Subject: Fw: Delete this IF We are Not Friends

-There's little that annoys the heck out of me more than porn spam and stupid chain letters that threaten or guilt you into passing them along. No real friend would ever base their friendship on whether or not their friends pass on some stupid forward! Nobody has the right to tell you you're hartless if you don't pass on a chain letter lie about some sick kid that doesn't even exist, and not passing along some politically hot and misinformed chain email does not make you a racist, either. "Delete this if we are not friends?" That's a good way of testing the patience and tolerance of the friends you've got - don't fall for this crap! Geez, this is offensive!

Date: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:34 PM

FW: Delete this IF We are Not Friends

-No, report it to breakthechain.org and other sites that are there to debunk hoaxes. Do your friends a huge favor and show them you're a true friend - by not sending this to them! Don't give in to and support this e-mail man-handling!

--- Delete this IF We are Not Friends

-Good gads, this is sooooo insulting!

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Delete this IF We are Not Friends

-This is so totally verbal coercion!

Subject: FW: DELETE THIS IF WE ARE NOT FRIENDS -So completely shallow! And I didn't paste the subject line multiple times, that's how the infernal thing actually looked in my inbox!

>> >> >>Â >> >> >>
>>Of all the friends I've ever met, >>You're the one I won't forget.

-Because my memory's not so good? Because I tend to forget those who don't pass on chain letters? Because if I forward it to a zillion people that means I'll remember them all as my one true and only unforgetable friend!?

>>And if I die >>Before you do

-That's not even something that crosses my mind... -For it is a morbid thing on which to stew. Like sheesh, what the heck is it with these chain letters fixating on people dying? It's time they put into practice what they drone on about, and it could happen if people would just stop passing them on!

-*sappy line about going up to heaven deleted* Oh, please!

>>I'll give the angels >>Back their wings

-That I stole when I made up this chain...or just broke their wings by giving into the chain letter guilt and passing it on.

>>And risk the loss >>Of everything

-Huh? I thought when you go to heaven you gain everything? oh well...

>>Just to prove >>My friendship is true

-I will not forward any more chain letters! I will write my own emails and show I really do have time for you!

>>I'm thankful to have
>>>Family and Friends like you!

-And can prove it in a much better, more sincere way than passing on a smarmy canned friendship chain!

-Ugh, now the forward starts shouting so I must keep up the volume or the text won't meld into it right.
>>
>>DON'T SEND THIS TO ALL YOUR FAMILY FRIENDS >>AND BACK TO THE PERSON WHO SENT IT TO YOU.. AND CLOG UP THE INTERNET AND PEOPLE'S INBOX WITH YET ANOTHER ANNOYING FRIENDSHIP CHAIN THAT YOU DID NOT WRITE YOURSELF. IF YOU GET IT BACK...THAT >>PERSON IS NOT YOUR TRUE FRIEND!!

WHAT A STUPID CLAIM - IF YOUR FRIENDS ARE ONLY FRIENDS BECAUSE OF PASSING ON CHAIN MAIL YOU NEED TO FIND BETTER AND TRUE FRIENDS!>>

>>SEND IT TO THIS MANY AND GET:
>>
>>0) NEVER GET KISSED

-Oh puh-leeeeeze! The correct answer is:

0) NEVER appear gullible or inconsiderate. Kissing has nothing to do with it -

>>1) Won't GET You A PECK ON THE FOREHEAD BUT IT MIGHT GET YOU A HEAD-SHAKE AND A PITYING LOOK FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOWS BETTER THAN BELIEVE IN THIS TRASH
>>
>>2) WON'T GET YOU A PECK ON THE CHEEK BUT YOU HAVE A 50/100 CHANCE OF ANNOYING SOMEBODY OR GETTING IGNORED BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THIS WRETCHED THING PASSED FOR SHOWING FRIENDSHIP
>>
>>3) WON'T GET YOU A PECK ON THE LIPS BUT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE TO BE ANNOYING, GULLIBLE OR INCONSIDERATE AND ALL OF THE ABOVE AND MORE POSSIBILITIES FOR PEOPLE BEING SMART AND DELETING IT OR BEING FOOLISH AND PASSING IT ON TO OTHERS AND LOOKING STUPID AS WELL.
>>
>>4) WON'T GET YOU A KISS
>>
>>5) WON'T GET YOU A HUG BUT IT COULD GET YOU A RANT AND CYBER SMACK FROM SOME JADED PERSON WHO'S FED UP TO HERE WITH CHAIN LETTERS AND SEEING PEOPLE CONTINUE TO FALL FOR THEM AND PASS THEM ALONG
>>
>>6) GET A REALLY BIG "WHAT WAS I THINKING? FEELING WHEN YOU SEE THE REACCTION OF ONE OF THE ANNOYED PEOPLE
>>
>>7) GET A KISS AND A BIG HUG FROM SOMEONE THERE TO COMFORT YOU AFTER YOU'VE JUST RUINED SOMEONE'S NIGHT WITH THIS STUPID FORWARD!
>>
>>8) GET KISSED HUGGED MORE AND HOPEFULLY THE WILL NOT TO PASS ON ANY MORE CHAIN LETTERS!
>>
>>10) GET ALL THE ABOVE AND WHATEVER YOU PROBABLY WEREN'T EXPECTING AND DON'T WANT!!
>>
>> >>OK YOU HAVE 1 MINUTE TO! BE SMART AND NOT SEND THIS!!

