Urban Legends: The As-Complete-As-One-Could-Be Guide to Modern Myths Book

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
1.	Crazy Little Thang Called Sex!	1
	One Is Such a Lonely Number	2
	A Little Something on the Side	10
	Caught in the Act	14
	Best Served Cold	24
	Don't I Know You from Somewhere?	30
	When One Plus One Equals Three	33
	Paying for It	43
2.	Oh, Scare Me!	47
	Safe at Home? Or Anywhere?	47
	Invasion of the Body-Part Snatchers	63
	Buried Alive!	64
	"... Passed Peacefully Away"--Not!	68
3.	Happy Holidays	78
	Weddings	79
	Halloween	89
	Christmas	93
	Valentine's Day	97
	Saint Patrick's Day	100
	Groundhog Day	101
	Christenings and Baptisms	102
4.	On the Road	106
	Planes	106
	Trains	119
	Automobiles	121
	All the Rest	136
5.	Crime Just Doesn't Pay, Does It?	143
	Tales of the Criminally Stupid	143
	Tales of the Criminally Weird	146
	What a Way to Get Caught!	151
	Just When They Thought They Got Away Clean	162
	Anything to Avoid Capture	170
	Tales of Investigations and Commonly Held Criminal Beliefs	172
	When Laws Are Stupid, Too	174
	In the Hallowed Halls	176
	The Things Lawyers Will Do!	180
	After the Cage Closes	184
6.	That's Entertainment	186
	Films	187
	Television	203
	Radio	216
	Stage	216
	Song	218
7.	Campus Capers	226
	In the Classroom	226
	At Center Stage--Professors	232
	The Extracurricular Life	238
	Making the Grade	246
8.	Corporate Convolutions	260
	The Bigger They Come...	260
	If Only It Were Simple	272
	The Scammers and the Scammed	287
9.	Doctor! Doctor!	293
	Of Maladies Odd and Unusual	295
	Tales of the Old Wives	306
	New Wives' Tales	312
	Simply Bizarre	317
10.	So Much for Comfort Food	320
	And in Closing...	327