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Comment by reaperducer

12 hours ago

FAQ about this, which answers such questions as "Did this actually happen, or were you just spinning a yarn?"

https://ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html

As many times as I've read this story, I've never come across this.

Pity, as the constant handwaving in the answers makes the entire thing seem made up.

  • What I don't get is how the author can't pin the year down to anything narrower than "between 1994 and 1997," especially considering he wrote the article in 2002: only a few years later.

    I'm not at all implying the story was fake; just this particular thing feels weird.