# Now THIS is an Urban Legend

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-an-urban-legend/93494>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 15, 2001, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-an-urban-legend/93494 "2001-11-15T07:32:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-an-urban-legend/93494/1 "2001-11-15T07:32:21Z")

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One of my students told me this one yesterday, and I thought it was so funny I had to pass it on:

William Howard Taft (our heaviest president) was a CANNIBAL, and every now and then one of his Phillipino house boys would disappear, to feed his hunger for human flesh.

HA-HA-HA-HA

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**Author:** ![Ell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Ell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ell)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-an-urban-legend/93494/2 "2001-11-15T07:49:01Z")

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Don’t laugh its true!

Also Lincoln kept mummified hands in that hat of his to snack on during boring meetings.

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**Author:** ![Hemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Hemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hemlock)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-an-urban-legend/93494/3 "2001-11-15T08:18:53Z")

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> \*Originally posted by lawoot \*  
> **…every now and then…**

Every hour or so as a snack, perhaps, judging by the size of him (those Filipino kids were pretty thin in those days). _Something_ made him pile on so many pounds that even your average water buffalo strained under the weight…

[http://www.csubak.edu/~gsantos/img0091.html](http://www.csubak.edu/~gsantos/img0091.html)

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**Author:** ![Bossk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@Bossk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bossk)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-an-urban-legend/93494/4 "2001-11-15T11:17:55Z")

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Millard Fillmore would not eat Catholics on Friday.