It’s a little old, but I just found this, and for whatever reason it makes me laaaaaaarf!!
Now we know why the Hulk is called incredible!
Happy New Year everyone!
I’m in New York for Christmas and New Year. I’ve woken up today with a hangover (due to about half a bottle of Jack…) so I’m just chilling out, watching a bit of TV, taking it easy. I figure I’ll watch some sports. So I put on ESPN. And the sport they are showing?
The US National Spelling Bee.
Spelling.
Kids doing spelling. Live on TV. LIVE. Spelling.
Anyone want to rearrange this phrase?
“Watching like drying paint”.
Well, yesterday actually… I saw Teddy Sheringham in the Post Office! Whoo! He looked quite confused trying to buy a packet of envelopes. Poor lad.
Vaguely following on from my last post about those idiots who forward on the “URGENT COMMUNICATION FROM HOTMAIL! YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE TERMINATED IF YOU DON’T SEND THIS TO 28 PEOPLE IN THE NEXT 5 SECONDS!!”. This (the first worthwhile forward!).
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OK, I wasn’t going to bother putting tech crap and this blog because there are easily several gabillion blogs out there all claiming to be the next Bill Gates, but one thing struck me yesterday.
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I think the answer is a resounding yes. I just got forwarded this:
”
Dear Hotmail User,
>>>
>>>Because of the sudden rush of people signing up to
>>>
>>>Hotmail,it has come to our attention that we are vastly
>>>
>>>running
>>>
>>>out of resources. So, within a month’s time, anyone who
>>>
>>>does not
>>>
>>>receive this email with the exact subject heading, will be
>>>
>>>deleted off our server.Please forward this email so that
>>>
>>>we know
>>>
>>>you are still using this account.
>>>
>>>WARNING WARNING
>>>
>>>We want to find out which users are actually using their
>>>
>>>Hotmail
>>>
>>>accounts. So if you are using your account, please pass
>>>
>>>this
>>>
>>>e-mail to every Hotmail user that you can and if you do
>>>
>>>not pass
>>>
>>>this letter to anyone we will delete your account.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
”
Which bizarrely, in the same email had this:
”
>>>From Mr. Jon Henerd
>>>
>>>Hotmail Admin. Dept.
>>>
>>>
>>>Our hotmail system is getting to crowded!! We need you to forward this to
>>>at least 20 people. I know this seems like a large number, but we need to
>>>find out who is really using their account. If you do not send this to at
>>>least 10 Hotmail members, we will delete your account. Sorry for this
>>>inconvenience.
>>>
>>>Sincerely, Director of Hotmail Services
>>>
>>>Aaron Lopez
”
Needless to say, the email was about a mile long, full up with the names and email address of several gillion people who had forwarded this and had it forwarded to them. Most of the people doing the forwarding were adding comments like:
“Please do this! Some of my friends have already gotten deleted and you
>>>aren’t allowed to send it back to the person who sent this email to
>>>you!!!”
“Really Sorry Guys!!!”
“they say to pass it on to all who i know .”
“I’m not too sure if
>>>it’s true or not, but just in case it is, then do not delete it, forward
>>>it along to the 20 people so that you won’t be deleted.”
“Sorry guys I also hate forward but if this is true it’s important”
and this one which was a bit odd:
“Patrick more plays the xylophone”
I particularly like the “they told me to pass this on” comment. They! They. Who does this person think they is? Does this person think they’re living in 1984 and that Big Brother is monitoring them and if they don’t forward this fucking email to at least 20 people, bad things are going to happen?
Why do people think that these emails are actually real? Why do people clog my inbox with this shit and, inevitably, reveal my email address to all sorts of email harvesters so it will start to receive SPAM. There must have been easily 500 email address in this email if I was malicious enough to extract them and send them emails about penis enlargement and Nigerian money making schemes.
Seriously.