2007-06-18

1057. Keep it Going

In the mail,
a chain-letter...the promise
of bad fortune.

12 comments:

Masago said...

1057. Keep it Going

In the mail,
a chain-letter...the promise
of bad fortune.

Link with 1056: Chain.

[I'm not sure if it is as common these days but I recall when I was younger getting chain letters in the mail. They'd contain promises of fortune and happiness. But you had to make copies of the letter and send them to ten others. There was usually a story of someone who failed to keep the chain going who ended up suffering some terrible tragedy (e.g. broken leg, getting sick, or even dying). It reminds me of what we get these days with emails that warn of some terrible virus that urge you to forward it on to everyone in your address book.]

J. Andrew Lockhart said...

I seem to see such things in e-mails now -- times have changed

Pamela said...

if you don't forward this Email to 70 of your friends immediately.......

(delete, delete)

floots said...

ggrrrrrrr
chain mail
you are so right

John McDonald said...

I remember those
john

Pat Paulk said...

I don't send them, break every one sent to me. Hate them. Still waiting on bill Gates to send me my money. Hit a nerve with this one!!

polona said...

grrr... hate those chain letters. if anything is true about bad fortune, i'm screwed for at least a dozen of my future lives :)

Masago said...

Andrew: Yes, all too common, I'm afraid. :-(

Pamela: yes, yes. :-)

Floots: :-)

John: Right, people are too lazy to do it the old fashioned way now days, I suppose...luckily.

Pat: *too funny*

Polona: LOL ...Its almost as bad as spam...wait, it is/was a kind of spam, wasn't it?

Borut said...

I remember reading Willaim Blake who said something like: Nothing new happens on this Earth - the same stories repeated all over again. By the same types of persons - he claimed that the 29 pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are the eternal types that keep recurring throughout human hystory - worth reading his own (Blake's) description of his painting with the same title (Canterbury pilgrims)....!:)

Bill said...

I've suddenly started receiving a number of chain e-mails. I like the way you use "promise" here.

get zapped said...

funny, how they make us feel inclined to foward through fear....

Masago said...

Borut: Yes, history does repeat itself. :-)

Bill: Thanks.

GZ: Right, they operate on people's fears.