Subject: [just to let you know

A very misleading subject that looks like a personal note from somebody.

Imagine my disappointment when I opened the email to find it was just another varient of that nefarious malignant condition plaguing the internet known as - the dreaded chain letter, the saccharin friendship/love/fuzzy one to be exact. Like, ARGH!! Okay, here we go, Indy takes on this one, exposing the *real* intent behind this urksome piece of sickly-sweet.

From the chain letter originator's point of view:

"Love YA"

-More like:

"Got YA"

"Suppose one morning you never wake up,"

*laughs* That'll get them stopping to think. Man, I love making people think of their own mortality! It's a great way to get them passing it on!

do all your friends know you love them?"

-Note from Indy: If not, they wouldn't be called 'friends'...DUH! How lame/stupid do these chain letter writers think we are? Please!

Oh, sorry, back to the jerk's chain letter and real intentions.

"I was thinking...about the best way to tug at your heart and get you to pass this on...*light goes on* Yeah! this would work.. I could die today, tomorrow or next week, and I wondered if I had any wounds needing to be healed, other than my need to create chain mail and see how many people get taken in. friendships that needed rekindling or three words needing to be said.

*violins start to play*

Let every one of your friends know you love them."

-Note from Indy: By writing them emails you wrote, because your words mean so much more than this drip's. Back to their point of view.: " since I don't know you. I'm just the author of the words in this fwd.. I just happen to be good at writing things that get ya right here, enough to make you believe you're passing on your own feelings through my words. I don't care if I get credit or not, just as long as you PASS IT ON!!!

Even if you think they don't love you back, you would be amazed at what those three little words and a smile can do.

*smirks* Yeah, that'll get them forwarding! *pats self on the back* I'm a genius!

And just in case GOD calls me home .....

I had to say it again because of my morbid fascination with death and I know nothing will pull at your emotions like the thought of a friend dying, never mind the fact that you don't even know who I am, and religious people are SOOOOO easy to grab by the hearts. Just mention God whether you believe in him or not and they take it as a Christian message. Why else do you think the "Pass it on or you must not love God enough" stuff is still so good at suckering people into carrying on these chain letters?

I GOT YA!!!"

Send this to at least 4 people you love and send it back to the person who sent it to you .....

Live today to the fullest because tomorrow is not promised."

Here's better advice from Indianna:

Don't send this to four people you love or you could risk losing some of that love, and I don't mean through death, either. Don't send it back to the person who sent it to you! Good grief, if we kept doing that, we'd keep getting zillions of copies of the same blasted thing over and over again in our email! NOOOOOOO THANKS! Please, *Don't!*

Live life to the fullest, stop sending chain letters! Because the more chain mail you send, the more tomorrow is not promised as far as your friendships go.

I've been on the internet for nearly a decade, gotten too many of these how to be a good friend chain letters to count,and I do not appreciate sappy chain letters telling me how to live my life or pretending to predict the future if I don't say or do anything, good or bad. I will express my love in my own way, on my own time, and not when and because some stupid chain letter tells me to. Neither am I as inept at being friends as the mooks who originate these smarmy things. When you keep seeing this stuff, it makes you wonder if your friends really think you're so hopeless as a friend that you need to be preached to by these chains again and again?

The best way to show you are a friend is not to forward this crap and risk annoying others who know better.

Some poems that are forwarded are written by legit authors, the Slow Dance poem for example. It was written by a David L. Weatherford, and published in 1991 by the Russ Berrie Company. But some sick individual got the idea to put it into a dying child chain letter hoax, very likely a revamping of the Jessica Mydek hoax. So they included Weatherford's poem in the chain letter, stripped him of the credit he deserves as the true author, and claimed it was written by this dying child instead.

