How about posting articles asking for readers to send postcards to a kid in England who is dying of cancer and wants to set the world record for most cards received before he dies?
No, don’t do it. He’s been cured, has asked many times for people to stop sending him cards, and thoroughly regrets ever having had the idea in the first place. The “Neiman Marcus $250 Cookie Recipe” story and the “Good Times Virus” are also well-known urban legends; if you want to read about them or, for some reason, write about them, the newsgroup alt.folklore.urban is devoted just to that subject. Two other good places to dig up the details on these and other urban legends are the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society’s Urban Legend Reference Pages ( http://www.snopes.com ) and the alt.folklore.urban archives ( http://www.urbanlegends.com ) .
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