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In article <Cr1t...@news.Hawaii.Edu>, robe...@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Roberta Currier) writes:
>
> Request for a dying child...
> (not a joke)
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> I have received a special request asking for business cards
> to be sent to Craig Shergold at the address listed below.
> Craig Shergold is a seven year old child who has a brain
> tumor. He has little time to live. He submitted a request to
> the Children's Make a Wish Foundation to have an entry placed
> in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest business
> card collection received by an individual. If you can, please
> act as quickly as possible. Thank you for caring, and for
> taking the time to do this.
>
> Craig Shergold
> c/o Make a Wish Foundation
> 3200 Terimetera Center East
> Atlanta, GA  30346
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------



THIS IS A JOKE!!!!!
I saw on the news yesterday that this is a hoax, the people at make a wish
are now being over run with cards, DO NOT SEND THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mkm...@skcla.monsanto.com writes:

>In article <Cr1t...@news.Hawaii.Edu>, robe...@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Roberta Currier) writes:
>>
>> Request for a dying child...
>> (not a joke)
>>
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> I have received a special request asking for business cards
>> to be sent to Craig Shergold at the address listed below.
>> Craig Shergold is a seven year old child who has a brain
>> tumor. He has little time to live. He submitted a request to
>> the Children's Make a Wish Foundation to have an entry placed
>> in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest business
>> card collection received by an individual. If you can, please
>> act as quickly as possible. Thank you for caring, and for
>> taking the time to do this.
>>
>> Craig Shergold
>> c/o Make a Wish Foundation
>> 3200 Terimetera Center East
>> Atlanta, GA  30346
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------



>THIS IS A JOKE!!!!!
>I saw on the news yesterday that this is a hoax, the people at make a wish
>are now being over run with cards, DO NOT SEND THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS THE SHERGOLD INFORMATION SHEET

PLEASE SAVE THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION!!!!111!!!!!1



From: sp...@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.announce.important
Subject: DO NOT SENT ANY {GET WELL, POST, BUSINESS} CARDS TO CRAIG
SHERGOLD!
Date: 17 Feb 92 19:43:21 GMT
Organization: SERC, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.

If you call the ``Children's Make a Wish'' foundation, you will find
that they are not soliciting any form of card for Craig Shergold or
anyone else.  Better yet, if you call the Guinness people (US
publisher is "Facts on File" @ 212-683--2244 ext. 336), you can get
this same story confirmed.  You will also find that they will no
longer endorse or support any effort to break this record.

Many years ago, Craig Shergold had a brain tumor, believed inoperable.
He sought to set the Guinness record for get-well cards.  The call was
well-publicized, and he did, indeed set the record (consult a recent
edition of the book --- he has received in excess of 16 million cards
to date; he officially set the record as of 17 Nov 1989).

As part of this whole story, his plight caught the attention of John
Kluge, the US billionaire, who paid for Craig to come to the US and
receive specialized treatment.  As a result, Craig has recovered
completely from his tumor.  He is also no longer seven, but well into
his teens (you can see how out-of-date the request for cards is from
this -- it's like circulating a letter encouraging people to vote for
Carter for President).

The problem is that the mimeographed sheets and letters seeking cards
for Craig have continued to be circulated.  As a result, cards
continue to pour in to the post office for Royal Marsden Hospital in
England.  Worse, the appeal has mutated into various other versions,
such as an appeal for business cards, one for postcards, and another
version that appeals for holiday cards.

The Shergold family has publicly appealed many times that people cease
to mail them cards and letters, and that no more appeals be made on
their behalf. One easily accessible way to verify this is with the
article on page 24 of the 19 July 1990 NY Times.  People Magazine wrote
an article about it on June 1, 1991, page 63.  Even Ann Landers has
carried an item on this [6/23/91], but people still keep trying to send
cards.  Both Guinness and Royal Marsden have repeatedly issued press
releases asking people to stop circulating requests for cards, as they
are creating an undue burden on both the hospital and the postal service.

The Guinness people have discontinued the category to prevent this
kind of thing from ever happening again, and are doing their utmost to
kill any further mailings.  The Royal Marsden Hospital is at a loss
what to do with the cards that continue to arrive --- most are being
sold to stamp collectors and paper recyclers, and none go on to Craig.

This appeal for Craig, as well as many urban legends, regularly appear
on electronic bulletin boards around the world, and in many
organizational newsletters and bulletins.  It is both heartening and
unfortunate that there are so many well-meaning people who continue to
propagate these stories.  It is too bad that so many people are
unwilling to verify their information before passing such things
along, especially when a simple phone call will suffice to do so.  In
this case, opening a recent copy of a book carried by nearly every
library and bookstore would illuminate the situation.

If you would still like to do something for a dying child, consider
making a donation to a charity such as UNICEF or to the International
Red Cross (Red Crescent, Red Magen David).  Many thousands of children
are dying daily around the world from disease and starvation, and
countless millions more are suffering from the ravages of war, famine,
disease, and natural disaster.  Think how many of them might be helped
by the millions of dollars in postage spent on cards to Craig
Shergold....   Addresses (in US) are:

        UNICEF               American National Red Cross
        1 UN Plaza           17th & D Streets
        New York, NY 10017   Washington, DC 20006
                             Attn: international children's aid

[Also, I encourage you to save this announcement, in either electronic
or hard copy form, and to post it to any bulletin board you've seen the
original plea on.  If you see it in the future, as you probably will,
you can attach a copy of this announcement.  Wouldn't it be great to
finally kill this story, which spreads like a virus?]

