Stupid rumors/stories/"facts" you heard at school - And which you were naive enough to believe

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Y2K testing in the military suckkkkkkkeeeeeeddddddd. I had to sit in the cockpit of every fucking T-45 and T-2C the squadron at Meridian NAS had, start the plane and then have the technicians set the date to Jan 1 2000, then turn off, restart and set to some random date after it and make sure it didn't create any errors they could see or that I could see. Being the most junior instructor led to a lot of bullshit tasking

I still find it kind of surreal that a majority of people actually believe Y2K would happen. To me even as a kid it always seemed silly and now I think back on it like how some savage tribe would react or something.

 

[werbwub]

there were so many good rumours at my middle school, I'll list the best ones.

-The social studies teacher was apparently watching porn during class.

-The science teacher was a pedophile. The rumour reached peak autism whenever a kid screamed rape whenever the teacher touched him.

-The math teacher was apparently searching for mail order brides.

-A girl took a shit in one of the bathrooms drains that caused the entirety of the schools lower floor to flood in shit water(the floor did actually flood in shit water)

-The sped kid was cousins with the sped teacher.

-A class bullied a teacher into quitting her job

-The janitor was fucking a sped girl

-A guy made a homemade dildo for another guy's girlfriend, he actually did make the dildo but ended up throwing it at a teachers face.

- A big fat dude was caught slitting his wrists in the hallway

 

[Easterling]

There was a rumour that one of the senior teachers at my school was fucking the special ed teacher in the catering room, funnily it turned out to be true and both of them lost their jobs when one of the cooks caught them at it. Shit was fucking unsanitary man.

There was the rumour that a kid was jacking off in the boys toilets and left school not long after and finally there was the legend of poocasso, some kid smeared his shit all over the boys toilet mirrors one day and the legend was born. They caught the weird little fucker but the title has been passed down several times since then because other strange little fuckers decided to do the same thing.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

In a high school anatomy class, I was taught that the smaller your dick is flaccid, the larger it is erect. I was also taught that women actually don't like taking a horse cock; they'd rather have their clit stimulated.
Yes, the professor was a dude. Make of that what you will.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

There was a rumor going around at my school and with some of my friends from extra-curricular activities that Barney the Dinosaur cussed a kid out on live television. Some kids even claimed to have seen it with their own eyes. Of course, that's complete BS, since the show was not filmed live.

My best friend in the first grade informed me once that the guy in the Barney suit was a very heavy smoker, and he stored all his cigarette butts inside the tail of the costume. She learned from some unspecified source that during a "live broadcast" the seams of the costume split open and a huge cloud of cigarette smoke billowed out.

 

[PL 001]

One that turned out much later on to be true, but there was a kid in elementary school who told everyone that the blue Power Ranger was gay and that's why he was no longer on the show. We all told him that he was full of shit and to shut the hell up.

Much later when David Yost did come out and said that he did leave the show due to anti gay bullying, I imagine this kid, now some late 20s/early 30s weirdo going ecstatic and dancing around yelling "I told them! They called me crazy but look who's crazy now!"

 

[Psyduck]

Someone started a rumor about Pikachu coming out of your tv and stealing your soul if you watched Pokemon at midnight

In these times, it was also believed that Pokemon was some devil worshipping stuff, an even dumber rumor in itself, but all of us believed it back then lol

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

I still find it kind of surreal that a majority of people actually believe Y2K would happen.

I think the biggest thing was that technology, especially internet-connected technology, was just starting to take off at that time. Making matters worse, most programming at the time was largely about rapidly prototyping a working version and then tweaking and debugging any issues on the fly as they popped up. As such, nobody had any clue what would happen when (19)99-12-31 became (20)00-01-01 -- especially with software that did any type of date or elapsed time calculations. In a way, it was relieving to see Y2K was largely a nothingburger. On the plus side, programmers -- even if just temporarily -- actually used their brains to solve the Y2K issue and even took the time to add proper coding in their mission-critical stuff so they wouldn't have to do any additional major rewrites any time soon afterwards.

