People think that is a apocryphal story, it honestly happened.
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They are the ones transforming the apocryphal into the possible.
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" Stevenson's almost certainly apocryphal answer: "But I need a majority.
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The story (apocryphal or not) captures the cultural essence of Kate.
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Finally, his book calls to mind a story — apocryphal or not!
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Over time, this story, clearly apocryphal in places, has been sanitized.
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The much-repeated quote, dating from 1968, may in fact be apocryphal.
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" Lawrence believes this to be "apocryphal, but he claimed it was true.
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During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump admiringly repeated an apocryphal story about Gen.
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Far from being an apocryphal tale, cscareerthrowaway567's story is becoming almost commonplace.
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A perhaps apocryphal story from the Harry Truman era suggests a way forward.
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There's an apocryphal story law professors love to tell about President Andrew Jackson.
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One remedy to this might be an apocryphal anecdote attributed to Martin Luther.
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Some of them are true, some of them half true, many of them apocryphal.
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Ultimately, the apocryphal story of Pele's curse is unlikely to go away anytime soon.
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The classic (and probably apocryphal) illustrations of Campbell's law come from the Soviet Union.
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Reports that she called the opera "una porcheria tedesca" — German pigswill — may be apocryphal.
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In our days of sloganeering and apocryphal tweets, it's also a form of resistance.
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Afghan soldiers desert as Taliban threaten key Helmand capital A perhaps apocryphal tale about Gen.
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" That story is probably apocryphal––even then, the outlet called it a "grisly underworld tale.
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The title of this post refers to a story, possibly apocryphal, about John F. Kennedy.
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His line, "A rising tide lifts all boats," is apocryphal, but Kennedy's actions are not.
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Look up that apocryphal quote if you don't know whom or what I am referring to.
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The rumor, possibly apocryphal, is that Hansen wanted no part of American wrestling's early 1990s schlock.
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Like the apocryphal commander in the Vietnam War, they will destroy the village to save it.
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He lives on in anecdotes that sound apocryphal only if you haven't spent time in Providence.
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This tradition, however apocryphal, inspired the name of Beychevelle (from the Gascon, meaning "lower the sail").
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To paraphrase a probably apocryphal Willie Sutton quote about bank heists: Why rob big-time college athletes?
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Unless Robert Mueller finds the possibly apocryphal "pee tape," Republicans are likely to remain loyal to Trump.
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The setting is an apocryphal Louisiana desert, where Manon is dying in the arms of des Grieux.
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According to one semi-apocryphal story relayed by McNally, Ewing presented young Joakim with his first basketball.
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In one possibly apocryphal story, she disguised herself as a nun to visit a friend in prison.
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In one possibly apocryphal story, she disguised herself as a nun to visit a friend in prison.
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" (This last charge was purely apocryphal.) Later, another reader came to his defense in the margins: "So what?
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As a bonus, this tale includes the (possible apocryphal) story of Harding literally choking Forbes out of anger.
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Predatory men infiltrating women's toilets, the spectre raised in North Carolina and elsewhere, is a similarly apocryphal fear.
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Perhaps this will be akin to the apocryphal "secret plan" of Richard Nixon to end the Vietnam war.
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Our culture still loves apocryphal views of Christ, take Martin Scorsese's 1998 The Last Temptation of Jesus Christ.
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He reports his birthday as July 4, 1900, an apocryphal but symbolic date he was fond of using.
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Just as the Snyder Cut may remain apocryphal forever, so too may the rumored Butthole Cut of Cats.
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While this tale was apocryphal, it's clear that these chicken and egg problems are only going to get worse.
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" But Russian media, citing sources, believe it to be the almost apocryphal sub called the AS-12 or "Losharik.
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"In the words of Chairman Mao, it's always darkest before it gets pitch black," was his favorite apocryphal quote.
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In 2013, Mr. Rajoy called the slush fund documents "apocryphal," and he stuck to a similar line on Wednesday.
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In apocryphal lore, the Polish cavalry were said to have attempted to stop German tanks with horses and sabers.
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On Baseball Like so many stories involving the greatest player ever born on Christmas, this story might be apocryphal.
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I think it's an apocryphal story, but that story was told in the old days as a massive outlier.
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These stories may be largely apocryphal, or real-life examples the type of skullduggery spies try because...why not?
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This is usually an apocryphal figure, but in The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo, he's real — just not quite human.
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Derived from memory, Bearden's bayou is at once real and mythic, the Black counterpart to William Faulkner's apocryphal Yoknapatawpha County.
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All of this—authenticated and apocryphal—is monumentalized at Třeboň in Marzipan, a new museum on the town's main square.
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The apocryphal Fidelity study still suggests two questions that we should all be asking ourselves: How often should we look?
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One story (possibly apocryphal) has Johnson once telling his aides to accuse his congressional opponent of sleeping with barnyard animals.
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The story is likely apocryphal but it illustrates that not all live performances are really better than the original books.
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That's a really tough question, and we always need to consider the potential for apocryphal data on illicit drug prices.
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The story might be apocryphal, but it's said that Rimet carried the statuette to the inaugural tournament in his suitcase.
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One guard told him a story, perhaps apocryphal, about an accused Russian assassin who was jailed in Kiev, the capital.
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But unlike the apocryphal frog in the pot of water, as sea levels rise they can see the danger coming.
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Quoting O.J.'s famous apocryphal claim "I'm not black, I'm O.J.," Jay-Z fills his video with cartoon racist stereotypes.
