Thought you'd enjoy this item that I culled from the e-mail newsletter of Plain Truth Ministries:
I want to thank all of you who have taken the time and trouble to send me your chain letters over the past several years. Thank you for making me feel safe, secure, blessed, and wealthy. Because of your concern . . . .
I no longer drink popular soft drinks since the people who make these products are atheists who refuse to put "Under God" on their cans.
I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS.
I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.
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 FedEx since they are actually Al Qaeda in disguise.
I no longer shop at Target since they are French and don't support our troops.
I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a stupid number for which I will get the phone bill from hell with calls to Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, and Uzbekistan.
I no longer eat prepackaged foods because the estrogens they contain will turn me gay.
I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers.
I no longer go to bars because someone will drug me and take my kidneys and leave me taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice.
Thanks to you, I have learned that God only answers my prayers if I forward an email to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.
I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl who has been dying for the past seven years.
I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.
I will now return the favor. If you don't send this e-mail to at least 1,200 people in the next 60 seconds, you will be infested by the fleas of a thousand camels. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of a friend of a friend's neighbor's cousin, and he's a lawyer.