chain mail

Last updated on April 4th, 2021 at 08:22 pm

Why even say it when someone’s already done it for you? This principle is the reason why we buy greeting cards. Why you had to have been there. Why a picture says a thousand words. Why it’s better to hear things straight from the horse’s mouth.

Sometimes you have ideas of things you want to write about, but someone else did it better. That’s pretty much what happened when I got this in my email today—what started as a chain letter actually proved to be a set of statements on little things you can change in order to make your life a little easier to live. Who’d have thought that they could actually be useful?

I hope even one of these can help make your life a little easier to live.

Last updated on February 26th, 2021 at 02:04 am

The Internet has come a helluva long way. Remember back when you used to have your Hotmail account and you’d get inundated by spam? Not even from random bots worldwide—from your friends. Yeah, chain mail when it was still hot. I remember all the ones that would tell me that I’d be doomed if I didn’t send it out to 15 friends in 15 minutes; or that I was a heartless bastard if I didn’t tell people how much I cared about a specific cause. I was going to post a mockery of chain letters called “Billy Connolly’s Chain Letter”, but while somewhat amusing, it was WAY too messed and vulgar for me to put in the blog, so if you want to see it, go look it up yourself.

But yes, the chain letter once stood tried and true as the majority of the emails we could count on getting daily. I don’t know if I preferred it over spam, but you don’t see much of it anymore. (Or perhaps it’s just an age thing, which I’ll admit is TOTALLY possible.)

I got this one from my father a few years back, and while it has since been debunked as coming from Bill Gates (it’s really from Charles Sykes’ “Dumbing Down Our Kids”), they’re all still relevant points that we can apply to our lives:

Tell your wife, tell your kids, tell your husbands:

Tell your wife, tell your kids, tell your husbands: