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Re:Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables th... by chiph on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @04:16PM (#10509836)
There's a toy made by Hasbro called the Easy-Bake Oven that's been in production since the early 1960s. It has a heating element (originally a 100 watt light bulb) that lets kids bake "cakes" using packets of mix. Despite it having a very good safety record (percentage-wise, given how many millions of them have been sold) the urban legend persists that it's dangerous.
Re:Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables th... by SarahofGaia on Friday November 06, 2015 @01:56PM (#10521230)
What sparked the myth?
Re:Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables th... by chiph on Friday November 06, 2015 @03:43PM (#10521889)
No idea - it's just one of those things that arise out of nothing. Someone thinks "OMG someone could cook a pet hamster in it!" and it just goes from there, like a game of Chinese Whispers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers

Re:Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables th... by SarahofGaia on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @11:45PM (#10551351)
That's a very intriguing thing. Thanks for that. :-)