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Of Forwards and crushes

August 19, 2006 by roshan.george in Musings, Internet

Lately I've been getting a lot of forwards. Funny stuff, these forwards. People seem to really want to know what other people's crushes are really badly. All this started when orkut started getting popular among the girls and boys who were once my classmates in school. Then they started pulling all these funny forwards out of their hats.

In the last two weeks I've encountered:

  • The add-your-name-to-get-money mail: This one is very interesting. You add your name to the top of the list, and forward it to the next person, and it keeps going until it reaches the person who starts it, then she gives everyone money. Funny.
  • The sick kid mail: You've all seen this one. You forward it to the next person and AOL pays the sick kid 2 cents. Amusing. Lots of variations, with most starting with the "You will be the most hard hearted person if you delete this." or some such.
  • The crushlist mail: Apparently, a crush list is a list of all the crushes you've ever had. Why people would keep such a list only god knows. So anyway, there are many different kinds of this mail. I've got two so far. Let's quote quote.

    C_var_crsLst=1 {1,0}

    Send this to every one in your friends list, and you should be able to
    see the crush lists of everybody in your friends, it actually works

    And the other:

    man this is creepy its called mind reader. send this to every1 on ur list and then press F8 and ur crushes name will appear on ur screen

    Quite frankly hilarious.

I rate the last one, best. It's the funniest I've seen in a long while.

31 comments

Marc ZAugust 19, 2006

How about the 'send this to everyone in your buddy list and you will get a secret screen' forward in yahoo messenger?

roshan.georgeDecember 19, 2006

Oh god, yes. I'll post on that now.

George Files » Forwards, crushlists, accounts to be deleted, revisited. (pingback)December 19, 2006

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abrahamMarch 3, 2007

hiii send to all your friends

abrahamMarch 3, 2007

hi

sourabhMarch 16, 2007

C_var_crsLst=1 {1,0}

Send this to every one in your friends list, and you should be able to
see the crush lists of everybody in your friends, it actually works

And the other:

man this is creepy its called mind reader. send this to every1 on ur list and then press F8 and ur crushes name will appear on ur screen

Anupam AryaApril 30, 2007

Try this and u'll be amazed...

DiveshMay 8, 2007

I want to enjoy

JAyJune 1, 2007

it doesnt work none of it

MarcJune 2, 2007

Obviously it doesn't work.

You're an idiot if you went and tried it.

graceJune 30, 2007

how about the classic "i want fandsheep with you "

graceJune 30, 2007

oops i meant frandsheep

graceJune 30, 2007

obviously i got mixed up with Forwards and just ridiculous mails.. but speaking of forwards the ones that really question the intelligence of the senders is "forward this mail to 15 friends on your list in the next 15 minutes or you will have bad luck in your love life for 7 years.If you forward this the true love of your life will call in 15 minutes"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

roshan.georgeJuly 1, 2007

Ha ha, "frandsheep" indeed. One of my cousins gets lots of those, crazy stuff.

Oh yeah, and those other ones that claim that if you don't forward the email to 20 other people you're a hard hearted person. Nice try at emotional blackmail.

MarcJuly 2, 2007

Didn't you fall for it on many occasions?

roshan.georgeJuly 2, 2007

I wish I had, it would prove I'm not a hard hearted person.

MarcJuly 3, 2007

Better than going around telling them about the layout and contents of my room.

MarcJuly 3, 2007

Ah, wrong post. Delete comment.

YohanJuly 14, 2007

yeah......and what about things like

“forward this mail to 15 friends on your list in the next 15 minutes or you will have bad luck in your love life for 7 years.If you forward this the true love of your life will call in 15 minutes”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

gosh.....its been 150 days.....but still no call
lol

MarcJuly 15, 2007

So you admit believing that crap and forwarding the message.

mohitAugust 12, 2007

#C_var_crsLst=1 {1,0}
this dosent work!!!
i tried this on my friends.....

roshan.georgeAugust 12, 2007

No it doesn't. :D

Ha ha Yohan, yeah, those messages are really crazy.

MarcAugust 12, 2007

Did you even read the post fully? Mohit, you are an idiot. Go now and try not to be an idiot.

roshan.georgeAugust 12, 2007

Aww, don't be so mean, Marc. You need a Hello Kitty band.

MarcAugust 12, 2007

Sure. I'd sell it.

roshan.georgeAugust 12, 2007

Nah, you'd keep it because it made you feel fuzzy.

MarcAugust 12, 2007

Nope. Sell.

KaylaMarch 29, 2009

i think these fwd msgs r stupid. they have no point.

KaylaMarch 29, 2009

hola nobody signs so ima keep saying hhola

KaylaMarch 29, 2009

hola

roshan.georgeOctober 9, 2009

You're right, Kayla, they are pointless.