Innominatus [High Praise!] has posted one of those million-times-forwarded emails featuring “five life lessons.”
I thought they were a bit sappy.
Then again, maple syrup is made out of sap, and pancakes are ever so much better with syrup.
If you’re having a dry-pancake day, maybe these are just what you need.
Yeah, I guess we all need a bit of schmaltz once in a while.
Since the “early” days of email, I’ve never forwarded anything that prompts you to forward it to everybody. I must have lost $billions in free money from Bill Gates.
For what it’s worth, the “Mrs. Nat King Cole” story is BS, but you know stuff like that will be circulated forever. Before email was common, I remember seeing barely legible, hundredth-generational refaxes of the “never give up” frog/bird cartoon.
Now, you have a choice: you can either forward this to everybody you know within 7 minutes, or you’ll never find the love of your life, you’ve probably never paid taxes, and you wheel old ladies off cliffs.
A bit sappy? I need to go mug a diabetic to get some insulin . . .
A dry-pancake day? I’ve yet to eat. And now, since I measured wrong, I’m one rafter short of a full roof.
Extremely sappy stories, but still good lessons.
I’m sure snopes would have a field day with some of those.
But still, they illustrate good points.
When fighting off a bad case of blog neglect, one posts whatever one can come up with. Even if it is sappy. So be nice to me, or I’ll get depressed and have to go read that post again.
I’m just wondering whether, say, Barack Obama, John Kerry, or Al Gore knows the name of the woman who cleans his office. Bill Clinton would, of course, because he would have asked her to do some other things.
The kid left a 42.8% tip? Little money-bags (grumble, mutter) …
As an authority on this matter, I call Hokie!