Date:    Sat, 6 Jun 1998 20:35:15 -0400
<br>From:    Laurence Horn <laurence.horn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU>
<br>Subject: The Grey Lady comes clean
<br>
<br>>From today's New York Times (p. 2, Corrections column):
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<br>A report in the Metropolitan Diary column on May 25 about ta nun who bought
<br>a package of cookies at an airport was published in error.  The
<br>incident--in which the nun thought that a man was helping himself to her
<br>cookies when in fact she was helping herself to his [elegantly phrased,
<br>eh?]--did not occur recently at  Kennedy International Airport [well, I
<br>suppose it COULD have...].  It is a current myth and has been recounted by
<br>a folklorist, Jan Harold Brunvand, in a variety of renditions in two books,
<br>"The Choking Doberman" and "The Mexican Pet."
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<br>Well, I take back my previous slur .  At least I'm quite certain Penthouse
<br>Forum has never published a retraction acknowledging that a letter they had
<br>published turned out to have related events that on careful investigation
<br>did not occur.
<br>
<br>Larry.
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