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End of an infamous legend?
He who writes upon these walls...
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 19:36:26 PST
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Subject: End of an infamous legend?
From: DECWRL::"0003678587@mcimail.com" "Patty A. Hardy" 20 March '91 10:01 pm
To: "Alan H. Martin" <tle::AMARTIN>
Subj: End of an infamous urban legend
UPma 03/19 1645 Procter & Gamble wins Satanism suit
CINCINNATI (UPI) -- The Procter & Gamble Co. said Tuesday it has won a
$75,000 damage award in its suit against a couple P&G accused of spreading false
rumors linking the company to Satanism.
While the company has won about a dozen similar suits against various
defendants since the rumors surfaced in the 1980s, the judgment against James
Newton and Linda Newton of Parsons, Kan. is the first to include a damage award,
company spokesman Terry Loftus said.
P&G filed suit in U.S. District Court in Topeka, Kan., last July 31 charging
that the Newtons, who are independent Amway distributors, spread false and
malicious statements associating P&G with Satanism.
The court found in P&G's favor and ordered the Newtons to pay $75,000 in
damages and enjoined the couple from publishing or distributing any false
statements or information purporting to associate P&G with Satanism.
The court also permanently prohibited from encouraging others to boycott or
stop buying P&G products.
"P&G cares a great deal about its employees, shareholders, customers and
consumers," said Robert Wehling, P&G vice president of public affairs.
"These ridiculous lies have cost the company a lot of time and energy over
the past ten years. We continue to pursue legal recourse against those spreading
such rumors, and we will file additional lawsuits if necessary," he said.
The Newtons issued a formal statement calling the Satanism rumors false.
"We want to set the record straight. The ugly rumors linking Procter & Gamble
to Satanism are completely false," the statment said.
"After our own investigation, we have concluded that the Satanism rumors are
lies and we are issuing this statement to help Procter & Gamble maintain its
fine reputation," it said.
P&G has answered more than 150,000 calls and letters related to the Satanism
rumors during the past 10 years. A company spokesman said the calls and letters
peaked in 1982, 1985 and again in 1990.
During that time, the spokesman said, prominent religious leaders from many
denominations issued statements of support of P&G.
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From: "The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo" <dryfoo@athena.mit.edu>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: uadmin@athena.mit.edu, caw@athena.mit.edu, shava@rad.unc.edu
Subject: He who writes upon these walls...
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 19:17:37 EST
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} [0777] ckclark@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Bogus_Thoughts 03/19/91 11:09 (26 lines)
} Subject: Pompeii
}
} Honest-to-god graffiti from the walls of Pompeii:
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} (reprinted, without permission, from the April`91 issue of ARCHAEOLOGY)
}
} "Whoever loves, go to hell. I want to break Venus' ribs with blows and
} deform her hips. If she can break my tender heart, why can't I hit her
} over the head "
}
} "On the 9th of November Quintus Postumius invited Aulus Attius to have
} homosexual intercourse with me "
}
} "Atimetus got me pregnant"
}
} "Litus, you are a mediocre man"
}
} "Oh Chius, I hope that your ulcerous pustules reopen and burn even
} more than they did before"
}
} "We wet the bed; I know, O Host, we were wrong. Ask why ? There was no
} urinal"
}
} "This is not a place for idlers. Leave, you who have nothing to do"
}
}
} --[0777]-- (nref = [0780])
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