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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 08:34:34 -0500
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- From: droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU
- Subject: Re: disillusionment
- Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
- In-Reply-To: Your message of "28 Dec 92 06:46:58 GMT."
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- Says harwood@TENET.EDU (Nancy Harwood):
- >Remember how pleased some of us were a week or so ago about receiving the
- >letters from Publishers Clearing House saying how close we were to winning
- >the BIG money? While I *really* didn't believe it was as much of a sure
- >thing as the letter made it sound, particularly after I heard that several
- >of us had received them, still there was that little tingle of a "What if...?"
- >Tonight at a party a friend was telling me that she received *the* letter
- >last week...and then, yesterday, she received the exact same letter, all
- >about how the addressee had followed all the necessary steps to be
- >a winner, etc., etc., and was now in line for the big prizes...and THIS
- >letter was addressed to her first husband, who died in February, 1985.
- >Certainly shook my faith...I'm going out tomorrow and buy lottery
- >tickets...no more magazines for me.
- >ndh
-
- I read in the paper (yesterday's Boston Globe) that Oscar Wilde
- received one of these, though I think it was Readers Digest instead of
- PUblishers Clearing House. The curator at his mansion, now a museum,
- was most amused.
-
- I didn't receive it, but Paul did. We won't win, as it's in the trash.
- I guess this improves the chances for the rest of you.
-
- - RobyMeister
-