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  Allan March 12, 2006 at 1:52 pm

  Ahem, you do realize that you know a person who is internationally recognized as an expert in urban legends after having written an entire book on the subject, don’t you?

  I’m just askin’.
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  Wayne March 12, 2006 at 7:15 pm

  Yeah, but it’s not an “expert” article that has no requirements for being informative, educational or even particularly true, just entertaining. Plus, there’s not much in the way of supernatural or psycho killer elements and the piece is less than 3000 words. Kind of barely worth your time…
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  Allan March 12, 2006 at 9:24 pm

  But if you quote me I can tell people I was quoted in an article in Singapore!

  And what do you mean not worth my time? I’m a total press whore! I’ve done radio interviews in frickin’ South Dakota for cryin’ out loud!

  Plus my book only had one chapter on psycho killer stories (and none on the supernatural). It also had chapters on celebraties, gross food stories, bizarre deaths, animal related legends and stories that sounded like urban legends, but actually turned out to be true. It’s a veritable rainbow of different kinds of legends.

  And are you implying that if I were involved, the article wouldn’t be entertaining?

  Call me Mr. Sensitive.
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  Wayne March 13, 2006 at 8:37 am

  Actually I was implying that this kind of article was beneath you since it’s just a kind of pointless, shallow thing not actually requiring much in the way of research or expertise, or at least not the kind that you have.

  It’s all kind of moot anyway, since the article is done, and it’s mostly centered on local urban legends, so unless you have something to contribute about the Singapore stone, or the National Library housing copies of the Necronomicon, the usual “bloody hook dangling from car door handle” would have been culturally inappropriate.

  And besides, I don’t think you want to be able to say an article from Singapore quoted you, that would be entirely too embarrassing for your reputation. It’s a little island out in South East Asia, by North American standards, it doesn’t even qualify as a real country, since a cross country road trip here is 30 minutes…
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  Allan March 13, 2006 at 12:31 pm

  Okay, okay. But the next time you write an article about Urban Legends I’m expecting some cheap publicity–no matter how tiny the locale it appears in (I mean, I did a newspaper interview for this book for a town in Georgia that I suspect was smaller than Whyte Ave).