That time our local historian botched the tale of the Mary Celeste at the community potluck

At the potluck, old Mr. Jenkins always told wild stories about the Mary Celeste. We nodded along without a second thought, but last year someone corrected him with a Wikipedia page, and the whole room went silent.

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gray_bell2d ago

Reminds me of when our mayor got the town founder story totally wrong at the picnic.

the_kelly2d ago

How can we mess up a story that bad? I once tried to tell my niece how her grandparents met and accidentally gave her the plot of a rom-com I saw last week. gray_bell, your mayor sounds like me trying to cook from memory and ending up with salt instead of sugar. Getting simple facts twisted is just too easy sometimes. I'd probably put the town founder in the wrong century and give him a pet llama.

sandrab911d ago

gray_bell's mayor story is classic. We all fumble details when stories get passed around too much.