From: Zelma Ann ]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 4:23 PM
To:

Subject: Neiman-Marcus Cookies

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-Marcus...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. Makes 112 cookies.

PLEASE READ THE RECIPE AND SEND IT TO EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN
E-MAIL ADDRESS! THIS IS REALLY TERRIFIC!!

Even if the people on your e-mail list don't eat sweets send it to them
and ask them to pass it on. Let's make sure we get this ladies $250.00
worth. Enjoy the cookies, they are good....

Al Patrick wrote:
snipped hoax

Hi Al

This is a hoax.

http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/cookie.asp

http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens/250cooki.html

"Mark S. Holden" ) writes:
Al Patrick wrote:
snipped hoax

Hi Al

This is a hoax.

Maybe more more important, a really old hoax. I think it already
existed when I got newsgroup access back in 1994, and appeared in books
about the internet, in the category of hoaxes, right next to the postcard
one. I'm pretty sure it was in "Zen and the Art of the Internet", but I
no longer have a copy handy.

Michael

http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/cookie.asp

http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens/250cooki.html

"Mark S. Holden" wrote:

Al Patrick wrote:
snipped hoax

Hi Al

This is a hoax.


Al never met a hoax or unlikely conspiracy theory that he didn't buy
into.

Yes. Someone else told me via email. Sorry about that!

Al

=======

Mark S. Holden wrote:
Al Patrick wrote:
snipped hoax

Hi Al

This is a hoax.

http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/cookie.asp

http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens/250cooki.html

Al Patrick wrote:
Yes. Someone else told me via email. Sorry about that!

Al



Don't let it bother you Al. Almost everything you post is a hoax.

--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:12:19 -0500, Al Patrick
wrote:

From: Zelma Ann ]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 4:23 PM
To:

Subject: Neiman-Marcus Cookies

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-Marcus...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. Makes 112 cookies.

PLEASE READ THE RECIPE AND SEND IT TO EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN
E-MAIL ADDRESS! THIS IS REALLY TERRIFIC!!

Even if the people on your e-mail list don't eat sweets send it to them
and ask them to pass it on. Let's make sure we get this ladies $250.00
worth. Enjoy the cookies, they are good....

Several years ago I saw this same recipe billed as Mrs. Fields cookie
recipe. Al you are quite the piece of work.

Ooops! Sorry about that.

Well, The least I can do to "correct" the situation is give you a url to
the REAL recipe.

http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/se...e_recipe.jhtml

Al

============

Howard wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:12:19 -0500, Al Patrick
wrote:


From: Zelma Ann ]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 4:23 PM
To:

Subject: Neiman-Marcus Cookies

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-Marcus...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. Makes 112 cookies.

PLEASE READ THE RECIPE AND SEND IT TO EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN
E-MAIL ADDRESS! THIS IS REALLY TERRIFIC!!

Even if the people on your e-mail list don't eat sweets send it to them
and ask them to pass it on. Let's make sure we get this ladies $250.00
worth. Enjoy the cookies, they are good....


Several years ago I saw this same recipe billed as Mrs. Fields cookie
recipe. Al you are quite the piece of work.

This is actually real, a friends wifes sisters mothers brother was the
accounts person they called, or was it the one about Microsoft paying $1.00
for forwarded emails, a trip down memory lane!

"Al Patrick" wrote in message
...
From: Zelma Ann ]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 4:23 PM
To:

Subject: Neiman-Marcus Cookies

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-Marcus...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. Makes 112 cookies.

PLEASE READ THE RECIPE AND SEND IT TO EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN
E-MAIL ADDRESS! THIS IS REALLY TERRIFIC!!

Even if the people on your e-mail list don't eat sweets send it to them
and ask them to pass it on. Let's make sure we get this ladies $250.00
worth. Enjoy the cookies, they are good....

"Al Patrick" wrote in message
...
From: Zelma Ann ]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 4:23 PM
To:

Subject: Neiman-Marcus Cookies

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!
Interesting bit of psychology he The response by the person in
accounting- "I wish you would'nt do this" solidly identifies the story as
being fiction.