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:
Filed Under: fact checking, grog, reporting
Comments on “Argentinean News Report Worries About Kids Drinking GrogXD”
Ummmmmm...
Divots.
Battery acid -IS- Sulfuric acid.
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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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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Oh, and don’t forget, withdrawal from dihydrogen monoxide leads to certain death (dehydration).
Fact Checking
If only there were some kind of way to search the world for information before you made a fool of yourself…
Re: Fact Checking
Hehe, CHT wins best comment!
re: Ummmmmm...
“Battery acid -IS- Sulfuric acid.”
Ummmmmm… You’ve never played Monkey Island, have you?
monkey island is a great game! XD
Sounds like Mamba Malt Liquor.
lmao. That is too funny. I was just playing this on my Xbox this weekend.
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.
Re: May or may not contain...
That’s the second biggest memory I’ve ever seen…
That low down...
Who ever would promote this must be the Scumm of the earth.
Re: That low down...
Yeah, I never noticed that when I was playing the game. Self referential jokes FTW!
Only partially OT
SCUMM is the engine used to make all those games, originally designed for Maniac Mansion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scumm
Does anyone think the dihydrogen monoxide shit is funny, at all?
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It’s mildly funny, but it’s also a poignant demonstration of the way people perceive language and the unfamiliar.
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)
Re: Argentian?
According to WikiP the (english) demonym for someone from Argentina is “Argentine, Argentinian, [or] Argentinean”
Nothing about Argentian, though. 😉
I recognized the source as soon as I started reading the ingredients.
The video is broken. Please fix it.