Bravo, LABrown!  Great post.  I am constantly getting emails about all of the above.  I refer people to www.snopes.com to check things out for themselves. 

In Peace,

Annette

All my emails that are fwds go directly to my spam box...   This is easy to do by simply typing in fwd as one of the words in an email that you WILL NOT ACCEPT in your spam preferences.   I loath fwds, Why do people think that simply because THEY find something interesting, that I will as well?  It couldn't be farther from the truth. I have Never read a fwd that I enjoyed reading,  I have actually stopped responding to people who send me junk mail.  My time is too valuable to waste on fwds/junk mail.  If you want to tell me something... tell me... don't waste your time looking for junk to fwd me that I won't read anyway....lololololol  ya boneheads.

Love the post Larry

Howdy My New Neighbors, Soon To Be,

Thanks for responding and for the kind words. While most of the forwards I receive, I have either seen 37 times or are garbage or BOTH, I do occasionally get something important or worthwhile and moreover, I just don't trust the technology to not kick out something I really want. I pretty much just go down the list of what comes in and delete as I go.

Also, being the political junky that I am, I relish the opportunity to get one of these lame fabricated smear forwards with nine million names on the list and "reply to all" that they are full o' beans!  I might seem like Don Quixote tilting at windmills but the pathetic reality is that there are a whole bunch of dunderheads out there who get this cr*p in their e mails and read it, believe it, and vote accordingly. Call this my tiny little contribution to factual dialog. *S*

One time I got the one about Ollie North warning us about Bin Ladin at the Iran Contra hearings and I replied to all with a copy and paste from the "Urban Legends" site and I got the nastiest note back from the nephew of a guy I know down in Texas who called me "Frenchy" and "a surrender monkey".  I asked him if he thought folks who preferred to debate truths all had a proclivity for surrendering and were all of French decent and he e mailed me back "take me off your e-mail list".  Argggggg *$&%##$%^   I wrote him back and told him "he wasn't on it" LMAO! 

I am addicted to controversy I guess.  Anyhow, really fun reading all your posts and I hope to meet you all in person one of these days. Comin up next (1/14/08) week to start putting up fences for the ponies and hope to be living there by mid summer.

Thanks again and give'em hell,

Larry *wink*

I too enjoyed your post. 

AND - I loved all the myth buster info. I've heard all these things via dinner discussions and e-mail. Sometimes I try to explain reality and sometimes I just laugh.

I have told all my "used to be friends" that I don't read their forwards.  They still send them.  So, a last summer I sat down and wrote a nice up-date on my life in Tehachapi since we moved here full time three years ago.  It was maybe 500 words - health scares, the birth of our fabulous granddaughter, the massive planting we've done on our acreage and our continuing work on this #$^%&(&*)(  house.  I then told my LA friends that I've known for nearly 20 years that I  would love hearing back from them, with news about  them, their work, their families, activities and friends.  But would not read any dumb "FWD" stuff called things like "best friends week" or "women unite" or "thinking of you."  I explained that forwarding that stuff tells me they don't have enough time to either write or call me about their life and they are obviously no longer interested in mine.

I got one short note saying she agreed.  That was it.  I got cards from everyone this holiday but I didn't reciprocate. 

Like you said - I'm too busy to spend time trying being friends with someone who doesn't want to be.