1.   Although medical quackery and urban legends are nothing new, e-mail allows them to spread so fast that they have become their own kind of contagion.

2.   An oddly persistent urban legend which, like The Rubber Cigar Legend, is without scriptural authority.

3.   An oddly persistent urban legend without scriptural authority.

4.   And his claim of getting it from an unnamed French intelligence officer who knew someone, etc., fit the classic urban legend pattern of third-hand sourcing.

5.   And in the true spirit of urban legends, the stories have been changed to fit the times.

6.   And where else but in the pastime could the following story have the feel of an urban legend?

7.   And they do admit that some urban legends are based on fact.

8.   And you thought the urban legend about Richard Gere and gerbils was disturbing.

9.   As the neighborhood outside his birdwatching window decayed, Forrester grew to be a source of mysterious urban legend to the locals.

10.   Born every minute, we are suckered into one urban legend or dubious conspiracy theory or not-quite-so yarn after the next.