I agree with the other posters that are railing against "forward zombies". There IS a resource for folks to verify information before forwarding...at the least, they should check out www.snopes.com .

I can tell you how this particular insanity got started...back in 2005 was when it first made the rounds as "a friend told me" emails. Then in 2008 someone wrote a letter to the editor in some obscure newspaper quoting it with respect to Victoria and "a local paper".

Suddenly, people are forwarding a photocopy of a newspaper clipping (strangely they omit the title, author, and newspaper name) showing in newsprint the "article" referenced here. Because "if it's in the newspaper, it must be true!".

Whenever I get sent emails like this, I check snopes, and then reply-all back to everyone the original sender copied, telling them the straight dope. It's the least I can do to combat this stuff...

The shame is that people are wasting their time on hoaxes like that when the real emails are out there, like the gator and snakes found while they were building the INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in Halletsville!

I don't know how many of you have seen this email, but it is hilarious. If you find yourself unable to laugh at something like that, you are taking yourself way to serious.

When someone like Dave Chapelle or Chris Rock starts making fun of people of my race it is hilarious as well.

What am I supposed to do start whining??? I can't whine, I'm laughing to hard.

If you find something like that offensive, you need to get a better grip on reality. The email was funny and if that boycott ever took place the results would probably be exactly like depicted.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

I wish I could boycott the local taquerias.

I delete all e-mails from people I don't know! I've been given trillions of dollars from Nigeria! mark everything as spam even cute religious e-mails!

Long before Internet glurge and garbage clogged my e-mailbox, copy machines regularly churned out urban scare stories. I could count on getting at least one phony alert in my faculty mailbox and then computer mailbox every month or so. Madlyn Murray O'Hair is destined to live e-ternal life with that lawsuit against radio stations airing religious broadcasting. Children will forever be in danger of ingesting LSD by licking Smurfs on a roll of paper.

Fortunately, with a few strokes of a keyboard, not only can I ascertain the veracity of this nonsense, I can throw it away without the bother of physically bagging it up and carrying out to the curb.

Yes, the Internet cuts both ways. Make it cut in your favor.

I received this e-mail about a year ago from a friend in NY. Well, ex-friend. He thought it was hilarious, I called him a racist, and we parted ways. Some people are just idiots!

APRILL: I've been railing for years about the idiocity of AUTOMATIC EMAIL FORWARDERS who send stuff out blindly. Yes, Rusty got taken to task for not checking the validity of a few farces he'd put in his blog. I wish there was some way to get people to think and not forward any emails, especially Amber alerts and emergency prayer pleas that don't have the supposed date of the tragedy WITHIN THE MAIN BODY of the text. If there isn't a valid email or contact number listed it's usually a hoax. I get very vexed upon receiving these invalid emails that originated back in the 1970s. An example is the one out about this time of the summer or 2001. It was about a Chicago boy scout who lost a testicle LAST WEEK when he bounced off his snow sled. When was the last time that Chicago had sledding snow in MID-JULY? APRILLL, the INTERVIEW invitation remains open for this topic too.