On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Jay Tilton wrote:
> Tim Moses wrote:
> > OK, I'm putting you to the test. What is your source??
> For one, it can be found in _The Big Book of Urban Legends_, published in
> 1994 by Paradox Press, an imprint of DC Comics. It's a comic-strip
> presentation of many such friend-of-a-friend and folklore-type stories that
> Jan Harold Brunvand has been collecting and publishing in text form since
> 1981. His version has it as a helicopter carrying an enormous bucket.
Just a note.
_The Big Book of Urban Legends_ has nothing to do with Jan Harald
Brunvand. The crisped scuba diver UL does get play in _Curses, Broiled
Again_ by JHB though.
Bill
'71 MGB (daily driver)
and regular alt.folklore.urban reader
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have them all take off their clothes, and let nature take its course?'"
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