Monday, June 24, 2013

Happy Urban Legend 2: Chain Letters

One of the first superstitions of the digital era was the chain letter. An immigrant from the postal service, the superstition came in the form of a letter, and later an e-mail, threatening you to copy the message and send it to several friends. Why you'd do that to a friend has always been a course of mystery, stretching back to the first girl to ever compose a chain e-mail. To be fair, she was dead when she did it.

Anyone who follows the instructions of a chain e-mail is passed over and experiences none of Google's first paranormal agent. Anyone who disregards such an e-mail, though, will be haunted by the ghost of the girl who set the scheme up. She will haunt your inbox for the rest of your life, complimenting your good taste by acting as a secondary spam filter. You will very likely never see another penis enlargement ad that she thinks you don't need.

Skeptics should still be wary, for though disregarding her power has benefits, calling her work a superstition is hazardous. Doing so upsets her ghost and cause her to expose your search history to a loved one. That has never ended well, and ironically, its contents are always passed on by word of mouth.

7 comments:

  1. Hmm. Is that why I no longer receive ads promising (vainly) to make my penis impress my friends?

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  2. Fortunately my search history has nothing to hide.

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  3. That explains where all of my money from an Arabian Prince went! Stupid ghost!

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  4. I welcome any ghost who blocks spam. I would gladly summon a ghost who would make a spammer's (titular) life miserable.

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  5. I remember one chain letter I got a long time ago. It informed me that if I didn't pass it on a ghost would haunt me the rest of my life. I'm still waiting for that ghost to show up and make good on her promise.

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  6. Funny! I read Christopher Pike's "Chain Letter" as a teen and got hooked on his books because of it. But it still didn't scare me enough to pass on a chain letter, paper or digital.

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  7. I could so use a ghost double checking my inbox for spam. Gonna have to keep my eyes peels for a chain letter to ignore...

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