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Technology Stocks : FBNA - Fantasy or Fraud, You Decide

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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (280)10/26/1998 2:09:00 PM
From: TEDennis   of 376
 
Marketing Malfunction!

I've just been informed that the marketing program to include one share of FBNA stock in each Beanie-Baby (BB) package has been scuttled.

Somebody at BB headquarters heard that FBNA is somehow associated with Disney, one of BB's competitors. Rumor has it that the association was uncovered by an SI reader who stumbled across this thread.

Unfortunately, the SI reader, in an eager attempt to satisfy his employer's need for speedy access to information, mistakenly read "Fantasy or Fraud" as "Fantasia or Frog".

Thus, not only did Disney's association become known (Fantasia), but Sesame Street's association was uncovered, too (Kermit the Frog).

Major bummer, dude.

TED
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