Holt, David & Mooney, Bill. The exploding toilet; modern urban legends.HOLT, David & MOONEY, Bill. The exploding toilet; modern urban legends Myths about anything and everything that barely have a shred of truth in them, yet seem to take on a persistent life of their own. Before the Internet, such urban folklore as "alligators in New York City sewers" was carried in magazines and newspapers. . August House. 112p. illus. c2004. 0-87483-715-4. $6.95. JS Holt and Mooney, who previously they put together Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends, have now collected this new batch of urban legends--now connected to those stories that whip around the Internet. These are amusing, and most are brief. Some are a few pages long; others are a few sentences. A few rely on tame earthy earth·y adj. earth·i·er, earth·i·est 1. Of, consisting of, or resembling earth: an earthy smell. 2. Of or characteristic of this world; worldly. 3. humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was , others are warnings based on scary things that happened to a friend; some are new versions of always-popular ghost stories. These would appeal to students looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. brief stories for amusement, and many would be useful to teachers looking for stories to read to their students. J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. |
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