If I found a frog in the toilet bowl I'd immediately suspect the nearest little boy. But it might be terrifying in Oz -- don't you have those giant poisonous frogs there, or is that another Urban (or Outback) legend? After watching nature shows on PBS (back in the days when I had a TV) I'd believe anything about the critters in Australia.

As for the Anarchist Cookbook, if you go to any gun show, at least in Michigan, there will be at least one vendor selling a wall full of such books, and many of the outlandish conspiracy variety. Why any subversive would want to make a machine gun out of junk yard parts is beyond me, as it would seem to me to be easier to buy one from some hoodlum in a bar like proper criminals do.

Back before my doctor made me switch to Tylenol, I would wash down Aspirin (with codeine, no less) with Coca-Cola and it didn't have any ill effect other than eating a hole in my stomach lining. Having learned much about this subject, I can inform you that it is a myth, urban or otherwise, that spicy food will hurt your stomach. But I will believe anything about Coca-Cola. It is far healthier to drink wine.

When I lived in New Brunswick in eastern Canada, I heard or read more than once a story about a preserved pre-prohibition bar in Saint John. The owner closed it after prohibition (the laws differed across Canada, as they still do) vowing to reopen it. When taverns were finally allowed again he or his survivors didn't like the fact that the law would force them to alter the bar, so they left it as it was, dusty and locked up. Can someone from Saint John tell me if there was ever such a saloon, and if so, was it ever reopened?