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 bullet biscuit




Told you so.

It's official. We were duped. Tricked. Bamboozled. Made to look dopey.

I don't mind if you don't.

Urban legendologist Jan H. Brunvand has spoken.

For those who were out of the room last week when I wrote the exciting story of the woman in Aurora who allegedly had been whacked in the back of the head by an errant biscuit and thought she had been shot, relax.

It ain't so.

It's a story Brunvand recognized. "That story was all over the Midwest and South last summer but I've found an example mentioned in an Ohio newspaper as early as January 1994. The comedian Brett Butler used it in her standup routine and, allegedly, has told it on talk shows as something her sister did.

"I've even found some prototypes for the basic themes of the story in older folklore. Eventually, I will put all this into a chapter for some future book."

Brunvand is the guy who could do it. He's written a series of books on urban legends, those stories that everyone has heard but never experienced. They usually come by way of a friend of a friend (FOAF in Brunvandland).

Brunvand, a professor at the University of Utah, says he was glad to hear about the latest incarnation of the biscuit bullet because he will be delivering a talk on it to the California Folklore Society later this month. Happy to help.

I can't say his account of the story's origins is correct; it came via a letter sent to me by a FOAF, our mutual pal Pete Webb.

I still say it's a good tale.

[...the rest of the article, a Craig Shergold rehash, deleted... --ehk]

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