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    Beating Corporate America...with cookies!!

    A friend sent this to me in my e-mail the other day. Don't know if it's true but....It's a cute story and my friend swears it's a great recipe too. I can't tell you from experience because she ate all the cookies before I came over, lol.

    LOVE to bake? Here is the perfect recipe
    A little background: Neiman-Marcus, if you don't know already, is a very expensive store; i.e., they sell your typical $8.00 T-shirt for $50.00.
    Let's let them have it!
    THIS IS A TRUE STORY
    My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas, and we decided to have a small dessert. Because both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the "Neiman-Marcus cookie.
    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, but you can buy the recipe." Well, I asked how much, and she responded, "Only two fifty-it's a great deal!" I agreed to that, and told her to just add it to my tab.
    Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement, and the Neiman-Marcus charge 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 was outrageous! I called Neiman's Accounting Department and told them the waitress said it was "two fifty," which clearly does not mean "two hundred and fifty dollars" by any reasonable 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 the Accounting Department lady the criminal statutes which govern fraud in the state of Texas. I threatened to report them to the Better Business Bureau and the Texas Attorney General's office for engaging in fraud. I was basically told, Do what you want. Don't bother thinking of how you can get even, and don't bother trying to get any of your money back. " I just 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-Marc us...for free. She replied, "I wish you wouldn't do this." I said, "Well, perhaps you should have thought of that before you ripped me off!" and slammed down the phone.
    So here it is!
    Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of.
    I paid $250 for this, and I don't want Neiman-Marcus to EVER make another penny off of this recipe!

    NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (Recipe may be halved)
    2 cups butter
    24 oz. chocolate chips
    4 cups flour
    2 cups brown sugar
    2 tsp. soda
    1 tsp. salt
    2 cups sugar
    1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
    5 cups blended oatmeal
    4 eggs
    2 tsp. baking powder
    2 tsp. vanilla
    3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
    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.
    Last edited by SheerBliss; 02-12-2005 at 10:57 PM.
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    This used to be a "Mrs. Fields" cookie recipie story.
    "He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!"

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    Yup......this is one that's been floating around for a while. It's a fun story, but a crock.
    "The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
    -Humphrey Bogart

    "Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."
    -Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
    "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
    -His reply

    "If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs."
    -David Daye

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    The cookies are fantastic though. The Doubletree Hotel's complimentary cookies come from a similar recipie.

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    Yeah.. This is a hoax that's been going around for ages.


    This site is excellent and has them all right here. When you get a chain letter, check here first before sending it on.. lol

    I actually laughed when I saw this one, because it's been quite a while since I've seen it!

    Also, the other day, I got another "classic". The one about the sick little girl. It claimed that AOL would send them money each time someone passed the email on. It even goes so far as to include a heart-wrenching poem too. I admit it, I fell for this one.. back in 1996.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhiannon
    When you get a chain letter, check here first before sending it on
    ...and if I'm on your email list, you don't even have to check before sending it to me. Just don't.

    The ones about locating teddy bear virus files and deleting them, however, are all completely true. Delete all of those.
    "The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
    -Humphrey Bogart

    "Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."
    -Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
    "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
    -His reply

    "If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs."
    -David Daye

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    Quote Originally Posted by MojoJojo

    The ones about locating teddy bear virus files and deleting them, however, are all completely true. Delete all of those.
    LOL You're evil.. pure evil.

    DON'T delete the teddy bear, people! LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhiannon
    LOL You're evil.. pure evil.

    DON'T delete the teddy bear, people! LOL
    WHOOPSIE....did my halo slip????

    Actually, deleting that file won't hurt anyone, but it's pointless to remove it. It's a java debugger or something like that, and you'd only care if you were a programmer...and if you're a programmer, then you should know better.

    I bitched at my mom one day a few months ago when she sent that file to about 50 people, myself including. I immediately called her and said "WHAT do I do for a living??? Do you think MAAAYBE you'd want to discuss this with me first??" Yeesh....parents.
    "The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
    -Humphrey Bogart

    "Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."
    -Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
    "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
    -His reply

    "If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs."
    -David Daye

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    Quote Originally Posted by SheerBliss
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    THIS IS A TRUE STORY...
    Always the first indicator of complete bullshit.

    Notary stamps when not required.... Bullshit story. Forged sig.

    "I swear on my mother's grave we we're just friends...." This one's true.

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    LOL Stant.. Exactly.. The story should speak for itself. If it's really true, it doesn't need that statement to validate it. "I swear this is true!" Blah.. lol

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    What does "1 month 2 weeks until Days 'Til Moving Day" mean?
    "The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
    -Humphrey Bogart

    "Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."
    -Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
    "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
    -His reply

    "If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs."
    -David Daye

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    Yeah, it's the stupid counter thing.. I'll have to redo it. It's something with that particular site I guess. It keeps track of a "countdown".

    **All better now**

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    Thats awesome.....and im high. Imgoing to make cookies.
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    Hey Devilkitty could you please bake me some too? Thanks for the recipe. I think I'll attempt to whip up a batch myself. Rose, as delightful as you are, please don't try this at home

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