From: annoying.twat@morons.com To: all@everywhere.com cc: bill@microsoft.com; steve@apple.com; richard@virgin.com; elton@john.com; uc.wh@timat.com Subject: Fwd: INTERNATIONAL STOP-THE-MADNESS DAY Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2007 09:45:16 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- INTERNATIONAL STOP-THE-MADNESS DAY To help bring about world peace and an end to hunger, death and disease, for one day a year the people of the world will refrain from blindly forwarding on those inane and pointless anonymous email forwards they get sent by co-workers and well meaning but slightly dumb friends, to everyone on their address book. Every day thousands of people worldwide die as a direct result of email forwards. It is a shocking statistic and may be untrue but it is a *FACT*[tm] that people have lost jobs as a result of spending too much time clearing these things out of their work inboxes, or have forwarded it on to their line-manager by accident and found themselves receiving a redundancy notice in return. Other folks have ended up with severe stress worrying that if they don't forward an email they've been sent then some little kiddies somewhere won't get help or their friends won't like them anymore, and may never invite them on a cruise should they ever become millionaires through shrewed investment or, more realistically, a lotto/pools win. There was also a tragic case in Chicago when a transient was killed by a well meaning but criminally disturbed individual who tried to forward good will prayers to his local homeless community by printing them onto high quality 160gms embossed paper and dropping boxes of them onto the local cardboard city from his helicopter. THE MADNESS HAS TO STOP Remember this: Friends wouldn't expect friends to bombard other friends with crap. Now forward this email to 10 of your friends and one of three things will happen: 1) For every email forwarded Bill Gates will personally give one American dollar (approximately 0.067 euro-cents) from his own pocket to the American Kick-A-Child-With-Leukaemia Fund. 2) God will personally appear to open a new branch of Starbucks in your area. 3) All your friends will get more spam. You know it mocks sense...