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  • 1999-03-13 (xsd:date)
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  • The Tale of the Mailed Blue Book (en)
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  • When faced with exam questions that one cannot answer, the result is usually receiving a lower grade. In this tale, a student hatches a plan to finish the exam after class, pretending he mixed up two of his test answer booklets. Author Jan Harold Brunvand documented several different versions of the urban legend in the 1986 book: The Mexican Pet: More 'New' Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites. This first one was quoted by Lew Girdler, as written out for him by a student at San Jose State College in 1967. Similar to The Tale of the Lost Blue Book and The Tale of the Lost Exam Page legends, but more elaborate, this turn on the lost or switched exam booklet scheme adds the clever touches of buttering up the professor with praise included in a letter accidentally given to him and recruiting an unwary mother to provide an air of legitimacy and honesty to the scheme. Additional versions of the legend are available for reading on Google Books from Brunvand's 1986 book. One of them was played out in a television advertisement for Instant Kiwi, part of the lottery games in New Zealand: (en)
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