chainmail, lol
Jan. 24th, 2007 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arishaHow is it that I am twenty years old and still receiving chain letters? I thought these things were supposed to end when you finished high school. I would feel bad for being annoyed with people for sending them to me except then I remember why I am annoyed with them. Because they sent me a CHAIN LETTER.
I am sending this to you to see how many actually read their e-mail.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! If you actually read your e-mail, you are probably sick to death of receiving these things. My least favourite thing in the world is opening an e-mail to see that it is a chain letter. Actual e-mails actually written by the sender and actually intended for the recipient are one THOUSAND times better, holy man.
Of course, this entry is all just an excuse to post my favourite e-mail joke ever:
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FROM: laocoon@doomgloom.edu
TO: hector@studmuffin.com
RE: WARNING!! BEWARE GREEKS BEARING GIFTS!
Hey Hector,
This was forwarded to me by Cassandra--it looks legit. Please distribute to Priam, Hecuba, and your 99 siblings.
Thanks,
Laocoon
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WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
IF YOU RECEIVE A GIFT IN THE SHAPE OF A LARGE WOODEN HORSE DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT!!!! It is EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE and will overwrite your ENTIRE CITY!
The "gift" is disguised as a large wooden horse about two stories tall. It tends to show up outside the city gates and appears to be abandoned. DO NOT let it through the gates! It contains hardware that is incompatible with Trojan programming. It will destroy your army, sack your town, and kill your women and children. If you have already received such a gift, DO NOT OPEN IT! Take it back out of the city unopened and set fire to it by the beach.
FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
Good luck,
Apollo
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FROM: hector@studmuffin.com
TO: laocoon@doomgloom.edu
RE: Greeks bearing gifts
Laocoon,
I hate to break to you, but this is one of the oldest hoaxes there is. I've seen variants on this warning come through on other listservs; the most famous was the "Pandora's Box" hoax, which is practically as old as the HelleNet. Here are a few tipoffs that this is a hoax:
1) This "Forward this message to everyone you know" crap. If it were really meant as a warning about the Greek army, why tell anyone to post it to the Phonecians, Sumerians, and Cretans?
2) Use of exclamation points. Always a giveaway.
3) It's signed "Apollo." So far as I know, the gods do not have email. In any case, the lack of a real header with a detailed address is always an indication that the message is not genuine.
4) It is not technically possible for a horse to overwrite your entire city. A horse is just an animal, after all.
Next time you get a message like this, just delete it. I appreciate your concern, but once you've been around the block a couple times you'll realize how annoying this kind of stuff is.
Bye now,
Hector
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FROM: Daemon@listserv.doomgloom.edu
TO: hector@studmuffin.com
RE: Undeliverable mail
The following message had permanent fatal errors. Please check the email address (or check to see that your intended recipient has not been swallowed up by a large sea serpent).
FROM: hector@studmuffin.com
TO: laocoon@doomgloom.edu
RE: Greeks bearing gifts ...
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(From The First Recorded Virus Hoax. XD; )
Oh, and in case you were worried, the situation regarding my niece/nephew has been remedied. My brother's girlfriend has assured me I can baby-sit. XD
Girlfriend: We're going to work!
Sarah: Can I baby-sit while you're gone?
Girlfriend: Yep! I left him in the room. I think he went under the bed.
Sarah: Oh ... I don't fit under the bed. I'll have to get a ruler ... to poke him out with.
Brother: TO KILL HIM WITH!!!!!
Ah! Apparently it's a nephew. XD
I am sending this to you to see how many actually read their e-mail.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! If you actually read your e-mail, you are probably sick to death of receiving these things. My least favourite thing in the world is opening an e-mail to see that it is a chain letter. Actual e-mails actually written by the sender and actually intended for the recipient are one THOUSAND times better, holy man.
Of course, this entry is all just an excuse to post my favourite e-mail joke ever:
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FROM: laocoon@doomgloom.edu
TO: hector@studmuffin.com
RE: WARNING!! BEWARE GREEKS BEARING GIFTS!
Hey Hector,
This was forwarded to me by Cassandra--it looks legit. Please distribute to Priam, Hecuba, and your 99 siblings.
Thanks,
Laocoon
* * *
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
IF YOU RECEIVE A GIFT IN THE SHAPE OF A LARGE WOODEN HORSE DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT!!!! It is EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE and will overwrite your ENTIRE CITY!
