Anyone else hate chain letter emails?

goosehazel

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I hate when people send me emails that are chain letters. If you do to, then you will appreciate this. I sent it out and haven't gotten many chain letters since


Subject: The Best Chain Letter Ever

Hello, my name is Candy and I suffer from the guilt of not forwarding 50 billion freaking chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe that if you send them on, a poor 6-year-old girl in Arkansas with a breast on her forehead will be able to raise enough money to have it removed before her redneck parents sell her to a traveling freak show. Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give you, and everyone to whom you send "his" email, $1000? How stupid are we? "Ooooh, looky here! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I'll get laid by every good looking model in the magazine!" What a bunch of bull. Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my house and sodomize me in my sleep for not continuing a chain that was started by Peter in 5 AD and brought to this country by midget pilgrims on the Mayflower. Screw them. If you're going to forward something, at least send
me something mildly amusing. I've seen all the "send this to 10 of your closest friends, and this poor, wretched excuse for a human being will somehow receive
a nickel from some omniscient being" forwards about 90 times. I don't freaking care.
Show a little intelligence and think about what you're actually contributing to by sending out these forwards. Chances are, it's your own unpopularity.
The point being? If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it. If it 's funny, send it on. Don't tick people off by making them feel guilty about a leper in Botswana with no teeth who has been tied to a dead elephant for 27 years and whose only salvation is the 5 cents per letter he'll receive if you forward this email.

Now forward this to everyone you know. Otherwise, tomorrow morning your
underwear will turn carnivorous and will consume your genitals.
 

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i am going to copy and paste that and send it to everyone in an email!
 

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I had to tell BOTH of my parents (they are not together) to quit. I couldn't believe that even after not believing in regular chain mail, they thought this was ok. Some of the emails SENT BY MY PARENTS even said I would have bad luck (actually terrible things were mentioned) if I did not forward.

If I like the content of the email, but not the chain part of it, I just forward and delete that part. Simple.
 

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Originally Posted by Rockcat

If I like the content of the email, but not the chain part of it, I just forward and delete that part. Simple.
That's what I do too, although I rarely forward anything anymore.

I have a sister-in-law who forwards every single thing that comes in her inbox. I just automatically delete anything that has a "FW:" before it without reading it.
 

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What really ticks me off is when you send someone something cute/funny and the 4 months later they send you the same thing back! Several times this has happened to me.
As for chain letters

and what's witht he ones in the newspapers? Anyone ever notice them? They're usually religous in nature and go on about sending on prayers to St Jude or whoever. Someone has paid a lot of money to keep putting that crap in the paper.
 
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