A big "thank you" to the person who took the trouble to put this one together.
Everybody should read this. All of it. It should reduce stupid email
circulation by at least 10%.
Enjoy...
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1. There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking up in
a
bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it happened to
their
cousin. If you are hellbent on believing the kidney-theft ring stories,
please see:
urbanlegends.tqn.com
urbanlegends.tqn.com
And I quote: "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued
requests for actual victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell
their
stories. None have." That's "none" as in "zero". Not even your friend's
cousin.
3. Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even if
they do, we all have it. And even if you don't, you can get a copy at:
bl.net
bl.net;
Then, if you make the recipe, decide the cookies are that awesome, feel
free to pass the recipe on.
4. Big companies don't do business via chain letter. Bill Gates is not
giving
you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation. There is no
baby
food company issuing class-action checks. You can relax; there is no
need
to pass it on "just in case it's true". Furthermore, just because
someone said
in the message, four generations back, that "we checked it out and it's
legit", does not actually make it true.
4. We all know all 500 ways to drive your roommates crazy, irritate
co-workers gross out bathroom stall neighbors and creep out people
on an elevator. We also know exactly how many engineers, college
students,
Usenet posters and people from each and every world ethnicity it takes
to change a lightbulb
5. Even if the latest NASA rocket disaster(s) DID contain plutonium that
went to particulate over the eastern seaboard, do you REALLY think this
information would reach the public via an AOL chain-letter?
6. There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never, ever, ever
forward any email containing any virus warning unless you first confirm
it
at an actual site of an actual company that actually deals with virii.
Try:
norton.com norton.com.
And even then, don't forward it. We don't care.
7. If your CC: list is regularly longer than the actual content of your
message, you're probably going to Hell.
8. If you're using Outlook, IE, or Netscape to write email, turn off the
"HTML encoding." Those of us on Unix hells can't read it, and don't care
enough to save the attachment and then view it with a web browser, since
you're probably forwarding us a copy of the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe
anyway.
9. If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation message
from
a friend, at least have the decency to trim the eight miles of headers
showing
everyone else who's received it over the last 6 months. It sure wouldn't
hurt to get rid of all the ">" that begin each line. Besides, if it has
gone
around that many times - we've probably already seen it (several times).
10.Craig Shergold in England is not dying of cancer or anything else at
this
time and would like everyone to stop sending him their business cards.
He
apparently is also no longer a "little boy" either.
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