FW: Urban Legends - The Final Saga

Bruce Monro
AlliedSignal EAS
Facilities and Industrial Engineering
phone & fax: 913-712-2019
cell: 913-915-1082
email: bruce.monro@alliedsignal.com

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Robinson, Julie (faciliteam) 
>Sent:	Thursday, January 07, 1999 4:12 PM
>To:	Franssens, Catherine; Patton, Sara J.; Monro, Bruce
>Subject:	FW: Urban Legends - The Final Saga
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Ford,Michael [SMTP:MFORD@cerner.com]
>Sent:	Thursday, January 07, 1999 11:24 AM
>To:	Robinson, Julie (faciliteam); 'Mom'; 'Pam'; Butkus; Jane; Mel; Reed; Tim;
>Welle, Karen
>Subject:	FW: Urban Legends - The Final Saga
>
>No, I didn't write this.
>
>> 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.  One day
>> he went to sleep and awoke later to find himself in his bathtub, which was
>> full of ice.  He was sore all over.  When he got out of the tub he
>> realized that HIS KIDNEYS 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 rolled around.  And it's a little-known fact that the Y1K
>> problem caused the Dark Ages.  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 Disney
>> World 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 where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one 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 x's and
>> o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to 20 people
>> you will have good luck, but if only 10 then you will just have OK luck
>> and if you send it to less than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN
>> YEARS).  So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital,
>> but on the way he noticed another car driving along without its lights on.
>> To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part
>> of a gang initiation.
>>  
>> STOP THE INSANITY!   NO URBAN LEGEND EMAIL STRINGS IN 1999!
>> 


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