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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (12503)5/16/2002 12:16:30 AM
From: Druss  Read Replies (2) of 12754
 
Fun things I get in E-mails.

I have around four e-mails accounts floating around now. This is in addition to the server one I don't use and the Microsoft Outlook Express which is what you use if you wish to test your anti-virus programs.
Still even with only four one does get some interesting stuff. First and foremost is large numbers of women, all of them surprisingly eager to meet me, indeed they all seem to be in states of hormonal overload just at the prospect of meeting me. Further they all seem to be 18, no other age is possible. For some reason I don't have a devastating effect on 19 year old and up libidos.
I also have tons of chances to buy Viagra, presumably this is in case I do actually take the 18 year olds up on their offers.
But the really good stuff to be honest is the great e-mails I get from people I know. Did you know that if you send a certain message to 30 people Microsoft will track the e-mails and count them and then Bill Gates will send you money? You see Bill has too much money and is eager to give it away.
Now these people have computers using Windows 95 or some other incarnation of that operating system. They know from experience just how good Microsoft programs are. They are expecting though for Microsoft to be able to track an e-mail from say Excite to Yahoo and do it reliably. But the real kicker Bill Gates is going to give away money!. Now Bill has been active in charity but the last I heard he is not using sending stupid e-mails that he can't trace as a criteria for donations.
Another good one is saving a child chain mails. In these a child is needing an operation usually costing a bit more than the gross national product of Australia. All you have to do is send copies of this e-mail to everyone you know and mystically this kid will get money for each one you send. This is because GE, Proctor and Gambles or some one wants to pay for this operation they just want lots of e-mails circulating first.
My other favorites are the urban legend ones. So far I have been warned about alligators in the LA River (I don't live near LA and the LA River is literally concrete from bank to bank), told repeatedly about a guy will a pulley and a barrel or box full of bricks, and told several times about two gays and a gerbil (that one is not going to be posted here).
Druss
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