Posted by Imbrogno on July 25, 2000 at 14:38:39:
In Reply to: Does this little bird have a name? posted by Nepenthe(IMM) on July 25, 2000 at 14:34:04:
I'm sure there has been more than a fair share of work on things such as urban legends in the field of sociology and so on. A better thesis would be "Why do people feel the need to fill in the blanks using 'insider information'?" that's probably more of a psych thing though