†• Urban Legends - Commercial Bummers •†

Candy

Pop Rocks - If you eat Pop Rocks and drink soda at the same time it causes your stomach to explode. You will sometimes hear this with the boy from the "Life" commercials, Mickey.

Bubble Yum - This gum contains spider eggs.

Life Savers - This hard candy with a hole in the middle was created by a man who's daughter chocked to death on a "non-ventalated" candy, so he made them with an "air-hole" so that no one would choke to death on candy.

Cabbage Patch Kids

These dolls were modeled after mentally disabled children to get people used to what children would look like after a nuclear war.

A woman washed a cabbage patch doll in her washing machine and it was damaged badly. Since they were os difficult to come by, she send it back to the company hoping they would repair it. A few weeks later she recieved a death-certificate in the mail, and a bill for the funeral.

Disney

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves represent the seven levels of cocaine dependancy.

Finland once banned Donald Duck because he wears no pants.

The look of Tinker Bell in Peter Pan was based on Marilyn Monroe.

A private club can be found near Pirates of the Caribbean at Walt Disney World.

No one is ever declared dead while on Disney property.

The actual plane from the film Casablanca is part of The Great Movie Ride at Disney-MGM Studios.

The newly opened Haunted Mansion closed after a guest suffered a fright-induced heart attack.

Walt Disney's face appears on one of the singing busts in the Haunted Mansion's graveyard.

The horse-drawn hearse in front of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion is the actual hearse used to carry Brigham Young's body.

Disneyland's Skyway was permanently closed because a guest fell from one of the cabins.

One of the Three Little Pigs molested a female Disneyland guest.

Walt had to agree to construct a building that could be converted to a hospital in order to obtain financing for his Burbank studio.

Disney is offering $5,000 or a free trip to Disney World to those who help test a Microsoft "e-mail tracking program."*

Walt Disney prepared a film to be viewed by Disney executives after his death, in which he gave them all instructions about how to run their areas of the company.

Walt Disney was an illegitimate child.

Walt Disney was dishonorably discharged from the military.

Walt Disney wore a Goldwater button while receiving an award from President Johnson.

Walt Disney's body was put in cryonic storage.

Walt Disney's face appears on a bust in the Haunted Mansion.

Household Products

Febreeze is toxic and kills many animals.

Liz Claiborne: Racist

On The Oprah Winfrey Show, Liz Claiborne said her close weren't made for black women because their hips were too big.

She had also said on Oprah that she supports the Ku Klux Klan.

Marlboro: Racist

The Phillip-Morris Tobacco company funds the KKK. The box that the Marlboros come in you can see the 3 Ks.

Pharmaceuticals

There was a brand of diet pills that had the heads of tapeworms, inside people's bodies, they would regrow and people would start to lose weight. The only way to get rid of the tapeworms was to starve for days then site a bowl of warm milk infront of you and open your mouth. The hungry worms would smell it and crawl up your throat, out your mouth and into the bowl of milk.

Carmex is addicitve.

Waterproof sunscreen can make you go blind

Tampons contain asbestos to encourage bleeding so that women would use more of them.

Proctor & Gamble

In their old logo, the man in the moon, there was 666 written backwards in it's beard. Also if you connected the starts around him you would get more sixes.


P&G's old logo

The president of P&G appeared on Sally Jesse Raphael Show and announced that "due to the openness of our society," he was coming out of the closet about his assocation with the Church of Satan. he stated that a large prortion of his profits from P&G products go to support the satanic church. When Sally asked if stating this on TV wouldhurt his business, he said, "There are not enough Christians in the US to make adifference.



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