stone cold and bet them you can guess their bank details.

The others can break down, trying to figure out just how much of what they know is infact garbage, and how many people they have told the story to already.

Urban Legends are pretty easy to spot with a little training, they will usually follow a pattern of somebody doing something they shouldn't, or often something that others might not want them to do, and in the end, the worst possible scenario happens.
Don't be frightened to throw a little technology and rough science into the mix. Guessing facts is better than not knowing them at all, right?

Microwave ovens become nuclear powered, and energy drinks ironically contain B******s.

These legends are like rainbows, the closer you try to get, the further away they originate, but someone had to start them.

Somewhere in the world, someone must be making them up.
That person, to me, is a true legend.

The End