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PostPosted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:32 am 
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I hate chain mail! It always says that your love life will suck for the rest of your life or you will die if you don't send it to 15 people. Arghh!!! Who else HATES chain mail?

And what was the worst chain email you've ever gotten?

I usually do it anyway even though I know it isn't real.

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Whoa, perfect timing. I've been getting some latley. One that sticks out in my mind is about some single mother who has some sick kids or whatever. I thought it was from a friend of mine, so I forwarded it. Now I regret it.

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When I first read the topic, I thought you were talking about the armor. Yeah, I hate it. It's annoying and pointless, and, um, annoyingly pointless. The problem is, it's impossible to trace them back to the original sender, and that person can just claim that they got it from someone else.

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I've only gotten one, it was sent by my paranoid sister. It was a Yahoo! one, it said "Foreward this mail to 50 other people, or else your account will be de activated, and you will be banned." I really didn't care if I got banned, or not.

I never did get banned. Or anything.

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Yeah one time I got this chain email that said that it was sent in 1856 and was still going around today and that it was funded to keep it going. I almost died laughing.

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sb_enail.com wrote:
When I first read the topic, I thought you were talking about the armor. Yeah, I hate it. It's annoying and pointless, and, um, annoyingly pointless. The problem is, it's impossible to trace them back to the original sender, and that person can just claim that they got it from someone else.
I was thinking of armor, too.

Uh... with AOL emails, it shows a list of all the people it's been forwarded to until it gets to you. My mom gets a lot of chain mail, but it usually IS from friends.


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I think there's a website that can track that. Let me pull it up.

Snopes.com

It's about urban legends mostly, but I think it has a chain mail section. If it happened, it will pull it up. If it isn't a real thing, it won't find anything on it apparently. I haven't really used it myself, but my aunt emailed me about it after I sent her a chain message yesterday.

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I generally get chain mail that has a forwarded from and to list longer than the actual email itself. Often the message will be in there at least twice.

However, MySpace bulletins are far more amusing. Such as "If you don't repost in 6 seconds something bad will happen at 3:47" or "The guy that wrote this message put a tracker in it! He'll know if you don't repost it!" or the even more nefarious "Hi, this is Tom, I'm deleting thousands of accounts next week so the site runs faster, if you repost this I'll know you still want your MySpace account and I won't delete it".

Ah, the laughter.

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I hate chain mail.
Those ones that say your account will be shut down if you do not foreward drive me insane because my friends are usually dumb enough to foreward them.

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Schmelen wrote:
I hate chain mail.
Those ones that say your account will be shut down if you do not foreward drive me insane because my friends are usually dumb enough to foreward them.


Exactly what happened to me. My sister thought it was really going to happen. Go figure. :p

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Bleh, chain mail is gross, and it puts your name on list. I especially hate chain mail that's like send this to 10 people and... the name of your crush will appear on the screen or something freaky andor funny will happen when you press some sort of function key. And then somebody will write "omg, this really works, I don't know how, but it does" So annoying

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Bleh, chain mail is gross, and it puts your name on list. I especially hate chain mail that's like send this to 10 people and... the name of your crush will appear on the screen or something freaky andor funny will happen when you press some sort of function key. And then somebody will write "omg, this really works, I don't know how, but it does" So annoying


Haha, I'm lucky. I never get chain mail :mrgreen:

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I never get chain mail, either. Part of it may be because I don't give my email address out to my friends very often, and even then-- it's really hard to spell. xD

Every now and then I think about creating my own rediculous chain mail and posting it somewhere just to see what would happen. xD But I'm not that cruel... or brave.

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I once got a chain mail saying that it was the longest going chain mail ever (since 1995) and this has actually been checked on the internet, that it was true, and they said they were going to put it in the guiness book of world records later, but I checked on guinness world records dot kom and it said that you should not do this. I printed this page out and showed it to the girl in my class who forwarded it to me (who believes in every hoax you could ever imagine) and i showed it to her. She still says that it was not a hoax, even though clearly, on the actual frickin website, in front of her face, she had the proof. I hate it when I intelligently disprove people in their face and they deny it. Stupid people.... :sm: SMASH! (Anyway, I was in 4th grade at the time. I am currently in 5th grade and the girl that did that is still in my class. She is a moron named Lily. You should always try to not be a moron or else people might ridicule you using your real name.) But anyway, toastpaint.

And chainmail is, as a majority, for lowlifes.

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I've been thinking of doing this for a while, nd seeing this thread finally got me to do it. Enjoy.


No joke! This really works!

Trust me, Elvis rose from the grave to tell me that this would work. I'm not kidding!



Let me start from the beginning..

It was 1972. The birds were humming peacefully as the drunken senators rode down the highway, celebrating the fourth victory for the US against the South American pigeons. John smiled at their foolish antics, as he mindlessly walked down the road, into the fog, He continued walking, despite the inability to see clearly, when all of the sudden, disaster struck. Down from the sky fell a man wearing a blue eye patch.

