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Question: I've gotten the same e-mail about this hoax from about 20 people. What
can I do?
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Answer: Whoever sent it to you has probably just seen it for the first time.
Give 'em a break!
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If you really have just had too much of this activity, you will probably get a chuckle from
this. Copy it and send it to new internet user if you want. Ouch - did I really say that?
I DIDN'T KNOW THIS COULD HAPPEN!!!!
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 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 reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with
an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped in 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.
Sender's note: For anyone who finds it necessary to send
me chain letters of any sort, get used to this e-mail. I
will send it every single time you deem necessary to send
me a chain letter.
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