The Great Stork Derby
I was visiting www.snopes.com for an entirely different reason but learned that there is an entire section there devoted to Pregnancy urban legends. So of course, I had to check it out :-)
Most of the pregnancy stories ("girl gives birth to [insert noun here]") are predictably false, and I'd heard almost all of them before a million times, but this one was new to me and is actually true:
Lawyer leaves his estate to woman who gives birth to the most babies within a ten-year period.
It's such a great story I just had to share it. So here, for your entertainment, I bring you The Great Stork Derby.
As I was reading this, the thought "this sounds like a perfect plot for a made-for-tv-movie" came to mind several times.
As it turns out, It was released on Canadian TV in 2002. As is standard for any Canadian movie, especially made-for-TV ones, it stars Megan Follows, a.k.a "Anne of Green Gables".
I'll have to check it out at some point, but I think a better movie would focus on the life of the man himself and also some of the other odd bequests that were contained within his will. He had to have been quite an eccentric and interesting character!
Comments
I actually saw part of that movie. I think it aired on CBC (no surprise there). If I rememeber correctly, one of the contenders was from Quebec, hence I guess CBC's interest in telling the story. I think, in the end, everyone ended up going to court. Not sure if anyone actually "won" though.
Posted by Sarah on January 27, 2005 5:35 AM.