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From: ofut@gitpyr.UUCP (Jeff Offutt)
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Subject: Urban myths.
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 08:57:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 08:57:44 1985
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I read in the paper recently about a guy who has compiled a whole
book of these stories that he called urban myths.  They always occur
to "a friend's friend" or "my uncle's friend" or something like
that.  The guy (I don't remember his name or the book) is a social
scientist or some such and evidentally makes some interesting comments
on our society, as mirrored through our myths; not too unlike the old
myths about dragons and Johnny Appleseed.

One of the stories mentioned in the paper goes like this:

A house-wife comes back from shopping and finds her Doberman choking
on something.  She calls the vet, they come and take the dog.  About
15 minutes later the vet calls and yells 'GET OUT OF THE HOUSE, THER'RE
ARE BURGLARS!  YOUR DOG WAS CHOKING ON HUMAN FINGERS!"

Sure enough, when she ran over to a neighbor's and called the police, 
they found a burglar hiding in a closet.  And he only had seven fingers.
-- 
Jeff Offutt
School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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