I just want to thank all of you for your educational emails over the past year.
My cousin Pam sent me this list and I had to laugh because I had received every one of these.
I don’t think she was the one who compiled it – so whoever did – thanks for the warnings.
The best part is the people who send them to you do not know how to cut and paste and blind copy so you have the opportunity to send the information from Snopes and Hoaxbusters to their entire email list.
Here’s your dose of doom for today!
- Thanks to you, I no longer open a public bathroom door without using a
paper towel. - I can’t use the remote in a hotel room because I don’t know what the last
person was doing while flipping through the channels. - I can’t sit down on the hotel bedspread because I can only imagine what has
happened on it since it was last washed. - I can’t enjoy lemon slices in my tea or on my seafood anymore because lemon
peels have been found to contain all kinds of nasty germs including feces. - I can’t touch any woman’s purse for fear she has placed it on the floor of
a public bathroom. - I must send my special thanks to whoever sent me the one about poop in the
glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet sponge with every
envelope that needs sealing. - Also, now I have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.
- I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown)
who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time. - I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the
$15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating
in their special e-mail program - I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out
for me, and St. Theresa’s novena has granted my every wish. - I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant
freaks with no eyes or feathers. - I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water
buffalo on a hot day. - Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I
forward an email to seven of my friends and make a wish within five
minutes. - Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove
toilet stains. - I no longer can buy gasoline without taking someone along to watch the car
so a serial killer won’t crawl in my back seat when I’m pumping gas. - I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr Pepper since the people who make these
products are atheists who refuse to put ‘Under God’ on their cans. - I no longer use Saran wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer.
- I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a
perfume sample and rob me. - I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number
for or which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda ,
Singapore and Uzbekistan - If you don’t send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70
minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00 PM this
afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you
to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened
to a friend of my next door neighbor’s ex-mother-in-law’s second husband’s
cousin’s beautician.
OK – kidding aside now.
The big questions in my mind – with all the fear in the world already -
WHO WRITES THESE SCARY EMAILS?
WHY?
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I wish I had a dollar for every email that promised me eternal prosperity and happiness if I’d only pass it along to 10 million of my closest friends in the next 5 seconds. I’d be rich!
It always bothered me that the St. Teresa Novena e-mail contains a photo of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. A totally different person!
Dear Penelope -
Me too.
Dear Maria -
You know, I never noticed that picture was of Mother Theresa.
Thanks for bringing that to our attention.
The novena is a beautiful prayer. What I object to is the threats that come along with it.
You are obliged to send it on or you will not get your intention.
St.Theresa would not approve of that.
Corinne – It is all about “threats” that’s how “they” control — the usual – FEAR … I just use my delete button and have wised up to this junk – just another form of junk mail.
I’m also pretty sick of people’s opinions – still suffering from election fatigue. I follow only 3 blogs – Off with the TV, On with my CDs and books and NOOOOOOOOO commercials ever -I don’t watch anything with a commercial anymore. Not since Russert died. He was the only one I trusted. I now trust myself. A very dear friend of mine taught me that. You should meet her – she looks just like you.
Oh! that’s so funny.
Pain has more intense force than pleasure. That’s why people love to write scary emails, complains … etc. than the positive meaningful stuffs.
Scary emails get forwards more and quickly.
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Too funny, Corinne!
Dear Lisa and Raymond -
Like both of your explanations but I feel we should try to stop this instead of just hitting the delete button.
We can begin by going to snopes or hoaxbusters – finding the item listed and going back and copying every single address on the forwards.
The people who send these out do not realize they have exposed all the people who they have forwarded – sometimes hundreds of email addresses.
There is enough fear in the world now.
Dear PreSchool Mama -
I agree that some of them are really funny. Pretty harmless.
But see my answer to Lisa and Raymond. The scary ones should be stopped because all those people are also forwarding these horrible tales.
What! Are you suggesting that those things aren’t true Corrine?
What about my new best friend in Uzbekistan? We’re getting along like a house on fire. I can’t wait to meet him. I’m off now to the bank to send him the $25,000 that is apparently the price of a plane fare from Uzbekistan.
Dear Karooch -
Save the money for now. Delay the money tranfer. My son, Peter is a CFP at Merrill Lynch. I will give you his number!
You are a riot!
Love your comments. Please stay. I need you.
Loved this. I work at a large social networking site and I see these in their groups every day. However, you forgot all the Obama is a Muslim/terrorist/ant-Christian stuff. It’s enough to make your head explode.
Hi Anne Marie -
Thanks to a expert opinion on my article.
I just got one scary warning about a new gang initiation in Chicago. Went to Snopes.com
It was FALSE. I sent it to the entire sender’s email list. I told you they do not know how to cut and paste.
We must stop this fear! We have enough!
Corinne:
I literally felt bile rising up within me as I read some of those “evil emails.”
Fortunately, I don’t get them but I cannot imagine how and why the writers of those emails process their thoughts. Maybe they enjoy fear mongering (spelling??).
I do my part to stop the spread of this nonsense by immediately deleting or spamming the emailer out of existence.
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Hi Stephen -
I delete the stupid ones too. But the really scary ones, I take the trouble to go to Snopes and find the falsehood and send it out to everyone on their list.
I find they do not like this but – maybe they will think about it before they circulate all that fear into the Universe. They may even check for themselves. Easy enough to do.
Think about it. All those people are also copying everyone on their list.
All I know is I am awaiting my millions from the person of royalty in a country I can’t pronounce because I helped him get his fortune after wiring him a few thousand bucks.
Dear Sandi -
When you get your money, we can meet halfway and celebrate with a three marini lunch!
Be sure to let me know!
Corinne,
I’m still laughing out loud at this one! I think I’ve received every one of those emails and more. It’s come to the point where I’m starting to tempt fate and just delete them,unless they’re funny. Then I keep them in a folder and read through them when I need a laugh.
I really needed a good laugh today. I get very negative comments on my Debt Free or Bust blog from time-to-time and I told somebody off today out of frustration. I may need to delete both comments, but maybe not. I hate it when anonymous people leave me flaming comments. Sometimes I take the high road, but sometimes I hit back.
Thank you so much for the laugh,
Sherri
Glad it made you laugh, Sherri!
But I would like to comment on the negative comments we sometimes get.
I love to be confronted and it is even more fun when my commentators confront each other.
But, my blog is my house. Flamers, especially anonymous ones, are not welcome.
I delete these comments when they infrequently come in.
Why wouldn’t you if they were not constructive? Would love to hear more from you and other bloggers on this subject!
PS to Sherri -
I had three flamers in a row on Stumble. On a really rather benign article I had written. I could not figure why anyone would take such exception to it.
I did not know what to do about it since it is not my site – so I did nothing.
Interesting result. I got 700 hits on that srticle in one day.
Wondering in this case if the old truism about all publicity being good publicity is true.
But, sorry, not in my house.
Dear Corinne,
Ha ha this is a really funny post. I’m going to link from my site! There are so many hoaxes that people tend to believe them so readily. But if you think about it seriously later, it doesn’t make sense at all.
Rgds,
Hai Liang
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