On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Felicia Pickering wrote: :| Ah yes, the Barbie doll head letter .... :| *sigh* This is at least the fourth time in less than a year that :| this little story has been posted to museum-l. It seems to be :| endlessly circulating on the Internet. We at the Anthropology :| Department at the Smithsonian thought it was an amusing parody :| the first time we saw it (several years ago). However, we are now :| fairly tired of it, as you may well imagine (anyone who has seen :| the $250 cookie recipe a few too many times will be able to sympathize.) One imagines that ultimately, all of the urban legends circulating around the net will comingle into one story about the buried letters of a dying child who wanted to raise money for disease research by getting postcards from around the world of whales that exploded because of the JATOs propelling the famous cookie recipe through said whale. Bundled with this missive will, of course, be yet another copy of the Dancing Baby .avi, a warning about the incipient disasters to be caused by the goodtimes virus and an invitation to join an XXX-rated service based somewhere in Tonga*. Rich Johnson Director of Marketing Cotton Expressions Science, Nature and Educational Imprinted Apparel *-No insult, implied or explicit, is meant toward the nation or people of Tonga. It's all just a joke. :)