Was it arterial monochromia?

jjmoney62 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:27 pm

Newspaper columnist who fabricated cancer stories dies
03/11/2004
Associated Press Kimberly Dawn Stacy, a newspaper reporter who wrote moving stories about a fictitious battle with cancer, has died. She was 38. An obituary in the Appalachian News-Express of Pikeville said Stacy died March 2 at the St. Francis Hospital Dialysis Unit in Peoria, Ill. The cause of death was not disclosed. The Tazewell County, Va., native was fired from her job as a reporter at the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer in 1999 after she wrote a series of stories about her fabricated battle with terminal brain cancer. Even her idea of fabricating a story about a terminal illness wasn't original. She stole it from Ralph Kramden. [ March 11, 2004: Message edited by: jjmoney62 ]

Oeditpus Rex · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:35 pm

Ralph wasn't a witting fabricator, though. He thought the letter from the doctor was about him when it was actually about his mother-in-law's dog. (Points for naming the dog, the cause of arterial monochromia and the university "Dr." Norton supposedly attended.)

jjmoney62 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:52 pm

That's right. Arterial monochromia usually affects boxers.The note was about the dog Ginger. (Not to be confused with Ed's childhood pup, Lulu.)"Dr. Norton, where did you go to school?""PS 31, Oyster Bay.""No, no. I mean what medical school."Ralph butts in. "Uh, um, uh, Oxford"Dr.: "Ah, in England."Norton: "Oh, is that where it is?"

Pam · **Posted:** Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:31 pm

You are too scary.

jjmoney62 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:37 pm

Dr.: "You mean you went to school at Oxford and you don't know it's in England?!"Norton: "To tell you the truth, it's so foggy over there, I don't know where anything is."

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