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American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) is not as toxic as fugu, and reported deaths are generally more apocryphal than reality-based.
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There's an old story, almost certainly apocryphal, about them circling a battlefield and making a ruckus during the Revolutionary War.
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Some studies show that the apocryphal nature of many of the films turns people off to some of the messages.
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FOG in channel: continent cut off is an (alas apocryphal) newspaper headline that points to the innate British sense of superiority.
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According to possibly apocryphal tales, Edison was able to reliably induce hypnagogia by falling asleep with steel balls in his hand.
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According to the possibly apocryphal story, workers came in the next day with giant signs around their necks showing their salaries.
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His most famous painting dramatizes the apocryphal moment the emperor Heliogabalus murders his dinner guests by smothering them with rose petals.
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There's a possibly apocryphal story that Turner once lashed himself to a ship's mast to fully experience a snowstorm at sea.
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ANONYMOUS, JERSEY CITY Let's take a page from the apocryphal notebooks of Sigmund Freud: Sometimes a melon is just a melon.
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So far, Kraninger seems to think about consumer financial protection the same way our apocryphal city authorities think about water treatment.
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Although occasionally apocryphal, "The Post" captures Ms. Graham's transformation to towering from timid through her decision to publish the classified documents.
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Increasingly, we find that students who engage with the Resolution Project contend with a number of apocryphal beliefs about social entrepreneurship.
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This account, likely apocryphal, has held sway over the reception of Western art since the onset of Neoclassicism in the 18th century.
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For U.S. businesses in China, Trump's stance is much like Gerald Ford's apocryphal message to New York in the 1970s: drop dead.
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Accounts of the actual match vary, but it seems definitive that the match did indeed take place and was not just apocryphal.
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But then contractual battles with his label turned it into something more — a rallying cry for artist independence, verging on the apocryphal.
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Mr. Rajoy also promised full transparency to stop a scandal based on what he called "apocryphal" evidence from further undermining his party.
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The stunt was a reference to some apocryphal company lore about a squirrel urging Murray into the coal business — it's a long story.
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But Kudlow said Friday that "Apple is not apocryphal" and that not all companies are facing the same headwinds as the tech giant.
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The lone sailor carrying curry is likely a apocryphal stand-in for the way the British Navy spread the spice mix to Japan.
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There's also a (probably apocryphal) story about Thomas Edison, who set up his telescope in an abandoned henhouse to watch the 1878 eclipse.
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Henry Kissinger's (probably apocryphal) question about whom to call when you want to call Europe no longer needs asking: obviously, you dial Berlin.
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The subject of many books, a new documentary and countless apocryphal-sounding stories, Mr. Close has become mythic, the Che Guevara of comedy.
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HONG KONG — For many in China, the term "genetically modified food" evokes nightmares: poisoned seeds, contaminated fields, apocryphal images of eight-legged chickens.
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Trump at least twice approvingly repeated the apocryphal story that Pershing's troops used bullets dipped in pigs' blood as they executed Philippine insurgents.
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She told me the famous, possibly apocryphal story about Laurence Olivier performing Othello at the Old Vic, performing as he never had before.
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Though the phrase "Let them eat cake" is likely apocryphal, it might capture something real about authoritarian regimes' weak incentives to address hunger.
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As the (likely apocryphal) story goes, Thomas Jefferson once compared the Senate to a saucer that cools the hot tea from the House.
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Mendes-Flohr opens his book by recounting a perhaps apocryphal story of children pointing at Buber in the street and calling him God.
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Apocryphal or not, "the story is powerful for two reasons," said Laura Bowser, the board chair and former C.E.O. of TMI Consulting Inc.
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It was sufficiently famous that it has been subjected to a good deal of careful analysis, but it seems to be largely apocryphal.
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A (possibly apocryphal) report declares that a meteorite struck a house in China in 1907, causing it to collapse and killing the family inside.
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Freinkel recounts an apocryphal story of John D. Rockefeller looking out over his oil refineries and seeing a flame shoot up through a smokestack.
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President Andrew Jackson probably never said "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" despite journalists' apocryphal claims to the contrary.
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Babysitters are a very apocryphal example at Nextdoor because you want to find a babysitter that lives near you that is in the neighborhood.
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Fervor for the game has long manifested in sellout crowds, apocryphal stories of spectators watching in trees — and even a minor riot in 2013.
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It's worth noting that stories appearing in the eastern apocryphal gospels, as well as recent archaeological findings, correspond to the Quran's version of events.
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ANTHONY KINGChair of war studiesUniversity of Warwick Coventry Concerns about malfunctioning autonomous military systems reminded me of this (probably apocryphal) story from several decades ago.
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There is the apocryphal storyabout Vanderbilt after he was cheated by two business partners in Nicaragua and lost his license to operate in the country.
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But what's amazing about Tura Satana is that, even if that particular story is apocryphal, the rest of her documented life story remains downright epic.
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The story has the apocryphal patina of a much-told tall tale—but if true, someone liked revenge served blindingly hot and with ample pepper.
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Around Town As the story — however apocryphal it may be — goes, Macy's employees asked the company to put on a parade in the mid-1920s.
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Legends tend to be more apocryphal than they are accurate, however, and according to a new study, that might be the case for Roquefort's origins.
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Bruce includes an excerpt from the Apocalypse of Paul, an apocryphal third-century text that narrates a Revelation-style reverie experienced by Paul of Tarsus.
