Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 02:13:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Costly Cookie Recipe

As long as alt.best.of.internet is out there to reprint the best
postings from newsgroups such as AFU, it behooves us to include
selections from ABOI when they are relevant.  And so:

} From: la...@labrador.fishkill.ibm.com (Larry Pieniazek)
} Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 21:42:54 GMT
} Reply-To: l...@vnet.ibm.com
} Organization: Ya right!
} Keywords: urban legend
} Subject: Re: Costly Cookie Recipe
}
} This NM cookie recipe is an urban legend. How do I know???
}
} Ann Landers told me (and x million other readers) that she gets lots of
} letters about this, usually starting out "a friend of a friend said" etc...
}
} And, she claims the cookies aren't even all that good. I can't say, never
} tried them myself.
}
} If Ann Landers said so, that's good enough for me!

Yes folks, it's a new AFU slogan-of-the-week.

ObUL: Ann Landers is paid by the Secret Masters of Urban Legends to
regularly issue denials of Urban Legends, thus increasing their
spread.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil