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Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:28:24 -0400
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These "fun facts" are sometimes more fun that fact, so why take them so
seriously? Like "folk etymologies", some of them are stories that get made
up to explain something curious, such as why there is a bat on the cover of
the ORA Sendmail book...

WRT
> 18- The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of
> varieties of pickles the company once had.
See http://www.heinz.com/jsp/consumer_faq.jsp#4

I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought of "there are 57 members of the
Communist Party in the Department of Defense" from the Manchurian Candidate?


Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com
I stomp on your sour grapes!

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