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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Finger Nail UL?
Date: 19 Jun 1994 21:37:10 GMT

bryan@gse.utah.edu (Bryan Brown) wrote: [Relayed a story of how "Nordstroms" was paying $$$ for long fingernails and asks if folks have seen any others.]
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jack@cee.hw.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes: -I posted a British version of it a year or two ago [...]: Anita Roddick's "Body -Shop" chain -
-After I posted that, someone from the US mentioned that the same yarn had -been in circulation in the 1970s there, with Revlon being the company on -the receiving end.

True. I believe that this is the post that Jack may be referring to.

>Organization: Penn State University
>Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 14:39:40 EDT
>>From: <AXM22@psuvm.psu.edu>
>Message-ID: <92163.143940AXM22@psuvm.psu.edu> >Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.fashion >Subject: Re: Anita Roddick wants your nails >References: <1992Jun11.171033.26745@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> >Lines: 8
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>The money for fingernails story is also debunked in Hal Morgan and Kerry >(not Terry) Tucker, _Rumor!_ (Penguin Books, 1984), pp. 46-47. The legend >in the 1960s was that Revlon was paying $10 USD for nails over an inch long. >I remember, too, a fellow student in high school (ca. 1976) with ghastly, >twisted long nails who said she was growing them for sale to someone or >another.
>
>Alan Mays

Terry "Nordstroms ripped my flesh!" Chan


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