Chain mails and Chain letters

By redeye1984 August 4, 2008 2 Comments

Okay, next on the list of useless things in the world is something very annoying and somehow people will still pass it on after reading this. Chain mails, yes its chain mails fellow giantbombers. No, no, it’s not the suit of armor that blokes in England wore for combat during the medieval era. It’s the one that attempts to induce the recipient to make a number of copies of the letter/mail and then pass them on to one or more new recipients. To me chain mail is useless and has no meaningful thing behind it (well apart from its amusing story). What are people trying to accomplish by sending or creating some random message/email to their friends that they will have 7 years bad luck if they do not forward the message/email to their other friends? It is ridiculous! It is a waste of time and effort to forward something so useless and dumb. Chain mail now exists in emails, Friendster and YouTube to name a few.
Let me give a fine example of a chain mail:

AN IRISH FRIENDSHIP WISH

Good Luck!! I hope it works...

May there always be work for your hands to do;

May your purse always hold a coin or two;

May the sun always shine on your windowpane;

May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;

May the hand of a friend always be near you;

May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

OK, this is what you have to do....

Send this to all of your friends! But - you HAVE to send this within 1 hour from when you open it!

Now.................Make a wish!!!!!!

I hope you made your wish! Now then, if you send to:
1 person --- your wish will be granted in 1 year

3 people --- 6 months

5 people --- 3 months

6 people --- 1 month

7 people --- 2 weeks

8 people --- 1 week

9 people --- 5 days

10 people --- 3 days

12 people --- 2 days

15 people --- 1 day

20 people --- 3 hours

If you delete this after you read it... you will have 1 year of bad luck! But... if you send it 2 of your friends you will automatically have 3 years of good luck!!! :-)

Please let me tell you a little secret. You do not need to forward or send such email to your friends and family. And don’t worry because you will not have (add number of years here) of bad luck and your (add name of love one here) won’t leave you for another man/woman. I have been deleting such mails for years and I have yet to receive this “bad luck”. In fact my luck seems to be better after each deletion! If you have faith in yourself then good luck will come, naturally. Don’t be deceived by some geek behind a computer screen creating and then sending these nonsensical and annoying mails to keep him occupied and entertained. Don’t let the geek win. Please. If that won’t change your mind from sending these chain mails to other people, let me do it in a different approach. Be in mind that most of these mails have viruses in them. You people know what is a computer virus is right? Well for the Jocks and Dumb Blondes out there I shall ‘educate’ you guys on computer viruses. For the Jocks, computer viruses, in a nutshell, are “little” things that will delete your downloaded porn without your approval (Oh My God!). As for the dumb blondes, computer viruses will delete your digital pictures you taken in (add name of hangout spot here) without your approval. Well, after reading this article and you are still not convinced that you should not forward chain mails, let me tell you this:

If you send/forward anymore chain mails to your friends and family after reading this you will get a lifetime of bad luck and you will be poor for the rest of your life. But if you stop sending or forwarding such chain mails you will be blessed and mountains of (add your country’s currency here) will appear in your bank account in 3 days!

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