[MR] (OT) Revenge best served....sweet! {D'OH}

Virginia E. Liles ladygeva at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 24 10:18:31 PST 2003


Went to the neiman marcus site and got the cookie recipie - Looks Good. Now
to try it.
Geva


> [Original Message]
> From: Tanith of Hawkwood <tanith_sca at yahoo.com>
> To: <thecorsarium at yahoogroups.com>; Merry Rose
<atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>; horseandhound <horseandhound at yahoogroups.com>
 > Date: 1/23/03 9:58:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [MR] (OT) Revenge best served....sweet! {D'OH}
>
> --
> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
>
> LOL Oooops! I have learned the error of my ways, and thanks for keeping
the flames turned down low!
> Tanith
>
>  Dave Aronson <davearonson at listen.to> wrote:Tanith of Hawkwood wrote:
>
> > I recieved this from a friend of mine and just had to pass it on.
>
> Please don't. See below for why.
>
> > THIS IS A TRUE STORY
> > My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a
> > Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas, and we decided to have a small dessert.
> > Because both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the
> > "Neiman-Marcus cookie."
>
> This may have been a true story once upon a time, but it is one of the
> CLASSIC "foaf" (friend of a friend) Urban Legends, has been floating
> around the Internet and other such media for literally decades, and has
> contained many different recipes.
>
> Before forwarding ANYTHING that says to do so (which is usually a good
> tipoff that it is a hoax or possibly a scam), check for info about it on
> the web. (Of course, one or two sites "confirming" it is not enough; in
> the case of at least *classic* Urban Legends, there should be dozens of
> sites debunking it.) Good sites for this include urbanlegends.about.com
> and snopes.com. Using Google to search for "Neiman-Marcus cookie
> recipe" (w/o quotes) yields among the top ten, such sites as:
>
> http://bl.net/forwards/cookie.html
> http://www.texascooking.com/features/may99redvelvet.htm
> http://www.snopes2.com/business/consumer/cookie.htm
> http://www.english.uga.edu/~clandrum/example_html/urban.example.html
> http://www.cnet.com/techtrends/0-7311128-8-7150402-1.html
> http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blbyol19.htm
> http://www.f-secure.com/hoaxes/cookiecl.shtml
>
> and http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/service/nmAbout.jhtml where NM
> gives out a (if not the) cookie recipe absolutely FREE (at least now).
>
> --
> David J. Aronson, Software Engineer for hire in Washington DC area.
> See http://dja2001.home.att.net for online resume, references, etc.
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