Looking for a couple of Paul Harvey answers here.

[14ers]

And, now you know the rest of the story.


These 2 stories made huge headlines by the media when they were released, but I never saw their endings or actual confirmation on the news.



Fact or Fiction
1) The election envelope with the upside down $400,000 stamp on it.

2) Peyton Manning performs at a childs birthday party for $200,000.



Were these 2 stories actual facts or just media rumors run on a slow news day?

[sterlingice]

I havent found a Snopes at all about the Inverted Jenny

SI

[stevew]

I'm pretty sure the Manning thing was acknowledged by his foundation.

[Swaggs]

From wiki (where else?):

In November of 2006, election workers in Broward County, Florida claimed to have found an Inverted Jenny affixed to an absentee ballot envelope. The sender did not include any identification with the ballot, which meant the ballot was disqualified.[3]

In a review of a digital photograph of this stamp, Peter Mastrangelo, director of the Pennsylvania-based American Philatelic Society said, "It is our opinion, from what we've seen, that this stamp is questionable, and we are of the opinion at this point that it appears to be a reproduction." He said an in-person review was needed to be sure, but that all indications are that the stamp is a counterfeit. "The perforations on top and bottom do not match our reference copies." Mastrangelo said. "The colors of the blue ink are consistent with the counterfeit."[4]

November 13, 2006, an elderly Sarasota, Florida man contacted SNN News 6, claiming to be the man who mailed the ballot. Dan Jacoby says the stamp he used is a commemorative stamp that is worth about 50 cents.[5]

On December 4, 2006, it was confirmed that this stamp used on the ballot was a counterfeit.[6] Inside the Broward County Elections Office in Florida, experts studied the stamp and decided that the method used to print it and the perforations along the sides were evidence of the stamp being fake.

This story recalls a plot point from the 1985 movie version of Brewster’s Millions, in which a man named Brewster (played by Richard Pryor) was challenged to spend thirty million dollars in thirty days. One of the many things he did in his attempt was to use an Inverted Jenny to mail a post card.