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An apocryphal quote attributed to Albert Einstein is a fitting send-off: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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Sarah Thomason, a professor of linguistics at the University of Michigan, told me a story, probably apocryphal, set around the turn of the 20th century.
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The fourth, at 36A, is just a famous royal comment, probably not apocryphal, that brings to mind an upturned nose and air of utter disdain.
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A team of 35 people began digging at a site between Wroclaw and Walbrzych in southwestern Poland in a bid to recover an apocryphal Nazi train.
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On the eve of the primary, he reiterated his support for using torture against terrorism suspects and approvingly repeated an apparently apocryphal tale of how Gen.
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Although the incident was widely reported and confirmed at the time by sources at the LHC, CERN is apparently now telling folks it may be apocryphal.
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Others think the phrase is an insult that comes from the practice, perhaps apocryphal, of officers using a haircut as an excuse for leaving their posts.
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His answers are below, followed by a book excerpt on second-order effects (including the possibly-apocryphal story of cobras in India during British colonial rule).
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Some of these scenarios might be apocryphal or just straight-up bullshit, but man, they improved our feelings of self-worth by, like, one million percent.
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I've seen it half a dozen times, and I still struggle to keep up with Kelly's apocryphal labyrinth of government conspiracies, duplicitous villains, and madcap schemes.
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I'm not going to give you a history lesson here, but there's a short apocryphal story that illustrates the pride and sense of righteousness of Haitians.
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Some pointed out that another apocryphal document, "The Infancy Gospel of Matthew," also depicts Mary eating from a palm tree and drinking from a miraculous spring.
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One tabloid headline went so far as to declare "Best Sex I Ever Had," a reference (some say apocryphal) to how Ms. Maples rated Donald Trump.
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The name came from the members' signature flat-caps that became "blinders," the probably apocryphal story goes, when weaponized with razor blades sewn into the peaks.
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But spare a thought for me, the girlfriend who has spent two years dealing with the repercussions of this apocryphal "common knowledge" that women loved big dicks.
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When Aziah Wells took to Twitter to expound on a possibly apocryphal tale of a trip to Florida gone amazingly, wonderfully sideways, the entire internet took notice.
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Their inspiration was the story, perhaps apocryphal, that two bullets fired by opposite sides in the American Civil War had been found fused together on a battlefield.
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"Let them eat cake!" was the apocryphal declaration of a French queen, but it's nice to see that the British royals enjoy sharing their delicacies, as well.
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Some of it is apocryphal, such as the story that he got a C at Yale for a paper outlining his idea (he can't recall the grade).
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Püchler's portrait, in the show, of Martin Luther, after a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, secretes passages from the Apocryphal Book of Sirach (which Luther translated).
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That first program might be apocryphal, something my mind's subtly implanted over the years, but it's hard for me to imagine we were only there for Doom 2.
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The Betsy Ross flag, with its circle of 13 stars for the original 13 Colonies, is named for the possibly apocryphal story of the seamstress who made it.
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Many of Betchart's stories have an apocryphal feeling about them—every meaningful encounter happens unexpectedly, random conversation shapes the direction of his life for the next five years.
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Trump, just a day after getting into public spat with Pope Francis, told an apocryphal story about a general who executed Muslims using bullets dipped in pig blood.
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He wrote a magazine column praising Genghis Khan's (apocryphal) practice of murdering his generals at random as an effective means of keeping subordinates and intermediaries on their toes.
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"This Satan's drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it," he declared, the (perhaps apocryphal) story goes.
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Wise still remembers the apocryphal story of Jeff Schweiger, a highly touted defensive end, challenging Washington to an impromptu sparring match one night at an off-campus apartment.
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It is virtually a truth universally acknowledged that Britain is drowning in red tape sent from Brussels, although some of the most famous examples tend to be apocryphal.
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Tales of him crashing board meetings dressed as Luvvy turn out to be apocryphal (though he did often crash meetings as himself, which could be just as disruptive).
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MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE (Thursday) As the story — however apocryphal it may be — goes, Macy's employees asked the company to put on a parade in the mid-1920s.
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Democrats clamored for Nunes's recusal, arguing that he had acted under pressure from the White House to substantiate the president's apocryphal claim that former President Obama "wiretapped" him.
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Shrouded in myth and filled with apocryphal anecdotes and tales of family misfortune, Li's name has become synonymous with against-the-odds success by dint of hard work.
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There was an apocryphal story going around our community about a poor Russian boy beaten so badly by a black public-school kid that his mother killed herself.
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Apocryphal tales have it that the King Jadhav Rana sent a bowl of milk filled to the brim, implying that he would not be able to accommodate them.
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That on-screen violence has become legendary, even if a rumor that Davis kicked Crawford so hard while filming one scene that she needed stitches is probably apocryphal.
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Trump told an apocryphal story of soldiers killing terrorists with bullets dipped in pig's blood (as if Muslims were creatures that needed to be killed by supernatural means).
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An apocryphal quote by comedic pianist Oscar Levant — "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin" —sums up the attitude of '60s-era Hollywood about her public persona.
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Moments such as when Voltaire then narrates an apocryphal scene out of Candide create the effect of nesting doll narrators, setting the story into an abyss of ambient references.
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Early series of the British show "Skins" approached sensitive topics such as eating disorders and grief with an honesty that often belied its apocryphal wild nights and hazy mornings.
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Stories of combat veterans who have no permanent address or support network and lose their PTSD rating based on a lack of current medical documentation are sadly not apocryphal.
