Stella Awards
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Is this fiction or fact? Regards, Nish
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According to Snopes[^] it's fiction. But's still funny :) and kind of beleivable :) ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
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I remember reading this last year. And the year before that. The same ones. I must be in a time warp. Explains why nothing ever gets done! The 1st place is an old joke, which I heard about 30 years ago. Before it became non-PC to make jokes about other nationalities, it went something like this: A Japanese man went to a dealership to buy a motor home so he could tour the country and asked what "cruise control" meant. The dealer told him "if you push that button, the vehicle will drive itself!" The Japanese man thought "wow, that's a cool gadget that we don't even have in Japan". So, he bought the motor home and was tooling down the highway when he got hungry and decided to test out the cruise control. So he flicked it on and went to the back to make a sandwich. etc.... But in my version, he died. Marc Pensieve
Marc Clifton wrote:
A Japanese man went to a dealership to buy a motor home so he could tour the country and asked what "cruise control" meant. The dealer told him "if you push that button, the vehicle will drive itself!" The Japanese man thought "wow, that's a cool gadget that we don't even have in Japan". So, he bought the motor home and was tooling down the highway when he got hungry and decided to test out the cruise control. So he flicked it on and went to the back to make a sandwich. etc....
What's really ironic is that the world's best cars today are from Japan. So fat chance that a Japanese man wouldn't know what cruise control is. I guess they start to learn about automobiles when they are 2 years old. :) Regards, Nish
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According to Snopes[^] it's fiction. But's still funny :) and kind of beleivable :) ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
Jim Crafton wrote:
According to Snopes[^] it's fiction. But's still funny and kind of beleivable
Ah, I suspected so! Regards, Nish
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The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States. Here are this year's winners: 5th Place (tie): Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000. by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son. 5th Place (tie): 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000. and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps. 5th Place (tie): Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place! 4th Place: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun. 3rd Place: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. 2nd Place: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This o
Robert Edward Caldecott wrote:
The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States
I was told by a lawyer that the McDonalds case was won because McDonalds was using some particularly cheap brand of coffee that had to be heat to a very hot temperature to avoid tasting bad (worse than usual if you are not a coffee fan). Anyway, she recieved some pretty bad burns. I never tried to verify that, but I though I would mention it.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
A Japanese man went to a dealership to buy a motor home so he could tour the country and asked what "cruise control" meant. The dealer told him "if you push that button, the vehicle will drive itself!" The Japanese man thought "wow, that's a cool gadget that we don't even have in Japan". So, he bought the motor home and was tooling down the highway when he got hungry and decided to test out the cruise control. So he flicked it on and went to the back to make a sandwich. etc....
What's really ironic is that the world's best cars today are from Japan. So fat chance that a Japanese man wouldn't know what cruise control is. I guess they start to learn about automobiles when they are 2 years old. :) Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
What's really ironic is that the world's best cars today are from Japan.
Today yes, but Japan was just a blip on the radar 25 years ago, when I first heard the joke. Marc Pensieve
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Marc Clifton wrote:
A Japanese man went to a dealership to buy a motor home so he could tour the country and asked what "cruise control" meant. The dealer told him "if you push that button, the vehicle will drive itself!" The Japanese man thought "wow, that's a cool gadget that we don't even have in Japan". So, he bought the motor home and was tooling down the highway when he got hungry and decided to test out the cruise control. So he flicked it on and went to the back to make a sandwich. etc....
What's really ironic is that the world's best cars today are from Japan. So fat chance that a Japanese man wouldn't know what cruise control is. I guess they start to learn about automobiles when they are 2 years old. :) Regards, Nish
My blog : Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET
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Robert Edward Caldecott wrote:
The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States
I was told by a lawyer that the McDonalds case was won because McDonalds was using some particularly cheap brand of coffee that had to be heat to a very hot temperature to avoid tasting bad (worse than usual if you are not a coffee fan). Anyway, she recieved some pretty bad burns. I never tried to verify that, but I though I would mention it.
Some facts on the McLawsuit. http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm[^] BW
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The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States. Here are this year's winners: 5th Place (tie): Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000. by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son. 5th Place (tie): 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000. and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps. 5th Place (tie): Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place! 4th Place: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun. 3rd Place: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. 2nd Place: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This o
For real ones see: http://www.stellaawards.com I also recomend Randy's wierd/stupid news story list: http://www.thisistrue.com/
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Robert Edward Caldecott wrote:
The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States
I was told by a lawyer that the McDonalds case was won because McDonalds was using some particularly cheap brand of coffee that had to be heat to a very hot temperature to avoid tasting bad (worse than usual if you are not a coffee fan). Anyway, she recieved some pretty bad burns. I never tried to verify that, but I though I would mention it.
