From: freemand@cosmoslair.com   
      
   On 9/4/2016 3:24 PM, Charles Bishop wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >  Don Freeman  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 9/3/2016 9:35 AM, Charles Bishop wrote:   
   >>> Over in alt.usage.english urban legends came up and someone thought they   
   >>> had to be false, made up. I pointed out that they can be true and showed   
   >>> the definition found on snopes.com.   
   >>>   
   >>> I wondered if the fact that they can be true and still be urban legends   
   >>> was mentioned by Jan Harold Brunvand in any of his books?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> In the preface to "Curses! Broiled Again!", Brunvand does imply that in   
   >> his statement:   
   >>   
   >> "Sometimes actual events (...) generate urban legends, but legends about   
   >> real incidents get so localized and stylized that they soon exist   
   >> independently as oral stories, detached from their origins.  For   
   >> example, a few cars really have been filled with concrete, and perhaps   
   >> one such case started the legend.  But the events described did not   
   >> occur in all the times and places where 'The Solid Concrete Cadillac' is   
   >> told."   
   >   
   > Thanks for that.   
   >>   
   > [snip really long url]   
   >   
      
   I would have used TinyURL, but the indexes disappear after a month or so.   
      
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