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Miguelito Loveless

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19. Indeed.

Reply to Disaffected (Reply #18)

Wed May 14, 2025, 02:59 PM

May 14

I heard the myth (aimed at oil companies) while in school in the 70s. I read about it later in Jan Brunvand's books on Urban Legends, the paper forerunner to Snopes, after a fashion.

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