Bob Flynn wrote:
I was told by a lawyer that the McDonalds case was won because McDonalds was using some particularly cheap brand of coffee that had to be heat to a very hot temperature to avoid tasting bad (worse than usual if you are not a coffee fan).
I can't vouche for this. However...
Bob Flynn wrote:
Anyway, she recieved some pretty bad burns.
I know this case has kind of become the poster child for frivolous lawsuits, but I remember discussing it with a lawyer friend of mine a few years ago. He said this lady got severely burned by the coffee. We're not talking scalded as you might expect but truly badly burned. I know coffee is suppose to be hot, but based on what he told me, I think the jury made the right decision.
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:wtf: .... there are no words..... ColinMackay.net "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucius "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell
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Is this fiction or fact? Regards, Nish
My blog : Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET
fiction, although the original McDonalds story is true.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
What's really ironic is that the world's best cars today are from Japan.
Today yes, but Japan was just a blip on the radar 25 years ago, when I first heard the joke. Marc Pensieve
Marc Clifton wrote:
Today yes, but Japan was just a blip on the radar 25 years ago, when I first heard the joke.
Ah okay - :-) Regards, Nish
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bcweis wrote:
Oh, don't start the debate as to where the best cars come from.... it's not Japan!
:confused: Germany, then? Regards, Nish
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For real ones see: http://www.stellaawards.com I also recomend Randy's wierd/stupid news story list: http://www.thisistrue.com/
dan neely wrote:
For real ones see: http://www.stellaawards.com
Clickety version :- http://www.stellaawards.com[^] Regards, Nish
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Marc Clifton wrote:
A Japanese man went to a dealership to buy a motor home so he could tour the country and asked what "cruise control" meant. The dealer told him "if you push that button, the vehicle will drive itself!" The Japanese man thought "wow, that's a cool gadget that we don't even have in Japan". So, he bought the motor home and was tooling down the highway when he got hungry and decided to test out the cruise control. So he flicked it on and went to the back to make a sandwich. etc....
What's really ironic is that the world's best cars today are from Japan. So fat chance that a Japanese man wouldn't know what cruise control is. I guess they start to learn about automobiles when they are 2 years old. :) Regards, Nish
My blog : Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET
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I did a google for this just to have a link to send to some of the guys in the office, and found this instead: Snopes on Stella[^]. According to Snopes, they are false! Or at least some of them. They specifically mention the #1 incidenet, the winnebago lady as being false. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
True, but the real cases they list are equally messed up. Did these people actually think they would win anything...
In March 1995, a San Diego man unsuccessfully attempted to sue the city and Jack Murphy Stadium for $5.4 million over something than can only be described as a wee problem: Robert Glaser claimed the stadium's unisex bathroom policy at a Billy Joel and Elton John concert caused him embarrassment and emotional distress thanks to the sight of a woman using a urinal in front of him. He subsequently tried "six or seven" other bathrooms in the stadium only to find women in all of them. He asserted he "had to hold it in for four hours" because he was too embarrassed to share the public bathrooms with women. A San Carlos, California, man sued the Escondido Public Library for $1.5 million. His dog, a 50-pound Labrador mix, was attacked November 2000 by the library's 12-pound feline mascot, L.C., (also known as Library Cat). The case was heard in January 2004, with the jury finding for the defendant. In a further case which was resolved in July 2004, the plaintiff in the previous suit was ordered to pay the city $29,362.50, which amounted to 75% of its legal fees associated with that case. In 1994, a student at the University of Idaho unsuccessfully sued that institution over his fall from a third-floor dorm window. He'd been mooning other students when the window gave way. It was contended the University failed to provide a safe environment for students or to properly warn them of the dangers inherent to upper-story windows. In 1993, McDonald's was unsuccessfully sued over a car accident in New Jersey. While driving, a man who had placed a milkshake between his legs, leaned over to reach into his bag of food and squeezed the milkshake container in the process. When the lid popped off and spilled half the drink in his lap, this driver became distracted and ran into another man's car. That man in turn tried to sue McDonald's for causing the accident, saying the restaurant should have cautioned the man who had hit him against eating while driving.
