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?
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chthonic, Thu 5 Jan 2006, 16:02)
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The art of the lie..So I get bored fairly quickly and like to make things up:
A very long time ago an envoy from the island of Jersey in the English channel was sailing to the island of Guernsey, as part of the diplomatic tribute the ship had a number of barrels of milk form the famous Jersey cows which were kept fresh using lumps of ice floating in the barrels themselves.
Unfortunately a massive storm appeared out of nowhere and the captain decided that to save his ship from the violent rocking they should anchor at the island of Churnsey. When the diplomats checked the precious milk cargo they found that the lumps of ice and fierce storm had turned the milk into creamy butter. The captain thought that the milk had spoiled and so they left the butter on the island of Churnsey and continued on their diplomatic mission.
The resourceful Churnseyans used the butter for spreading on bread and when the original supply ran out invented the butter churn in order to recreate the first ever butter.
Also
The term ‘monkey wrench’ must be replaced with the words ‘adjustable spanner’ because apes in Mozambique are putting sticks into termite mounds and then twisting them using another forked branch.
Unfortunatly I always start laughing after looking at peples faces for a minute or so as they ponder the truth of these.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 14:53, Reply)
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