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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

0 posted 2008-02-22 03:51 PM

What a great way
to start the day,
logging onto my computer
to find a chain letter
and then it gets better,
a blessing from the higher power
with candles, birds and flowers,
a generic one (nothing personal)
Instructing me to annoy
10 other people with it.
Maybe I just don't get it.
I'm supposed to have fantastic luck,
all I need to do is pass the buck.
And then I notice 14 messages
in my bulk mail
and not a one applies to me.
Most are concerned with the male anatomy.
No, I won't need any Viagra today
and I really have to say,
"How did I get on this list?"
I could go on about it
but I think you get the gist.

Ida Werrett

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2008-02-22 05:14 PM

Oh yes, dear Ida, I got the gist!

You got this frustrating situation in perfect poetic flow!

Lately things are getting worse. I must say the best "clean" mail I have is gmail (google). Almost no undesidered mail gets through.

The highest rate of spam arrives on my chairman's e-mail ... it must be because of his presence on "Who's Who in ..."!! He knows nothing of that of course, there is Margherita THE ERASER!

It was fun to read, but it is really an awful thing to cope with.

love,
Margherita

Indigo
Senior Member

since 2001-05-17

Posts 602

2 posted 2008-02-22 05:16 PM

Ida-
Cleverly and succinctly stated! Enjoyed your wit and musings on this most annoying curse of technology.

Indigo

LindsayP
Member Elite

since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

3 posted 2008-02-22 08:24 PM

But you are lucky Ida in having made so many friends on PIP including me, and being

able to write such lovely verse, very lucky indeed. A big hug to you dear lady.

Lindsay

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4 posted 2008-02-22 08:51 PM

Ida,

This is a funny one. I get some E-mail like that, mainly from my brother-in-law. He's a sweet guy, and I love him dearly--but!

Whenever he sends me E-mail that is forwarded, I automatically delete it.

Bobby

TomMark
Member Elite

since 2007-07-27

Posts 2133
LA,CA

5 posted 2008-02-22 09:38 PM

fun to read. But it is annoyingly true.

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

6 posted 2008-02-22 09:40 PM

The greatest dangers of the cyberworld are far, far more subtle! They involve a wide-range of forms of 'self-expression' (and many aspects of what should remain strictly in 'private lives') being mistaken for 'talent' and 'art'... then, marketed to a worldwide public in various ways as such and/or as 'entertainment!' George Orwell had the right idea but the wrong protagonist...'big brother' is not really the government...it is megalithic international corporate conglomerato-monsters (governments typically representing only their political stooges) and the 'net' (and its tendency to make absolutely all aspects of life reducible only to that which is 'economically marketable') ultimately their (historically) finest forum for ultimate control over (and homogenizing of) the masses of humanity (into sources of ever-increasing 'profit potential') worldwide.

Applause for this interesting 'write!'

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

7 posted 2008-02-23 02:41 AM

Yep, I know what you mean.

Alison

visitvenus
Member

since 2002-12-30

Posts 101
PA, USA

8 posted 2008-02-23 11:20 PM

Loved this! I've got two relatives that although I send the snopes.com reference to them on every single urban legend they send me, they still fall for every single one of they get!

I must admit though, the "getting to know your friends" quizzes suck me in every time! I always answers those and pass them on, so now I get a million of them!

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

9 posted 2008-02-24 09:33 AM

lol

I think I got it!-- But a part of me is trying to re-think this lol.

I guess I don't have my thinking cap on this morning. But, I do see the humor in this poetic day you described. lol I think I get it now, After writing this reply, Yupp! i got it..

Thank you for this read..

ARCTIC WIND

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