To add something new to the thread, there were a couple of guys ahead of me in my K-8 school that supposedly flunked one or more years. One claimed to have failed a lower grade (somewhere between first and fourth) twice. Those of us that heard this didn't believe him; "How does someone flunk the same year of grade school twice in a row short of being too exceptional?" is what we thought. In retrospect, it could have been true because his troubled childhood came to light when he was killed in his late teens after being hit by a car late at night and there was a strong suspicion the incident was an act of suicide.

Another guy who supposedly got held back at least twice apparently continued to play sports for the school and only got caught for being too old for middle school athletics when he absentmindedly offered to drive teammates to a game because he was 16 years old and still in 8th grade according to the story that circulated down to our class.

 

[BillyGoat2]

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[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I think the biggest thing was that technology, especially internet-connected technology, was just starting to take off at that time.

From the early 90's onwards computers and such started to creep into more and more workplaces and the generation that had settled into their profession largely disliked the change forced upon them. Those that were used to typewriters now had a fancy typewriter running Windows 3 and Lotus and a printer and a rash of computer-related illnesses and injuries suddenly appeared. I understand why they would dislike the change, it happened pretty fast and computers were pretty shit, but I cannot understand why typing on a keyboard gave someone tennis elbow but a typewriter didn't.

Anyway my favorite was pink vision. After using a computer screen for some time everything will look pink due to the rays and there was a risk that the damage could become permanent, so fuck that computer, get rid of it! The solution to this ailment that no longer exist was installing a filter over the screen, it was like pantyhose stretched over a picture frame mounted 1-2 inches from the glass protecting the user from the computer radiation(remember when some people still called the monitor a computer?).

So when the Y2K hype started spreading I absolutely believe that there were some people that believed it because they KNEW computers were bad news.

 

[TungstenCarbide]

There were rumors that my HS was haunted. As it often happens in Italy, my school had its offices and classrooms into a very old building. Built-during-Reinassance-and-constantly-restored-during-the-following-centuries kind of old. There was a legend about how the family that it belonged to made a deal with the Devil during the Middle Ages, but apparently said deal hadn't been very convenient, because they were almost completely exterminated by their foes, and the last descendant died during 1700s in a fire that consumed the most part of the staircase that went to the upper floors. Rumors said that the ghosts of the family still haunted the building. I always avoided the third floor, especially the section of the building that hosted the chem lab, because it gave off these...disturbing vibes. Surely it was just because the building was old and a bit in disrepair, but it really scared me when I was a teen.

 

[MysticMisty]

Every year like clockwork, almost as soon as the teacher would announce the yearly visit by random police officer #87 and McGruff the Crime Dog, the rumor that the guy in the McGruff costume was an actual criminal would reignite. The criminal status ranged from a drunk driver to a convicted pedophile to a genuine murderer. Some kids probably believed it was true, but more of us (myself included) just wished it was true. The truth that it was just some newbie or other random cop that lost a bet/rock, paper, scissors was so boring compared to pretending we barely escaped being molested or murdered while the other cop warned us about stranger danger for the millionth time.

Y2K was the big one I remember from elementary school.

I attended 5th grade during the 98/99 school year. Most of us, including myself, hadn't heard about Y2K until after our teacher did a couple of random lessons about Y2K roughly a year out from the date. My mom was pissed when she found out.

 

[PinstripeLuns]

Rumours were usually restricted to specific people and they were lame, but one people would always talk about was this rumour that this girl strangled to death in this abandoned football goal at the corner of the field.

Spoiler

It was abandoned because it had a massive fucking hole in it.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

We had the ribs removed thing, but it his purpleness Prince, for autofelation. Also Marc Almond had 8 pints of semen pumped from his stomach.
Yes I am old.

 

[PT 940]

- When I was in 4th grade there was a kid in my class who told people his twin brother (who was in another class) had sex with a dog and the dog had puppies that looked like his brother.

- There was a group of guys at my high school who all claimed to be ninja weapons experts and all met at a secret place called "Trenchcoat Ditch" to "train." None of them were remotely in shape.

- A guy in one of my classes in high school said there was a secret code to make Lara Croft take a dump in Tomb Raider 2.

