If you send me 10 clams, I will share with you my Secrets of Success! …. (…. this offer will expire in 24 hours, act fast to get these important Secrets!)
I used to send letters to Peerless Chain Company in Winona Minnesota if I needed more chain for my hardware store.Well, mostly I called them on the phone…
Concept: misuse of a good thing, the internet, brings to mind the song by the great Jerry Reed:.Lord, Mr. Ford
.Well, if you’re one of the millions who own one of themGas drinking, piston clinking, air polluting, smoke belchingFour wheeled buggies from Detroit City, then pay attentionI’m about to sing your song son.Well, I’m not a man appointed judgeTo bear ill-will and hold a grudgeBut I think it’s time I said me a few choice wordsAll about that demon automobileA metal box with the polyglass wheelThe end result to the dream of Henry Ford.Well, I’ve got a car that’s mine aloneThat me and the finance company ownA ready made pile of manufactured griefAnd if I ain’t out of gas in the pouring rainI’m a-changing a flat in a hurricaneI once spent three days lost on a cloverleaf.Well, it ain’t just the smoke and the traffic jamThat makes me the bitter fool I amBut this four wheel buggy is a-dollaring me to deathFor gas and oils and fluids and greaseAnd wires and tires and anti-freezeAnd them accessories, well honey that’s something else.Well, you can get a stereo tape and a color TVGet a backseat bar and reclining seatsAnd just pay once a month, like you do your rentWell, I figured it up and over a period of timeThis four thousand dollar car of mineCosts fourteen thousand dollars and ninety-nine cents.Well, now Lord Mr. Ford, I just wish that you could seeWhat your simple horseless carriage has becomeWell, it seems your contribution to manTo say the least, got a little out of handWell, Lord Mr. Ford, what have you done.Now the average American father and motherOwn one whole car and half anotherAnd I bet that half a car is a trick to buy, don’t you?But the thing that amazes me I guessIs the way we measure a man’s successBy the kind of an automobile he can afford to buy.Well now, red light, green light, traffic copRight turn, no turn, must turn, stopGet out the credit card honey, we’re out of gasWell, now all the car’s placed end to endWould reach to the moon and back againAnd there’d probably be some fool pull out to pass.Well now, how I yearn for the good old daysWithout that carbon monoxide hazeA-hanging over the roar of the interstateWell, if the Lord that made the moon and starsWould have meant for me and you to have carsHe’d have seen that we was all born with a parking space.Lord Mr. Ford, I just wish that you could seeWhat your simple horseless carriage has becomeWell, it seems your contribution to manTo say the least, got a little out of handWell, Lord Mr. Ford, what have you done.Come away with me LucilleIn my smoking, choking automobile..I pause or perhaps finish with the mention that many of the problems noted above have been reduced greatly through improvements in automobiles, highway construction, pollution standards. Life just keeps getting better.
LeoAutodidact over 10 years ago
So it DOES go all the way Back!
BillWa over 10 years ago
And so it began.
inshadowz over 10 years ago
Did Nigeria outsource this activity to Ghana at the time, or had they simply not been invented yet?
nurbz over 10 years ago
A cure for power mad greed that will destroy the “Tree Of Life” – don’t worry, as the wise Hawkeye Pierce once said “Time wounds all Heals”
tahoeh2o over 10 years ago
My bank account number is 1…
jbmlaw01 over 10 years ago
Nobody under age 40 has ever heard of a chain letter.
clayusmcret Premium Member over 10 years ago
No, but I bet they’ve all had the offer of economic prosperity email in their spam folder within the last week.
jtviper7 over 10 years ago
Another long distance scam… Could be the start of cragslist.
ChessPirate over 10 years ago
“Increase your club size!”
Valis616 over 10 years ago
They have, it’s called Linux.
Hunter7 over 10 years ago
If you send me 10 clams, I will share with you my Secrets of Success! …. (…. this offer will expire in 24 hours, act fast to get these important Secrets!)
s.gottlieb over 10 years ago
Beats sending a rock slab across the ocean!
neverenoughgold over 10 years ago
I used to send letters to Peerless Chain Company in Winona Minnesota if I needed more chain for my hardware store.Well, mostly I called them on the phone…
brklnbern over 10 years ago
Just send me $3000 first so I can pay the fees on my million dollar bank account.
stuart over 10 years ago
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian), Solaris … so many choices.
I personally use Fedora. http://fedoraproject.org
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 10 years ago
Concept: misuse of a good thing, the internet, brings to mind the song by the great Jerry Reed:.Lord, Mr. Ford
.Well, if you’re one of the millions who own one of themGas drinking, piston clinking, air polluting, smoke belchingFour wheeled buggies from Detroit City, then pay attentionI’m about to sing your song son.Well, I’m not a man appointed judgeTo bear ill-will and hold a grudgeBut I think it’s time I said me a few choice wordsAll about that demon automobileA metal box with the polyglass wheelThe end result to the dream of Henry Ford.Well, I’ve got a car that’s mine aloneThat me and the finance company ownA ready made pile of manufactured griefAnd if I ain’t out of gas in the pouring rainI’m a-changing a flat in a hurricaneI once spent three days lost on a cloverleaf.Well, it ain’t just the smoke and the traffic jamThat makes me the bitter fool I amBut this four wheel buggy is a-dollaring me to deathFor gas and oils and fluids and greaseAnd wires and tires and anti-freezeAnd them accessories, well honey that’s something else.Well, you can get a stereo tape and a color TVGet a backseat bar and reclining seatsAnd just pay once a month, like you do your rentWell, I figured it up and over a period of timeThis four thousand dollar car of mineCosts fourteen thousand dollars and ninety-nine cents.Well, now Lord Mr. Ford, I just wish that you could seeWhat your simple horseless carriage has becomeWell, it seems your contribution to manTo say the least, got a little out of handWell, Lord Mr. Ford, what have you done.Now the average American father and motherOwn one whole car and half anotherAnd I bet that half a car is a trick to buy, don’t you?But the thing that amazes me I guessIs the way we measure a man’s successBy the kind of an automobile he can afford to buy.Well now, red light, green light, traffic copRight turn, no turn, must turn, stopGet out the credit card honey, we’re out of gasWell, now all the car’s placed end to endWould reach to the moon and back againAnd there’d probably be some fool pull out to pass.Well now, how I yearn for the good old daysWithout that carbon monoxide hazeA-hanging over the roar of the interstateWell, if the Lord that made the moon and starsWould have meant for me and you to have carsHe’d have seen that we was all born with a parking space.Lord Mr. Ford, I just wish that you could seeWhat your simple horseless carriage has becomeWell, it seems your contribution to manTo say the least, got a little out of handWell, Lord Mr. Ford, what have you done.Come away with me LucilleIn my smoking, choking automobile..I pause or perhaps finish with the mention that many of the problems noted above have been reduced greatly through improvements in automobiles, highway construction, pollution standards. Life just keeps getting better.
JRemakel1 over 10 years ago
Pen pals can be a problem?
Elvanion over 10 years ago
Given how much of a religious nut Hart was, they should use the ones that start: “Dear Beloved in God, the Holy Spirit has led me to contact you….”