On Apr 2, 8:15 am, "Chess One" wrote:
We just had to stop it. 1,000 phone calls and e-mail in 12 hours, including
the New York Times... ggg

Poor old Hodmezovasarhely!

I thought I stocked it pretty well, with

an old castle
of the Austrio-Hungarian empire
stone chalets
wonderful gardens!
artists and musicians

nuns!
[always add nuns]
all that was missing was the perpetual motion

Naturally MICE was a guffaw.

Oh, so there were hints in the article about going back to Hungary
that indicated it was not true.

I remember bumping across a web site that is selling a book on how to
snap up a castle for a bargain price in Eastern Europe.

But was it that... or, from your description, the comic book "Girl
Genius" - that inspired the spoof?

I see on her site she is wearing a T-shirt that says "Chess Mom".
Going back to Hungary to live in a larger house... if the "true" part
was that she is expecting a new arrival, I will congratulate her.

John Savard