I used to show dogs. I was at a dog show and was talking with about seven friends in a group. A guy came up, and I knew he had a puli dog. A puli (plural is pulik) is the "rag mop" dog. The one with all the corded braids. Anyway this guy comes up and I greet him and say, "Hey! You know, I just was reading about pulik." He was impressed as his breed is not well known. I said, "Yes, they were from the Polish lowland region, right?" He nodded, "and they were first bred back in the 14th century or so, right?" He agreed. I continued, "They were used in herding livestock, right?" He said yes, they were. I said, "Do you know what else they were used for?" He didn't know they were used for anything else, but guessed several things, to which each guess, I answered no. He finally gave up. I said, "They were war dogs!" He stared in disbelief. I said, "They used to rub gunpowder on the dogs and would cut the cords off to use as fuses in the cannons." He was like, "You're kiddme me, right?" I said, "Yeah." but he didn't pick up on that I was saying that I was kidding him. I had to repeat that I was kidding him. He finally caught on and the whole group had a good laugh. The thing is, the pulik national dog show was the next weekend, and he took that story and told it there. It spread like wildfire and now it's an urban legend about that breed.
