That letter was never written and is what is called an "urban legend". Like the scuba divers in the forest, crapping elephant death and solid rocket powered car in the desert these are among the most popular urban legends. Top overall to urban legend is this one: http://darwinawards.com/legends/legends1998-16.html The smithsonian has not been responding to nutcases with those letters. That story is one of the oldest and has been around since the beginning of the internet (More than 10 years). You have been taken in by accepting an urban legend as fact. Sincerely DEAN
--- Darren Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:16:52 -0700, you wrote: > > > > >Ok, the story behind this... There's this wacked > out guy who digs things out of his backyard and > >sends the stuff he finds to the Smithsonian > Institute, labelling them with scientific names, > >insisting that they are actual archeological finds. > The really weird thing about these letters > >is that this guy really exists! Anyway... here's a > letter from the Smithsonian Institute after > >he sent them a Barbie doll head..... > > http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/smithsonian.asp > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