Please, don't let some smarmy, sappy chain letter guilt, coerce, or otherwise emotionally blindside you into passing it along, because the cold hard fact is, their originators don't care a snit about you or anyone/anything else. It's a pretty sad person who gets their jollies trying to tear-jerk, pressure, scare, guilt, fool or otherwise sucker as many people as they can into clogging up the net and annoying some people and getting other gullible people to pass it on!

Subject: Hug War.

> HUG WAR!!
>
>
>
> THIS IS A TEST TO SEE HOW MANY FRIENDS YOU HAVE ON THE INTERNET!!!!!

-Again, assuming friendship is measured by how many people forward around some stupid sap they didn't even write! Good grief! come on, give me a break, I'm not that insecure or intellectually inept! Stop sending me this trash! It's not just annoying, it's insulting to boot!

>
> IT'S JUST A TEST. OK, HERE GOES.

-Darn right it's a test...a test of my threshhold of patience, frustration, tolerance.

>
> INSTANTLY, WHEN YOU RECEIVE THIS PAGE, YOU MUST SEND IT TO AT LEAST
> 10
> > PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE PERSON WHO SENT IT TO YOU

-See? It's no different from any other chain letter, always the same demand to send it on to x number of people or as many as possible. And what the heck is with all these stupid chains telling you to send them back to the one that was dooped into forwarding it to me? if everybody did that the net would be so clogged up that servers would go down and nothing would work. We'd all be getting the same stupid quoted and requoted messages again and again, more than is already happening!

>
>
>
>
> *Hug**Hug**Hug**Hug**Hug**Hug* *Hug**Hug**Hug**Hug**Hug**Hug*

-I'm going to delete several rows that contain the word "Hug" like in the line above over and over again. It's such a waste of bandwidth as well as cruel and unusual punishment to read.

> > You have just been hugged!!

-I've had blood tests that are less painful than this so-called hug.

>
> That's right, there's no getting out of it this time!! This is the > start of
>
>
>
> a full-scale Hug O' War!

Bullcrap. It's just another mutation of the chain letter that manages to get past otherwise smart people under the ruise of a friendship/love/whatever warm fuzzy...

So hug everyone you know!!!

-I will, but not by this phony method! I give real hugs, and as real a cyber hug as I can. I write my own cyber hugs and they come without any stupid strings like "PASS IT ON!" attached! I'd never dream of cheapening something as real as love with a note to pass it on, or insult people's intelligence with that either. I care too much about my friends to send them fake hugs in a form letter!

>
>
> > Hug your friends, your enemies, everyone!!

More like make new enemies, turn your friends into enemies too.

With all the other
> forwards
> out
>
> there, I thought this would be a good one to start.

-Well, a chain letter originator's got to have an angle to be all the more able to sucker everybody along.

> > The hug is my favorite sign of affection. It can mean so much, and > many
>
> things at the same time
>
> It can be a sign of love, friendship, comfort or anything.

-The question is did the originator of this fake love chain actually come up with the above, or steal it from something someone else wrote or said? And, uh, most of us know what a hug is and what it means, duh! Do we really need some chain letter written by some no-life reject who just wants to get us passing their stuff along and who really doesn't know me or you from a hole in the ground and visa versa, to know more about love and hugs than those of us who actually care enough about our friends to write our own emails? HEL-LO! Something's terribly wrong with this picture!

> > So here you go.

-And there *you* go, out of my inbox and into the deleted folder!

>
> All I can say it will do is brighten someone's day.

-There's always another person this smarm can fool into believing it's real friendship. But when you've seen these things passed around on the net and into your inbox as often as I have, you know better. And it sure as heck didn't brighten my day.

>I mean, we all
> need
> a
>
> hug once in a while.

-Yeah, a real hug, given or written by the friend who's doing the hugging, not some piece of spam that has the word 'hug' written into it so that it reads like a broken record!

>So send this on if you'd like, to anyone who
> may
> need a
>
>
> hug, send it back to whoever sent it to you, send it back to me!!

>
> Goodness knows, we could all REALLY use a hug sometimes.

-Goodness knows, this fwd is redundant! Can we say 'point taken' and 'overkill'! Argh! Clue to the originator of this chain letter, get a bigger vocabulary!

>
> So send this on and show someone you care

No, please don't. This chain letter hug stuff has been passed around far too much already. An email written by you with even a "Here's a hug from me, how are you doing Indy?" beats this drippy chain letter by a hundred miles!

Show someone you really care, by not sending it on to them! Send them your own words instead!

-Indianna