Posted by DH on 12/22/06 10:26

POD {Ò¿Ó} wrote:
> With Christmas almost upon us, I'd like to extend my heartfelt
> appreciation to all of you who have taken the time and trouble to send
> me "forwards" over the past 12 months.
>
> Thank you for making me feel safe, secure, blessed and healthy. Extra
> thanks to whoever sent me the email about rat crap in the glue on
> envelopes - cause I now have to go get a wet towel every time I need to
> seal an envelope.
>
> Also, I scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason. Because
> of your genuine concern, I no longer drink Coca Cola because I know it
> can remove toilet stains, which is not exactly an appealing
> characteristic. I no longer check the coin return on public phones
> because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS.
>
> I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a
> wild boar on a hot day. I no longer go to shopping centres because
> someone might drug me with a cologne sample and rob me. I no longer eat
> KFC because their "chickens" are actually horrible mutant freaks with no
> eyes or feathers.
>
> I no longer worry about my soul because at last count, I have 363,214
> angels looking out for me. Thanks to you, I have learned that God only
> answers my prayers if I forward an e-mail to seven of my friends and
> make a wish within five minutes. I no longer have any savings because I
> gave it to a sick girl on the internet who is about to die in the
> hospital (for the 1,387,258th time).
>
> I no longer have any money at all in fact - but that will change once I
> receive the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL are sending me for
> participating in their special on-line email program.
>
> Yes, I want to thank you all so much for looking out for me that I will
> now return the favour!>If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000
> people in the next 7 minutes, a large pigeon with a wicked case of
> diahorrea will land on your head at 5:00PM (EST) this afternoon. I know
> this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door
> neighbor's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician.
>
> Ciao suckers

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes
for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress,
non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice
holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious
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respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of
others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions
at all ... and a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and
medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally
accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the
calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society
have helped make our country great (not to imply that our country is
necessarily greater than any other country or is the only great country
in the Western or any other hemisphere), and without regard to the race,
creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith, or sexual
orientation of the wishee.

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DH

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