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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 8 Nov 1997.
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This powder is legal

This powder is legal

alt.ascii-art · 7 messages · 8 Nov 1997 - 11 Nov 1997
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I found this and tryed it.It made me feel great and enhanced my natural
urges If you know what I mean.Dont believe me?Then read what the Pope
said about it.

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Randy Gardner <ran...@slip.net> ASCII art 8 Nov 1997 00:00 · permalink · report
Tony Slatton wrote:
> 
> I found this and tryed it.It made me feel great and enhanced my
> natural urges If you know what I mean.Dont believe me?Then read
> what the Pope said about it.
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Horrible, horrible
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(No insult to hormel (sp?) foods intended.  Not to say I'd ever
eat the stuff, it resemblance to cat food in both taste, texture,
and ingredients is a little to much for me! :-)



Check out the link in my new sig! :-)
-- 
--ran...@slip.net  (Randy Gardner)
--http://www.slip.net/~randyg/index.htm  - *New*  Download a maze
  program that lets you actually walk *inside* the maze!!

aardvarko <*RE...@aol.com> ASCII art 8 Nov 1997 00:00 · permalink · report
This is pointless.

Have you noticed a direct relationship between the ability of the
spammer to spell and
the stupidity of the product?

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Tony Slatton wrote in message <346...@earthlink.net>...
>I found this and tryed it.It made me feel great and enhanced my natural
>urges If you know what I mean.Dont believe me?Then read what the Pope
>said about it.
>

_______________________________________________________
Subj: !-Contagion Warning

Dear Netizens,

Various email thought contagions now spread on the Internet, 
warning people about mythical email computer viruses--even 
though opening an email text cannot set off an embedded 
computer virus. The false belief is the real virus. As a 
thought contagion, it is a meme that manipulates you to 
retransmit rather than an actual computer virus infecting 
computers. The real "host computer" is the human brain, and 
a population of brains interconnected by the Internet 
provides the susceptible medium for pandemic thought 
contagions. Early strains arose by mutation and selection: 
Someone wanted to stop a chain letter called "Good Times" 
with rampantly spreading instructions to delete the "Good 
Times" message. A memetic accident. 

Later versions resulted from both good intentions and 
prankish imitations, with the most infectious strains 
gaining the widest circulation and becoming the commonest 
basis for new variation. One version warns against the 
heading "Penpal Greetings," another "Join the Crew," still 
another "Valentine�s Greetings," and the list goes on. One 
of them even fouls up normal Internet communications by 
telling you not to read the message "Returned or Unable to 
Deliver," stopping people from knowing when they've used a 
bad or mistyped address. Some advise you never to take mail 
from "people you don't know," which could mean your best 
friend writing from a new address or an important job offer. 
And just to confuse the "worried well" we even have 
pranksters with scary screen names trying to "prove" the 
"virus" real. It now swamps real virus fighters with false 
alarms that can cause risky delays in an actual emergency. 

What can we do? First, if you get a false warning, then copy 
this message and send it to all the people on its "from," 
"to," and "cc" headers unless one of them has beat you to 
it. The sooner you act, the better, because a long "cc" list 
means a very short delay until someone retransmits. Do not 
mail only to the senders email address expecting them to 
send the correction--they will probably not check their 
email until long after someone on their "cc" list 
retransmits. If you have old false alarm letters in your 
mailbox, you can still help by recycling the "from," "to," 
and "cc" headers, because some of these people still delete 
bounced mail and other important messages. (Where available, 
please use "bcc" instead of "cc" to cut clutter.) And when 
you see a false alarm posted in a newsgroup, post & mail 
this letter in reply.

If you have already sent out a false warning, now is your 
chance to prove good intentions by copying this message and 
sending it as a correction. Posting to "institution.general" 
newsgroups helps. This message also works as a mental 
vaccine for network beginners, and anyone unaware of how 
disk software viruses or BRAIN software viruses infect.
It also works as the "booster vaccine" for lists of people 
who get skeptical spoof letters. 

Finally, do not believe any email warnings of computer 
viruses that supposedly activate merely by opening and 
reading email text. And save a copy of this letter to resend 
the next time you get a bogus email virus warning. For quick 
reference, keep the subject line as "!-Contagion Warning," 
because your computer puts the "!" character before the "a" 
character in its "alphabet." And remember, this really is 
about "exclamation contagions" creating false worries and 
wasting resources. Better to send recursive corrections!

This "!-Contagion Warning" does not call for all recipients 
to resend the way chain letters do, but only for sending 
when circumstances warrant. So please, don't assume the 
message has widely spread just because it comes from a 
thought contagion expert. Anyone getting a bogus warning 
still depends on YOU to send the correction, and it needs to 
be this recursive correction in order to reach all of THEIR 
contacts! Because "!-Contagion Warning" shifts into dormancy 
as it succeeds in stopping viral false alarms, you can send 
it with a clear conscience too.* Let's rid our local nets of 
harmful communication fears!

*PS., An "always-send" take-off of this letter will NOT go 
dormant when it needs to, unless followed by this letter as 
a "safe send" option. ("Always send" IS a chain letter!)

For annotated specimens, further reading, and updates of 
this letter, see http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/contagion.htm.
_______________________________________________________

> I found this and tryed it.It made me feel great and enhanced my natural
> urges If you know what I mean.Dont believe me?Then read what the Pope
> said about it.

