From buddy Mon Dec 26 17:48:36 1994
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 1994 17:47:14
Subject: urban legends


The Washington Post had a contest for it's readers to come up with new
Urban Legends (Typical current urban legends would be:
        There are many aligators living in the sewers of New York City as a
        result of tourists bringing back pets from Florida that later
        too large and are flushed, but somehow manage to survive on rats
        in the city sewers.
        -or-
        Most disney cartoons have x-rated frames burried in them (by
        disgrunteled artists) that flash past too quickly to be seen.

And now the winners:

        4th runner up.  The rifle that was found at the Texas School Book
                        Depository was the same one that killed Old Yeller.

        3rd runner up.  Early this century, workers at meat packing
                        plants regularly fell into rendering vats and
                        became a frequent ingredient of premium sausage.
                        With OSHA safeguards now in place, it doesn't happen
                        anymore, but the public has grown so demanding of this
                        taste that company officials need to kidnap vagrants
                        and hitchhikers and insert them manually.

        2nd runner up.  The smoke detector industry is covering up research
                        that shows more people are killed every year falling
                        from ladders and stepstools while trying to replace
                        smoke detector batteries than are killed in house
                        fires.

        1st runner up.  There really is a government office where a
                        million monkeys sit banging away at typewriters.  It
                        has been going on for 65 years, and already the output
                        has resulted in one Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
                        and a hit screenplay.

        and the Winner:

                        The bloody glove has six fingers.

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        The Honorable mentions.