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  E!> From: Ecky-ecky-pting! <eric@sadlab.trans.comsat.com> Organization:
  E!> COMSAT Laboratories Date: 8 Jun 1994 16:55:32 GMT
  E!> 
  E!> Next time you're at Neiman Marcus in Friendship Heights, DC, tell
  E!> them, "You don't know from cookies!  I could make these at home!!"
  E!> 
  E!> Forwarded Message:
  E!> 
  E!> Date: 6/8/94 12:18 PM From: David Berrie Subject:  Cookies anyone?
  > From the Internet, for your reading and eating pleasure...
  > 
  E!> My daughter & I had just finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus Cafe in
  E!> Dallas & decided to have a small dessert...

This gets posted every week or two, in one newsgroup or another.  It surfaces
in rec.food.cooking five or six times a year.  It's purely bogus.  Why do you
believe this kind of tripe?  If you don't believe it, why do you post it with a
note of "This is not a joke---this is a true story," then?

Repeated offer: I'll pay $250 to the first person to substantiate such a story.
 Neiman-Marcus, Marshall Field, Mrs. Fields -- whatever.  Show me proof, I pay
you $250.  You can split it with the victim or keep it all yourself, I don't
care.  But you have to provide proof.

Minor caveat: any attempt to offer up /fraudulent/ documentation will,
naturally, result in the requestor being turned in to the appropriate law
enforcement authorities for wire fraud, a Federal offense which will be
investigated by the FBI.  But since /you/ know the story is true, you don't
have to worry about that, do you?