The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #79645   Message #1444758
Posted By: Jeri
27-Mar-05 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Let's scam the Nigerians
Subject: RE: BS: Let's scam the Nigerians
Mark, I... aHEM... I really hope you copyrighted this, because it's going to be all over the interthingie in a matter of days... or maybe that's 'seconds', because the world wide whatsit happens pretty fast, and sometimes rumors can spread all over before anyone even starts them. I wonder if anyone's ever done a paper on this. You know - like the speed of rumor, or comparing the land speed of rumor to the cyber-speed of rumor. My guess is that rumor and humor disperse at about the same speed because the words only have one letter difference (known as the "RH" factor). In any case, I give it about a week before someone e-mails you what you just wrote with a note like "I don't normally forward stuff like this, but it was just so darned funny, you just HAD to see it!" Then you try to tell them you wrote it, and no one believes you.