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Tom Earp · #1 08-19-2008, 05:09 PM

Just an EMAIL FROM A FRIEND:::

Advice from Snopes.com

1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' E-Mails to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.

2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers - - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitable purposes.

You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this information to them; you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-Mails in the future!

If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you know why you get so much SPAM!

Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listings regardless how inviting they might sound!

You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run. Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later! Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich! Let's don't make it easy for them!

Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other organization. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address of the person signing the petition.

Read the full story here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp

Oh, are They Rally Da Best?

Rally is from the Southern Folks.

Da Best, use your magination.

S & G!
TPU!

Keep The Faith Oh Lord! Be Blessin Des Chillin!

SWTXBelle · #2 08-19-2008, 05:40 PM

preciousjeni · #3 08-19-2008, 06:00 PM

What.in.the.world. And,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Be Blessin Des Chillin

I REALLY hope Tom isn't trying to do what I think he's trying to do.

Senusret I · #4 08-19-2008, 06:13 PM

You know he is. But be careful, he might call your national headquarters on you.

preciousjeni · #5 08-19-2008, 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Senusret I

You know he is. But be careful, he might call your national headquarters on you.

I wish he would try and contact Madame President (i.e. my sands). Please.

Tinia2 · #6 08-19-2008, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by preciousjeni

What.in.the.world. And,

I REALLY hope Tom isn't trying to do what I think he's trying to do.

I was wondering that at well once I started to read this thread so I went directly to Snopes
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/inboxer.asp
and the facts are that this is another falsehood Tom;seems as if the person who sent it out to you as well as you did not read all of it.:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/false.asp
if any one cares to read up on all of this.

SWTXBelle · #7 08-19-2008, 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Let's just say it was "Southern speak" and that those Southerners who speak like that should feel insulted.

Great thread, Tom. Keep up the good work.

Ummmm . . . no southerner, black, white, brown, or purple, speaks like THAT. All southerners should feel insulted!

SWTXBelle · #8 08-19-2008, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Not true and actually there are nonSoutherners who speak like that.

And in case you missed it I was proposing that as an alternative to Tom attempting "Black speak," since he mentioned Southern folks.

Oh, I knew what you were proposing- and my point is that his attempt at replicating that particular dialect was so poor as to be insulting. So I guess I should say no southerner speaks EXACTLY like that - it struck me as an uneducated, stereotypical attempt at a dialect he doesn't understand from a linguistic standpoint.

I apologize for attempting to apply logic - I momentarily forget we were talking about Earp.

SWTXBelle · #9 08-19-2008, 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

I'm sure that was his point.

Most people don't attempt to understand linguistics before they imitate dialects, accents, and slang. Most people just go based on how it sounds. And some people sound similar to what he was depicting, however that doesn't make the mockery any less insulting.

Too true.

Drolefille · #10 08-20-2008, 08:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Just an EMAIL FROM A FRIEND:::

Advice from Snopes.com

1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' E-Mails to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.

2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers - - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitable purposes.

You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this information to them; you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-Mails in the future!

If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you know why you get so much SPAM!

Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listings regardless how inviting they might sound!

You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run. Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later! Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich! Let's don't make it easy for them!

Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other organization. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address of the person signing the petition.

Read the full story here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp

Oh, are They Rally Da Best?

Rally is from the Southern Folks.

Da Best, use your magination.

S & G!
TPU!

Keep The Faith Oh Lord! Be Blessin Des Chillin!

Please enjoy this information which I have copied from my inbox. OH NO THEY'RE TRACKING ME. Don't I KNOW That they also track when you post your spam onto a message board? It's probably Snopes that tracks me! It's as accurate as that Obama one I send to all my friends. It has a Snopes link on it too!

Don't mind me, I'm speaking in tongues now. The real question is... how do I manage to be so coherent when apparently possessed by the spirit of a really bad actor trying to do a Creole-ish accent? I mean I spelled the wrong spellings all right!

(Translator's note: went with the Creole because it sounds more entertaining in my head that way. I'm so out of practice!)

SWTXBelle · #11 08-20-2008, 10:10 AM

So good to have you back, Drole!

tinydancer · #12 08-20-2008, 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

It was a bit like a Zatarain's red beans and rice commercial.

Gee thanks. Now I feel like going to Popeye's and getting some red beans and rice.

ree-Xi · #13 08-20-2008, 06:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

I'm sure that was his point.

Most people don't attempt to understand linguistics before they imitate dialects, accents, and slang. Most people just go based on how it sounds. And some people sound similar to what he was depicting, however that doesn't make the mockery any less insulting.

I was going to make this very point! Linguistics was the most interesting class out of all my courses as an English major. The most interesting piece of information I learned is that the action of speech is parasitic. That is, the muscles and organs we use for speech exist for more primal human processes.

Knowing how speech develops in humans, and how different speech patterns develop and are cultivated, helped me immensely in studying several different languages, and even moreso now as a studying actress. Not to mention that it's very interesting!

Tom Earp · #14 08-22-2008, 03:41 PM

S & G

TPU!

metricmonkey · #15 08-22-2008, 04:42 PM

What? I'm so