Intro: Hello, I'm Sparky Kronkite. And.....

[Sparky Kronkite]

I'm based on a true story.

 

[morninggirl5]

Based on a true story? Isn't that where the author changes the parts they don't like to make it more mainstream and get higher ratings.... you know the trying to please all the people.

 

[Mensa]

I'm based on a true story.

So, apparently, was Frankenstein's monster

 

[batter]

MORNINGGIRL 5

yep, you are right.

the key word being "based" on a true story which means the true facts have been twisted to suit the authors needs and purpose to attract attention while the real facts have been omitted or left out.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Like the "real fact" of....

Yer tiny dick.

 

[Markov Cain]

Too bad the story has been plagarized!

 

[Gnufi Poppets]

I am the saying the hello right back the friend Sparky that you are the being! I am the used to watch you on the TV news all of the time even if they are the broadcasting it in the country of the where I live in the re-runs that are the 10 years old all the ready but it is I am saying you are the best ever of all the anchormen that there were the ever being of all time that is!

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

So, apparently, was Frankenstein's monster

I thought that was based on the Greek myth about Prometheus and the Faust fable? You telling me some Bavarian Egghead actually tried to electrify a lump of sewn up corpses to life? (Come to think of it, I think that IS how Sparky gets up every morning.)

 

[Markov Cain]

No. I think it's Bloody Marys.

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[Markov Cain]

The Reader's Digest version of Sparky?

 

[*bratcat*]

hey

 

[Markov Cain]

I feel a Lit essay contest comming on!

 

[Bob Peale]

I am the saying the hello right back the friend Sparky that you are the being! I am the used to watch you on the TV news all of the time even if they are the broadcasting it in the country of the where I live in the re-runs that are the 10 years old all the ready but it is I am saying you are the best ever of all the anchormen that there were the ever being of all time that is!

Oh, now see what you've gone and done?

 

[Mensa]

I thought that was based on the Greek myth about Prometheus and the Faust fable? You telling me some Bavarian Egghead actually tried to electrify a lump of sewn up corpses to life? (Come to think of it, I think that IS how Sparky gets up every morning.)

Yes. Apparently, a Baron Frankenstein was alleged to be conducting experiments with electricity a la Ben Franklin attempting to re-animate dead flesh from executed criminals. Mary Shelley combined this little macabre tid-bit with the Prometheus story and the result was a classic in fiction. The whole story was revealed to her, so she claims, in a dream or rather in a nightmare.

The original castle is a tourist destination on the Rhine river.