<butt-ugly-fish>Urban Legend Zeitgeist: 9/11/2001


  • After being helped out when coming up short when making a purchase, a presumed terrorist warns his benefactor not to drink Coca-Cola [or Pepsi in some versions] after a certain date.
  • Pepsi removed the phrase 'under God' from the snippet of Pledge of Allegiance it printed on promotional cans.
  • Dr Pepper removed the phrase 'under God' from the snippet of Pledge of Allegiance it printed on promotional cans.
  • US car companies have further donated generously to relief funds for New York, while most foreign car companies haven't done a thing.
  • Mohammed Atta, one of the September 11th hijackers who flew a plane into the World Trade Center, blew up a bus in Israel in 1986 and was released from prison at the urgings of President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz.
  • Colonel Oliver North branded Osama bin Laden as a deadly terrorist during his testimony before the Senate Select Committee investigating the Iran-Contra affair.
  • Customers at a restaurant in Moscow, Idaho rout anti-war protestors with a display of patriotic fervor.
  • Dunkin' Donuts employees in Cedar Grove, New Jersey celebrated the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11.
  • President George W. Bush warned Bishop T.D. Jakes to stock up on water and food in preparation for chemical warfare.
  • An email from a U.S. Navy sailor describes how the German destroyer FGS Lutjens saluted the US destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill and displayed a sign that read 'We stand by you' after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
  • A tourist snapped a photograph from the World Trade Center's observation deck of American Airlines Flight 11 just before it crashed into the tower.
  • Days after the terrorist attack of September 11th, the pilot of UA Flight 564 gave an impassioned, detailed speech to his passengers, instructing them to fling objects and themselves upon any possible hijackers who make themselves known.
  • Strange faces can be discerned in pictures of smoke from the World Trade Center.
  • Nostradamus predicted the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
  • Typing 'Q33NY' into a word processor and changing the font to 'Wingdings' reveals a prediction of the attack on the World Trade Center.
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