[2619] in Humor
Humor--email hoaxes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rachel Cunningham)
Thu Jan 14 18:01:31 1999
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:48:42 -0600 (MDT)
From: Rachel Cunningham <lemming@p2hp4.lanl.gov>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
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> 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 KIDNEY 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 Disneyworld 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 a note that
> said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS." Luckily he was only a few blocks
> from the hospital...the one, in fact, where that little boy who is dying
> of cancer is staying. The kid 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 Xs and Os in the shape of an angel (if you get it
> and forward it to 20 people, you will have good luck, or if you only send
> it to 10 people you will just have OK luck, but if you send it to less
> than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR 7 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.