Wink wink, nudge nudge, know what I mean? Actually, you dickhead, the
Pope is a rather unfortunate example to give, if you're trying to convey
the impression of a sex God whose 'natural urges' have been enhanced 'if
you know what I mean'. I don't recall having read of the Pope shagging
fifty nuns in one night, was this in Playboy? I must have missed that
(all) edition. It's a thought though, innit? I did note that the powder,
which looks suspiciously like a class-A drug in the photo, contains
beta-carotene! (yep, the advert had the exclamation mark) this is in
carrots, wow ! Mind you Bugs Bunny eats carrots, and he's lively enough,
and he's also a product of the imagination, like the supposed benfits of
the dope you're peddlin', but Bugs is HEAPS more fun.
Maybe I'm doing you a disservice, Tony Slatton, and yours was an
unbiased
wish to help humanity, oops, no, there's your name next to Distributor's
Name, silly me. Do me a favour, OD on this crap, and piss off into
Internet Oblivion.

********************************************************************
            WARNING, CAUTION, DANGER, AND BEWARE!
            Gullibility Virus Spreading over the Internet!
********************************************************************


WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Institute for the Investigation of Irregular
Internet Phenomena announced today that many Internet users are becoming
infected by a new virus that causes them to believe without question
every
groundless story, legend, and dire warning that shows up in their inbox
or
on their browser.  The Gullibility Virus, as it is called, apparently
makes people believe and forward copies of silly hoaxes relating to
cookie
recipes, email viruses, taxes on modems, and get-rich-quick schemes
[perhaps conspiracy theories should be included here].

"These are not just readers of tabloids or people who buy lottery
tickets
based on fortune cookie numbers," a spokesman said. "Most are otherwise
normal people, who would laugh at the same stories if told to them by a
stranger on a street corner."  However, once these same people become
infected with the Gullibility Virus, they believe anything they read on
the Internet.

"My immunity to tall tales and bizarre claims is all gone," reported one
weeping victim.  "I believe every warning message and sick child story
my
friends forward to me, even though most of the messages are anonymous."

Another victim, now in remission, added, "When I first heard about Good
Times, I just accepted it without question.  After all, there were
dozens
of other recipients on the mail header, so I thought the virus must be
true."  It was a long time, the victim said, before she could stand up
at
a Hoaxees Anonymous meeting and state, "My name is Jane, and I've been
hoaxed."  Now, however, she is spreading the word.  "Challenge and check
whatever you read,"  she says.

Internet users are urged to examine themselves for symptoms of the
virus,
which include the following:

      *  the willingness to believe improbable stories
         without thinking

      *  the urge to forward multiple copies of such
         stories to others

      *  a lack of desire to take three minutes to check
         to see if a story is true

T. C. is an example of someone recently infected.  He told one
reporter,  "I
read on the Net that the major ingredient in almost all shampoos makes
your
hair fall out, so I've stopped using shampoo."  When told about the
Gullibility Virus, T. C. said he would stop reading email, so that he
would
not become infected.

Anyone with symptoms like these is urged to seek help immediately.
Experts
recommend that at the first feelings of gullibility, Internet  users
rush to
their favorite search engine and look up the
item tempting them to thoughtless credence.  Most hoaxes, legends, and
tall
tales have been widely discussed and exposed by the Internet community.

Courses in critical thinking are also widely available, and there is
online
help from many sources, including

      *  Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory
         Capability at
              <http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html>

      *  Symantec Anti Virus Research Center at
              <http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html>

      *  McAfee Associates Virus Hoax List at
              <http://www.mcafee.com/support/hoax.html>

      *  Dr. Solomons Hoax Page at
              <http://www.drsolomons.com/vircen/hoax.html>

      *  The Urban Legends Web Site at
              <http://www.urbanlegends.com>

      *  Urban Legends Reference Pages at
              <http://www.snopes.com>

      *  Datafellows Hoax Warnings at
              <http://www.Europe.Datafellows.com/news/hoax.htm>

Those people who are still symptom free can help inoculate themselves
against the Gullibility Virus by reading some good material on
evaluating
sources, such as

      *  Evaluating Internet Research Sources at
              <http://www.sccu.edu/faculty/R_Harris/evalu8it.htm>

      *  Evaluation of Information Sources at
              <http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm>

      *  Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources at
              <http://refserver.lib.vt.edu/libinst/critTHINK.HTM>

Lastly, as a public service, Internet users can help stamp out the
Gullibility Virus by sending copies of this message to anyone who
forwards
them a hoax.

*******************************************************************
This message is so important, we're sending it anonymously!  Forward it
to
all your friends right away!  Don't think about it!  This is not a chain
letter!  This story is true!  Don't check it out!  This story is so
timely,
there is no date on it!  This story is so important, we're using lots of
exclamation points!  For every message you forward to some unsuspecting
person, the Home for the Hopelessly Gullible will donate ten cents to
itself.  (If you wonder how the Home will know you are forwarding these
messages all over creation, you're obviously thinking too much.)

************************************************************************************
ACT NOW!  DON'T DELAY!  LIMITED TIME!  NOT SOLD IN ANY STORE
*************************************************************************************

Oh, I've heard that before!  :-)

Do you know who the origional auther was?


It may just be the fact that I've been programming since I was 8,
but I find it VERY hard to belive that ANYBODY could fall for one
of those "Kill everything if you open this message" hoaxes.   Who
remembers the one that  said it would  switch the colors  of your 
_SOCKS_ if you opened it?

-- 
--ran...@slip.net  (Randy Gardner)
--http://www.slip.net/~randyg/index.htm  - *New*  Download a maze
  program that lets you actually walk *inside* the maze!!

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