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Educational Emails– Don’t You Love Them!

posted by Ben Witherington | 7:26pm Sunday December 6, 2009

Subject: educational
e-mails

Just want
to thank all of you for your educational e-mails over the past year. I am
totally screwed up now and have little chance of recovery.

I
no longer open a public bathroom door
without using a
paper towel or have them put lemon slices in my ice water without worrying
about the bacteria on the lemon peel.

I
can’t use the remote in a hotel room
because I don’t
know what the last person was doing while flipping through the adult movie
channels.



I
can’t sit down on the hotel bedspread
because I can
only imagine what has happened on it since it was last
washed.

I
have trouble shaking hands

with someone who has been driving because the number one pastime while
driving alone is picking ones nose (although cell phone usage may be taking
the number one spot).


Eating
a little snack sends me on a guilt trip
because I can
only imagine how many gallons of trans fats I have consumed over the
years.


I
can’t touch any woman’s purse
for
fear she has placed it on the floor of a public bathroom.


I
MUST SEND MY SPECIAL THANKS
to
whoever sent me the one about poop in the glue on envelopes because I now
have to use a wet sponge with every envelope that needs sealing.


ALSO, now I have to
scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.


I
no longer have any savings

because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown) who is about to die in the
hospital for the 1,387,258th time.

I
no longer have any money at all,
but that will
change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in
their special e-mail program.

I
no longer worry about my soul

because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St. Theresa’s Novena has granted my every
wish.


I
no longer eat KFC
because their
chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or
feathers.



I
no longer use cancer-causing deodorants
even though I
smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.

THANKS
TO YOU
I have learned
that my prayers only get answered if I forward an e-mail to seven of my
friends and make a wish within five minutes.

BECAUSE
OF YOUR CONCERN,
I no longer
drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains.


I
no longer can buy gasoline

without taking someone along to watch the car so a serial killer won’t crawl
in my back seat when I’m pumping gas.



I
no longer drink Pepsi or Dr. Pepper
since the people
who make these products are atheists who refuse to put ‘Under God’ on their
cans.


I
no longer use Saran Wrap
in
the microwave because it causes cancer.


AND
THANKS FOR LETTING ME KNOW
I
can’t boil a cup of water in the microwave anymore because it will blow up
in my face… disfiguring me for life.

I
no longer check the coin return on pay phones
because I could
be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS.

I
no longer go to shopping malls

because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob
me.

I
no longer receive packages from UPS or Fed Ex
since they are
actually Al Qaeda in disguise.

I
no longer shop at Target

since they are French and don’t support our American troops or the Salvation
Army.

I
no longer answer the phone

because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone
bill with calls to  Jamaica ,  Uganda , Singapore , and  Uzbekistan
.


I
no longer buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus
since I now have
their recipe.

THANKS
TO YOU
I can’t use
anyone’s toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under
the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my butt.


AND
THANKS TO YOUR GREAT ADVICE
I
can’t ever pick up $5.00 dropped in the parking lot because it probably was
placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my
leg.

I
can no longer drive my car

because I can’t buy gas from certain gas companies!



I
can’t do any gardening

because I’m afraid I’ll get bitten by the brown recluse and my hand will
fall off.


If
you don’t send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70
minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00 p.m.
tomorrow afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back,
causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually
happened to a friend of my next door neighbor’s ex-mother-in-law’s second
husband’s cousin’s beautician . . ..


Oh,
by the way…..



A
German scientist from  Argentina , after a lengthy
study, has discovered that people with insufficient brain activity read
their e-mail with their hand on the mouse.

Don’t
bother taking it off now, it’s too
 Late!



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Micah

posted December 7, 2009 at 9:27 am


Just an urban legend. This didn’t actually happen. Please check stuff like this on Snopes before posting it! ;)



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Ben Witherington

posted December 7, 2009 at 12:46 pm


Micah this is all a joke. We don’t need Snopes fact-checking jokes— what a waste of time.
BW3



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Ethan Magness

posted December 7, 2009 at 9:25 pm


I think that Micah was also making a joke. I assume that he is aware of your frustration with snopes and was trying to be ironic.
I think that was what he meant to indicate with the winky face.
I could be wrong.



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charisma in life

posted December 15, 2009 at 1:33 pm


Great! Now I can’t even lift my hand off of the mouse!



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