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In one of my favorite apocryphal anecdotes about the nocebo effect, as recounted in 1997, a hex was put on an 18-year-old Maori man in New Zealand.
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"There is an apocryphal claim that UC Davis lacks a central square due to the experience of the Regents dealing with student unrest at Berkeley in Sproul Plaza," he wrote.
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On Thursday of last week, Trump reacted on Twitter to an ongoing terrorist attack in Spain by alluding to the utterly apocryphal story of General John Pershing's crimes of war.
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When I say most people actually don't necessarily look for challenge in their job, that's kind of apocryphal, because all the people in power, of course they look for challenge. Right.
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There's a (possibly apocryphal) story from the US House of Representatives about a senior politician explaining that internal conflict between Congressional chambers was more important than fights between Republicans and Democrats.
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Owens' story is so based in physical, visible action that it lets the writers explain his life through what he does, not through some apocryphal moment that defines what he thinks.
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This apocryphal story got things upside-down: emigration in poor countries tends to rise with income per person, up to around $7,500 a year, as people acquire the means to leave.
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My parents didn't drink during my youth, although towards the end of his life, my father began to believe in the apocryphal British remedy of brandy for symptoms of minor ailments.
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That's the thing—we find this weird, apocryphal sense of protest because we want to popularize it or create some sort of trend that runs concurrently with the idea of subversion.
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Except she doesn't really know anything about wrestling—there's an apocryphal tale that she didn't know what kayfabe meant until Hogan told her—beyond the fact that she likes pro wrestlers.
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Elements of other apocryphal stories thrive among European Christians and their New World spawn, but Burke points out that often what survived was already part of established festivals or similar institutions.
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West initially doubled down by tweeting out apocryphal quotes from Harriet Tubman and comparing himself to Nat Turner, but later deleted the majority of his more controversial tweets from this moment.
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"If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America," Lyndon Johnson is reputed to have said (perhaps it's apocryphal) after the CBS anchorman said in 1968 that the Vietnam War was unwinnable.
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Oliver also reported on Murray's controversial response to a deadly mine collapse, and, on a lighter note, recounted an apocryphal tale about how a squirrel inspired Murray to start his company.
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He'd been dying since he was 7, when doctors told his parents that their sickly son would not live long (a story that rings apocryphal, but not for lack of repetition).
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JOAN MAHERWest Bradford, Pennsylvania Vanishing mass ranksConcerns about malfunctioning autonomous military systems reminded me of this (probably apocryphal) story from several decades ago (Special report on the future of war, January 25th).
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To be clear, I'm not a Trump supporter and don't endorse many of his ideas, but comparing him to Hitler is not only apocryphal, it's a dangerous comparison with very real consequences.
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The oft-told story may be apocryphal, but word of Lerner's penchant for violence had clearly reached the front office of the Patriarca crime family, the Boston Red Sox of the underworld.
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It is not even that "the people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do," as the apocryphal quote attributed to Joseph Stalin has it.
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The apocryphal history of the bridesmaid is as bridal decoy, to ensure demons couldn't figure out which brightly dressed girl was the bride, and therefore no curses would be placed on her.
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" Harper's New Monthly Magazine, reporting the anecdote, cautioned that it was trivial, "but it is not more trivial than some of the apocryphal anecdotes of Shakespeare which are handed down to us.
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Ms. Leiber maintained that a story of a husband who had given his wife 14 Leiber bags in seven years and wanted them back as part of a divorce settlement was not apocryphal.
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The story of an East German family fleeing to the West in a home-made balloon is not, as she dismisses it, "apocryphal": the briefest research reveals that it really happened, in 1979.
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Far Cry 5 is peppered with on-the-nose references, like a corrupt politician who wants to "make Hope County great again" and a side quest that involves the apocryphal Trump pee tape.
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The never-Trumpers are like the Bourbon monarchy, which "had learned nothing and forgotten nothing" (an apocryphal quote from Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord describing the Bourbons' behavior after the abdication of Napoleon).
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Although the film clearly draws its themes and imagery from a number of canonized and apocryphal Biblical stories, the film is really based on a trilogy of science fiction novels published in 173.
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" Britons, he said, relished reports of her legendary thriftiness, including stories, apocryphal or not, that she roams Buckingham Palace turning off lights, enjoys soap operas and eats "nonbanquet dinners out of Tupperware containers.
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I had the same view during the Obama years, when we had to endure apocryphal stories about whether he was born in Kenya, notably from Trump himself when he was still Citizen Trump.
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Chiefs 31, Colts 13 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The stories passed down about the Kansas City Chiefs' playoff malfunctions might sound apocryphal, as if embellished over a game of telephone, but they're not. Really.
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The progenitor of the apocryphal tale is Irwin Hoover, known as Ike, a butler and usher who worked in the White House for 42 years, including during Taft's term, from 1909 to 2803.
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This presumably apocryphal organization crops up often in "The Young Man From Atlanta," the Foote play that opened Sunday in an affectionate, slow and steady revival by Michael Wilson for the Signature Theater.
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The Quran is more ecumenical, dipping into the rich mélange of Middle Eastern traditions contained in the apocryphal and "gnostic" gospels and still very much alive in the popular lore of Eastern Christianity.
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The world's pubs and bars are lousy with apocryphal quotes from Sinatra, Hemingway, Churchill, Franklin—men of a bygone era commonly regarded as heroes of one kind or another, promoting the glory of alcohol.
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It reminded us of the (apocryphal) story of Martin Luther being asked what he would do if he knew the world would end the next day; he replied that he would plant a tree.