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I remember reading this last year. And the year before that. The same ones. I must be in a time warp. Explains why nothing ever gets done! The 1st place is an old joke, which I heard about 30 years ago. Before it became non-PC to make jokes about other nationalities, it went something like this: A Japanese man went to a dealership to buy a motor home so he could tour the country and asked what "cruise control" meant. The dealer told him "if you push that button, the vehicle will drive itself!" The Japanese man thought "wow, that's a cool gadget that we don't even have in Japan". So, he bought the motor home and was tooling down the highway when he got hungry and decided to test out the cruise control. So he flicked it on and went to the back to make a sandwich. etc.... But in my version, he died. Marc Pensieve
Marc Clifton wrote:
The 1st place is an old joke, which I heard about 30 years ago.
Unfortunately, it also still happens. Having a family member in the emergency responce for the Navy MARS program and the state emergency response center. There is at least one accident a year on Interstate 40 (crossing east west through New Mexico) where a truck driver puts on cruise control and climbs into the sleeper. However, I have never heard anyone successfully sue over such actions. I know of one between Las Cruces, NM and El Paso, TX just before Christmas last year on I10, but only because I was on the road at the time and they interviewed the driver. Luckily he went off the road and into the desert rather than the other 50-50 chance. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States. Here are this year's winners: 5th Place (tie): Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000. by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son. 5th Place (tie): 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000. and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps. 5th Place (tie): Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place! 4th Place: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun. 3rd Place: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. 2nd Place: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This o
As a biochemist, electrical and software engineer, I feel it is now my civic duty to devleop a genetic marker that will make people this stupid glow flourescent green. If you need me I will be in the lab ... :cool: People that start writing code immediately are programmers (or hackers), people that ask questions first are Software Engineers - Graham Shanks
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True, but the real cases they list are equally messed up. Did these people actually think they would win anything...
In March 1995, a San Diego man unsuccessfully attempted to sue the city and Jack Murphy Stadium for $5.4 million over something than can only be described as a wee problem: Robert Glaser claimed the stadium's unisex bathroom policy at a Billy Joel and Elton John concert caused him embarrassment and emotional distress thanks to the sight of a woman using a urinal in front of him. He subsequently tried "six or seven" other bathrooms in the stadium only to find women in all of them. He asserted he "had to hold it in for four hours" because he was too embarrassed to share the public bathrooms with women. A San Carlos, California, man sued the Escondido Public Library for $1.5 million. His dog, a 50-pound Labrador mix, was attacked November 2000 by the library's 12-pound feline mascot, L.C., (also known as Library Cat). The case was heard in January 2004, with the jury finding for the defendant. In a further case which was resolved in July 2004, the plaintiff in the previous suit was ordered to pay the city $29,362.50, which amounted to 75% of its legal fees associated with that case. In 1994, a student at the University of Idaho unsuccessfully sued that institution over his fall from a third-floor dorm window. He'd been mooning other students when the window gave way. It was contended the University failed to provide a safe environment for students or to properly warn them of the dangers inherent to upper-story windows. In 1993, McDonald's was unsuccessfully sued over a car accident in New Jersey. While driving, a man who had placed a milkshake between his legs, leaned over to reach into his bag of food and squeezed the milkshake container in the process. When the lid popped off and spilled half the drink in his lap, this driver became distracted and ran into another man's car. That man in turn tried to sue McDonald's for causing the accident, saying the restaurant should have cautioned the man who had hit him against eating while driving.
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I was on the freeway doing about 95 MPH, while holding a McDonald's hamburger in one hand and dialing the Verizon cell phone with the other (you know, steering the car wiht my knees), and a piece of the rear bumper from a Ford Bronco hit my windshield ... I swerved off the freeway and ran into a large tractor owned by CALTRANS, which which had not right to be parked where construction was occurring ... so what kind of case do I have ... :laugh: People that start writing code immediately are programmers (or hackers), people that ask questions first are Software Engineers - Graham Shanks
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The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States. Here are this year's winners: 5th Place (tie): Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000. by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son. 5th Place (tie): 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000. and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps. 5th Place (tie): Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place! 4th Place: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun. 3rd Place: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. 2nd Place: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This o
I came to this posting after reading the CodeProject Insider with Jordon. I signed up for this newsletter as an attempt to read valid news related to the IT industry and to get developer tips that CodeProject might have to offer that day. I get enough junk mail / spam in my e-mail box that is untrue and I don't need to be forwarded to false information via what is publicized as a resource to help keep up to date. This is just an opinion and I have to figure that Robert Edward Caldecott might not have known it was false when he posted it. I just ask that Jordon stick to more informative articles to send in her Insider newsletter. I read some postings yesterday in the lounge, questioning the newsletter and how worthwhile it was. Yesterday, I felt they hadn't given her a chance to prove the information was worthwhile or not, but today I question her choices. Just my opinion, Kevin :doh: Lost in the vast sea of .NET