Urban LegendsI'm ashamed to admit it, but I fell for the "Bob Holness played the saxophone on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street" story some years back. It just seemed so right. I still want it to be true.
What have you fallen for, or even better, what legends have you started?
(
chthonic, Thu 5 Jan 2006, 16:02)
« Go Back
I made one... er... a small one.At a G and T camp I once went to, they had an extensive computer lab of brand spanking new Macs, which few people had ever worked on. You could use the text-to-speech function to make your computer 'speak'... But I knew this, having owned one.
I, of course, announced that this was why Mac was ahead, they could make a computer that could read and talk. Then, I promptly started the text-to-speech and had a long 'discussion' with the entire table of computers.
Cue panic-stricken teachers trying to cover up their email, guilty students minimizing their 'research' porn and one girl throwing a fit that she couldn't use a Mac because they 'weren't private' and everyone could see whatever she did.
The myth held out there, of course, until someone noticed me typing in a future 'Am I real or do I just think I'm real?' monologue for the next class.
(, Thu 5 Jan 2006, 21:16, Reply)
« Go Back