When I was still young enough not to repeat tales like this to my mother, Dad brought me to Sonoma to visit a fellow Jack London fanatic with a bookstore right next to the Jack London Ranch.
Many researchers hold this to be caused by the spread of such tales, as people repeat tales they have heard in foreign lands, although the oral nature makes it impossible to trace the route except by inference.
However, the oft repeated tale that you can tell the sex of an unborn baby by the rate of its heartbeat (less than 140, a boy, more than this, a girl) is not true.
One widely repeated tale involves a stewardess who flew with a man dressed as a captain — he had hitched a ride, as crew members often do — whom she later recognized as Mohammed Atta.
According to his bio for PBS.org's American Experience: An often repeated tale of Reagan's radio days recounts how he delivered "play-by-play broadcasts" of Chicago Cubs baseball games he had never seen.
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When bad things happen, watch how your mind turns situations into repeating tales of dramatic proportion.
The repeated tales of asset-stripping lead many commentators to suggest that these activists must be stopped.
When I was representing BiH at the UN, diplomats parroting cliches and media too frequently fell into the trap of repeating tales of "age old hatreds" while centuries of coexistence and the progress of the whole of society through diversity were ignored.
Moises, 41, said he did not remember the beach incident, but he has heard his father repeat the tale hundreds of times.
She might repeat a tale or two (her experience of the tarmac of an Egyptian airport was a favourite); she might read out a long letter about chicken feed and then reach for a show tune; she might turn to the Daily Mail more than you'd like, but Kennedy was also quite unlike anyone else.
