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	Urban Legends Reference Pages: (Glossary)
		Urban legends are a specific class of legend, differentiated from "ordinary" legends by their being provided and believed as accounts of actual incidents that befell or were witnessed by someone the teller almost knows (e.g., his sister's hairdresser's mechanic).
		Urban legends are narratives which put our fears and concerns into the form of stories or are tales which we use to confirm the rightness of our world view.
		Pseudo-ostension is the act of deliberately acting out an existing urban legend (e.g., children secreting pins in their Halloween treats to throw a scare into the community or pranksters in Pulaski, Virginia, placing syringes in payphone coin return slots in 1999).
	www.snopes.com /info/glossary.asp (1150 words)

	Urban Legends, Urban Legend, Urban Legends News at LiveScience.com
		Urban legends are comparable to a modern-day type of folklore.
		Most urban legends reference a friend of a friend, and are assumed factual by the people who spread the stories.
		Some urban legends have been circulating for a very long time, and are constantly resurfacing and spreading much farther and faster with the advent of email.
	www.livescience.com /urbanlegends (456 words)

	Urban legend Summary
		Urban legends are a kind of folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them (see rumor).
		Urban legends are sometimes repeated in news stories and, in recent years, distributed by e-mail.
		Urban legends often are born of fears and insecurities, or specifically designed to prey on such concerns.
	www.bookrags.com /Urban_legend (2077 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Urban Legends Work"
		In this article, we'll look at urban legends to see what they are, where they come from and why they spread so quickly.
		Generally speaking, an urban legend is any modern, fictional story, told as truth, that reaches a wide audience by being passed from person to person.
		While these "facts" don't always have the narrative elements of traditional legend, they are passed from person to person and frequently have the elements of caution, horror or humor found in legends.
	people.howstuffworks.com /urban-legend.htm (579 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Urban Legends Work"
		In this article, we'll look at urban legends to see what they are, where they come from and why they spread so quickly.
		Generally speaking, an urban legend is any modern, fictional story, told as truth, that reaches a wide audience by being passed from person to person.
		Particular urban legends may be spread either as fact or as a story.
	www.howstuffworks.com /urban-legend.htm (677 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An urban legend or urban myth is a kind of modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them.
		Some urban legends have survived a long time, evolving only slightly over the years, as in the case of the story of a woman killed by spiders nesting in her elaborate hairdo.
		The urban legends resemble a proper joke, especially in the manner of transmission, but are much darker in tone and theme.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=urban_myth (1467 words)

	Urban Legends
		An Urban Legend is usually a (good / captivating / titillating / engrossing / incredible / worrying) story that has had a wide audience, is circulated spontaneously, has been told in several forms, and which many have chosen to believe (whether actively or passively) despite the lack of actual evidence to substantiate the story.
		I believe that Urban Legends developed at a time when the increasingly rational world had come to reject stories of what we now consider to be truly fanciful things as a part of everyday knowledge.
		Some Urban Legends are probably created by people who have encountered a humorous or remarkable story and who wish to retell them in a way that ‘personalises’ them to some degree.
	www.marshall.edu /sociology/nilles/classes/311/powerpoint/urban.html (651 words)

	Glass: Liquid or Solid -- Science vs. an Urban Legend
		I compiled this short article to address the widespread urban legend according to which glass is a liquid.
		It is caused by a widespread urban legend [1], which has wormed its way even in some high school textbooks, and has managed to fool even apparently intelligent and well-informed laymen.
		It is possible that the "glass is a liquid" urban legend originated with a misreading of a German treatise on glass thermodynamics.
	dwb.unl.edu /Teacher/NSF/C01/C01Links/www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/florin.html (2007 words)

	The Urban Legend Combat Kit
		When a friend or colleague sends you an email that you want to research, fire up your Web browser, click on your urban legends search bookmarklet, type in a keyword or two from the email in question, and hit enter.
		I use my urban legend bookmarklet to search for a page at snopes.com that either supports or refutes that urban legend.
		This site is a free search engine for urban legends, and I use it all the time.
	www.netsquirrel.com /combatkit (804 words)

	Snuff Film; Making of an Urban Legend (Skeptical Inquirer May 1999)
		These are but three of innumerable urban legends perpetuated by everyone from children too young to understand their significance to businesspeople gossiping around the water cooler during their breaks.
		And, like living languages, urban legends change, both as a result of misinterpretation and through evolution, adapting to fit the environment of those cultivating them.
		And since two major themes underlying urban legends are sex and death, it seems only natural that the genre of the horror film is rife with lore.
	www.csicop.org /si/9905/snuff.html (3538 words)