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One of the hosts on the network goes by the handle Grandpa Lampshade, a reference to likely apocryphal stories about how Nazi made lampshades from the skin of Jews who died in concentration camps.
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Bahri's film, titled Foyer, almost takes the shape of a quest narrative — there is a close call with the authorities here, an apocryphal-sounding story there — except none of it is scripted or planned.
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The apocryphal nature of the next "world war" might help explain why so many of the memes are ambivalent about whether the war itself would be a good or bad thing for the country.
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Given the famous (if apocryphal) tale about Washington's honesty — "I cannot tell a lie," said young George — our first president must have rolled over in his nearby grave as Trump shambled around Mount Vernon.
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Behind the musicians was an enormous screen displaying a series of alarming statistics ("1.6 billion swipes per day on Tinder alone") and inspiring, possibly apocryphal, quotations (Albert Einstein: "The human spirit must prevail over technology").
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Instead, it is an ideological goulash, drawing equally from Buddhism, apocryphal Christianity, historical materialism, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to produce a powerful meditation on the human drive to produce meaning in a universe devoid of any.
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Children's Books A cheerful mix of gardening, history and patriotism, "Diana's White House Garden" — about a little girl whose father was a presidential adviser — seems fictional, or at least apocryphal, but it's true, if airbrushed.
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Taking in the sum of what Schilling shares — all the links to Breitbart, Drudge, Fox News, Right Wing News and lesser-known Facebook groups, often peddling apocryphal or otherwise odious memes — is a jarring experience.
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As the (apocryphal) story goes, the Mulkeys didn't know they were going to win—only the referee and their opponents did—and so the shock on their faces, and those of the announcers, was real.
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" According to one widely circulated but apocryphal story about the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Stephen Douglas accused him of being two-faced, and he responded, "If I had two faces, would I be wearing this one?
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It is as if Henry Kissinger's old (and apocryphal) question about whom to call when he wants to speak to Europe has been reversed, quips Hans Kundnani, an analyst at the German Marshall Fund in Washington.
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The probably apocryphal legend of the Lumière brothers' L'Arrivée d'un train is that members of its first audience, overwhelmed by the impression of a life-sized train rumbling toward them, jumped screaming out of their seats.
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Today, he tends to be remembered as a failed coloniser or a popinjay courtier, covering a puddle with his cloak for Elizabeth I. His true achievements, Mr Gallay argues, were deeper than that (apocryphal) puddle tale.
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Judges reviewing Trump's policy also seized on his retweeting of anti-Muslim videos from Britain and another message broadcasting an apocryphal story about a U.S. general ordering Muslim radicals shot with bullets dipped in pigs' blood.
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Leon Russell, then a hustling young session piano player, is behind the keyboards for the single's B-side, and another possibly apocryphal bit of L.A. musician lore has Ventures drummer Mel Taylor playing on it as well.
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" You've probably heard the (perhaps apocryphal) story about FDR, who, when asked by activists to support one of their causes, allegedly told them, "I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it.
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He also feuded openly with Pope Francis and cited an apocryphal story about a U.S. general who purportedly dipped bullets in pigs' blood to execute Muslim prisoners a century ago in an effort to deter Islamic terrorism.
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At least, that's the possibly apocryphal story behind an iconic set of paparazzi photos of Kidman looking triumphant in lime green capris and a sheer floral top that makes the rounds on social media every few months.
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Of course, politicians tend to twist and turn in their response to what Harold Macmillan, a former prime minister, is said to have termed "events, dear boy, events" — a definition of political perils often described as apocryphal.
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"At least one English-speaking Twitter user was confused:This hearkens back to the apocryphal (but untrue) story about the Chevy Nova selling poorly in Latin America since its name could be read as "no va," or "doesn't go.
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" Apocryphal or not, Peterson notes that nobody slithered in Snake's footsteps: the jump shot "which revolutionized basketball ... did not appear regularly in the pro game come until the late 1940s, when Jumping Joe Fulks began setting scoring records.
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North Charleston, South Carolina (CNN)Donald Trump on Friday cited an apocryphal story about a U.S. general who purportedly dipped bullets in pigs' blood to execute Muslim prisoners a century ago in an effort to deter Islamic terrorism.
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Conductors must also come to the symphony ready to take a stance on the problems that have surrounded it since its premiere in 1906, many created by Mahler's wife, Alma, whose apocryphal tales set serious scholarship back decades.
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Trash-cinema junkies still revere Ruggero Deodato's elegantly titled Cannibal Holocaust as one of the most gruesome films of all time, though the allegations that some of the murders on-screen were bona fide have been outed as apocryphal.
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FRANK GUEBurlington, Canada To avoid potential ambiguity, there is a case to be made for the use of the serial comma, as evidenced by the following (apocryphal) book dedication that omits it: "To my parents, Ayn Rand and God".
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The concept they tested is similar to Galileo's apocryphal experiment, in which he dropped two objects of the same mass off the Leaning Tower of Pisa and found that they fell at the same acceleration regardless of their composition.
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There is a story, possibly apocryphal, that when the editor who signed the book, Erwin Glikes, left the firm to run the Free Press he was invited to take Bloom's book, not yet published, with him, and he declined.
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In "Suzanne et les Vieillards" (1896), the female figure stands alone, casting the painting's viewers into the role of the leering old men who, in the apocryphal Old Testament story, spy on Suzanne and rape her under the threat of blackmail.
