w
...@spam.me.not (Wolf) wrote:
> For a while I've been hearing a "fact" that
> sounds like the typical post-disaster black
> humor/urban legend mixture: a while before
> the catastrophe, a local clerk in one of the
> countries hit by the tsunamis receives a
> warning note stating "
Tsunami will reach you
> shortly!" - and, in response, sends a welcome
> crew to the local airport, to welcome and pick
> up the mysterious "
Mr Tsunami", whom he
> expects to be an unannounced ministerial
> visitor or inspector.
> As I said, just the sound of it makes me 99%
> sure it's a fresh urban legend, but does
> anyone know anything about it *for certain*?
Sounds ULish, certainly. A few more specifics, please? Where have you
been hearing this? Any occurrences you can point us to on the Internet
or Usenet?
I see a remote analogue, perhaps, in USA'n railroad industry legend,
concerning the Pere Marquette Railroad passenger train conductor and
engineer, some time in the first quartrer of the 20th Century, who
received a telegraphic train order from the dispatcher to make an
unscheduled stop at some way point to pick up Coach Yost -- referring to
Michigan Wolverines football coach Fielding Yost. They duly made the
stop, and were puzzled by the absence of a coach named Yost (PMRR day
coaches would have been numbered, not named, in that era) on the house
track at the station, waiting to be switched into their train.
Alan "hilarity ensued, in very limited circles" Follett
