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Pastimes : Business Wire Falls for April Fools Prank, Sues FBNers -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1253)	5/2/1999 2:00:00 AM
From: Cindy Powell	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 3795

Jeff, you can try to read that contract inside out and upside down, and you all can take out your Dick Tracy badges that you have earned on S.I. and wave it over the text and chant some woo woo's and some razzle dazzles, but you cannot deny that you are "responsible" for fraud in that you supplied non-factual information. There are no exclusions for April Fools Day, m'man. None-what-so-ever! Zippo, nada, zilch. They are sueing you for using and abusing them. Which is what you did! Just as Janice uses and abuses everyone that she doesn't like on Silicon Investor to be the brunt of her so called "humor" and nasty little spelling/grammar whipping sessions, you all used Business Wire. I truly believe that you went too far and that you are getting a taste of Karma.

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1253)	5/2/1999 2:03:00 AM
From: Graystone	Respond to of 3795

Here is an example or Still in the archive ***OFF TOPIC* Other April 1 Jokes AMAZON NATURAL TREASURES INC. ANNOUNCES LATEST MIRACULOUS INNOVATION Article #: 11724 Date: 4/1/1997** 12:00:00 AM Dateline: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Stock Symbol: AMZN (edit note, now AZNT, in ISDN database as AMZN.) Wire: ISDN Amazon Natural Treasures Inc. (R) is trading on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol "AMZN" and we are pleased to introduce our latest miraculous innovation NATURE'S TASTE (R). NATURE'S TASTE (R) is a 100% pure and natural sweetener which is made from plants found in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest. NATURE'S TASTE (R) has NO AFTERTASTE, no cholesterol, no carbohydrates, no fat, non fermentable, safe for diabetics, will not promote tooth decay and had NO HARMFUL SIDE EFFECTS... MARKETING PLAN NATURE'S TASTE (R) will have an intensive advertising and promotional program. It will be sold in retail outlets world wide and manufactured in the following forms: 1) As a white, brown and confectionary powder to replace all forms of sugars. 2) As a mix with milk in such flavors as chocolate, hot chocolate, cappuccino, strawberry, etc. This news release is absurd, the stuff they claimed would be put in milk was never approved as a food additive, none of the claimed events ever happened either. The only advertising campaign they had was a shoddy website, and claims of a multilingual Indian and nobody, I mean nobody has ever seen the Indian, and we have waited. I think it was a very elaborate April Fools joke.