"Kathleen" > wrote in message
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> James Silverton wrote:
>
>> Kathleen wrote on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:43:02 -0600:
>>
>>>> The Neiman-Marcus cookie story is an Urban Legend as is the
>>>> Red Velvet cake There IS a Red Velvet cake and it does
>>>> contain an entire bottle of red food coloring, but the story about the
>>>> recipe costing a small fortune is not true.
>>
>>
>>> Golly! For real?
>>
>>
>> You know, if Dante had thought about it, he'd have had a place in the
>> Inferno for debunkers of good apocryphal stories :-)
>>
>
> I used to work with a gal who believed every dumbassed urban legend she'd
> ever heard. She came in all hot under the collar one morning and
> announced that she'd just dumped every container of cleaning product in
> her home down the drain because they said on Oprah that Proctor and Gamble
> promoted satanism. And she had typed up a petition that she wanted
> everybody to sign to boycott the company.
>
> I asked her if she'd seen that episode of Oprah. (I knew she hadn't
> because we'd have both been at work during its air time)
>
> "Well, no, but my neighbor did and she told me about it."
>
> "Huh. *She* saw it, or somebody told her about it?"
>
> "Um. I'm not sure."
>
> "When was this?"
>
> "Just last week! The guy, the president of the company, said he could do
> anything he wanted and people would just keep buying his stuff. Well, I'm
> sure not!"
>
> "You know, I read the paper. I read it every single day, you've seen me
> on break and at lunch, right?"
>
> "Yeah..."
>
> "Well, it seems to me that something like that would be considered kinda
> newsworthy..."
>
> "Werrlll, no, maybe not."
>
> "Margie. It makes the paper when Oprah changes her hairstyle."
>
> "Ohhh, you just think you're soooo smart!"
>
> "You bring me anything in writing that confirms this rumor and I will
> pucker up and kiss your big white ass in front of the whole department."
>
> "Well, I just will. You wait and see. You're gonna be sorry."
>
> "How much do you figure it's going to cost to replace the dish soap,
> bleach, laundry detergent, dishwasher detergent and fabric softener you
> poured down the drain? Puts kind of a big ding in the old weekly budget,
> I'd imagine. I bet Chip is going to be thrilled."
>
> And I actually was sorry. Baiting morons is no sport at all, like
> shooting fish in a barrel.
>
>
But is it SOOOOOO MUCH FUN!
-ginny
(who has in the past and currently works with a fine crop of morons).......