After much searching back & forth, I found the person who first brought us the story of the 10-year old boy who fell ill a few days after eating an infected pineapple. After reading this story I was so taken aback by the "obvious fairy-tale", responded with questions which were not taken up by the poster, so I posted again, but again no response. Of course I was on TWO different Goan website forums! The origin is in message number 331 of 9th November, heading "FW: SHOCKED TO KNOW AIDS SPREADS LIKE THIS ALSO..PLEASE READ IT!!!! My responses were on messages 3385 & 3394, someone else posted a response on message 3392 (by the way, oddly enough on message 3389 on 17 November I had profusely thanked JoeGoaUK for his wonderful video of a blind woman being led by her husband, singing for the supper in Mapusa market), before it all went south with his Goan humour which I misunderstood but apologised for). Of course & no wonder there were some strange responses to my 'babbling' on about HIV & AIDS in the manner I did, nobody saw the original posting, which was on this website, so hopefully now if you go to this site, you will see all who contribute, but how I came to be in it is lost somewhere in recent history......... http://in/.groups.yahoo.com/group/goan-nri/ I am assuming perhaps there must have been a dual-reference to another discussion & I replied to it, thinking it was Goanet (I rarely check email addresses, only see GOA and off I go reading & replying, or commenting if I feel I have anything to contribute). There are a few posters on this goan-nri site who have posted on goanet also, maybe that's where we got mixed up. Oh well, at least I didnt imagine it. Will cancel my Altheimer's test my eldest daughter has suggested...................... John Monteiro 07.12.07.....18.20hrs (UK)
Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The discussions about medicines on Goanet, reminded me of the magic mattress that was doing rounds in Goa a while back. Some Korean company (if I recall correctly) was selling a mattress that would magically cure people of their ailments which could range from anything like diabetes to heart problems. The mattress cost a pretty poiso of 1 lakh rupees, but the good news was it was a medicinal mattress and a pyramid scheme. Anyone who bought the mattress became a member of the Mattress Cult, and latter recruits by this member would mean he earn a commission of about 10%. Ultimately, one could recover the price paid and make a pretty profit to stash away under that mattress. Now, a man I knew, dug into his Provident Fund to buy this Magic mattress. He took to his bed, snuggling under a blanket, which comes with the mattress, and began the process of sweating his way to good health. Unfortunately, he was not a good cult member recruiter, which meant he couldn't recuperate the 1 lakh he had dispensed towards Korean good health. This played heavily on his mind and he began suffering from stress headaches, which ultimately lead to stress-related heart problems and he had to be rushed to Pune for an emergency procedure. There must be a moral to this story, if I were clever enough to find it :-) selma ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
