Being a person of with a certain degree of notoriety I am prone to get a lot of e-mails from different quarters. While gmail has helped keep the spams separated from my regular mails, the amount of chain mails I receive from my many friends fall within a group by themselves.
Many of the chain mails (for those who don't know these are the types which have been forwarded by the sender who had the same forwarded to them and so on, and also the mail asks to be forwarded by the receiver) I receive contain some good and interesting photos, information, videos etc. which are worth a lookover atleast once.
But among these there are some which proclaim to change my future, past or present if or if I don't forward them on immediately to some 'n' number of required individuals (friends). And the things these mails contain and the things they promise are well... I have limited words for them !!
Many of them proclaim to be helping some poor victim of something or the other. e.g. a single mother who has a child suffering from some life threatening disease, a person at some remote end of the world suffering from the same type of diseases, a person who may have suffered some grave injustice. All these people claim to get my help if and only of I pass on or rather in e-terms forward them to more people.
Some of these are of the type which judge my patriotism towards my country, some challenge my manhood, some my ability to "socialise" among the female population etc. etc. depending upon the number of people I've forwarded the mail to...!!
A tad bit more interesting are the type which promise me good luck and a good future invoking some God's miracles and blessings if I forward them promptly to the requisite number of people and promise to get the curse of the same Gods if I don't do so..!! An example of such a horribly funny mail had the very first line of the mail as - "Now that you have opened this mail, it is better to know that this mail is cursed. If you don't forward and then delete this mail the curse remains with you. And if you delete this mail without forwarding, the curse would fall on you anyway"...!
A recent type of such brilliant mails seem to take science and miracles to their limits and I would rank them first in the line of all chain mails. These mails first declare in bright glowing words that they work for sure . Next they ask you whether you want to know the names of all the people who've had a crush on you (in-fact these mails are called as the crush detectors). The incredible way to do so is to forward the mail to the requisite number of people and the immediately press F6. And then follows the inevitable line - "If you don't forward this mail and/or delete it then you'll remain a bachelor for 'n' number of coming years (sometimes for eternity ! ), and if you forward it you'll receive a phone call from your long desired sweetheart within an hour of your sending the mail" !!
Yeah...! Right...! :D :D With the availability of computers everywhere around I fail to grasp the fact, that with such a miracle mail, how come "lover's columns" for the aching hearts are still flourishing in some of the well known national newspapers!!
As an answer to all these chain mails I have just one reply... the following video...
Or else you are welcome to check the following link... for a better view (better quality) of the video of course !
http://www.toilette-humor.com/flash-cartoons/Leave-me-alone/leave-me-alone.shtml
Good Luck Everyone !!
Thursday, August 7, 2008
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5 comments:
Hilarious!!! :D
Hey Karthik,may b there's a hidden msg in this blog...I bet Ritu's tellin us somethin but I jus can't put a finger on wat exactly let's c.... May b he wants a girlfriend.. May b he's bankrupt and needs money badly... D blog sure gives u d feelin tat d guy is really frustrated tat all his forwarded mails r not working... (?)
Aye.. therein lies the problem - I was frustrated, not cos o the "reasons" stated above, but cos o the sheer amount o the chains and forwarded mails flooding my mailbox !!
Ha......... I know that's d part YOU r gonna tell us abt.... Btw,I addressed tat comment to Karthik,if u wd notice :p
Good thing Karthik spoke to Ritu who informed him that somepne had replied to my comment. :)
@Jo...
Well, you never know... ;) Frustration can lead to strange actions.
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