Chain mail...

[~SoulxFood~]

Chain mail makes me mood swing like a hormonal teenager. Oh wait… I am a hormonal teenager.

Seriously though, am I the only one tired of this nonsense called chain mail?! It’s infiltrating everywhere! Not only do you have to deal with it in your inbox, now it’s all you see on the bulletin boards of MySpace, on blogs, even forums (though I haven’t seen any on this one – which is a good thing).

In the past month, my “love lifeâ€

[uc pseudonym]

Thankfully, I have managed to avoid most chain mail because I am selective about using my e-mail address online. However, when it does happen to arrive in my inbox, I delete it without reading. It isn't worth the time.

[~SoulxFood~]

Yeah, I delete anything with a subject that begins with 'FWD: FWD: RE: FWD:' or, just anything with a 'FWD' really. It's MySpace and blogs that get me... sneaky little devils...

[Nate]

Best chain letter EVER:

I am a very sick little boy. My mother is typing this for me, because I can't. She is crying. Don't cry, Mommy! Mommy is always sad, but she says it's not my fault. I asked her if it was God's fault, but she didn't answer, and only started crying harder, so I don't ask her that anymore. The reason she is so sad is that I'm so sick. I was born without a body. It doesn't hurt, except when I go to sleep.

The doctors gave me an artificial body. My body is a burlap bag filled with leaves. The doctors said that was the best they could do on account of us havin' no money or insurance. I would like to have a body transplant, but we need more money. Mommy doesn't work because she said employers don't hire crying people. I said, "Don't cry, Mommy," and she hugged my burlap body. Mommy always gives me hugs, even though she's allergic to burlap, and it chafes her real bad.

I hope you will help me. You can help me if you forward this e-mail. Dr. Johansen said if you foward this e-mail then Bill Gates will team up with AOL and do a survey with NASA. Then the astronauts will collect prayers from school children all over America and take them up to space so that the angels can hear them better. Then they will go to the Pope, and he will take up a collection in church and send the money to the doctors. The doctors could help me better then.

Maybe one day I will be able to play baseball. Or maybe just use my lungs and heart, when the doctors make them. The doctors said that every time you foward this letter, the astronauts can take another prayer to the angels. Please help me. Mommy is so sad, and I want a body. I don't want my leaves to rot before I turn 10.

If you don't foward this e-mail, that's OK. Mommy says you're a mean heartless person who doesn't care about a poor little boy with only a head. She says that she hopes that you stew in the raw pit of your own guilt-ridden stomach. What kind of wretched person are you that you can't take five lousy minutes to forward this to all your friends so that they can feel guilt and shame for the rest of their day, and then maybe help a poor, bodiless nine-year-old boy?

Please help me. This really sucks. I try to be happy but it's hard. I wish I had a puppy. I wish I could hold a puppy.

Thank You.
Billy 'Smiles' Evans,
The boy with just a head.
And a burlap sack for a body.

[~SoulxFood~]

*laughs* Oh man... the mental picture is killing me... *dabs at eyes*

[uc pseudonym]

And that is what I miss out on by deleting all chain mail immediately. Still, I think it is worth it... especially because good people like kaemmerite repost them.

[Lunis]

Oh man... It took my whole minutes to understand this thread. I was like, "Chain mail? How can someone have issues with chain mail? I mean, it's just armor, sheesh." *cracks up* Chain mail the LETTERS. Now I get it.

[Kaligraphic]

I rather like chain mail, but it can get heavy. Still, it doesn't spread the impact as much as plate.






Oh, you meant messages, not armour. Well, that's a different story.


[edit]wow, I didn't even see Lunis' post before I submitted mine. (I open all of the threads that seem interesting in their own tabs and just go through them.) We must have a piece of the same brain or something. *checks teeth*[/edit]

[shooraijin]

Oh man... It took my whole minutes to understand this thread. I was like, "Chain mail? How can someone have issues with chain mail? I mean, it's just armor, sheesh." *cracks up* Chain mail the LETTERS. Now I get it.

LOL!

I read the "chain letter" to my officemate between patients. We laughed ourselves silly. Perhaps the Pope will send us some money, too. We're only poor residents.

[Godly Paladin]

I was actually about to post an anti-chain-mail thread. They're so sappy and so stupid! What's worse is that people love to fire them off at a moment's notice. Just recently our entire homeschool group got a pic of a marine with a black patch under the US flag on his shoulder saying:

"Doing the work of..."

And below were German and French flags. Too bad the pic was a terribly obvious hoax! Five minutes later we got an apology from the gal who had sent it for not looking at the picture more carefully...

[TurkishMonky]

chain mail is such spam...