I don’t mind memes. Really. They’re fun at times. I appreciate the way that Random Pensees applies them — answers the ones he finds interesting, then says he’ll allow people to self-select whether they answer for themselves. That’s so…healthy.

If you think about it, memes are just more edumacated versions of chain letters.

Ungh. What is it with people that they really feel it’s appropriate to pass on ANY email that reads like this? Do they *really* think this is funny? What you don’t get from this is the positively tacky images that accompany each line. Somebody in redneck heaven thinks they’re really clever.

(of course, these messages are always, always forwarded with about five — at least — sets of forwarded headers above the actual email text, complete with their friends’ actual addresses)

>—–Original Message—–
Subject: FW: So you like to eat

VERY CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can’t eat Beef, Mad cow….

Can’t eat chicken . bird flu

Can’t eat eggs … Salmonella

Can’t eat pork … fears that bird flu will infect piggies

Can’t eat fish … heavy metals in the

waters has poisoned their meat

Can’t eat fruits and veggies … insecticides and herbicides

Hmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I believe that leaves Chocolate!!!!!!!!

Remember - - -

"STRESSED"
spelled backwards is

"DESSERTS"

Send this to four people and you will lose 2 pounds.

Send this to everyone you know (or ever knew), and you will lose 10 pounds.

(If you delete this message, you will gain 10 pounds immediately.)


"That’s why I had to pass this on - - - - - I didn’t want to risk it."

—— End of Forwarded Message

On a more serious note, do people really think that they’d gain 10 pounds in an instant? Are Americans as a whole that simple-minded and superstitious?

Added: a girlfriend of mine received this link via email this morning. Uh, yeah.