Facts that someone screwed up

[PhotoJones]

this thread has kept me entertained for a while now...good job!

 

[Abaddon]

Ahh. It seems I was mistaken. Now it is time to flame you and call you an idiot for proving me wrong.

Ehh... I don't really feel like it, so I guess I'll break with Hype! tradition.

Heh. I thought the tradition was to either ignore the post,call the source biased,or to say the person misinterpreted.


I used to be a big Greek mythology buff,but I've forgotten alot of the stories so I did second-guess myself for a moment there.

 

[Abaddon]

Oh,and Cyke here's where the confusion came:

In Roman mythology, the giant Atlas was the leader of the Titans who fought against the gods, who were presided by Jupiter. Jupiter was fighting against his father, the Titan Saturn, to gain control of the world. After a ten year struggle, Jupiter defeated his despotic father, and assumed control of the world.
Jupiter imposed severe punishments on the Titans. Atlas, as the Titans' leader, received the exemplary punishment of carrying the vault of the sky on his shoulders. A moon of the planet Saturn was named after Atlas for fighting with his brother Saturn.


Atlas had a wife, the nymph Pleione, who bore the Pleiades and the Hyades. He also was the father of the Hesperides, whose mother was Hesperis. The Hesperides were the guardians of a tree of golden apples that the Earth goddess Gaea gave Juno, Jupiter' wife, as a wedding present. The tree had a secret location.

Nevertheless, Atlas was told by an oracle that a son of Jupiter would one day steal the golden apples guarded by his daughters, the Hesperides. For this reason, he refused hospitality to anyone. Because of Atlas' inhospitality, Perseus showed him the Gorgon Medusa's head, which turned Atlas to stone. This myth was considered the origin of the formation of the Atlas mountains in Morocco.

In a different version of the story, Hercules was ordered to fetch the golden apples as one of his twelve labors. Hercules persuaded Atlas to take them on his behalf, while Hercules would support the sky instead of him. Atlas accepted thinking to leave Hercules supporting the heavens forever. When he returned with the apples, Atlas told Heracles that he himself would deliver the apples to the king, Eurystheus. However, pretending to adjust the weight on his shoulders, Hercules tricked Atlas, who was left without the apples and with his duty resumed.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mythology/atlas_roman.html&edu=high

 

[Da Docta]

Lightning can and does strike twice in the same place.

I learned this from Gil Grissom in CSI.

 

[Cyclops]

Oh,and Cyke here's where the confusion came:

Darn this inconsistent mythology! Now the continuity is all messed up! Greek Mythology totally needs a Crisis on Infinite Earths.

 

[Abaddon]

Darn this inconsistent mythology! Now the continuity is all messed up! Greek Mythology totally needs a Crisis on Infinite Earths.

I know,for every story there are fifty versions.What the hell?!


Marvel needs a Crisis too,but thats a whole other issue.

 

[Snipershot]

this is a very cool thread

 

[theoneandonly]

yeah i was gonna say that i like the facts

 

[jaydawg]

Interesting thread indeed.

 

[Tsunulia]

Did these "facts" come from somewhere.............like a list on a site or something? Seems as though some of them are, well.............wrong.

 

[Master Chief]

I was in the CN tower on a windy day, the whole thing was definitely moving.

The CN Tower doesn't exist, it's a hologram.

 

[8Ball2/JanG5]

O Canada.

 

[Danalys]

Elephants do not fear mice, nor much of anything else for that matter.

they're scared of burning pigs.

 

[Elijya]

"The average person eats 8 spiders a year in their sleep."

Often cited. Completely false. Here's to the good people at Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm

 

[FunBobPants]

no one ever said "Beam me up, Scotty" in any episodes of Star Trek. didnt know that

 

[Abaddon]

"The average person eats 8 spiders a year in their sleep."

Often cited. Completely false. Here's to the good people at Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm

My Snapple cap was wrong.

 

[Immortalfire]

no one ever said "Beam me up, Scotty" in any episodes of Star Trek. didnt know that

Made one about those lines too.. http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=221442

 

[Abaddon]

Another one I read a book of Hollywood myths was the munchkin incident in The Wizard of OZ. Completely false apparently.

 

[X-Punisher]

Another one I read a book of Hollywood myths was the munchkin incident in The Wizard of OZ. Completely false apparently.

You mean the one hanging him/ or herself?

 

[patrickbateman]

^ made a thread saying that he looks likes clooney

 

[patrickbateman]

that was cheesyyy

 

[Abaddon]

You mean the one hanging him/ or herself?

Yessum.

 

[patrickbateman]

and pointless

 

[Mic]

^ made a thread saying that he looks likes clooney

Does a bit actually. Bit chubby and eh..asian though?

 

[The Lumberjack]

Does a bit actually. Bit chubby and eh..asian though?

Jesus, don't encourage him. You've stomped all over months of progress.