	Urban Legend Movie Review
		However, these urban legends soon become reality when a killing spree is unleashed on the unsuspecting students of Pendleton U, and students are dispatched in gruesome reenactments of famous urban legends.
		And what is probably the kiss of death for "Urban Legend" is that it quickly degenerates into the epitome of what "Scream" poked fun at-- the cheesy slasher movie populated by stock characters and held together by a flimsy plot that defies logic.
		"Urban Legend" was filmed in Toronto at my alma mater, the University of Toronto, and so I found it interesting to see my old hangouts in a different light-- especially seeing an axe murderer stalking the halls of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Business.
	www.mediacircus.net /urbanlegend.html (925 words)

	Java theory and practice: Urban performance legends
		Urban legends are kind of like mind viruses; even though we know they are probably not true, we often can't resist the urge to retell them (and thus infect other gullible "hosts") because they make for such good storytelling.
		Urban legends persist because there's something about them that makes them just plausible enough to get retold.
		Unfortunately, urban legends are not confined to stories of flushing baby alligators down the toilet.
	www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/java/library/j-jtp04223.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01JavaUrbanLegends (2359 words)

	A New Urban Legend \| Articles \| Interiors and Sources
		Currens pointed out that the development of housing in downtown areas has become a relatively new trend, fueled by demand from childless households seeking a living environment conducive to "hiving," or frequent social interaction and community involvement, rather than "cocooning," in which residents are more isolated.
		Currens said the Yankelovich survey suggests that more consumers are seeking housing that is closely connected to community amenities, including housing that is mixed with, adjacent to, within walking distance of, or connected by transit to recreation, culture, entertainment and work.
		The growing sophistication of today's urban residents, combined with rising land prices and the changing demographics of our society, emphasize the need for developers to rethink and restyle their multi-family products.
	www.isdesignet.com /ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Stamats%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&AudID=1E3ABA75D377495382DF2A564C3FF787&tier=4&id=4C6237DE242646A2932054FF1F3B61FB (1510 words)

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		Christian Urban Legends are stories of events with a Christian theme that never happened.
		The killer of Urban Legend is well versed in urban legends (natch), and reenacts the stories in their gory detail.
		Other urban legends might better be called "widely dispersed misinformation", such as the erroneous belief that you will automatically pass all of your college courses in a semester if your roommate kills himself.
	www.lycos.com /info/urban-legend--stories.html (400 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News - The writing's on the wall for Iran
		Generally speaking, an urban legend is a widely circulated, folklorish story - often based on exaggerated or distorted fact - that is believed to be true by many who repeat it.
		I suppose that when it comes to Washington, something that is urban legend-esque ceases to be a legend only after we read one of Bob Woodward's post mortems in which we end up discovering that those who had been accused of "spreading rumors" were actually telling the truth.
		The initial source of this "urban legend" was Bush's infamous "axis of evil" speech, in which he lumped Iran together with Iraq and North Korea as deserving US punishment.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/IA31Ak02.html (935 words)

	Urban Legend (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The interesting thing about this urban legend is not its legend status, but instead, the multiple endings.
		This is the ninety-fifth in a series of examinations of comic book urban legends and whether they are true or false.
		Urban legends are seldom-examined stories that circulate as fact.
	urbanlegendsinfo.info /sitemap (343 words)

	Main Library is Not Sinking
		According to urban legend, she says, the IU Main Library is sinking by an inch a year because the architect failed to take into account the weight of the books.
		Urban legends are always told secondhand-that's what makes them urban legends.
		The legend is actually much older than IU's Main Library, says Smith.The pesky Bloomington version stems from a general category of urban legends known as the 'architect's blunder,' or a legend told about a specific location such as a bridge or notable building.
	www.indiana.edu /~libweb/campus/libsink.html (553 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Folklore: Literature: Urban Legends (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Cat in Urban Mythology - Essay by Sarah Hartwell discussing the images of the cat in urban legends.
		Darwin Awards Urban Legends - Cautionary tales of human evolution in action that are simply too astounding to be true.
		Urban Legends: An Electronic Art Exhibit - A virtual gallery of multimedia artistic representations of urban legends, by Sarah Wichlacz.
	dmoz.org /Society/Folklore/Literature/Urban_Legends (687 words)

	Urban Legend Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Urban Legend is the next hip-slasher film to come down the pipe after the revival of the slasher-film genre by Scream.
		Urban legends are modern folktales that may be true or may just be a hoax.
		We all know one or two urban legends, and a few are covered in the movie.
	www.killermovies.com /u/urbanlegend/reviews/82l.html (653 words)

