Re: Pendragon the folklorist / GJD

> Will-Dockery wrote:
> 
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>> Pendragon the folklorist
>> 
>> One Michael Pendragon, in mockery,
>> Would lie all the time about Dockery.
>> When called on each lie
>> He'd whine and he'd cry:
>> "That wasn't a lie -- it was folkery!"
>> 
>> - gjd26
> 
> 
> Aka Michael Pendragon's bizarre lies and misrepresentations.
> 
> 😏




You're in denial, Donkey.

Everything I've listed in the Official A.A.P.C. Folklore can be documented as being an existing part of the folklore by archived posts going as far back as approximately 15 years.

You may not like how you're portrayed in the folklore, but that doesn't mean that the folklore doesn't exist.  Neither does it mean that I haven't recorded the folklore in as faithful a manner as possible.

If you feel that you are misrepresented by the folklore, you are welcome (even encouraged) to point out each of the particular instances where the folklore deviates from the historical facts, and to explain what really happened.

But try to understand that folklore is the stories that people tell about a person or event -- not necessarily the historical truth.  Consider the following example:

Folklore: George Washington chopped down his father's cherry tree.

Everyone knows this story, but it has no historical basis whatsoever.

The story first appeared in the fifth edition of "The Life of Washington," 1806, by Washington's biographer, Mason Locke "Parson" Weems.  Here is what Dunce's "Trusted Source and Only Friend" has to say on the matter:

"Weems admitted no historical proof for the event, claiming he heard it from an elderly relative. He made up the tale to turn Washington into a moral role model who valued honesty above all else ('I cannot tell a lie')."

The story, which was most likely fabricated by Weems, quickly became a part of the folklore surrounding George Washington's life. 


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