This is SPAM and is a very old story.  This is about the 80th time I've seen
it (or similar stories) in print.

Lance Birch <:-)ala### [at] satcomnetau> wrote in message
<35da6f9c.0@news.povray.org>...
>Hi everyone, I'm posting this on behalf of someone else on the other side
of
>the world.  I thought it was really funny so here it is, and it is TOTALLY
>TRUE!!!!
>
>NOTE:  I don't consider this spam, and although it is not related to
>POV-Ray, I hope you'll take it in good spirit, after all, "The best things
>in life are free!"
>
>
>***************  QUOTE
>
>THIS IS TRUE - PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT AND PLEASE SEND THIS TO
EVERY
>SINGLE PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS!
>
>***
>
>My daughter & I had just finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas &
>decided to have a small dessert.  Because both of us are such cookie
lovers,
>we decided to try the "Neiman-Marcus Cookie". Editorial comment: "Neiman's

>
>It was so excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe and the
>waitress said with a small frown, "I'm afraid not." Well, I said, would you
>let me buy the recipe? With a cute smile, she said, "Yes." I asked how
much,
>and she responded, "only two fifty, it's a great deal!" I said with
>approval, just add it to my tab.
>
>Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement from Neiman-Marcus and it
>was $285.00.  I looked again and I remembered I had only spent $9.95 for
two
>salads and about $20.00 for a scarf.  As I glanced at the bottom of the
>statement, it said, "Cookie Recipe - $250.00."  That's Outrageous!!  I
>called Neiman's Accounting Dept. and told them the waitress said it was
>"two-fifty," which clearly does not mean "two hundred and fifty dollars" by
>any *POSSIBLE* interpretation of the phrase.  Neiman-Marcus refused to
>budge.  They would not refund my money, because according to them, "What
the
>waitress told you is not our problem. You have already seen the recipe - we
>absolutely will not refund your money at this point."  I explained to her
>the criminal statues which govern fraud in Texas, I threatened to refer
them
>to the Better Business Bureau and the State's Attorney General for engaging
>in fraud. I was basically told, "Do what you want, we don't care, and we're
>not refunding your money."  I said, "Okay, you folks got my $250, and now
>I'm going to have $250 worth of fun." I told her that I was going to see to
>it that every cookie lover in the United States with an e-mail account has
a
>$250 cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcus...for free!  She replied, "I wish you
>wouldn't do this." I said, "Well, you should have throught of that before
>you ripped me off and refused to make an effort to correct this error."
>So here it is!!!
>
>Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of.  I
>paid $250 for this recipe.
>
>***
>

>2 cups butter
>4 cups flour

>2 cups sugar
>5 cups blended oatmeal
>24 oz chocolate chips
>2 cups brown sugar
>1 tsp. salt

>4 eggs
>2 tsp. baking pwder
>2 tsp vanilla

>
>***
>
>Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder.
>Cream the butter and both sugars.  Add eggs and vanilla; mix together
>with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and soda.  Add chocolate chips,
>Hershey Bar and nuts.  Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a
>cookie sheet.
>
>Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees.  Makes 112 cookies.
>
>***
>
>Have fun!!!  This is *not* a joke-this is a true story. . .
>Denise Drzymalski
>
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>
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>
>Cool eh?  SEND IT ON!!!
>
>

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