Any Way You Slice It, They Still Call It Spam
Dear Dora,
Some people have no manners at all! There was this lady I met on line. Well, I didn’t actually meet her, but I read her blog one time.I started sending her the delightful forwarded e-mails I receive, sometimes there were seven or eight in a day. Some of them were hilarious! They just cracked me up.
You know the kinds I mean. Ones that bashed men (because they just deserve it) and ones that made fun of that Barracks Oboma and the creature Hillary Clinton (because they are soooo disgustingly liberal).
I sent her e-mails with jokes about those homersexual men and about those lebanese women and ones about those illegal aliens. All of those people are just a bunch of perverts! I sent her wonderfully sweet religious thoughts every day, too!
I thought she would enjoy getting to read all of these things. Maybe she would even want to blog about them!
Well, of all the nerve! That woman wrote me and asked me to take her off of my forwarding list! Can you believe that? So, to show her what for, I sent her 10 e-mails in a row.
What do you think of manners like that? I guess I showed her, didn’t I!
Signed,
Trying to be helpful
Dear Trying,
I’m sure you were very “trying!” Of all the nerve, indeed! And, yes you showed her. You demonstrated that you are a childish, self-righteous nutcase! What in the world made you think that a total stranger would want to receive forwarded e-mails from you?
Did it occur to you that perhaps that woman didn’t share your narrow-minded views about Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, homosexuals and lesbians, men, OR illegal aliens? Did it occur to you to ask her if she wanted those e-mails? Did it occur to you she might consider this offensive? Did it occur to you that some people don’t have the time to sit around and snicker over trivial junk mail from total strangers?
The unsolicited and unwanted e-mails you sent to a person you do not know are called “spam,” and like the canned “meat” they are completely unappealing, especially served by strangers. Never send forwarded e-mail to people you don’t know!
Perhaps you should take a moment to re-read those “sweet religious thoughts” you sent and start acting the part. Then, hit the delete button and go get a life!
Kiss, kiss
Dora, you rock! I hate spam, especially the religious ones that have the “send this to 400 people within 5 minutes” or bad things will happen to you.
Thank you for setting the world straight.
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Of COURSE, I rock. I could have told you that. I will set the world straight at every opportunity.
Personally I do so love spam, especially the aforementioned religious ones that promise bad things to you if you don’t pass them on. It so perfectly sums up the christian god don’t you think…
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My dear, it sums up so many religious philosophies…please don’t blame it on just one. Bad things WILL happen to you if you don’t forward the ones that I send you
Anybody that sends me more than two of those kinds of emails gets added to junk sender list never to be heard from again, he he…ciao
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Yet, some are so persistent, and Google gives such poor options for screening them.
I get tons of those forwarded things a day. A lot come from my dad who is almost 80!!! So I look at it like this. If I don’t like them I just delete them. He gets so much joy in sending them that I don’t want to be rude and hurt his feelings by saying something like… don’t send those to me anymore bla bla. Old people think love sending email…forwarded or not. I actually enjoy the jokes. I do get a few laughs out of most. (-: And geez there are a lot of things to learn on the internet too.(-: I have a friend who sends me the religious ones too and I just delete those along with the send this email to 40 friends within 1 min or you will have bad luck for a hundred years…(-: You can kinda tell by the subject if its going to be one of those emails.
The rule is that if it is from your parents you cannot complain. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Except me, of course.
Any way you slice it SPAM is just plain awful. I automatically delete anything with a FW in the subject line, and guess what I am still here, nothing bad happened to me and I’m pretty sure all those suckers gullible people who did follow the rules didn’t have anything spectacularly wonderful happen.
It sounds like ‘trying’ is an intolerant nincompoop…oops can I say that Dora?
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You can say anything you like! You are so right that the suckers probably didn’t have anything wonderful happen. But, if something BAD happened, they probably blamed it on not forwarding the e-mail.