Sentences with phrase «many urban legends»

Take urban legends for example.

That can't be proved, of course, so every such case resides in the limbo of urban legend and ancient superstition.

This might be the most random urban legend on this list.

Though Zizmor has become something of an urban legend to Manhattanites, he chalks up his odd ubiquity to chance.

The authors — Chip is a professor at Stanford, and Dan works at Duke's corporate education program — looked at ideas from the golden rule to popular urban legends to create a checklist of what makes an idea truly memorable.

Its an Urban legend that Darwin admitted to god on his death bed, just a little research on your part would be need to know that fact.

I mean, jews themselves aren't even allowed to be buried in jewish cemeteries if they have a tattoo (which was propegated as an urban legend and is actually not against jewish law, but is followed anyway).

Can you even tell us who is supposed to have said this, cause it sounds like a christian urban legend to me more than anything.

But it appears that what was going on here was not that — nor was it the hell fire and brimstone stuff of urban legend.

One particular boat which is really quite solid if one takes the time to study and understand what it really teaches, not what hearsay or urban legends say it teaches, is the boat of the Catholic Church... a boat that has weathered stormy seas already for almost two thousand years.

For example, how many urban legends start with «a friend of my cousin», or something similar, and are believed by many who hear it.

Jesus was an Urban Legend.

What do we care what an urban legend thinks!

This famed recipe is the king of urban legend recipes — recipes that are passed around and have an unlikely (but charming tale attached to them).

He stresses that the massive profitability of bars is an urban legend «unless you serve $ 12 martinis, which we don't,» he quips.

A popular urban legend identifies a Native American chef named George Crum as the first American to serve potato chips to a restaurant customer at a resort in Sarasota Springs, New York.

Maple & Pine Restaurant at Quirk Hotel is showing their» Virginia Spirit» by offering up a special cocktail that pays tribute to one of Richmond's urban legends, the Hollywood (Cemetery) Vampire!

Fans can explore more popular food urban legends like the five second rule, gum taking seven years to digest and more at CookingChannelTV.com/FactOrFiction, and can join the conversation on twitter using #FactOrFiction.

and has now become more urban legend than it has truth.

If you believe the urban legend Welbeck was bought by Gazidiz for 16m in extra time of the 2014 summer window while Wenger was away refereeing a charity match at the Vatican With the Sanchez / Mkhi swap debacle fresh in the mind we can't afford to mess the Auba deal up.

«That's an urban legend,» Yankovic confirmed to Sports Illustrated.

There are many other things said about Jackson, but a consistent urban legend is that Jackson once ran a 4.13 40 - yard dash.

FIFA's website repeats the urban legend that they pulled out after being informed that they would not be permitted to compete barefoot.

It is not an urban legend.

Home birth midwives often become urban legends in spite of often providing excellent clinical care.

A special sort of urban legend...

I think a combination of urban legend and self - protecting midwives surrounding my son's birth and death, and then later sheer intimidation at my growing practice in spite of complete lack of support from the home birth committee continued to solidify my being the outsider.

I think we mothers are hardest on ourselves, trying to live up to the urban legend of the perfect mother.

Though you might think that she's some sort of urban legend or supernatural character out of a...

There has to be some truth to the urban legend of the mother - in - law grabbing the baby's head as soon as the baby starts crowning.

Like the white iPhone, I thought these leopard print Uggs were urban legend.

Specifically, online advocacy and communications myths and urban legends:

Again, this is just urban legend that there is a [voter] fraud problem.

«A lot of the urban legends about Pete are just not true,» Zimet brightly declared to her Democratic audience, some of whom had suffered under Savago's rule.

Last week, de Blasio called Schulkin's assertions about voter fraud — which he dismissed as an urban legend — and the municipal identification program «crazy» and proof that he is not fit for his position.

You can compare it to the Ted Williams [urban legend in baseball]-- they say he could see the stitching on the ball [of the incoming pitch] rotate, and that he would know by the rotation whether he was getting a fastball or a curveball.

The urban legend that one swallows lots of spiders during sleep in one's life has no basis in reality.

An urban legend says that Berliner is translated to jelly donut and that Berliners were amused.

«If there has been a more harmful urban legend circulating in our society than the vaccine - autism link,» University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan wrote in The Philadelphia Inquirer, «it's hard to know what it might be.»

17 Don't buy the urban legend that Inuit cultures have hundreds of words for snow.

Busted Science and urban legend face off in Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition, a new traveling exhibit based on the Discovery Channel's hit TV show.

And so one of the great urban legends is this is what the New York City police did.

Although there is an urban legend that the world will end this year based on a misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar, some researchers think a 40 - year - old computer program that predicts a collapse of socioeconomic order and massive drop in human population in this century may be on target

You know what urban legends are, right?

There is no bigger urban legend than this one.

Remember the urban legend about crocodiles thriving in New York City's sewers?

«It was a lot of fun to directly address an urban legend that has captured the imagination of the general public for so many decades,» said Mauro, professor of materials science and engineering.

MythBusters, the Discovery Channel series that uses scientific method to deconstruct and debunk urban legends, is giving museumgoers the chance to join the program's hyperkinetic quest for truth.

DO N'T DO IT Urinating on a wound to clean it in an emergency has become fodder for urban legend, but new research debunks the idea that urine is sterile.

The link between genome duplication and diversification has seemed so intuitive that it has «almost become an urban legend,» says Michael Lynch, an evolutionary biologist at Indiana University, Bloomington.