- A girl in one of my elementary classes (5th grade, I think) who was named Courtney told me she joined a gang by hijacking a car and that I had to refer to her as "Shadow" because that was her gang name.

 

[TheImportantFart]

There was a teacher at our school who'd also been a student there when she was younger. She was quite attractive, so naturally all the boys made up rumours about how much of a slut she'd been when she was still a student, probably playing out their own fantasies. My personal favourite was the story that she got fucked in the arse so much she had an anal prolapse.

There was another rumour that one of the physics teachers had a list of all the girls in one of his classes on his computer and he'd rated them out of twenty based on how hot they were. He did make the odd slightly inappropriate comments about the girls in his classes, but I'm pretty sure the list was bullshit.

-The science teacher was a pedophile.

We had this rumour about one of our teachers.

Unfortunately, it turned out to be true.

 

[Midlife Sperglord]

AC/DC stood for “Anti Christ/Devil Child” and KISS stood for “Killers In Satan’s Service”.

I never believed those particular rumors, but those rumors were popular at my middle school.

 

[TheFutureMrsMoon]

You can tell someone is gay because their farts don't make a sound. @_@

 

[Syaoran Li]

There were a LOT of rumors going around my school back in the day, most of them were video game related.

Some of my favorite schoolyard rumors from back in the day were popular around the time Grand Theft Auto III first came out on the PS2.

GTA III was extremely popular in my class and we even had our own weird rumors and stories about that game, sort of like the different myths in San Andreas like Bigfoot and UFO's, but a lot more localized.

One rumor was about how there was a secret seven star wanted level that you could only unlock after you beat all the missions in the game or entered a secret cheat code. Most of the variations of this myth usually involved superheroes or video game characters, with Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Solid Snake being the ones I remember hearing about the most.

One of the things we liked to do the most was wildly speculate on what the next GTA game was going to be like and since this was after GTA III but before Vice City, we assumed it would called Grand Theft Auto IV.

Probably my favorite rumor was about how the next Grand Theft Auto game was going to take place during the Middle Ages and you would steal horses and donkeys instead of cars and use swords, bows, and spears instead of guns. A similar schoolyard rumor was that GTA 4 was going to take place in the Old West and this one sort of came true in a roundabout way thanks to Red Dead Redemption.

There was one rumor I remember that was one of those "Kid whose uncle works at Nintendo" stories, but we all had to admit it was kind of cool. Basically, the idea was that the next GTA game would take place in the Digital World and include both human characters and Digimon.

Of course, we all heard stories about how the girls in Dead or Alive 2 could fight naked if you managed to beat Story Mode with every female character under a certain amount of time.

Similar stories circulated about nude costumes for Resident Evil and of course, Tomb Raider.

I also heard stories about how they were going to release some sort of AO-rated game for the PS2 and it all sounded really awesome for some reason. I don't remember too much of the details other than it was going to be some sort of edgy horror game or something.

Again, another one of those wild daydream rumors that was totally bogus because none of us ever saw an AO-rated game but we read about the rating in magazines. Of course, we didn't know that retailers and console makers refuse to carry AO games.

 

[Broseph]

We had the whole "Marilyn Manson" rumor going around school back in the 4th grade that Manson had his lower ribs surgically removed so that he could felicitate himself on stage. Bear in mind that we weren't even old enough to really understand how oral sex worked...

Of course back in the N64 era we had all of the classic rumors like how to find Luigi in Mario 64, how to unlock secret characters like Geno or Bomberman in Mario Kart, how to access that "secret" part of the Dam level in GoldenEye, "Nudalities" in MK, A friend of mine even claimed that he knew the secret trick to make Johnny Cage actually punch the female characters in the crotch when he did the splits, but of course he "forgot" how to do it everytime I was at his house.

When I was in middle school, there was a rumor that one of the guidance counselors, who was a heavy set black guy, was the brother of wrestler Mark Henry.

We also had the rumor that our principal, who was a morbidly obese blob of a woman, I'm talking like over 500lbs, supposedly put out a personal ad for lesbian sex on some late night radio station.