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To me, it looks like PD is being USED as a means of a sales pitch. In a message dated 11/3/99 11:53:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > > What's wrong with this picture??? > > Company Press Release > Parkinson's Disease Victim in Oregon Rescued by Fellow Internet Word > Game Player in Florida, Says GIC-Software > > LOS GATOS, Calif., Nov. 3, 1999/PRNewswire/ -- A bedridden Parkinson's > Disease victim in Portland, Oregon, was rescued by a fellow Internet > Word Game player in Florida after she suffered breathing difficulties > and could not communicate with her husband in the next room. > > According to GIC-Software Chief Executive Officer Weldon Bankston, the > woman was playing one of the seven games on WORDLand, a free Internet > site that offers interactive, multi-player word games 24 hours a day to > players from all over the world. (http://www.wordland.com) Her player > name was ``Whispering.'' > > ``In this day and age of Internet-related horror stories, this is a > example of the power of the Internet to provide positive interactive > communications,'' said Bankston. ``In the case of Whispering, the > Internet played a vital role in rescuing a person in serious medical > distress.'' > > It was 5:10 a.m. Whispering began to have breathing difficulties and > could not reach her husband, who was in another room. Bedridden, she > could not get up to disconnect the computer to use the phone line. She > had been playing with another player named ``Mr_Jinx,'' from > Massachusetts, when she started typing gibberish. A third player, > ``NotMyFolt,'' had been watching the game from Florida and typed ``Are > you having a problem?'' With just one finger, Whispering answered yes, > and typed her name and phone number before she went silent. > > NotMyFolt immediate sent a message to a WORDLand employee who contacted > the husband. He had no idea of his wife's peril. She was rescued, and is > now back to playing WORDLand on a regular basis. > > According to Maleska's Favorite Word Games, by Simon and Schuster, more > than 60 million people in the United States participate in word games, > like crosswords, Scrabble®, Wheel of Fortune® and WINDOWords(TM), each > day. The games found at WORDLAND are Age-Friendly(TM) and do not contain > any violence, weapons, sex or unwholesome genres. They can be played > from anywhere in the world at anytime with the click of a mouse and an > Internet connection. > > To access WORDLand, visit http://www.wordland.com or call GIC-Software > at 408-356-7208. > > SOURCE: GIC-Software > Copyright 1994-1999 Yahoo! / Copyright © 1999 PRNewswire > Judith Richards, London, Ontario, Canada > [log in to unmask] >