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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (8778)	2/23/1999 6:02:00 PM
From: Mike 2.0	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62549

LOL! "And the nominees for highest negative correlation between beauty and intelligence are...Mariah Carey, Carmen Electra, ... "

To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (8778)	2/24/1999 3:06:00 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 62549

I don't know who upsets me more in these stock message boards... The posters who don't know anything or the ones who don't know they don't know anything.

To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (8778)	2/26/1999 3:01:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 62549

RE>Mariah eonline.com Mariah Carey and the King of Jordan by Joal Ryan February 17, 1999, 1:45 p.m. PT Did you hear the one about Mariah Carey and the King of Jordan? Then you heard (or read) the latest Internet-hatched urban legend. The singer's camp today shot down a widely circulated report that made the supreme diva out to be a supreme ditz. The faux item had a CNN reporter asking Carey for her reaction to the death of the ruler of Jordan. "He was probably the greatest basketball player this country has ever seen," the performer allegedly replied, "we will never see his like again." "This reeks of Mariah," one Internet newsgroup member wrote. Not quite. "It's certainly not true," a Carey rep said. Another Mikey-ate-Pop-Rocks-and-Coke-and-exploded urban legend? "Exactly." That was the same reaction from a staffer at CNN's Showbiz Today who said Carey never made those statements to the news network. The item appears to have been hatched, on the Internet at least, on February 8--the day after King Hussein's death. A Netizen placed the newsy-sounding tidbit on a Mariah Carey fan newsgroup. That same day, the jokester also posted gags about Carey launching her own line of perfume (Intolerable) and starring in a Planet of the Apes remake. Instead of considering the source, a high-tech version of the telephone game was launched. By this week, the original item--mutated through countless emails--was being credited to USA Today, which was said to have run the story on February 8. (For the record, the newspaper says it did no such thing.) Carey's camp just learned of the flap today. The singer had no further comment on the matter. So, sorry, no word on what she really thinks of Middle East politics.