Don’t we ALL have one of those people in our email network… you know, the one who forwards fifteen emails a day, each with the telling”Forward this email to ten people you love” at the bottom? (We’ll call her “Aunt Margo”)
Bless her heart, we know she means well. But still! Chain letter after internet hoax after vomitously cute puppy picture… makes us want to reply with “unsubscribe” in the subject line.
(only we’re way too nice to actually do it)
Which is why I adore this very helpful “should you forward that email” decision tree. Print it out and paste it above “Aunt Margo’s” monitor (or tattoo it to the back of her hands) and voila! problem solved!
Here’s the deal if you want to join in.
Write about something funny. It can be an anecdote, a joke, a picture, or a link to something funny… whatever. This is a NO PRESSURE scenario. If it makes you chuckle, it’s good enough. I don’t mean to create a stressful IS IT FUNNY ENOUGH type situation, if you know what I’m sayin’. Anyone can participate.
So you write the post. Then come and link it here so that we can all enjoy the funniness.
If you participate, here’s the code to get the fabulous donkey graphic shown above;
And I should think it goes without saying but JUST IN CASE… any links that don’t go to a Make Me Laugh post on your blog will be deleted, promptly.
And one more thing… several of us read these entries with a child sitting in our lap. Please use an exclamation point at the beginning of your link title if it’s not suitable for young eyes. Happy Monday!
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May 18, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Hee, hee- and SO true!
May 18, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Love it! I am definitely saving this image and sending it to my Aunt Margo as a forward tonight!
May 18, 2008 at 11:32 pm
UGH, I hate those emails. BLERCK!
May 19, 2008 at 3:37 am
Haha. That did make me laugh. Such good advice.
May 19, 2008 at 4:36 am
I WISH I had only “one” of those people who sent me forwards… I have way too many Aunt Margos!
May 19, 2008 at 5:00 am
So True! I def have an Aunt Margo in my life. Great tip!!
May 19, 2008 at 5:30 am
That’s so true. I have more than one Aunt Margo – and one likes to send my txt messages too.
May 19, 2008 at 5:38 am
You know what’s funny? Is that we will send it to our Aunt Margo as a hint…which she will totally not get….and then she will forward it to 15 other people!!
May 19, 2008 at 5:42 am
I’d say one out of ten forwards warrants being forwarded. The rest are garbage. And those chain letter, you will die if you don’t send this are the WORST. I never send them and then I have to spend the next 30 seconds worrying that I might die. I can’t believe my friends would put me through that kind of stress!
Sorry for posting twice on the linky. If you are able, please delete the first one (#12 I think). Thanks!
May 19, 2008 at 5:43 am
So So very true…I think I got an email once and it was a paraody of all the email hoaxes and jokes that go around. Man! I wish I could find that one…..
May 19, 2008 at 5:44 am
I have an aunt or two who could definitely use that!
May 19, 2008 at 5:47 am
Perfect! I might have to make sure my mother in law & sister in law see this!!
May 19, 2008 at 6:23 am
The decision tree is hilarious! (I have that aunt. And sometimes my mom. Ugh.)
May 19, 2008 at 6:39 am
So true and yet so funny.
May 19, 2008 at 7:16 am
Golly – this is one of those “great wonders of the world”… I wonder how to tell “Aunt Margo” to just stop it already!
May 19, 2008 at 8:28 am
my mom sends so much, sometimes it ends up in junk like my sorter decider, no, she’s really a spammer, right?
on the bright side, she mails fewer and fewer packages of articles, cartoons, etc…..
May 19, 2008 at 9:02 am
I am not at liberty to comment on this subject since the person in question might read it and be hurt and humiliated…..( I’m looking at you Frank!)
May 19, 2008 at 9:40 am
Holy crap my dad and my mil both NEED that tattoo!
May 19, 2008 at 10:19 am
I so wish I could use that as a graphic to attach to ALL of my emails. *lol*
The ones I really hate are the forwards in which some poor unfortunate girl with three arms and a huge outgrowth on her forehead won’t get the much needed life transforming surgery unless you forward the email 37 billion times.
May 19, 2008 at 11:37 am
I’m not a big forwarder! Love the advice.
May 19, 2008 at 12:19 pm
This is hilarious!!! You could have written this about my mom… she sends me about 15 forwards a day, seriously.
Thanks for the laugh!
May 19, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Yeah, I have a few Aunt Margos, too!
I feel bad, but I never forward them, even though it says I should! ;)
May 19, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Unfortunately the people who really need that decision tree aren’t reading blogs. They’re too busy forwarding.
May 19, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I am thrilled that you are doing Make Me Laugh Monday! I just discovered it and can’t wait to read all the links! You are so funny!
May 20, 2008 at 6:49 am
oh man….i don’t have an aunt Margo, but i do have an aunt Ethel…and she definitely needs this!
ha! love ut!
May 20, 2008 at 7:39 am
I know so many people that should print that out!