| Re: you say "potato", I say "urban myth"Spider-Boy, on host 207.10.37.2 Saturday, October 30, 1999, at 23:37:41
 Re: you say "potato", I say "urban myth" posted by Wolfspirit on Saturday, October 30, 1999, at 19:46:23:
 > > > - and a better class of urban myth than the usual alligator in the sewer / hook handed man on lovers lane / honest politician (what, you never heard that one? shame, I was hoping *you'd* tell *me*)> > > somebody else please keep this chain of improbabilities going. I've got a few myself that a close personal friend of a relative of an aquaintance could swear to if I only knew where they are these days...
 > > >  - or at least tell me which is morally superior, the urban myth or the rural, and give 3 examples
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 > > Well my favorite was the woman who gave her dog a bath, put it in the microwave to dry it off, and it exploded. Gross, evil, yet more compelling than the others.
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 > > Spider-deadpuppiesarn'tmuchfun-Boy
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 > My favorite is still the 1992 myth of the jet rocket-assisted Chevy Impala, found embedded in the side of a cliff in Arizona.  The crazy mental image it gives of a lone, mysterious, smoldering wreck in the desert immediately evokes an ultimate "Wile E. Coyote" mystique.  The punchline has a particularly nice touch: "He was doing 250-300 mph when he came to that curve... The brakes were completely burned away, apparently from trying to slow the car."  A very effective visceral tale that makes you WANT to believe it.  Heh :-)
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 > Wolfspirit
 
 Sounds like someone was watching Buckaroo Bonzie
 
 Spider-nomatterwereyougothereyouare-Boy
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