From: v069qryr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Aaron Breen)
Newsgroups: alt.personals
Subject: Re: Good Luck
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:30:00 GMT
Followup-To: alt.personals
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <fburdette-151092095133@fburdette.worldbank.org>, fburdette@worldbank.org (Franklin P. Burdette) writes...
>To Saint Jude:
> 
>With Love All Things Are Possible
> 
>	This paper has been sent to you for good luck. The original in is New
>England. It has been sent around the world nine times! The luck has now
>been sent to you. You will receive good luck within four days of receiving
>this letter provided you, in turn send it on.
> 
>	This is no joke. You will receive good luck in the mail. Send no money.
>Send copies to people you think need some good luck. Do not send money as
>fate has no price. Do not keep this letter. It must leave your hands within
>96 hours.
> 
>	Joe Elliot received $40,000\endash and lost it because he broke the chain.
>Gene Welch lost his wife 51 days after receiving the letter. He had failed
>to circulate the letter. However, before her death, he received $775,000.
> 
>	Please send twenty copies and see what happens in four days. The chain
>comes from Venezuela and was written by Saul de Group, a missionary from
>South Africa. Since the copy must tour the world, you must make twenty
>copies and send them to friends and associates. After a few days, you will
>get a surprise. This is true. Even if you are not superstitious.
> 
>	Do note the following: Constantine Dias received the chain letter. He
>asked his secretary to make twenty copies and send them out. A few days
>later he won a lottery of two million dollars. Carlos Dadirr, an office
>employee, received the letter and forgot it had to leave his hands within
>96 hours. He lost his job. Later, after finding the letter again, he mailed
>the twenty copies. A few days later, he got a better job. Dalan Fairchild
>received the letter and, not believing, threw the letter away. Nine days
>later he died.
> 
>	In 1987 the letter, received by a young woman in California, was very
>faded and barely readable. She promised herself she would retype the letter
>and send it on, but she put it aside to do later. She was plagued by
>various problems including expensive car repairs. The letter did not leave
>her hands in 96 hours. She finally retyped the letter as promised and got a
>new car!

 Yes, and if you decide to send this chain letter over the net, or within
 certain areas (depending on how strict regulations are in that area), you
 might lose all access to your computing priviledges.
 A friend of mine almost had her account taken away because of this exact same
 thing..... Check your sysop first before sending this to anyone else.

+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|     Aaron Trevor Breen       | "I took the money, I spiked your drink,     |
|       "The  Dazzler"         |  You miss too much these days if you stop   |
|------------------------------+  to think.                                  |
|V069QRYR@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU |  You led me on with those innocent eyes,    |
+------------------------------+  And you know I love the element of         |
                               |  surprise.                                  |
                               |  And in the garden I was playing the tart,  |
                               |  I kissed your lips and broke your heart.   |
                               |  You, you were acting like it was the end   |
                               |  of the world."                             |
                               |         "Until The End Of The World"- U2    |
                               +---------------------------------------------+