Good Morning, janet. You really are a most excellent
ListMom. First you give us Magic Cookies, and now
candy. But I was taught not to eat sweets before
breakfast, and as I'm waiting for my Sinemet to kick
in before I eat breakfast...Carole H.

--- Bob Chapman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Janet this is very interesting info. but which
> address do I send my
> request for the free M&M's to??  Hackettstown NJ or
> Hershy PA ?? and by
> the way, can I get some free Mars Bars too?
>
> janet paterson wrote:
>
> > from  T h e   I n t e r n e t   T o u r B u s  at:
> > http://www.TOURBUS.com:
> >
> >
>
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> > The Urban Legend That Melts in Your Email, Not in
> Your Hands ...
> >
>
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> >
> > As continuing proof that the brightness knob on my
> computer doesn't
> > work, I offer the following gem that has been
> cluttering up email
> > inboxes over the past couple of weeks:
> >
> >       Hi.  My name is Jeffrey Newieb.  I am a
> marketing analyst for
> >       M&Ms chocolate candies based in Hershey,
> Pennsylvania.  As the
> >       year 2000 approaches, we want to be the
> candy of the millennium
> >       ... We are asking you to pass on this e-mail
> to 5 friends ...
> >       Everytime [this message] reaches 2000
> people, you will receive a
> >       free case (100 individual 55 gram packs)of
> delicious M & M
> >       candies.
> >
> > It is a cute story, but there's just one problem:
> M&Ms come from the
> > M&M/Mars company in Hackettstown, New Jersey, not
> from the Hershey
> > Foods Corporation in Hershey, Pennsylvania.  In
> fact, M&M/Mars and
> > Hershey are bitter rivals.  You'd think that the
> "marketing analyst
> > for M&Ms" would know that.
> >
> > Obviously, this is yet another "forward an email
> message to all of
> > your friends and something great will happen"
> story.  Unfortunately,
> > if you forward the "free M&Ms" email to all of
> your friends, you won't
> > receive any candy.  You'll only make yourself look
> silly to your
> > friends and peers.  And I guess that is the whole
> point of this and
> > other Internet hoaxes.
> >
> > For more information about both the free M&M hoax
> and all of its
> > ancestors (remember the "free trip to Disney"
> hoax?), take a look at
> > Barbara Mikkelson's wonderful "Thousand Dollar
> Bill" article at
> >
> > <A
>
HREF="http://www.snopes.com/spoons/faxlore/billgate.htm">
> > http://www.snopes.com/spoons/faxlore/billgate.htm
> </A>.
> >
> >
>
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