Argentinean News Report Worries About Kids Drinking GrogXD

from the fact-checking-is-for-sissies dept

Wed, Sep 9th 2009 3:59pm — Mike Masnick

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:

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GeneralEmergency (profile), 9 Sep 2009 @ 4:35pm

Ummmmmm...
Divots.

Battery acid -IS- Sulfuric acid.
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Sep 2009 @ 4:47pm

I still think the dihydrogen monoxide scare is the best one yet...

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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ChurchHatesTucker (profile), 9 Sep 2009 @ 5:00pm

Fact Checking
If only there were some kind of way to search the world for information before you made a fool of yourself...
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PRMan, 9 Sep 2009 @ 5:05pm

re: Ummmmmm...
"Battery acid -IS- Sulfuric acid."

Ummmmmm... You've never played Monkey Island, have you?
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william (profile), 9 Sep 2009 @ 5:09pm

monkey island is a great game! XD
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Chairman neither region, 9 Sep 2009 @ 5:14pm

Sounds like Mamba Malt Liquor.
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Avatar28 (profile), 9 Sep 2009 @ 5:36pm

lmao. That is too funny. I was just playing this on my Xbox this weekend.
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Paul Brinker, 9 Sep 2009 @ 5:51pm

May or may not contain...
The line (from the game) is "Grog may or may not contain any of the following..." Then the Pirate lords (who don't do anything) start spouting off that list.

Ahh memory's of my childhood.
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Dark Helmet (profile), 9 Sep 2009 @ 6:54pm

Re: May or may not contain...
That's the second biggest memory I've ever seen...
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Blatant Coward (profile), 9 Sep 2009 @ 7:08pm

That low down...
Who ever would promote this must be the Scumm of the earth.
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Sep 2009 @ 7:55pm

Re:
http://www.dhmo.org/truth/Dihydrogen-Monoxide.html

This is DANGEROUS stuff. It has caused property damages (hurricanes) and death from inhalation (drowning) and so much more.
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Sep 2009 @ 7:57pm

Re: Re:
Oh, and don't forget, withdrawal from dihydrogen monoxide leads to certain death (dehydration).
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Pitabred, 9 Sep 2009 @ 11:28pm

Only partially OT
SCUMM is the engine used to make all those games, originally designed for Maniac Mansion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scumm
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Sep 2009 @ 11:47pm

Does anyone think the dihydrogen monoxide shit is funny, at all?
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Marcus Carab (profile), 10 Sep 2009 @ 6:42am

Re: Fact Checking
Hehe, CHT wins best comment!
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Marcus Carab (profile), 10 Sep 2009 @ 6:43am

Re:
It's mildly funny, but it's also a poignant demonstration of the way people perceive language and the unfamiliar.
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Francis Burdett, 10 Sep 2009 @ 7:43am

Argentian?
Is that word a variant of Argentinian?

(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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Valkor, 10 Sep 2009 @ 9:04am

Re: That low down...
Yeah, I never noticed that when I was playing the game. Self referential jokes FTW!
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ChurchHatesTucker (profile), 10 Sep 2009 @ 9:46am

Re: Argentian?
According to WikiP the (english) demonym for someone from Argentina is "Argentine, Argentinian, [or] Argentinean"

Nothing about Argentian, though. ;)
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Rekrul, 10 Sep 2009 @ 2:21pm

I recognized the source as soon as I started reading the ingredients.
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Anonymous Coward, 19 Sep 2009 @ 1:05pm

The video is broken. Please fix it.
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