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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:17:38 MST
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: disillusionment
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Message of Mon,
- 28 Dec 1992 00:46:58 -0600 from <harwood@TENET.EDU>
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- On Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:46:58 -0600 Nancy Harwood said:
- >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
-
- well, i took the 'pleasure' with a grain or two of salt and assumed
- that it was facetious/joking pleasure....its that time of yera.....they
- have all their commercials on the tube now....
-
- >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.
-
- yes, most publishers have BETTER deals than PCH....after all, that
- eliminates PCH as a middleman....or middleperson....or middlecorp....
- or buncha assholes....
-
- i got mine yesterday...and looked at their prices on several mags
- i do get....and then threw it all out....i pay less already....
-
- i got five lottery tickets for xmas...won three bucks...so the lottery
- came out ahead....
-
- hugs
-
- dan
-
- (who only got one mailing so far, but whose daughter got three so
- far at her home address here...and who knows how many at school where
- most of her mail goes)
-