1. 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.
2.
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
hell-bent on believing the kidney-theft ring stories,
please see:
http://www.urbanlegends.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:
http://www.bl.net/forwards/cookie.html
Then, if you make the recipe, decide that the cookies are
THAT awesome, feel free to pass the recipe on.
4.
We all know all 500 ways to drive your roommates crazy,
irritate co-workers 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 these links:
Authentic Virus
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.
(Note from Mari here: Use the Bcc: field instead of the To:
and Cc: fields. This will protect the addresses of your
friends from spammers and spare everyone the hassle of
scrolling down kilometric lists of names and addies)
8.
If you're using Outlook, IE, or Netscape to write email, turn
off the "HTML encoding." Those of us on Unix shells 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 - I've probably already
seen it.
10.
Craig Shergold in England (or Jessica Mydek) 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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