![]() ![]() " But the hospital in Danbury, Conn., has a Web page ( danbury. O'Donnell, Danbury Hospital, Outpatient Chemical Dependency Treatment Service. And yet, LSD cannot rub off on your fingers, and it doesn't come in the form of a tattoo.Īn official-looking tagline at the end of the memo attributes it to "J. (It was detailed in Brunvand's "The Choking Doberman" in 1984). So much so that it's been fooling hospitals, police and elementary schools for more than 15 years. If you're around children and concerned about their safety, LSD on tattoos makes perfect sense to you. "She was quite chagrined," Turner laughs. But she figured her sitter, a computer-science major, would recognize the hoax pattern. Of course Turner knew about it she's a professor of black studies at the University of California at Davis and author of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African American Culture" (UC Press. " Patricia Turner chastised the baby-sitter who called to warn her about this one. They are known to react quickly, and some are laced with strychnine. "If your child gets any of the above, do not handle them. It's just like a tab of acid, but the LSD is transmitted through the skin in a press-on tattoo featuring either the infamous blue star, or Mickey Mouse, Superman, Bart Simpson, clowns, butterflies, etc. "A form of Tattoo called `BLUE STAR' is being sold to school children. Urban offered $250 to anybody who could prove the story with a canceled check or credit card bill. And the Net has jumped to Neiman's defense. "Many legends talk about revenge in one way or another," says Bill Ellis, professor of American studies at Penn State, but the cookie story is a stellar example of a little guy who fights back at a a big corporation and wins.Ĭorley acknowledges that the rumor could have been started by a competing store, disgruntled employe or angry customer, but given all the mistakes in the story, she guesses Neiman's was targeted at random. Besides, Neiman's caf never even served cookies until recently: In response to the rumor, they developed a chocolate-chip cookie and posted the recipe free on the web at neimanmarcus.Ĭom. For the last seven years or so, it's been Neiman's turn, particularly on the Net.īut Corley claims Neiman's would "never, ever" sell a recipe unless it's in a cookbook whose profits go to charity. It's the same idea behind the Waldorf-Astoria's "$100 Cake" and the Mrs. Good Times warns of a "Killer Internet Email Virus" that places your computer "in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop. The experience caused so much heartburn Bill is loath to revisit the issue publicly and asked to remain anonymous. Just ask Bill, a financial-services executive whose company sent him "scrambling around to backup and protect data bases" from a virus that never came. A well-meaning Net surfer can do lots of damage in a matter of seconds. With the push of a button, any missive can be sent out across modem lines not just to 10 close friends, but to hundreds. With its speed-of-light technology and conspicuous absence of censorship, the Net makes it easy to treat cyberhoaxes (like the Good Times virus) and urban legends (the poodle in the microwave, etc.) like electronic chain letters. Scared you, huh? On the Internet, there's plenty to fear. ![]() It has a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating everything on it. If you receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times," DO NOT read the message. 01x04 | 00:44:48 Larissa Sirah Herden makes a fun and sexy Nudecomer debut on this series, showing a brief glimpse of her right boobage and her butt while getting hot and heavy with the main character! (51 secs)Īlso Added to Netflix in July: Big Daddy, The Dark Knight Rises, Get Smart, Jewel (2022), The Talented Mr.There is a computer virus being sent across the Internet. ![]()
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