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Timmermans compared efforts by some British lawmakers to try to prevent Prime Minister Theresa May taking Britain out of the EU without a deal to the apocryphal tale of England's Danish King Canute who ordered the tide to stop but failed.
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Mr. Enrigue finds a way to incorporate documents from the mid 15th century and (apocryphal?) 21st-century email exchanges with an editor, and writes one chapter as a kind of playlet whose actors are Pope Pius IV and two courtiers.
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Folklore holds that the forest was once a site for ubasute, the (possibly apocryphal) practice of carrying the old or infirm to a remote place and leaving them to die, so that they would not be a burden to their families.
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As White House historian Martha Joynt Kumar notes, that account is largely apocryphal, and daily "briefings" for the press probably began when War Secretary Daniel Lamont shared observations with reporters when Grover Cleveland was president before the turn of the century.
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He recounted the possibly apocryphal origin of the figures: On a cold winter night, an African-American boy who served George Washington during the Revolutionary War was asked to keep watch on the horses and light the way until Washington returned.
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Nor does Santiago believe the resulting hysterical and apocryphal media reports of Spice turning users into zombies (while 30 times more dangerous than marijuana, most instances of synthetic cannabinoid use don't lead to horrible reactions) will discourage sales for long.
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This picture now has an apocryphal tie to the dunk above, but LeBron's positioning is different in the picture than the videos and GIFs; he's off to the right in the still, while pretty much dead center in the video.
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Like the apocryphal child who murdered his parents and then pleaded for sympathy because he'd become an orphan, Purdue first profitably pushed an addictive drug, and then apparently sought to make even more money by treating addictions it helped cause.
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The most arresting dress in the show was a replica, and possibly apocryphal: a simple, Empire-waisted red velvet dress that, legend has it, Dolley Madison had made out of White House curtains that she saved from British arsonists in 1814.
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An apocryphal story says that as he walked off the pitch, he took off his captain's armband (with its red and gold stripes symbolising the flag of Catalonia), looked up at the packed terraces of the Camp Nou and kissed it.
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According to a possibly apocryphal legend, when New England-based sea captains would return from lengthy journeys to the Caribbean, they would put a pineapple on their fenceposts to let their friends and family know that they made it home safely.
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Avuncular and masterfully idiosyncratic, he played with a nostalgic whimsy, leaping from the title composition he wrote for Arthur Miller's "After the Fall" to "What a Wonderful World" — a nod to Louis Armstrong's apocryphal birth date of July 4, 1900.
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As with many things in fashion history, information on the garment's origin is a bit apocryphal, but we probably have Australians to thank for the style — along with the delightful Down Under-ism "rashie", the local term for a long-sleeved swim top.
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The idea of the U.K.'s sovereignty being threatened by Brussels has ignited the British imagination and indignation over the years, with media stories (many apocryphal) about EU bans on anything from "bendy bananas" to conker games in the U.K.'s school playgrounds.
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Like the possibly apocryphal John Maynard Keynes quote reads, "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent," at least if you're willing to give a 130-year-old camera company thousands of dollars to mine internet money for you.[BuzzFeed]
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Because feminism is still a concept associated with apocryphal, bra-burning shrews (and because it is, in many ways, at odds with "get it, girl!" ideas of capitalism), it's pretty easy these days to declare yourself one on a purely aesthetic basis.
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A story I have heard many times, but which seems apocryphal, is that N.K.V.D. agents would sometimes use the garbage chutes that ran like large tubes through many apartments, popping out inside a suspect's home without having to knock on the door.
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But what about the apocryphal horror story that every contact lens wearer has heard—the one about a guy who fell asleep with their contacts in and had to go to hospital to get them removed from the back of their eyeball?
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Half-Life: Alkalized water isn't new (ionizers were sold in Japan in the 1960s), but it made a pop cultural splash in 2013 when it was reported that Beyoncé's concert rider, possibly apocryphal, specified titanium straws so she could sip alkaline water.
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There's this story I read that I've always thought might be apocryphal of surgeons refusing to wash their hands during the beginning of the rise of germ theory, because "a gentleman's hands are always clean," so on those grounds hand-washing was unnecessary.
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But what the Afghanistan Papers really expose is the official illusion of progress, and the apocryphal ability of the American military to solve any overseas problem with its might and ingenuity, that's been sold to the electorate by Republicans and Democrats alike.
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One potentially apocryphal story I heard from GrandPOOBear, a Super Mario Maker streamer known for being able to tackle even the most ridiculous challenges, is Phenotype left their Wii U running for an entire month before they were able to submit the stage.
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Sometimes reference is made to the apocryphal George Washington quote about the Senate as the saucer that cools the hot coffee of the more representative House, though even if Washington ever said that, it was more than a century before the filibuster emerged.
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This, perhaps, hints at the nature of Steele's dark allure—his literal embodiment, and apocryphal enactment (he signed Type O's contract with Roadrunner Records, it is claimed, with a mixture of his own blood and semen), of the seamier tropes of gothic fantasy.
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Then, according to some (apocryphal) tellings of the emerald's history, the mule team dragging it through the rain forest was attacked by panthers—or some other animal—and the miners themselves had to carry the 752-pound emerald the rest of the way to civilization.
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But those are apocryphal: The truth is that rock songs by performers like Stevie Wonder, the Chiffons, Ray Charles, the Beach Boys, the wonderful but almost entirely forgotten Dee Dee Sharp, and their ilk had been chart-topping hits before the Beatles showed up.
