Now here comes the fun part. As a professor of folklore and English, I like to study what people send to each other. Recently, I received the above chain letter from Andy, a student from my folklore class last fall. It's a great case study. Sorry, but this chain letter is for real.
Love is a hot topic.
My desktop calculator can't do 25 to the 46th. But I know that 25 to the 6th is more than 244 million, approximately the population of the United States. Twenty-five to the 7th is 6.1 billion, the population of planet earth. So if this message were forwarded to 25 people 46 times, then everyone on earth would have received it hundreds of times over. Since we didn't, then everyone on earth has been dumped several times over for not forwarding it as directed, according to the chain letter's threats.