The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends

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Jan Harold Brunvand Mr Urban Legend Smithsonian tracks the most fabulous tales making today s cocktail party circuit and shows why those stories that sound too good to be true probably are too good to be true.The eponymous episode The Baby Train sheds light on certain predawn activities that have linked unusually high birth rates to the whim of train schedule makers Other stories offer a revealing peek behind the story of The Exploding Bra, expose the embarrassing source of The Hairdresser s Error, resurrect a Failed Suicide Buster Keaton would have died for, and show why adults are better off not bringing their comic book fantasies out of the closet From Superhero Hijinx to The Shocking Videotape to The Accidental Cannibal, The Baby Train uncovers the mysteries behind some of the bawdiest, goriest, funniest, most pyrotechnic urban legends yet. Best Read [ The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends ] By [ Jan Harold Brunvand ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Don t judge a book by it s cover and this is why When I saw the title, The Baby Train, I thought that the title urban legend would be this fantastic tale of child trafficking babies taken from young, unwed mothers, promised up for adoption, and then put on a train to be ferried all across the US What I was surprised to discover is that the Baby Train urban legend was nowhere close to what I imagined it was actually quite dull in comparison and that this book readslike a collect Don t judge a book by it s cover and this is why When I saw the title, The Baby Train, I thought that the title urban legend would be this fantastic tale of child trafficking babies taken from young, unwed mothers, promised up for adoption, and then put on a train to be ferried all across the US What I was surprised to discover is that the Baby Train urban legend was nowhere close to what I imagined it was actually quite dull in comparison and that this book readslike a collection of newspaper columns Which, well, it probably was I think, to be fair, for the time, this book may have been a great resource but for me, it ...I randomly got this book from openlibrary.org and downloaded it to make sure the app on my tablet that allowed me to read openlibrary books worked I was hoping the book would be like the Snopes of the 90s It wasn t Where Snopes...It s little room reading if you get my drift and the anthropological where did the story come from whoo haa can become wearying yet I still get a kick out of stories about urban legends Ministry note they make great sources for sermon illustrations, btw.This is another great book by Brunvand As an added bonus, it contains a tale type index at the end that categorizes all of the legends from this book, as well as Brunvand s previous urban legend books.More urban legends from the great Brunvand The title refers to a town with a train passing through every morning at some early hour, blowing its loud whistle and waking everyone And since it was too early to get up, and too late to fall back asleepapparently the population just explodedMore urban legand goodness from the fabulous Jan Harold Brunvand I like this book a lot I also like that the word lusty is in the title.

The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends
  • English
  • 19 August 2018
  • Paperback
  • 368 pages
  • 0393312089
  • Jan Harold Brunvand
  • The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends