AFUUL Scale

 From: DPM%MRGPRE%Health_Net@mcimail.com (DPM)

Subject: AFUUL Scale


I was going through my archives and discovered my uncompleted scale for

measuring the UL-ness of various entries.  I quickly finished it up, and

I now submit it to the denizens of AFU.  Please feel free to amend, improve,

correct, or criticize it; maybe by working as a committee we'll end up with 

something truly worthwhile.


 - snopes


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                   AFU-UL (pronounced "aw-ful") Scale 

                      [measured in shergolds (sg)]

                   ------------------------------------


  6 sg:  Classic ULs that are recent and convincing enough to still

         be repeated as having "just happened to a friend of mine":


         Examples: "Sit, lady", child on the radiator grill, drunk takes

         police car home.


  5 sg:  Classic ULs that *everybody* has heard since childhood and generally

         recognizes to be just stories.  


         Examples:  Hook on the car door, boyfriend's death, the vanishing 

         hitchhiker, or just about anything that appears in Brunvand's "The

         Vanishing Hitchhiker".

 

  4 sg:  Urban legends that linger on since they aren't too far-fetched and

         no one can (or will) disprove them.


         Examples: Mick Jagger Mars bar incident


  3 sg:  Common ULs that are often believed, but are just a little

         too bizarre for widespread belief among the faithful.


         Examples:  Toothbrush burglars


  2 sg:  Urban legends believed by laymen, but scoffed at by those with a little

         general knowledge


         Examples: "Greened" CDs, super-mileage gasoline pill


  1 sg:  Urban legends that even silly people generally recognize as silly.

      

         Examples: Green M&Ms as aphrodisiacs, various talk/game show

         incidents, snuff films, Disneyland kidnappings


  0 sg:  ULs that will persist until the end of time, despite being thoroughly

         and repeatedly debunked.


         Examples:  Craig Shergold, various etymologies


 -1 sg:  Persistent matters of science that end up being debated endlessly every

         time they re-appear.


         Examples:  Hot water freezing faster than cold, the Coriolis effect. 


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|"[Disney's machine] has placed a Mickey Mouse hat on every little developing |

| personality in America.  As capitalism, it is a work of genius; as culture, |

| it is mostly a horror."   --   Richard Schickel, "The Disney Version"       |

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|  David P. Mikkelson (snopes)  A non-affiliated poster.  Northridge, CA  USA |

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