Craig Shergold
publication date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 (part of Winter 2011)
category: Fads
clue: don't tell your friends to guess this or they'll never stop
explanation: Shergold was a nine-year-old cancer patient in 1989 when he initiated a chain letter asking for greeting cards to be sent to him at the hospital. Tens of millions of cards later, he is a healthy adult who wishes for the endless deluge of mail to stop. more…
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Richard Slominsky, Justin Woods, and Joanna Woods