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From: falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: misc.headlines,misc.misc,news.misc
Subject: Re: David's Last Wish
Summary: He does too exist
Message-ID: <81945@sun.uucp>
Date: 16 Dec 88 07:35:33 GMT
References: <4592@homxc.UUCP> <4593@homxc.UUCP> <749@odyssey.ATT.COM>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
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In article <749@odyssey.ATT.COM>, gls@odyssey.ATT.COM (g.l.sicherman) writes:
> msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes:
> > There was recently information posted to misc.misc or misc.consumers
> > (I can't remember which) which explains that David is in England, and
> > has already received enough postcards to make the record book, which
> > will now forever close that category.
> 
> Today's Asbury Park _Press_ has a wire story on this.  "... The problem
> is he doesn't really exist, and those who know the details of the mis-
> guided effort are pleading for an end to the postcard frenzy." I hope
> that this will teach Rick not to post irresponsible rumors to the Net.
> They can do a lot of damage!

I'm amazed at how badly the story has been corrupted; the name and
everything else are all wrong.

	There is a young boy by the name of Ed at the Mountain View
	home for the bewildered who is terminally ill.  He has entropy
	and the doctors say he has less than sixty years to live.  His
	last wich is to be in the Information Please Almanac for having
	received the MOST money EVER.  Therefore, they have started a
	campaign to honor his last wich, and rather simple, request.
	If anyone would like to take the time to send Ed some money,
	please email it to:

		Pennies for Ed
		falk@sun.com