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It's also the site of a few apocryphal line items that haven't quite entered the official historical record—like a disaffected pond-builder who haunts the town via cat-drawn chariot and a pair of British expat-alchemists who claimed to turn lead into gold.
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According to one possibly apocryphal story repeated with pride for more than a century, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II on a visit in 1912 was said to have asked a Swiss infantryman what 100,000 Swiss soldiers would do if 200,000 German invaders stormed over the border.
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At one moment you might learn that many of the Christians in Syria and India trace their origins to Thomas, or that crucifixion began "as a way to humiliate the already dead," or that in one of the apocryphal Gospels, Peter resurrects a smoked fish.
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The apocryphal story says that, while she was serving doughnuts to André and other officers at her family's house, she got wind of the conspiracy with the American general Benedict Arnold to hand West Point over to the British, and was able to alert Gen.
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I might have mentioned this to you before, but something we think a lot about, and something that I often reference is, that there's an apocryphal quote attributed to Picasso, I don't think he actually said it, but it's so good that why not, right?
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One of the possibly apocryphal stories that proliferate about Chanel and the Ritz is that, when said journey was about to take place, a hotel doorman would call ahead to maison Chanel for employees to spray the street with Chanel No. 5 in readiness for Mademoiselle's arrival.
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Out of a #skatetwitter conversation about skating in shorts came the apocryphal-sounding story that Dan Magee, the maker of UK-based brand Blueprint Skateboards' string of classic videos in the 2000s including Waiting for the World and Lost and Found, enforced a no shorts, no shirtless footage rule.
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He likes to cite the apocryphal tale of Cincinnatus, the Roman general who chooses to turn down vast political powers to return to his farm, and of Thomas Paine at Valley Forge comparing the "summer soldier" and "sunshine patriot" to soldiers willing to tough out long Revolutionary winters.
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The story, apocryphal or not, remains relevant because every conversational road about Koufax's legacy leads to Clayton Kershaw, his modern-day counterpart and heir: a lefty with a neck-to knees curveball, multiple Cy Young Awards, and now only a year older than Koufax was when he walked away.
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In 1503 Mao's Red Guards tormented China's musicians, tore up Western scores and took their axes to any pianos they found—those "black boxes in which the notes rattled about like the bones of the bourgeoisie", in the (perhaps apocryphal) words of Jiang Qing, better known as Madame Mao.
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If this recalls the apocryphal tale of the frog that allows itself to be cooked to death if placed in a pot of water that is slowly boiled, it should be noted that frogs won't actually allow themselves to die this way; they will jump out of the pot.
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However, the recent news that Delhi and Beijing may be establishing a military hotline - reminiscent of the admittedly apocryphal "red telephone" between the White House and the Kremlin - has shown how much the Sino-Indian relationship has expanded and matured in recent years - and also how much distance still remains.
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In Umberto Eco's 1983 novel, The Name of the Rose, a ratiocinating monk named Baskerville and his assistant team up in search of a missing text—the apocryphal second book of Aristotle's Poetics, which Baskerville believes will help him solve a series of murders within the walls of the unnamed monastery.
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The attitude was summed up in a (possibly apocryphal) quote from Michael Jordan in 1990, when the basketball legend, marketing his eponymous sneakers with Nike, reportedly refused to weigh in on a Senate race in his home state of North Carolina between a black North Carolina Democrat and a segregationist incumbent.
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Instead, he serves as the unofficial keeper of the family lore, sharing tales (some perhaps apocryphal) of his grandmother's time as a court taster in Meiji-era Japan, of the more distant Dutch ancestor who founded the Hecht brewery in Yokohama and of his father's skills as a pole-vaulter.
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Pieces of Fury's back story have taken on an apocryphal feel: like how he says he was born eight weeks premature, weighing in at one pound (look at him now), or how his father, John, a former boxer, named him after Mike Tyson, assuring his son's future in the family trade.
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However, just because the presence of an immigrant is tolerated and their skills appreciated does not necessarily mean that they are welcomed, or even accepted, and the endless apocryphal tales of woe circulated among new migrants can be backed up by evidence of an attitude towards immigration that can verge on hostility.
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American belief in the magical protective powers of pork may stem from still-circulated (and apocryphal) tales about the American general Jack Pershing either shooting Muslim rebel prisoners with pork-blood bullets or burying them with pork skins—and therefore somehow pacifying a restive Philippine province with swine magic in the early 1900s.
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They know how fleeting this moment can be, and if they win next Sunday, surpassing the teams of Montana and Trent Green and Alex Smith and all the others, Mahomes will add to his growing legend — to stories that delighted fans will pass down, stories that may seem apocryphal, but are not.
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Opinion Mogadishu, Somalia — As I waited for my ride to collect me from the Mogadishu airport, an officer told me an apocryphal tale: A starving goat, blind from hunger, mistook a baby wrapped in a green cloth for grass and bit off a mouthful of emaciated flesh from the baby's upper arm.
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To the Senate's defenders, this is the "cooling saucer" of George Washington's probably apocryphal explanation; to its detractors, it is more like an unreleasable parking brake on progress, never truly succeeding at holding back the future but ensuring that the country's arrival at it will be as delayed and frictional as possible.
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Yet few factual details have been published about his life and death but his remains were reportedly dug up from Crimea and transferred to Italy in 868 CE. According to apocryphal acta dating from at least the 4th century CE, Clement was banished from Rome under Emperor Trajan because of his Christianity.
