For a couple of minutes, remove yourself from the hate-filled chain emails rife with false statistics about illegal immigrants.
I'm the recipient of endless chain emails all titled roughly "MAYBE THIS WILL CHANGE YOUR MIND!!1!1?!!" about Obama eating the wrong end of a hot dog first and pissing on an American flag made of money.
Can you take me out of this chain email please?
Some Clinton supporters have been blamed over anonymous chain emails questioning Obama's citizenship, but none of the rumormongers were linked to the campaign.
Some Clinton supporters have been blamed over anonymous chain emails for questioning Obama's citizenship, but none of the rumormongers were linked to the campaign.
Philips has also had his jokes passed on by chain emails, often wrongly attributed to the likes of Peter Kay or John Cleese.
"There's a bit of a chain email going on between captain Courier, myself, Sam and the Bryan brothers," said Isner, referring to Sam Querrey, Mike Bryan and Bob Bryan.
We may have stopped forwarding them years ago, but the chain email never really died: It just migrated to Facebook, where its copy-paste offspring continue spreading rumors, superstitions and lies.
These days, the Web has added two more news avenues to the mix: search-directed results (Google, for example), and community-driven news aggregation (Digg, most prominently, but also awful chain emails).
Much like Mike thinks his mom is silly for using chain emails to get in touch, I dread the inevitable Sunday phone calls from relatives I have to return lest they think I'm dead.
