Xref: utzoo misc.misc:2927 alt.flame:2007 news.admin:2417 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!daisy!atari!portal!uunet!labrea!agate!pasteur!ames!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!brspyr1!davef From: davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske) Newsgroups: misc.misc,alt.flame,news.admin Subject: Re: Where JJ Got The Idea (I Think) Message-ID: <3632@brspyr1.BRS.Com> Date: 1 Jun 88 21:52:47 GMT References: <10381@ism780c.UUCP> <3029@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <6008@cup.portal.com> Distribution: usa Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY Lines: 28 In article <6008@cup.portal.com>, Patrick_A_Townson@cup.portal.com writes: > Do any of you read Bob Greene, the syndicated columnist in the [Chicago > Tribune]? He appears in several newspapers. > > A few months ago, Greene got a letter from a college student at the University > of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana with a similar scheme. This fellow also had a > hard luck story about not being able to pay for school. He wanted everyone > in the United States to mail him *a single penny each*. There's an article in this week's Weekly World News (dated June 14) about a 10-year-old whose dream is to go to medical school so he can find a cure for diabetes. He wrote a letter to the New York Daily News, asking people to send him a quarter apiece, and so far has received $1,000. I also heard something about a company in Houston which manufactures parts for oil drilling equipment. With the depression in the oil industry, they are in danger of going under, and have put ads in newspapers asking people to give them money to keep the company going. (They make it clear that donors will get nothing in return.) This is getting monotonous. -- "GOOFY GARDENER WEDS Dave Fiske (davef@brspyr1.BRS.COM) A HEAD OF LETTUCE" BRS Information Technologies, Latham, NY Home: David_A_Fiske@cup.portal.com Headline from Weekly World News CIS: 75415,163 GEnie: davef