archive-1: SETI FW: Fwd: This is true!! I swear!! NOT!
SETI FW: Fwd: This is true!! I swear!! NOT!
Larry Klaes ( lklaes@bbn.com )
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:06:43 -0500
>Subject: FW: Fwd: This is true!! I swear!!
>Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:05:04 -0500
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>This about covers all of the hoax e-mails for 1998:
>
>> > > I know this guy whose neighbor, a young man, was home
>> > > recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of
>> > > Kentucky Fried Chicken. So anyway, one day he went to
>> > > sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was
>> > > full of ice and he was sore all over. When he got out of the
>> > > tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN, and
>> > > he saw a note on his mirror that said "Call 911!" But he was
>> > > afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his
>> > > computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would
>> > > destroy his hard drive if he opened an e-mail entitled "Join the
>> > > crew!" He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a
>> > > computer programmer who was working on software to save
>> > > us from Armageddon when the year 2000 rolls around. His
>> > > program will prevent a global disaster in which all the computers
>> > > get together and distribute the $600 Nieman Marcus cookie
>> > > recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true-I read it
>> all
>> > > last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who
>> > > was also promising me a free Disneyworld vacation and $5,000
>> > > if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.) The poor man
>> > > then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing
>> > > kidneys, but reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with
>> > > an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped a note that
>> > > said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS." Luckily he was only a few
>> > > blocks from the hospital-the one, actually, where that little boy
>> > > who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for
>> > > everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American
>> > > Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail
>> > > he receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a
>> > > bunch of x's and o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and
>> > > forward it to twenty people you will have good luck but ten
>> > > people you will only have ok luck and if you send it to less than
>> > > ten people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS). So
>> > > anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on
>> > > the way he noticed another car driving along without his lights
>> on.
>> > > To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot
>> > > as part of a gang initiation. And it's a little-known fact that
>> the
>> > Y1K
>> > > problem caused the Dark Ages.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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