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Re: Urban Legend
Posted by:
Meg Rosenfeld
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Date: May 05, 2005 05:54PM
OK, I'll bite: what's untrue about "Chariots of Fire"? Did Eric Liddell not refuse to run on a Sunday? If so, well, the rest of his life (I've read a couple of biographies) was certainly consonant with his character as portrayed in the film. He died of a brain tumor while a POW in occupied China, where he continued to work as a minister and as an organizer of Boy Scout and Girl Guide groups among the POW children.
This very interesting thread started because I was giving a Referat (oral report; yes, I'm an aging German major) on the Grimm brothers, and wanted to start out with a couple of urban legends regarding these gentlemen--to wit, that they "wrote" the Kinder-und Haus Märchen, and that we get our English word "grim" from their surname. Since, as a typical student, I didn't ask the question until it was too late to utilize the answers, I led into my Referat with something like "Many people 'know' that the Brothers Grimm . . ." (auf Deutsch, natürlich.)
Regards,
Meg
This very interesting thread started because I was giving a Referat (oral report; yes, I'm an aging German major) on the Grimm brothers, and wanted to start out with a couple of urban legends regarding these gentlemen--to wit, that they "wrote" the Kinder-und Haus Märchen, and that we get our English word "grim" from their surname. Since, as a typical student, I didn't ask the question until it was too late to utilize the answers, I led into my Referat with something like "Many people 'know' that the Brothers Grimm . . ." (auf Deutsch, natürlich.)
Regards,
Meg
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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Urban Legend | Meg Rosenfeld | 04/28/2005 06:00PM |
Re: Urban Legend | Dirk | 04/29/2005 03:48AM |
Re: Urban Legend | Kaleut Nemo | 04/29/2005 07:24PM |
Re: Urban Legend | Meg Rosenfeld | 04/29/2005 08:07PM |
Re: Urban Legend | Magnus | 05/04/2005 08:28PM |
Re: Urban Legend | Dan Odenweller | 05/04/2005 09:55PM |
Re: Urban Legend | J.T. McDaniel | 05/05/2005 01:56AM |
Re: Urban Legend | Dan Odenweller | 05/05/2005 04:06AM |
Re: Urban Legend | Meg Rosenfeld | 05/05/2005 05:54PM |
Re: Urban Legend | Dan Girard | 05/05/2005 08:12PM |
Re: Urban Legend | Meg Rosenfeld | 05/05/2005 09:48PM |
Re: Urban Legend | Dan Odenweller | 05/05/2005 11:04PM |
Re: Urban Legend | Meg Rosenfeld | 05/05/2005 11:53PM |
Re: Urban Legend | Dan Odenweller | 05/06/2005 05:49PM |
Re: Urban Legend | Meg Rosenfeld | 05/08/2005 04:55AM |