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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A genuinely legendary characterIf you've ever lived in Walsall then I can only offer my condolences and hope that you've managed to find somewhere better, but you'll know what I'm talking about. The local street crazy, Brian Ramsay, was the subject of almost all the urban legends I heard at school because of his habitual barking and occasional displays of street violence. He's listed here under "street entertainers": www.knowhere.co.uk/579_heroes.html
Popular ones included he had been a really bright student who dropped too much acid and never came down, his girlfriend was murdered in front of him and it drove him mad, or that he just sniffed glue and that's why he was so strung out.
I was back in Walsall just before Christmas, having a smoke outside a balti house, and he came up to me and asked me in a very clear and coherent voice if he could have a cigarette, so he is still about and hopefully the barking stuff is all in the past. I don't know, I haven't lived there for 7 years.
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 12 Jan 2006, 11:41,
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