People will believe anything...

[ThankQ]

...even if it takes me exactly .7 seconds to prove 100% false.

Anyone seen this chain-letter email yet?

> This year July has 5 Fridays 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This apparently
> happens once every 823 years. This is called money bags. So send this on
> and money will arrive in 5 days. Based on Chinese Feng Shui the one who
> does not pass this on will have money troubles for the rest of the year...
>
> Don't want it to be me!!!!! (Someone sent me this-it could be fun.)

Erm... huh? Jan 2010 had 5 of each, Oct 2010 had 5 of each

July 2005 had 5 Fridays, Sats and Suns, as did July 1994 and 1988 and 1983... need I go on?

The sad thing isn't how stupid this is, it's how many people just forwarded it on without one bit of thought. Any 31-day month for which the 1st falls on a Friday will have five Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

I hit "Reply to motherfucking ALL" and sent out basically the thing about ove 2005, 94, 88 and 83, and most of the replies I got back were "What a fuddy-duddy sceptic"...

[Charlie Brown] Sigh. [/Charlie Brown]

 

[Tora Ziyal]

A fuddy-duddy skeptic, eh? I'd call you intelligent. And someone w/ common sense.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

OK i have passed this on......Cant wait, i hope my cash is in sterling...Plus this will work in well with the money I'm being sent from Nigeria once they clear my initial payment.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Do you get more money by posting it to a message board instead of emailing it?



Yes, I'm fucking with you.

 

[Stoek]

I am a Pagan and I find this deeply offensive (Not the thread but the chain email). First of all while I am not boned up on Feng Shui, to the best of my knowledge it covers design elements of living spaces (I'm using that broadly to indicate any place inhabited by people including offices etc) and has fuck all to say about how many fridays are in a month and what will happen if you don't forward a chain letter. Without getting into needless detail I have had some weird experiences in my life and have come to believe some weird things. But anyone who accepts anything just on someone's say so, without at least giving it a good run through the old thinker is frankly an idiot.

 

[RJDiogenes]

A basic understanding of the calendar makes one a skeptic now?

 

[Amaris]

A basic understanding of the calendar makes one a skeptic now?

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

 

[iguana_tonante]

A basic understanding of the calendar makes one a skeptic now?

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Must be the reason Mondays feel like God crapped in my brain.

 

[thestrangequark]

Well, I won £1,000,000.00, in the BBC's lottery. So I don't need any stupid chain emails to make me rich! See:

You Won £1,000,000.00GBP from BBC LOTTERY Promotion 2011. Contact Sir
Harry Keith bbcclaims@gala.net with your Name,Address,Country,Phone
Number,sex,age,occupation

Oh yeah!

 

[Captain_Nick]

I'd have called you a foddy duddy spoilsport, but that's just me.

The content of those emails is rarely the point of them

 

[Sparky]

Awesome! If I forward this letter to my wealthy Nigerian benefactor and my lottery winnings agent in the UK, I should win even more!

 

[iguana_tonante]

Well, I won £1,000,000.00, in the BBC's lottery. So I don't need any stupid chain emails to make me rich! See:

You Won £1,000,000.00GBP from BBC LOTTERY Promotion 2011. Contact Sir
Harry Keith bbcclaims@gala.net with your Name,Address,Country,Phone
Number,sex,age,occupation

Oh yeah!

This seems legit. I mean, he's a Baronet: he wouldn't lie to you. You should go with it.

 

[RandyS]

I don't believe it.

 

[Misfit Toy]

Well, I won £1,000,000.00, in the BBC's lottery. So I don't need any stupid chain emails to make me rich! See:

You Won £1,000,000.00GBP from BBC LOTTERY Promotion 2011. Contact Sir
Harry Keith bbcclaims@gala.net with your Name,Address,Country,Phone
Number,sex,age,occupation

Oh yeah!

Great! You and I can hang out together on the French Riviera after I close this deal with a Nigerian prince...

 

[Tora Ziyal]

A basic understanding of the calendar makes one a skeptic now?

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

What happens if you don't send it on and you were clearly going to have money troubles in the coming year anyway? Does it add to the troubles?

If you were bankrupt already does a well-dressed but shifty looking man with a large stick show up and tell you you now owe him 10 grand?

We must know. The Chinese economy is growing for a reason; this could be their secret.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Well, I won £1,000,000.00, in the BBC's lottery. So I don't need any stupid chain emails to make me rich! See:

You Won £1,000,000.00GBP from BBC LOTTERY Promotion 2011. Contact Sir
Harry Keith bbcclaims@gala.net with your Name,Address,Country,Phone
Number,sex,age,occupation

Oh yeah!

Uh huh. They know you won, but they don't even know your name.

Their recordkeeping obviously sucks.

 

[Pingfah]

Ah yes, the famous BBC lottery. I play it every Grogsday without fail.

 

[SPOCKED]

July 2005 had 5 Fridays, Sats and Suns, as did July 1994 and 1988 and 1983... need I go on?

oddly, these months had only 3 Thursdays

 

[tharpdevenport]

I feel so lucky, having not only won the UK Lottery, but also the Microsoft Lottery AND the fucking International Lottery!

Beat that, suckers!


And, also as fascinating, I've gotten several PMs from "Nikki" over at Facebook, but I don't even have a Facebook! Women want me so bad they can contact me at non-existant places.


And Hotmail is so, so concerned about the safety of my account, they've asked a couple dozen times to verify it. Thai loves mee!!1!