Bryan J. Maloney muttered....

> Olivers > nattered on
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>> The stories are too frequent, too reasonable and so well attuned to
>> observations of human nature today to have much deniability on the
>> grounds of "lack of evidence".
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> I suggest that you go look up what an "urban legend" is and how they are
> propagated, no matter how false they actually are.
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Since I remain a regular reader and contributor to the a.f.u ng (That
alt.folklore.urban), the home of urban legends, I suspect I'm quite well
attuned to the credible/incredible threshold of such legends. This is a
subject which googling may open entirely new and unconsidered vistas to you
about lobsters and other delicacies for the identured staff...

Hint: The literary references alone would serve to validate the "legend".

TMO