Sentences with phrase «urban legend says»
An urban legend says that Berliner is translated to jelly donut and that Berliners were amused.
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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.
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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.
There are many other things said about Jackson, but a consistent urban legend is that Jackson once ran a 4.13 40 - yard dash.
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.
«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.
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.
«You've heard the urban legend of the Viagra divorce,» she says.
One quick ghost story, another quick urban legend, and then somebody says «Do you know about the boogeyman?»
Like many urban legends, this one isn't technically true — the number of American babies named «Ralph» peaked in the 1910s and has been dropping ever since — but who can say whether Forever... contributed along the way?
It can be tough to sort fact from urban legend when it comes to your credit scores and reports, but experts say buying into credit - related misnomers can cost you a bundle.
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«They're just like urban legends,» says Arden Moore, author of The Cat Behavior Answer Book and editor of Catnip magazine.
The urban legend also says that if your partner manages to carry you to the top of the stairs (mind you they are 99 steps), you will live happily forever after.