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Business Wire Falls for April Fools Prank, Sues FBNers

An SI Board Since April 1999

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Emcee: EL KABONG!!!	Type: Unmoderated

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1895	Ahh. Well, BW verifies the credit card number before publishing a release. Ther	Bill Ulrich	-	5/5/1999
1894	> <i>Great job, Bill!!! Your people got SI to take the header off the	Ellen	-	5/5/1999
1893	<i>Question: If BW is a paid news wire service, is there a harm to BW if	MENSO	-	5/5/1999
1892	Hi HAL9000, Tahnks for stopping by—good to hear a dissenting opinion express th	Bill Ulrich	-	5/5/1999
1891	HAL9000, Thank you for your well worded contributions to the thread. It is ref	EL KABONG!!!	-	5/5/1999
1890	<i>The April Fool's stock hoax and the FBI...</i> someone aske	MENSO	-	5/5/1999
1889	> <i><b>They have a grudge against others because they brought o	Ellen	-	5/5/1999
1888	<i>an academic question: was any "investor" injured, i.e. did a	Jeffrey S. Mitchell	-	5/5/1999
1887	<i>One possible introductory course - Humour 101 Then - Finding Your Butt	Level Head	-	5/5/1999
1886	Question: <b>If</b> BW is a paid news wire service, is there a harm	Bill Ulrich	-	5/5/1999
1885	<i>Who knows what deep dark secrets lie within the minds of men.</i>	Level Head	-	5/5/1999
1884	<gg> Good luck with it! On another note, as with any press article, there	Bill Ulrich	-	5/5/1999
1883	<i>Yes we are. Since the archived profile of a certain person has now bee	Level Head	-	5/5/1999
1882	<i>I can understand all those that know Janice, Jeff, and Bill on Silicon	MENSO	-	5/5/1999
1881	Bill, Gotta admit I have my own goofy idea for an April Fool's Day prank.	Snowshoe	-	5/5/1999
1880	Thanks!! (That's funny, I don't remember posing for that photo…) <g&	Bill Ulrich	-	5/5/1999
1879	Salon article on you guys... The April Fools' stock hoax and the FBI salo	Snowshoe	-	5/5/1999
1878	janice... an academic question: was <i> any </i> "investor&qu	flickerful	-	5/5/1999
1877	level.... if not truly one of <i> phallic, </i> then at the very	flickerful	-	5/5/1999
1876	First you have to buy up the Threadnodes ...	Jacques Chitte	-	5/5/1999
1875	Most impressive. I had not seen this before, and enjoyed it. Poe's writin	Level Head	-	5/5/1999
1874	Yes, he does like to threaten - #reply-2356852 - "<i>Riley G The lon	marcos	-	5/5/1999
1873	Difficult? Seems pretty clear-cut to me. He's a bully who likes to throw ar	Bill Ulrich	-	5/5/1999
1872	Well, Riley's mind and motivations are difficult to follow. As ever, of co	Janice Shell	-	5/5/1999
1871	I wonder what the theory is there - That if you are inconvenienced by having t	marcos	-	5/4/1999

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