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"This sounds like an apocryphal story, but the same day Dave Arnold told me about cryo-concentration I received one of those big holiday packages in the mail from my father-in-law (you know, fruit and cheese and charcuterie and shit) that was packed on dry ice in a styrofoam cooler," Goldfarb says.
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That suggests, perhaps, that for half the population, nostalgia is defined more by a hankering for a go-it-alone Britain to regain a possibly apocryphal notion of self-reliance outside the European Union than by any recollection of shared history — and certainly not by tooting car horns or people with very long memories.
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Among the more tantalizing (and possibly apocryphal) threads of "West Side Story" lore popped up not in The Times, but in an interview Laurents gave to The Hartford Courant shortly before his death in 2011, in which he addressed rumors that Disney had once proposed an animated version of "West Side Story" with … cats?
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As the clichéd, apocryphal Zhou Enlai quote goes, it's too early to know if the French Revolution was a good idea or not, but it clearly failed at achieving its near- or medium-term goals: achieving a durable, stable political system that was more responsive than the Bourbons and that would stand the test of time.
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Alongside Romans 213, there are also plenty of Bible accounts that seem to advocate for or provide positive examples of civil disobedience — from the Hebrew midwives who refuse to execute Moses despite the Egyptian pharaoh's dictates that all newborn boys be killed to the Apostle Paul's own fate, which is recounted in the apocryphal Acts of Paul.
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Screenshot: Alex Thomas (Twitter)Today in apocryphal right-wing horror stories of Big Tech's censorship of conservatives: This dude at a D.C. "Demand Free Speech" rally to "demand unbiased social media, and an end to censorship" thrown by the far-right Proud Boys organization on Saturday going on a lengthy rant about getting banned from Tinder.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads I heard an apocryphal story several years ago that went something like: Americans had tried to export reality TV and game shows to post-Soviet Russia, but nobody watched them because nobody in Russia believed they could ever win anything, or that their lives could actually change for the better.
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Best known for the apocryphal comment "Let them eat cake", Louis XVI's consort had her character relentlessly assassinated by bloodthirsty revolutionary critics, who claimed in countless contemporaneous libels, engravings and songs that she (as well as betraying the country to its enemy Austria, her birthplace) organised orgies at Versailles, enjoyed lesbian encounters with her ladies-in-waiting, and even committed incest with her own son.
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When the charges against Guzmán in this case were first filed in 2009, no one had any idea whether he'd ever stand trial anywhere — in Mexico or in the US. He'd escaped a Mexican prison in 2001 (the story, perhaps apocryphal, is that he was smuggled out in a laundry cart), and Mexican law enforcement had been unable (or just unwilling) to track him down ever since.
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When Andrew Jackson decided to ignore the Supreme Court's rulings that would have prevented him from mass ethnic cleansing of Native Americans, he didn't actually say that then-Chief Justice John Marshall "has made his decision; now let him enforce it" — but it's been passed down as an apocryphal story because it's such a perfect distillation of the impotence of norms in the face of raw power.
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But since 2009, when the Danish Fashion Association launched the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, this has been the meeting place for brands and groups from Nike to Tiffany, Patagonia, Kering (the owner of Gucci, YSL, Bottega etc.), Prabal Gurung and H&M (natch) who are trying to figure out the answer to that possibly apocryphal claim that fashion is the second-most polluting industry on the planet.
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This occasionally worked out in a fighter's favor—you could argue that the extent to which both the world and Rousey bought into the hype allowed Holly Holm to size up her opponent and work out her winning strategy in plain sight, much like the apocryphal python measuring up its human prey—but it mostly reduced an entire generation of female fighters to supporting players in the Ronda Rousey story.
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STIGMATA An atheist is possessed by the spirit of a dissident Catholic priest and begins displaying the miraculous wounds of Christ on her body while also reciting the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas in the original Aramaic words of Jesus, which discloses that Catholicism is fake and that rigid, joyless, sola scriptura Protestant mysticism is the true road to salvation that the Pope has concealed for thousands of years.
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Yankees 5, Red Sox 3 A quick survey of the Yankees' clubhouse — a small sample, admittedly — revealed that no one was familiar with the perhaps apocryphal tale from Russian history of Rasputin, the spiritual adviser to Czar Nicholas II, whose rivals fed him poisoned wine, shot him several times and then tossed him into an icy river, which he tried to claw his way out of before finally dying.
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The stylized Corinthian helmet worn by King Leonidas in 300, the 2006 hit movie mythologizing the Spartan role at the Battle of Thermopylae in 3003 B.C.E., is now most often seen on T-shirts, flags, and bumper stickers above the Greek words "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ," or molon labe, which translates to "come and take them," the Spartan king's apocryphal, defiant response to Persian ruler Xerxes's demand that the Greeks surrender their arms.
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The textbook illustration of the convolutions of logic and perversions of truth that human beings will go through to force reality to conform to their chosen story are "hoaxers," who insist that the Sandy Hook massacre was staged, and harass the parents of murdered children as "actors" — rejecting any facts that would challenge their articles of faith, like those apocryphal cardinals piously declining to look through Galileo's telescope.
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Rumors of different stripes have swirled around Silicon Valley that teeter perfectly between plausible and apocryphal: The time Son supposedly quintupled the valuation offered by a blue-chip venture fund (dubious); the time Son overruled his diligence team that advised him against a deal that he couldn't let go (believable); or the times Son fantastically spoke of a larger second fund even though he was just beginning to spend from the first (confirmed).
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