Letter in circulation claims to have been written by "a missionary from Makes it halfway around the world and then gets sent back? What exactlyĭoes "around the world" mean here, anyway?) Besides, the most popular chain Have a visa? No the author simply thought it sounded good to say it hadīeen around the world a bunch of times. Many times it's been around the world? Does it come with a map? Does it Consider this: howĬould the information about what happened to a recipient get into the letter,Īfter the person forwarded the letter (or failed to)?Īnd while we're dissecting chain letters, how does a chain letter know how Written by the original authors of the chain letters. President of the US." I got news for you: those testimonials are fakes, The letter and sent it on he instantly won the lottery and was elected Ten hours he was pummeled to death by thugs. Right?), so how did the testimonials get into them? You know the ones "Mikhail Sarnikov received this letter and didn't forward it. One, you wouldn't be forwarding it exactly, so you might get bad luck, Nobody ever modifies the standardĬhain letters (have you ever known anyone who's changed them? If you changed Please feel free to modify or excerpt this letter to suit yourĬircumstances. Don't threaten people just because you've been "I'm very sorry, I hate to do this but I'm not about to break this also."ĭon't apologize and don't feel bad break the chain and demand to know why Gloria Acosta received the same chain letter. Luck resulting from failure to forward such a letter is negated by the Receiving it, I nevertheless feel compelled to hit you with the following.īesides, who knows?" Don't be like Liz don't feel compelled to forwardĪrrant nonsense (in the form of a patently false letter which, afterīlatantly lying, insists that you obey it or suffer). Superstitious nonsense, and sharing the annoyance I know you now feel upon Note attached: "Fully aware of the perversity of perpetuating this silly In 1994, Liz Berry received a chain letter. You? Just say no don't be a victim of bad luck wished on you by others. Will happen to you." Would you make such a threat under any otherĬircumstances? Would you be upset if someone else made such a threat to Saying, in effect, "If you don't do what I tell you to do, something bad Please note that by forwarding a standard chain letter to someone, you are This letter is every bit as bad as any other form of mailbombing. Never send multiple copies of anything to anyone. Letter on, please send only a single copy of it to any given recipient May also dispose of it immediately without ill effects. You may wish to keep a copy of this letter around for future use, but you You will not experience bad luck because of failure to pass this letter on. This letter to the person who sent you the bad-luck chain letter, but again, Throw out the other one without forwarding it. Next time you get a chain letter, read this letter again and Have to worry that if you don't forward a chain letter Bad Things will Not superstitious but." on a chain letter and send it on you never again That means you never again have to write "I'm You of all bad luck you might otherwise have experienced through failure toįorward other chain letters. Happen to you because of failure to forward it. You are under no obligation to forward this letter. Times it's been "around the world" or even what that phrase means though at the time of writing it has never been around the world Modified slightly several times since then. Missionary and not from South America or Asia, in November of 1994, and Save this page as text (and edit the resulting file to remove unwanted Note: if you want an ASCII copy of this letter, use your Web browser to Nothing to Lose but Our Chains How to Defeat a Chain Letter
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