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Amen to this one!!!! And it is humorous. Don't miss the last two paragraphs.
 
        1. Big companies don't do business via chain letters. Bill Gates is
not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation. There is
no baby food company issuing class-action checks. Procter and Gamble is not
part of a satanic cult or scheme, and its logo is not satanic. MTV will not
give you backstage passes if you forward something to the most people. Honda
won't give you a new car either! You can relax; there is no need to pass it
on "just in case it's true. "Furthermore, just because someone said in a
message, four generations back, that "we checked it out and it's legit," does
not actually make it true.
         2. There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking up
in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it happened to
their cousin. If you are hell-bent on believing the kidney-theft ring
stories, please see:
 < http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa062997.html
  <http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa062997.html> And I quote:
  "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued requests for actual
 victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell their stories. None have."
  That's "none" as in "zero." Not even your friend's cousin.
 
         3. Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even
 if they do, we all have it. And even if you don't, you can get a copy at
http://www.bl.net/forwards/cookie. and HTML
<http://www.bl.net/forwards/cookie.html> . 4. If the latest NASA
rocket disaster(s) DID contain plutonium that went to particulate over the
eastern seaboard, do you REALLY think this information would reach the public
via an AOL chain letter?
         5. There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never, ever,
ever forward any e-mail containing any virus warning unless you first confirm
that an actual site of an actual company that actually deals with viruses.
Try: http://www.norton.com
  <http://www.norton.com> . And even then, don't forward it. We don't care.
And you cannot get a virus from a flashing IM or e-mail, you have to
download....ya know, like, a FILE!

         6. There is no gang initiation plot to murder any motorist who
flashes headlights at another car driving at night without lights.
          7. If you're using Outlook, I.E., or Netscape to write e-mail, turn
off the "HTML encoding." Those of us on Unix shells can't read it, and don't
care enough to save the attachment and then view it with a web browser, since
you're probably forwarding us a copy of the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe
anyway.
          8. If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th generation
message from a friend, at least have the decency to trim the eight miles of
headers showing everyone else who's received it over the last 6 months. It
sure wouldn't hurt to get rid of all the or "that begin each line either.
Besides, if it has gone around that many times we've probably already seen it.
          9. Craig Shergold (or Sherwood, or Sherman,
 etc.) in England is not dying of cancer or anything else at this time and
would like everyone to stop sending him their business cards. He apparently
is no longer a "little boy" either.
          10. The "Make a Wish" foundation is a real organization doing fine
work, but they have had to establish a special toll free hot line in response
to the large number of Internet hoaxes using their good name and reputation.
It is distracting them from the important work they do.
          11. If you are one of those insufferable idiots who forwards
anything that "promises" something bad will happen if you "don't," then
something bad will happen to you if I ever meet you in a dark alley.
        12. Women really are suffering in Afghanistan, and PBS and NEA
funding are still vulnerable to attack (although not at the present time) but
forwarding an e-mail won't help either cause in the least. If you want to
help contact your representative, or get in touch with Amnesty International
or the Red Cross. As a general rule, e-mail "signatures" are easily faked and
mean nothing to anyone with any power to do anything about whatever the
competition is complaining about.
          13. IBM is not giving away free computers because Netscape bought
 AOL.
         14. A little dog (or any picture) is not
  going to pop up on the screen if you forward an email to any number of
  people.
        15. Neither the GAP nor Abercrombie & Fitch
 are giving away free clothes or gift certificates.
 
          16. The US Postal Service is not going to
 stop printing Black Heritage Stamps because Black people are not buying
 them.
      17. I know this is a touchy one for some of
 you, and you alone know your relationship with Almighty God but,
you will not go to hell or suffer some catastrophic event if you break the
 prayer circle.
         18. There is no bill pending before Congress that will allow
 long-distance companies to charge you for using the Internet.

         Bottom Line ... composing e-mail or posting something on the Net is
 as easy as writing on the walls of a public restroom. Don't automatically
 believe it until it's proven false...ASSUME it's
 false, unless there is proof that it's true.
        Now, forward this message to ten friends, and you could win a chance
to spend a day with Elvis Presley and Tupac Shakur and you will win the
  Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes!!!!!!!

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