"Sorry there, mate!" The man said, "Have a complimentary fork!" he continued, holding a spoon. John kindly declined and continued walking to the west to see his aunt, who had recently caught on fire and was in the hospital. But, little did John know, the path before him held terrible misfortune, for at that very moment, Jimmy Carter ran from behind his bush.

"Hey hey!! Wanna buy some encyclopedias?!?" Jimmy Carter yelled, but John was quick to react, and ran screaming like a small child, or maybe a goat, into the forest. John hated all things encyclopedia worthy, from Aaron A. Abcot to the common misspelling of zylophone. However, inside the forest, an impending doom awaited John - and I really mean it this time! -for when John entered far enough into he forest, a band of ravenous kangaroos emerged from the ground, holding all sorts of office supplies and discount coupons. John sprinted away, trembling in fear, but there was no escaping the kangaroos' persuasive sales pitches.



The fate of John is unknown, except to the unwise few who have received this message. If you do not follow the instructions below and send this to 17 people/pets/confidential government agencies, you too will be doomed to have the same fate as John. Do you want that? Answer me! Answer me now!

To avoid this devilish fate, you must complete the following steps..

1. Think of a wish

2. Keep thinking... get a wish!

3. You can do it! Think of a wish!

4. Completely forget he wish that took you three whole steps to think of, you slow, unintelligent, chimpanzee-type-creature! Yes, you!

5. Examine the objects in the room you are currently in. Count the number of clocks.

6. Turn on the faucet in the east-most bathroom in your house. Let it run for exactly 9.7 seconds.

7. Let sit in microwave for 2 minutes before serving.

8. Type in the URL of your favorite website and start yelling at it.

9. Send this email to 17 people/pets/confidential government agencies. Milking goats will do.

10. Address your brother or sister as "Rancid Moe"

11. Buy a bag of flour and start eating from it. It's better than you think..

12. Walk up to the person nearest to you and bite them on the shoulder. If they raise their discontent, continue biting.

13. Repeat steps 6-10 for best results

If you abide by these rules, you will find a small rabbit in a pouch which will appear on your window pane, who will give you a complimentary muffin. If you do not, your fate will be a sad, unfortunate one, filled with shredded wheat and ancient Egyptian folk tales. Your fate is in your hands! Choose - the path of happiness, or the path of miniature sacks of nuts. Do it! Do it now!

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Roffle, I actually did that, and sent it to my entire mailing list.

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Roffle, I actually did that, and sent it to my entire mailing list.


Too bad I've only found 4 people to email it to. If anyone wants to forward it to anybody, that'd be helpful. It'd be interesting to see how far it can get. Someone making fun of chain mail will probably get fartehr than a real one.


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That is some amazing chain mail.

It's the only kind that I wouldn't find annoying!

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The ones I hate are the ones with total logical flaws within the messages themselves. Okay, so the letter says "You must forward this exact message, without changing it at all," yada yada yada...and then within the body of the message tells stories of people who failed to send this very message and what happened to them. SO...how could a message tell the future of who was going to send it and who wasn't and what happened to them? It's so stupid...

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I'll tell you about the weirdest, but coolest chain mail fad I got.
It wasn't email, it was real letter and envelope and parcel posting.

It was called "Underpants Faries".

What you do is, you get the letter, and someone's name and address will be in the Number 1 slot. That is the person who gave the letter to the person who gave it to you. The person who gave it to you's address is in slot Number 2. You send Person 1 a pair of underpants in the mail. Then you put your address as number 2 on the bottom of the letter, and give the letter to 5 other people. Then the person who gave you the letter's address wil be in Number 1.
The people you give the letter to will send underpants to the Number 1 (the person who gave you the letter). If everyone participates, that person will end up with 25 pairs of underpants in the mail (because they gave the letter to 5 ppl, who in turn gave it to 5 ppl).

Then, the 5 people you gave the letter to will give to to 5 people each (25 people), with your address as Numer 1.
If all goes to plan, you will receive 25 pairs of underpants in the mail.

I sent my underpants.

I received a total of 0 underpants.

Don't be fooled by the underpants scheme as I was. :sad:

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Ju Ju, that was hilarious. I am so nominating you for Funniest user. And that gets funniest moment.

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Very roffle indeed

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Very roffle indeed
Steve, was it really that needed to raise back a topic just to say that?

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Very roffle indeed
Steve, was it really that needed to raise back a topic just to say that?
erm.. no but i wanted to revive it because i saw it in act like a noob and i thought that people would want to talk about annoying chain letters more?

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YEAH! GOHD, STEVEY.

My love life already sucks. So I'm pretty mehh about chain mail.

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Very roffle indeed
Steve, was it really that needed to raise back a topic just to say that?
erm.. no but i wanted to revive it because i saw it in act like a noob

I'm pretty sure that reviving something for the sake of reviving it is spam.. Checks rule 1.. Yep. Please don't do it again.

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aw.. sorry guys =(

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