It seems this story about cardboard buns in China was a complete
fabrication.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc...ake.reut/index
..html


--
Peter Aitken

Peter A wrote:
>
> It seems this story about cardboard buns in China was a complete
> fabrication.
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc...ake.reut/index
> .html

Have they shot the reporter who invented
the story, yet?

Mark Thorson wrote:
> Peter A wrote:
>> It seems this story about cardboard buns in China was a complete
>> fabrication.
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc...ake.reut/index
>> .html
>
> Have they shot the reporter who invented
> the story, yet?

Sorry, the backlog is always at least a week or two.

Peter A wrote:
> It seems this story about cardboard buns in China was a complete
> fabrication.
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc...ake.reut/index
> .html

Since the link leads to a message stating that the page is no longer
available, perhaps it itself was a fake.

Pennyaline wrote:
>
> Peter A wrote:
> > It seems this story about cardboard buns in China was a complete
> > fabrication.
> >
> > http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc...ake.reut/index
> > .html
>
> Since the link leads to a message stating that the page is no longer
> available, perhaps it itself was a fake.

Or perhaps you got hit by link wrap. Add the ".html" back on the end and
it works fine.

In article >,
says...
> Peter A wrote:
> > It seems this story about cardboard buns in China was a complete
> > fabrication.
> >
> > http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc...ake.reut/index
> > .html
>
> Since the link leads to a message stating that the page is no longer
> available, perhaps it itself was a fake.
>

The link works just fine, when it is broken over 2 lines like this you
have to combine the parts so that the ".html" part comes right after the
"index" part:

http://..........index.html


--
Peter Aitken

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:37:06 -0400, Peter A >
wrote:

>In article >,
says...
>> Peter A wrote:
>> > It seems this story about cardboard buns in China was a complete
>> > fabrication.
>> >
>> > http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc...ake.reut/index
>> > .html
>>
>> Since the link leads to a message stating that the page is no longer
>> available, perhaps it itself was a fake.
>>
>
>The link works just fine, when it is broken over 2 lines like this you
>have to combine the parts so that the ".html" part comes right after the
>"index" part:
>
>http://..........index.html

i'm telling you, people should use the angle brackets:

<u.r.l.>

when posting.

your pal,
blake

> i'm telling you, people should use the angle brackets:

at first I thought you said ankle bracelets

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:47:49 -0700, "Zippy P" >
wrote:

>> i'm telling you, people should use the angle brackets:
>
>at first I thought you said ankle bracelets
>

the more stylish posters are doing that already. some other posters
have electronic ankle bracelets.

your pal,
blake