The internet has been around for a while now and it amazes me that people still forward chain letters that promise true love, riches, refunds from microsoft or you will have horrible luck for the rest of your life. In case you aren’t sure whether to believe these “FW:FW:FW:Must Read This” emails I have put all of them to the test. I would say I have very good fortune/luck and I can’t recall ever forwarding such an email. I just got an email about Robin Williams’ peace plan and it was interesting to read, I must admit, and I’m not mad that someone sent it to me but after a quick search I found out that the message started circulating 3 years ago and didn’t start out attributed to Robin Williams and, in fact, he never came up with this plan. Somewhere along the line someone put his name on there and who knows how many people have read this message now thinking Robin Williams did this in a comic routine.

Wouldn’t that be something to make up a really funny email, forward it to everyone you know and 3 years from now get it back with a famous person’s name on it. I would want the credit myself. I wonder if there are people out there trying to come up with the next big forwarded email. Their goal in life is to have their messages sent to more people than ever before. Most of these probably are stolen from someone’s website. In fact, someone could copy this post, change it up a little bit and start forwarding it. I just know that 5 years from now I’m going to get an email that looks like something I’ve posted on my blog with George Bush’s name on it.