Argentinean News Report Worries About Kids Drinking GrogXD
from the fact-checking-is-for-sissies dept
Last week, in the comments on our post about a story in The Onion fooling newspapers in Bangladesh, a commenter named Esteban pointed out that down in Argentina, news reporters recently did a typical moral panic-style piece about teens drinking an alcoholic concoction called Grog XD with the ingredients: "kerosene, propylene glycol, artificial sweeteners, sulphuric acid, rum, acetone, red dye no. 2, scumm, axle grease, battery acid, and/or pepperoni." The source of the story? An ingredients list found on Facebook. Apparently, the reporters were unfamiliar with The Secret of Monkey Island -- the popular game from which the recipe was taken, but thankfully some folks have put together a nice video comparing the two:Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Ummmmmm...
Battery acid -IS- Sulfuric acid.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax
(and I'm not just saying that because the kid who started it all went the same Jr. High that I did)
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This is DANGEROUS stuff. It has caused property damages (hurricanes) and death from inhalation (drowning) and so much more.
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Fact Checking
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Ummmmmm... You've never played Monkey Island, have you?
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May or may not contain...
Ahh memory's of my childhood.
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That low down...
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Only partially OT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scumm
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Argentian?
(now it must be said that my Safari spell check for some reason does not recognize argentinian but instead offers Argentinean)
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Nothing about Argentian, though. ;)
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