	Urban Legend - Moviefone
		Urban Legend (1998) Jamie Blanks' URBAN LEGEND is a case in point: Most reviews ran the gamut from harsh dismissal to faint praise, yet the movie is a visual treat,...
		Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000) Urban Legends: Final Cut on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		Urban Legends Reference Pages: Ghost Boy in 'Three Men and a Baby' Apparently in the movie "Three Men and a Baby" there is one scene that...
	movies.aol.com /movie/urban-legend/4045/main (176 words)

	Urban Legend
		Urban Legend is another in an ever-growing string of 90's teen horror flicks spawned by the success of Scream.
		Starring Alicia Witt (from TV's Cybil) as Natalie Simon, Urban Legend is set on the campus of Pendleton College, where one of the students, driving at night on a deserted road, is axed to death by some stranger hiding in the backseat of her SUV.
		Urban Legend is the worst example of a genre that started as a spoof of a beloved genre, and has become a joke in itself.
	www.fuzzydog.com /zzurbanlegend.htm (1192 words)

	Amazon.com: Urban Legend: DVD: Jared Leto,Alicia Witt,Rebecca Gayheart,Michael Rosenbaum,Loretta Devine,Joshua ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The idea of having a murdering going around killing people after the same urban legends we all love to fear is genius, and thankfully here they got it right (although both sequels failed to live up to this films edge).
		As her friends and associates in general all start dying, each one being picked off one by one carrying out different urban legends she tries, with the help of her best friend Brenda (Gayheart) and aspiring journalist Paul (Leto) to uncover the killer before it's too late.
		One by one, the group of students is killed off by the maniacal killer with gruesome effect; Parker dies by having draino poured down his throat, Damon is strung up from a tree, and Sasha is chased around the campus radio station with the microphone still on so everyone can hear her screams.
	www.amazon.com /Urban-Legend-Jared-Leto/dp/0767824954 (2951 words)

	Christian Urban Legends, etc.
		Christian Urban Legends are stories of events with a Christian theme that never happened.
		They are generally created by a Christian individual or group as a fictional account because they give concrete support to their beliefs.
		Stories that may be urban legends: Weighing a soul, relocated church, Coca Cola and the Mormons.
	www.religioustolerance.org /chr_cul.htm (508 words)

	Urban Legends - College Library Undergraduate Research Guide
		According to the Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature, urban legends are defined as "apocryphal contemporary stories, told as true and usually attributed to a friend of a friend (FOAF)." Other terms used to describe these stories are contemporary legends, modern legends, and modern urban legends.
		Refer to "urban legends and beliefs" and "hoaxes" in the index of any volume.
		Members are especially concerned with ways in which legends merge with life: real-life analogs to legend plots, social crusades that use legends or legend-like horror stories, and search for evidence behind claims of alien abductions and mystery cats."
	college.library.wisc.edu /resources/subject_guides/urbanlegends.htm (882 words)

	File the Bin Laden Phone Leak Under 'Urban Myths'
		President Bush asserted this week that the news media published a U.S. government leak in 1998 about Osama bin Laden's use of a satellite phone, alerting the al Qaeda leader to government monitoring and prompting him to abandon the device.
		The story of the vicious leak that destroyed a valuable intelligence operation was first reported by a best-selling book, validated by the Sept. 11 commission and then repeated by the president.
		But it appears to be an urban myth.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/21/AR2005122101994_pf.html (857 words)

	Dark Horizons - Heard the one about Brando & the Duck?
		Some of the students at New England's Pendleton College begin a study of the topic, helping them to understand an urban legend of their own - a professor at the college killed himself and six students there almost 30 years ago.
		Assertive student Natalie suspects the killer is basing each murder on a different urban legend - but her loyal friend Brenda, ambitious young journalist Paul, party animal Parker, radio host Sasha and practical joker Damon insist the deaths are just coincidences.
		The reason is its high-concept as instead of just usual hack-n-slash, the defining element of this movie is that each death is based around an 'urban legend' - stories which almost all of us love to hear and open some great possibilities.
	www.darkhorizons.com /1998/urban/urban-n.htm (1435 words)

	Amazon.com: Urban Legend: Music: T.I. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Urban Legend is the follow-up to Trap Muzik.
		Urban Legend was released in late 2004 and is in stores now.
		T.I.'s "Urban Legend" is a decent album, with a couple of standout tracks, where I found it lacking was in content, T.I. spends most of this album addressing the same issues and does not take things to another level.
	www.amazon.com /Urban-Legend-T-I/dp/B00064200S (1579 words)

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