Free Grills!
Here is the truth - I hate forwards with a passion! I don’t want to know about the missing kid in Iowa or that Applebee’s is giving out gift cards if you pass along this very e-mail!
Nor do I care about the friendship e-mail chain that says if I don’t pass this along to 10 close friends within 5 minutes I will die a slow and painful death.
This week alone I received a ‘business proposal’ from Hajia Zainab Ali Hassan. She is the wife of Ex-Defense Minister to the Iraqi government and the first cousin to Ex. President Saddam Hussein. (I want to note that she may be the first cousin, but she couldn’t spell his name right.)She wants me to help her invest $18.5 million in the United States. I’m the chosen one! (If you are interested you can e-mail her @ hajiahassan@yahoo.co.nz)
Have you seen this picture of vegetables with faces?
Or maybe this joke has cracked through your inbox. (Ha! I kill me!)
Oh, my all time favorite are the goofy inspirational ones that have music and glittery animated pictures with that pick-me-up message. My family knows me very well and rarely forwards anything to me because they know I won’t open them. My aunt went out on a limb today and sent me this:
Subject: free grill
OK, listen up! As every southerner knows it’s time to get ready for that all important cooking technique of the south—outdoor grilling! I have found several stores (not just in the south) where you can get a FREE Bar-B-Q grill! This is not a joke. You can get a free BBQ grill from any of the following stores:
A&P
Albertson’s
Costco
Food Lion
Fry’s
Kroger
Big Lots
Brookshire’s
Meijer
Publix
Safeway
Sam’s Club
Target
Von’s
Wal-Mart
Winn-DixieI especially like the higher shelf which can be used for keeping things warm! Just make sure to get a metal one…the plastic ones don’t do so well when smoking a pig…although they do put up a bunch of smoke!
A free grill? I’m game. So sucker me opened the attachment to find the picture below. My middle name is no longer Fenicle, it’s Gullible. With a capitol G.
LOL…I had not seen the latest grill model. Very nice. But in general, I agree with you…all forwards are bad!! I don’t want them in my box.
I got that sheep food thingy in my e-mail! I’m pretty sure I’m also a first cousin to that guy, and I’m gettin’ me one a them grills from Big Lots! LMAO!
all i get are the stupid spam emails trying to seel me viagra and xanax. what exactly are they trying to tell me?
WHAT? Am I that out of the forwards loop that I haven’t gotten any of the ones you’ve listed? Sheep cow-lee-flower! I’m so entirely jealous that you are THE chosen one of Saddam’s 2nd cousin. May I join in on the investment? I’ve got millions just waiting in my account, ready to jump at the bit to choose which email from Nigeria that I’m going to answer one of these days.
I also love the “this is not a joke” addition to all forwards. It makes it that much more credible. Perhaps they should also think about including a certificate of authenticity!
I so have an aunt who needs to see that. She is the queen of forwarding, and I would love to smack this on her. Could you, uh, forward it to me?
Seems like we all have aunts who have forwarding problems. I just change my e-mail address frequently, staying ahead of the forwarders, boxing them out. They’ve given up on me entirely.
Forwards make my ass twitch too…that said, I LOVE your new grill.
I’m pretty sure I got the sheep forward.
I don’t read most of my forwards. I just send them straight to the Spam box.