The "gift" is disguised as a large wooden horse about two stories tall. It tends to show up outside the city gates and appears to be abandoned. DO NOT let it through the gates! It contains hardware that is incompatible with Trojan programming. It will destroy your army, sack your town, and kill your women and children. If you have already received such a gift, DO NOT OPEN IT! Take it back out of the city unopened and set fire to it by the beach.
FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
Good luck,
Apollo
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FROM: hector@studmuffin.com
TO: laocoon@doomgloom.edu
RE: Greeks bearing gifts
Laocoon,
I hate to break to you, but this is one of the oldest hoaxes there is. I've seen variants on this warning come through on other listservs; the most famous was the "Pandora's Box" hoax, which is practically as old as the HelleNet. Here are a few tipoffs that this is a hoax:
1) This "Forward this message to everyone you know" crap. If it were really meant as a warning about the Greek army, why tell anyone to post it to the Phonecians, Sumerians, and Cretans?
2) Use of exclamation points. Always a giveaway.
3) It's signed "Apollo." So far as I know, the gods do not have email. In any case, the lack of a real header with a detailed address is always an indication that the message is not genuine.
4) It is not technically possible for a horse to overwrite your entire city. A horse is just an animal, after all.
Next time you get a message like this, just delete it. I appreciate your concern, but once you've been around the block a couple times you'll realize how annoying this kind of stuff is.
Bye now,
Hector
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FROM: Daemon@listserv.doomgloom.edu
TO: hector@studmuffin.com
RE: Undeliverable mail
The following message had permanent fatal errors. Please check the email address (or check to see that your intended recipient has not been swallowed up by a large sea serpent).
FROM: hector@studmuffin.com
TO: laocoon@doomgloom.edu
RE: Greeks bearing gifts ...
* * *
(From The First Recorded Virus Hoax. XD; )
Oh, and in case you were worried, the situation regarding my niece/nephew has been remedied. My brother's girlfriend has assured me I can baby-sit. XD
Girlfriend: We're going to work!
Sarah: Can I baby-sit while you're gone?
Girlfriend: Yep! I left him in the room. I think he went under the bed.
Sarah: Oh ... I don't fit under the bed. I'll have to get a ruler ... to poke him out with.
Brother: TO KILL HIM WITH!!!!!
Ah! Apparently it's a nephew. XD
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Troy + virus = <3
Date: 2007-01-25 05:58 am (UTC)I haven't received chain mail since ... gosh, I don't know when ...
Re: Troy + virus = <3
Date: 2007-01-25 11:50 pm (UTC)my favorit chain letters were the ones suppsoedly from MSN even though you could tell who it originated from, saying that UNLESS YOU SEND THIS TO 15 PEOPLE ON YOUR MAILING LIST IN 3.1415926 MINUTES, MSN WAS GOING TO CLOSE YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT, SLIP E-COLI INTO YOUR SMOOTHIES FOR THE NEXT MONTH AND KICK YOUR CAT/DOG/HAMSTER/GRANDMOTHER.
PUH-LEEEEEEZ.
Re: Troy + virus = <3
Date: 2007-01-26 04:33 am (UTC)<3
I like the badtimes virus. "If you do not send this e-mail to everyone in the whole wide world in 30 seconds you'll fart so hard that your right leg will fly out in front of you and shoot sparks everywhere, igniting the furniture around you."
[Sorry to be so vulgar on your page, Sarah.]
To: shannon@studmuffin.com
Date: 2007-01-26 03:47 am (UTC)I like to think that colonizing friends pages makes up for how badly I suck when we play Risk.
Also, I'm jealous.
To: arisha@conqueringtrojans.ca
Date: 2007-01-26 04:29 am (UTC)To: the_wykydtron@i_luv_the_reformations.awsm
Date: 2007-01-26 08:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-26 12:07 am (UTC)Well, they're sort of already working on that guys...
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Date: 2007-01-26 03:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-26 07:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-26 08:11 pm (UTC)Yeah, I thought you would've got it too, haha. And I was like, "Hm, maybe I shouldn't make a mean post about it because Athena will tell on me and I'll be ostracized." But then I decided I had to let my anger be known!!!!!!
I didn't really think you'd tell on me and I'd be ostracized. That would be pretty funny though. XD
I actually have mentioned that I don't like chain letters, and yet the offenders keep on sending 'em! x_x