Fw: Beware of e-mail bearing gifts....

[nigel kew]

Just got this and thought it worth a giggle!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Martyn <mh-5060 at mail.necgroup.co.uk>
To: J BArton <jaybee at hillcrestmonkeys.freeserve.co.uk>; ciaran
<ciaran at argus.org>; cardiacs-chat at anyware.co.uk
<cardiacs-chat at anyware.co.uk>; dailywaffle at egroups.com
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<mick.l at drp.co.uk>; SB-5076 at mail.necgroup.co.uk
<SB-5076 at mail.necgroup.co.uk>
Date: 20 May 1999 11:56
Subject: Beware of e-mail bearing gifts....


>!!!New Virus Warning!!!
>
>> If you receive any sort of 'work' at all, whether via email,
>> internet or simply handed to you by a colleague...DO NOT OPEN IT.
>> This has been circulating around our building for months and those
>> who have been tempted to open it or even look at it have found that
>> their social life is deleted and their brain ceases to function
>> properly. If you do encounter 'work' via email, then to purge the
>> virus, send an email to your boss with the words 'I've had enough
>> of your shit...I'm off down the pub'. The 'work' should
>> automatically be forgotten by your brain and your career will now
>> be successfully destroyed.
>>
>> If you receive 'work' in paper-document form, simply lift the
>> document and drag to your waste paper bin and deposit there. Put on
>> your hat and coat and skip to the nearest bar with two friends and
>> order three pints of beer. After repeating this action 14 times,
>> you will find that 'work' will no longer be of any relavance to you
>> and that 'Scooby Doo' was the greatest children's cartoon ever.
>>
>> Send this message to everyone in your mailbox. If you do not have
>> anyone in your mailbox, then I'm afraid the 'work' virus has
>> already corrupted your life.
>>
>> Go out and get some friends.
>
>Snigger,
>
>Martyn