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Happy Buddies Day Chain Letter

Subject: FW: Happy Buddies day!
 
-Yeah right. There is no location on the map I know of that actually has a "Happy Buddies Day!" Like the so-called "National Friendship Week" it's a sham. Something made up in a chain letter that is meant to appeal to people with big hearts who love cute ideas, but are not likely to realize the problems with chain letters so get manipulated by the heart-strings into passing them along.
 
-By the way, writing a little personal note at the top of this forward does not make it any less of a chain letter, or any more sincere and personal. It's still annoying.
 
HAPPY BUDDIES DAY!!!
 
HAPPY BUDDIES DAY!!!
 
-You already said that, several times. That doesn't make it any truer. See above explanation, it's still bollox.
 
Forward to all your friends, including me. And don't tell me you're too
Busy for this..
 
-I might not be too busy since I'm taking the time to vent my annoyance. I am too smart to spam all my friends with this crap and sure as heck won't send copies of it back to the person who sent it to me. Why do people fall for this rubbish? If everybody sent copies and copies back to their friends, and passed more and more of the same dreck to friends, the internet would crash. It is already sluggish enough as it is sometimes, thanks no doubt to people replicating more and more copies of this junk and forwarding it, or posting it to web sites.
 
Happiness keeps You Sweet,
 
-Well you know what? I'm not very happy right now, so I don't feel very sweet. Why? Because somebody who should've known better, passed on this stupid chain letter! So, go ahead, make me sweet and happy by kicking the forwarding habit already!
 
Trials keep You Strong,
 
-I guess I'm strong then. The latest trial being resisting the urge to yell at whoever is directly responsible for causing my computer monitor threaten to melt, and my eyes and ears to bleed from exposure to this dumb chain letter and the embarrassing fact somebody I knew actually fell for it!
 
Sorrows keep You Human,
 
-And one of the sorrows of seeing their friends get willingly duped into passing on forwards, causes some very real human feelings of disappointment.
 
Failures keep You Humble,
 
-Consider yourself humbled then. You failed to make my day with this chain letter.
 
Success keeps You Glowing,
 
-And has absolutely nothing to do with chain letters.
 
But Only God keeps You Going!
 
-No one needs a chain letter to tell them that.
 
You are so special!
 
-So special that I along with many other people get yet another forwarded chain letter, right.
 
Today is ' online buddy day '.
 
-No matter what you call it, "buddies day" or "online buddy day" that claim is as drippy and bogus as the "National Friendship Week" "Beautiful Woman Month" and whatever fake occasion crops up with each circulation of these malarkey forwards. You could get this chain letter in December, then again in March, then again in July. These so-called special days are nothing but chain letter claptrap designed to make you send and post more copies of them all over the net.
 
Send this to your online friends - even me , if I'm one of them!
 
-As I've said before, I refuse. I've already said why I refuse.
 
Of course you are!
 
-If that's true, show me you are really a friend, and stop sending and posting these sappy forwards and all others, anywhere. Show your smarts and integrity. Stop passing on chain letters!

  
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