Re: humor

["Deany M. Cheramie" <ENGL-DMC@nich-nsunet.nich.edu>]

On   Tue, 13 Feb 1996  Dee Baer shared the following:
>
>After several hours of reading implausible student essays, I 
>read the
>following "true story" on my e-mail.  I hope those on the list 
>don't
>object--these humor postings can get tedious. But I think there's 
>some
>kind of connection to writing here.  How can any student say 
>there's
>nothing to write about?  There's an errant can of Spam or its ilk
>somewhere! 
> Dee Baer
>Univ. Delaware Writing Center
>
>
>My friend Linda went to Arkansas last week.While she was there, 
>she
>went to the store and parked in next to a car with a woman 
>sitting
>in it with her eyes closed and her hands behind her head. The 
>woman
>looked odd to Linda, but she figured she must be sleeping. When 
>Linda
>came out a little while later, she saw the same woman in the 
>car with
>her eyes open, but her hands still behind her head. The womand 
>looked
>strange, so Linda tapped on the window and said, "Are you OK?" 
>The 
>woman said, "I have been shot in the head and I'm holding my 
>brains
>in." Linda ran into the store and called the paramedics, who had
>to break into the car because the door was locked. They found
>that apparently a Pillsbury biscuit cannister had exploded
>in the heat in the car, making a loud explosion and hitting the
>woman in the back of the head. When she reached back to feel 
>what it was, she felt the dough and thought it was her brains.
>She passed out from fear at first, and then attempted to keep
>her brains in.

Dee,

This sounds like a story that falls into the category of "urban 
legend" or "urban folklore," somewhat in the "Choking Doberman" 
vein.

deany


DEANY M. CHERAMIE
engl-dmc@nich-nsunet.nich.edu
504-448-4207
Dept. of English
Nicholls State University
PO Box 2023
Thibodaux, LA 70310   

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