Free Downloads The Baby Train: And Other Lusty Urban Legends
America's foremost folk-detective is back on the case, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to a friend of your sister's boyfriend's accountant. In "The Baby Train", Jan Harold Brunvand tracks the most fabulous tales making today's dinner party circuit, showing why those stories that sound too good to be true probably are too good to be true. Revealed here are the mysteries behind some of the goriest ("Accidental Cannibal", "The Body in the Bed"), funniest ("The Failed Suicide", "The Hairdresser's Error"), bawdiest, ("The Shocking Videotape", "Superhero Hijinx"), most pyrotechnic ("The Exploding Bra") urban legends yet.
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc; 1 edition (March 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393034380
ISBN-13: 978-0393034387
Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 5.8 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #3,532,984 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #84 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Urban Legends #2080 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Mythology & Folk Tales > Mythology #2159 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Mythology & Folk Tales > Folklore
Jan Harold Brunvand wrote this book as the fifth installment in his urban legend series that begins with The Vanishing Hitchhiker. It tells us a little bit about the common forms of these stories and the mental processes that shape them. Then it does its primary job of telling interesting, mostly untrue stories that happened to "a friend of a friend."The book's title story is about an unusually high birth rate in a small western town. It was supposedly caused by a train which regularly blew its whistle going through the town each morning at 4 AM, waking many of the residents. Since it was too early to get up and too late to go back to sleep... the town had a higher than usual birth rate. In some versions of the story, the railroad changes the train schedule to ease the population explosion. In others, some families are immune because of deafness, shift work, or other factors.Other interesting stories are organized into categories of horror, crime, work, fun and games, foreign relations, animal legends, and academic legends. The absence of a chapter of urban legends with sexual themes sets this book apart from previous volumes. Perhaps that well has run dry.A few favorites:- A family assumes the tin of unlabeled brown powder mailed to them by relatives is coffee. Too late they learn it was their cremated grandmother.- A flight attendant is unobtrusively wearing an inflatable bra under her uniform. Suddenly, the airplane cabin depressurizes...- A thrifty pet owner splints his budgie's leg with wooden matches to save a trip to the vet.
The Baby Train: And Other Lusty Urban Legends Baby on the Car Roof and 222 Other Urban Legends: Absolutely True Stories That Happened to a Friend of a Friend of a Friend Baby Shower: Baby Record Book. Activity Journal, Message Book, Guestbook, Journal, Pregnancy, Motherhood, Mum, Mother, Dad, Father, Baby, Girl, Boy, ... With 20 Baby Shower Games, 8x10in (Volume 3) Alligators in the Sewer and 222 Other Urban Legends: Absolutely True Stories that Happened to a Friend...of a Friend...of a Friend The Choking Doberman: And Other Urban Legends Choking Doberman: And Other New Urban Legends Phantom Hitchhikers and Other Urban Legends: The Strange Stories Behind Tall Tales The Cat in the Dryer: And 222 Other Urban Legends Bright Baby Touch & Feel Baby Animals (Bright Baby Touch and Feel) Baby Names: Your Guide to Selection and Meaning (Baby, Names, Meanings, Girls, Boys, Origins, Popular, Book, Baby Names) Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and Steam Train, Dream Train Board Books Boxed Set Baby's Box of Fun: A Karen Katz Lift-the-Flap Gift Set: Where Is Baby's Bellybutton?; Where Is Baby's Mommy?: Toes, Ears, & Nose! Hello Baby! Baby Book: A Keepsake Journal for Baby's First Year New York Baby: A Local Baby Book (Local Baby Books) The Baby-Sitters Club Super Special #11: The Baby-Sitters Remember (The Baby-Sitters Club Super Special series) How to Train a Train Steam Train, Dream Train Steam Train, Dream Train Sound Book Steam Train, Dream Train 1-2-3 Steam Train, Dream Train Colors
