Re: Enjoy. Not tech writing.

["Race, Paul" <pdr -at- CCSPO -dot- DAYTONOH -dot- NCR -dot- COM>]

Marsha cmawta -at- taux01 -dot- nsc -dot- com said:

This was forwarded to me. It doesn't relate
to technical writing, but you might enjoy it anyway.

>>>>Neiman-Marcus cookie-hoax story deleted.<<<<

Paul -dot- d -dot- race -at- daytonoh -dot- ncr -dot- com adds:

Gee, after writing one message asking people to stick to technical writing
and not flood the group with messages about what we called our mommies or
generic workers (he/she/it), and getting about fifteen agreements, I was
just tickled pink to see this old urban myth show up here, with a
semi-apology for being off topic.  Off-topic and entertaining would be one
thing.  Off-topic and misinformed is something else.

This story is not true.  Neiman-Marcus has even been interviewed in
nationally-published newspapers about it.  They don't have or sell a special
recipe.  But it doesn't matter, because in other versions of the story it's
another store altogether (or another city, or a different kind of cookie).

The most telling proof that it is a hoax is that the recipe isn't even that
good....

So, if there's anybody out there that still thinks NM (or whoever) charges
$50 (or whatever) for cookie recipes, or that the lady in New York really
put her poodle in the microwave, or that Madelein Murray O'Hare is really
trying to get Christian broadcasting outlawed, or any of a thousand other
"urban myths" are true, why don't you check them out on alt.urban.myth.  Or
better yet alt.urban.bigfoot.UFO.conspiracy or whatever first.

Or did you all want to see the "Good Luck Prayer" chain letter show up here
next (the one in which you're promised prosperity as long as you say a
generic prayer every day, but threatened with dire consequences if you break
the chain)?