so the story goes

Besides, you know, some of the Catholic gentlefolks have actually sent trinkets and suchlike down here for safety--at least, so the story goes.'

There was, so the story goes, in a village near his own a very good-looking farm-girl with whom he had been at one time in love, though, so far as is known, she never knew it nor gave a thought to the matter.

As they all sat silent (so the story goes) every member of that party of merrymakers--they had merry-made on coffee and lemonade only--distinctly heard that ghost call the name "Joey, Joey!" A moment later nothing was there.

Quitzel, so the story goes, wanted to be the chief god, and when the image of a rival was set up in the temple near him, he toppled over in anger, and part of the temple went with him, the whole place being buried in ruins.

That's the reason, so the story goes, Roxas overtook Sen.

SO THE STORY GOES LIKE THIS: My friend Travis has this piece of art on his wall.

The Great Good Thing, so the story goes, was a charming but financially unsuccessful tale.

"If you were my husband I'd poison your drink," says Hillary, or so the story goes. "If you were my wife," replies the famously stupid governor of California, "I'd drink it."

The vestment was protected, so the story goes, by the Lord, who sent through the window a sunbeam on which the chasuble rested until someone could take it away.

Insurance companies previously had been able to keep their malpractice premiums artificially low by investing in the skyrocketing stock markets, so the story goes, but since those markets went sour, insurers have been forced to charge the "real" cost o f paying for malpractice awards.

But - so the story goes - Rem and Jacques managed to offend the judges by discussing them and their city in French (which they presumably assumed the locals could overhear but not comprehend - an error in a city named after a French king!) And then Zumthor said he didn't like the site or the budget.

(When certain medical schools instituted required ethics courses in the 1980s, they couldn't keep the assigned texts from being ripped off from the reserve shelves--or so the story goes.) I'm talking about an all-out, campus-wide, grassroots mobilization for the moral reform of David Cash.