--
Professor Gene Spafford
Dept. of Computer Sciences
Purdue University
W. Lafayette IN 47907-1398
sp...@cs.purdue.edu

--
Followups to r.h.d

Dave
--
Dave Bushong, Wang Laboratories, Inc.

In article I...@news.Hawaii.Edu, robe...@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Roberta Currier) writes:

Request for a dying child...
(not a joke)

Dear Friends,

This is to tell you about a truly sick individual.

He would like to have an entry placed in the Guinness Book of World Records
for the largest collection of dying children.

Please send as many as you can, and, if possible, include expiration dates.

Craig Shergold
c/o Make a Wish Foundation
3200 Terimetera Center East
Atlanta, GA  30346

----------------------------------------------------------

In article <2t6v84$5...@tymix.Tymnet.COM> fil...@rael.Tymnet.COM writes:
>In article I...@news.Hawaii.Edu, robe...@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Roberta Currier) writes:

>Request for a dying child...
>(not a joke)

[request deleted]

Well, it's on rec.humor, so it should qualify as a joke.

And it does.  Ignore it.  This hoary old urban legend pops up once
again.  I don't know if fil...@rael.Tymnet.COM is ignorant or just a
jerk, but Craig Shergold did not die, he's fine, he never had anything
to do with Make A Wish anyway, he got the record, and anyone who posts
that damn "dying boy wants postcards" message should have his or her
net access permanently revoked.

  -- David Wright, Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.  Waltham, MA
     wri...@hi.com  ::  These are my opinions, not necessarily Hitachi's,
     but you're free to disagree, you poor deluded creature

In article <Cr1t...@news.Hawaii.Edu>, robe...@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Roberta Currier) writes:
>
> Request for a dying child...
> (not a joke)
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> I have received a special request asking for business cards
> to be sent to Craig Shergold at the address listed below.
> Craig Shergold is a seven year old child who has a brain
> tumor. He has little time to live. He submitted a request to

No he's not.  He's 57, works at a canning factory and drinks lighter fluid.
He sold all the postcards for the stamp value and went into cabbage farming
till the bottom fell out of the market then sold up the land to buy mustang
engines to use as wind turbines.  Why the hell he did that I don't know.
I also don't know what the hell happened when he started the turbines, but
there was a loud noise and the next thing you know his wife and 17 kids were
gone and the paddock was covered in blood and bone which is a fertilizer
apparently.

Anyway, he's realised the error of his ways and doesn't want postcards any more
so stop sending them to him.  Now he's collecting the top buns of Big Macs
(The top one's got all the seeds on it).  He wants to get into Guiness as
the most pointless fucking waste of net bandwidth since "Make money fast"
first pissed people off.

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			It's THE SIGNATURE FROM HELL!!!!
It's 200 pages long and got lots of ^Gs in it!  And, it LOCKS UP YOUR TERMINAL!
AND  you won't find out it's from s...@waikato.ac.nz until the 199th page.  And
then it'll scroll past, you'll have to read the message again to find out that
my post addr is C/- University of Waikato, Prvt Bag 3105, Hamilton New Zealand
Here come those FORM FEEDS!!!!
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Always tell him he is handsome, especially if he is not.

Fil Feit (fil...@rael.Tymnet.COM) wrote:
: Request for a dying child...
: (not a joke)

: Dear Friends,

: This is to tell you about a truly sick individual.

: He would like to have an entry placed in the Guinness Book of World Records
: for the largest collection of dying children.

: Please send as many as you can, and, if possible, include expiration dates.

: Craig Shergold
: c/o Make a Wish Foundation
: 3200 Terimetera Center East
: Atlanta, GA  30346

: ----------------------------------------------------------



ROFL! This is truly a gem! ARCHIVE! ARCHIVE!


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In article I...@news.Hawaii.Edu, robe...@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Roberta Currier) writes:
>
>Request for a dying child...
>(not a joke)
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>I have received a special request asking for business cards
>to be sent to Craig Shergold at the address listed below.
>Craig Shergold is a seven year old child who has a brain
>tumor. He has little time to live. He submitted a request to
>the Children's Make a Wish Foundation to have an entry placed
>in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest business
>card collection received by an individual. If you can, please
>act as quickly as possible. Thank you for caring, and for
>taking the time to do this.
>
>Craig Shergold
>c/o Make a Wish Foundation
>3200 Terimetera Center East
>Atlanta, GA  30346
>
>----------------------------------------------------------


Let's stop this right now!!  Craig Shergold is alive and well and doesn't need any
more business cards.  In fact, the Guiness Book of World Records has removed this
record from their lists and will not be re-establishing it in the near future.


Angelo Delegeane
a...@incyte.com

In article <CrCo...@incyte.com>, a...@incyte.com (Angelo Delegeane)
wrote:
> Let's stop this right now!!  Craig Shergold is alive and well

Thanks for telling me. I wasn't aware of it. I'm glad somebody with
net.access finally told us the truth. Thanks again!

Yours ironically.

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