23rd February 2003, 11:56 AM
Yeah, but Koreans have urban legends even stupider than our own! We may think you need to wait half an hour before swimming, but at least Americans don't think you can't sleep with a fan on at night or it'll suck up all your oxygen!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)