Xref: utzoo news.admin:8567 news.misc:4474 comp.mail.misc:3117 comp.os.misc:1127 comp.protocols.misc:758 comp.sys.misc:2730 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!tank!mimsy!mojo!hsu From: hsu@eng.umd.edu (Dave "bd" Hsu) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.mail.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.protocols.misc,comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: Child's Wish (comp.protocols.*) Message-ID: <1990Mar23.035146.21179@eng.umd.edu> Date: 23 Mar 90 03:51:46 GMT References: <1733@dsac.dla.mil> <1990Mar19.221203.6074@me.toronto.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: Smurfbusters! Lines: 40 In article faigin@aerospace.aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin) writes: >>dfc4354@dsac.dla.mil (Al Ethridge) originally wrote: >>> to live past the year. The boy has only one request. he would like to have >>> his name put in the Guiness Book of world records. To do this feat he would >>> need to receive over 1 million get well cards. > >To which most responded (as I originally did) that this was an urban legend. Well, "Little Jimmy" is the urban legend. The rest of these requests, though they may have real people and real stories behind them, should be regarded as the nuisances that they are. As for Craig Shergold, the subject of this current edition... [a coworker says] > I verified it with the Children's Wish Foundation ( (404)-393-9474 ) >it is legitimate. They have been receiving over 8,000 card a day. It is also meaningless. This same plea on Craig Shergold's behalf made the rounds roughly one year ago; another bona fide foundation (Make a Wish?) in Florida confirmed the authenticity of its plea over the phone at that time. Half of those postings ran around the net with his name spelled "Graig". If this fella really only has a year to live, why did he waste so much time before moving the story a few hundred miles to Atlanta? The trouble is, all this means doodlysquat unless you can get a confirmation from Guiness, which claims to have closed the "most postcards" category after Mario Morby (England, "terminal" cancer which went into remission) set the record a few years back. Many of Morby's postcards were sent in response to just this sort of posting, except that his plea made the rounds twice, the second time as "David". If Guiness says the category is open again, by golly post all you want. Otherwise, can we rid the net of this nonsense for once and for all? -dave -- Dave Hsu Systems Research Center, Building 115 (301) 454 8867 hsu@eng.umd.edu The Maryversity of Uniland, College Park, MD 20742-3311 "I'm fishing. No I'm not, I'm newting!" - A. A. Milne