Thursday 12 November 2009

Sentimental Bollocks

There are some lovely people around. A few of them in particular like to send me heartwarming e-mails about guardian angels and how friendship is forever. I should pass these on to at least ten other people, so as not to break the chain apparently.

So I've set up a special folder in my almost infinitely large gmail mailbox.

It's a bit like my spam folder, but the contents are much more sugary.

Just in case you're unfortunate enough not to have any such mail yourself, I enclose one below...

From: Dxxxxxxxxx@aol.com
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:31:24 -0500
Subject: Fwd: FW: Read ASAP-Let me know tomorrow
To: Pingupowerxxxxxxxxx@aol.com

Gail



--Forwarded Message Attachment--
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:07:50 +0000
From: joan.xxxxxxxxxx@tesco.net
To: valerie.xxxxxxxxx@sky.com; daisychainxxxxxxxxxxxx@aol.com; poodlexxxxxxxxxxx@talktalk.net; joan@joantaylorxxxxxxxxx.wanadoo.co.uk
Subject: FW: Read ASAP-Let me know tomorrow

-------Original Message-------
From: Joan
Date: 11/11/2009 22:06:33
To: Val Gail gwen joan
Subject: FW: Read ASAP-Let me know tomorrow

Fingers crossed for you all




Let me know what happens to you the morning after you open this e-mail.
This is an unusual one.

It actually gives you a time tomorrow..

Let's see if it works.



GUARDIAN ANGEL
Forward this message the same day you received it. It may sound ridiculous, but it is right on time. We believe that something is about to happen. Angels exist, only sometimes they haven't got wings and we call them friends; you are one of them. Something wonderful is about to happen to you and your friends. Tomorrow at
11:09 AM somebody will address you and tell you some thing you have been waiting to hear.

Please do not break this. Send it to at least 7 of your friends!


So, there you go. I've forwarded this to my blog, which gets several readers each day, from places as diverse as Ethiopia and Guernsey. I will let the world know, through this very blog, if anything happened.

3 comments:

Jim Bliss said...

I occasionally get that kind of thing from a friend of mine in Canada, but she sends them 'cos she thinks they're funny.

By the way, is it just me or have fake rolex watches become the new viagra? (in terms of spam email)

Paul said...

I've actually got some quite nasty and intimidating ones, that promise that something unpleasant might happen if you fail to pass on the mail. Like the death of a close relative kind of nasty. Not had one for a while mind. I rarely check my spam folder. I do get the usual crop of fake watch/meds/degrees stuff. Not really noticed any kind of change in prevalence, but I must admit, it's not something I've been paying any attention to.

Jan B said...

I just got one of these and was wondering whether to delete it. Since there were no posts since November ( it's 6th December today) I'll delete it and miss out on my good luck (even though I could really do with some!
Jan