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  • 19-07-2000 10:35am
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    >
    > I was on my way to the post office to pick up my case of free M&M's, (sent
    > to me because I forwarded their e-mail to five other people, celebrating
    > the
    > fact that the year 2000 is "MM" in Roman numerals), when I ran into a
    > friend
    > whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a
    > rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken - which is predictable, since
    > as
    > everyone knows, there's no actual chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken, which
    > is why the government made them change their name to KFC.
    > Anyway, one day this guy went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his
    > bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over and when he got
    > out
    > of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN. 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 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 prevent a global disaster in which all the
    > computers get together and distribute the $250.00 Neiman-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 Disney World 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 a voice on the line first asked him to
    > press
    > #90, which unwittingly gave the bandit full access to the phone line at
    > the
    > guy's expense. Then reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with
    > an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped around a note that said,
    > "Welcome to the world of AIDS."
    > Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital - the one 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 more than 10 people, you will have good
    > luck but for 10 people you will only have OK luck and if you send it to
    > fewer than 10 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 without its lights on. To be helpful,
    > he
    > flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang
    > initiation. Send THIS to all the friends who send you their junk mail and
    > you will receive 4 green m&ms, but if you don't the owner of Proctor and
    > Gamble will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad
    > luck: you will get cancer from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo,
    > your wife will develop breast cancer from using the antiperspirant which
    > clogs the pores under your arms, and the government will put a tax on your
    > e-mails forever. I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet.
    >
    >
    >


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