Actually, looking at a thread from a search from a year ago, I tried putting in one paragraph at a time. Got it to work. Apparently there is a content blocker in the last paragraph of this blog. I even tried removing the words Microsoft and tracked but it didn’t help. I just removed it from the final post and it went through just fine. Weird
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The invention of email single-handedly saved letter writing. How many emails do you write or receive in a day? I bet your real mailbox wasn’t half that full before 1995. One of the unfortunate growth pains, however, is this little diddy: You’re crazy upset at somebody, and you want to vent about him to a friend. So you open up your email program and you rant and rave about how he’s a worthless freakin weasel and you’re furious at him and you wish that he’d be slowly killed by bees and then you punch his stupid name in the To: field of the email and then you hit the Send button.
Oops.
You sent it to the wrong guy. I’m sure that’s why the Recall function was invented.
The invention of email has taken hold of our culture along with some quirky customs. We’ve all been through this: You see an email from a family member you haven’t seen in a while, and you think, wow, it’s nice to hear from this person. But then you read it, and it says, “You’ve received a special magical email,“ or whatever dumb premise, “and now you must forward this to everybody on your address list before midnight or your face will fall off in your sleep and your pets will catch on fire.”
The first thought that goes through my mind is, hey, thanks for sending me this. If this were even remotely true, your magical email forward would have doomed ME to these consequences. Why are you risking my face and pets to save your own butt?!? I’m already guessing this isn’t real, but now you’re not getting a Christmas card from me this year.
Sometimes you receive thoughtful, funny, or inspirational emails that are good reading, but then are defaced at the bottom with demands to pass it on to everybody you know or else you’re burning in hell, mister. What an ugly stain on an otherwise enjoyable email.
Who wrote the first one of these? I’m guessing somebody out there is performing a wide-scale sociology study to see if the world holds enough dummies to keep these forwards bouncing around this crazy planet. So far the dummies are winning. It’s amazing what people will fall for. When that so-called exiled African diplomat was asking people for their account numbers to help transfer his secret riches, hordes of dummies forked over their life savings. You wonder how these people had any money in the first place if they never stopped to consider why they were the unique one who was selected for the bank transfer fandango. The con man turned out to be some dopey white guy in a basement in Seattle or something. And as if the idiots who fell for it weren’t embarrassed enough, many of them then got on the news and boo-hooed about being scammed. “Hey world, look at me! I’m on TV! I’m a great big idiot!”
By the way, this message has been tracked by Microsoft, the U.S, Government, and Bob’s Discount Tire and Brakes in Roanoke, Texas. You must now forward this to 11 of your closest friends by 11:11 tonight or your big toe will secede from your foot and move to Montana.
