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To: JayPC who wrote (20674)	9/27/2001 5:45:21 PM
From: Ian@SI	Respond to of 62558

Subject: Virus Warning: Sorry to bother you all with this, but this virus simply scares me to death and I thought all of you should know about it ASAP! If you receive an email entitled "HOLYCOW", delete it immediately. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty. It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer. It demagnetizes the stripes on ALL of your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play. It will program your phone auto dial to call only 900 numbers. This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink ALL your beer. FOR GOD'S SAKE, ARE YOU LISTENING!?!?!? It will leave dirty underwear on the coffee table when you are expecting company. It will replace your shampoo with Nair; and your Nair with Rogaine, all the while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card. It will cause you to run with scissors and throw thing in a way that is only fun until someone loses an eye. It will rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings that grossly change the interpretations of key sentences. If the "HOLYCOW" message is opened in a Windows 95/98 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows; it will also refill your skim milk with whole milk. WARN AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN !! And if you don't send this to 5000 people in 20 seconds, you'll fart so hard that your right leg will spasm and shoot straight out in front of you, sending sparks that will ignite the person nearest you. Send this to everyone... In case you are a blonde, this is a joke.

To: JayPC who wrote (20674)	9/27/2001 5:49:36 PM
From: High Grader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62558

Italian Security Forces on full alert as they surround a department store in Rome. Apparantly a bride-to-be came out of the department store and was heard saying to her prospective husband, "Honey, I sawa ma bed linen inside." Nervous bystanders phoned and reported this, causing a security alert.

To: JayPC who wrote (20674)	9/28/2001 3:02:32 AM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62558

Jay, Some of that other stuff was pretty good, though not all of it was in good taste -- you were right about that. I'm not sure how ready we all are to laugh at this stuff, but for those who are, check out the link on the Onion page to the TV listings..... ("On TV Tonight") theonion.com