On 2/15/2012 2:00 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:38:39 -0500, Frank
wrote:

On 2/15/2012 3:03 PM, Bible Studies with Satan wrote:
Just Facts wrote:

I'm 76. Except for brief period in the 50's when I was doing my
National
Service, I've worked hard since I was 17. Except for some some
serious
health challenges, I put in 50-hour weeks, and didn't call in
sick in nearly
40 years. I made a reasonable salary, but I didn't inherit my
job or my
income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, it
looks as
though retirement was a bad idea, and I'm tired. Very tired.


Ahh, the world of cut-and-paste nonsense. Get real.



I get a lot of emails like this and sometimes pass them on but I always
clip the part that says, if you do not pass this on your balls will fall
off, or some other stupid thing.

If you're getting e-mails like that one, why would you pass them on?
Most of the time, most people let them slide by -- in disgust. But if
you've noticed, whenever anyone knows the facts or digs them out and
exposes the truth, the e-mails most often turn out to be frauds or
packs of lies.

They're an interesting phenomenon. Some angry, furstrated people have
decided that they can pull off an outright lie if they dress it up to
make it sound like something authentic. Then they can get some suckers
to pass them along...which someone always does.

My mother-in-law passes a lot of these along to me. Usuaully, I point
out to her where they're fraudulent. She always thanks me, and then
she sends me another one. d8-)



I'm not so sure that it's "angry frustrated people", Ed.
Some of this stuff is just too involved.

Were I more prone to believing in conspiracies, I'd suspect
a whole lot of this stuff is designed to grab at certain
kinds of people.

Why, you ask?

Politics...