June 20, 2008
...And you think you're having a bad day at work (LOL!)
Although this looks like a picture taken from a Hollywood movie, it is in fact a REAL PHOTO, taken near the South African coast during a military exercise by the British Navy.
It has been nominated by Geo as "THE photo of the year".
Please feel free to email it to all your friends.
Posted by Phil at 9:35 AM | Comments (5)
December 14, 2006
Failure to comply with email-forwarding instructions now Number 1 cause of death*
Playaz' studies have shown that the American public's refusal to forward emails despite specific instructions to do so have resulted in fatalaties that are now the leading cause of death, overtaking lung cancer and heart disease.
Examples of the types of emails we are talking about can be found here, or, typically have a poem or story about "friends" with a message of hope or inspiration, with a disclaimer that unless forwarded instantly to a pre-determined number of people, certain death will befall you.
A while back, we received this email (with the instructions "Read alone (do not delete)" -- Note: DO NOT DISREGARD THESE INSTRUCTIONS EITHER, THEY ARE IMPORTANT):
Read Alone.....
Especially the Poem
I believe whatever is in store for us will be for us.
The poem is very true, unfortunately.
CASE 1: Kelly Sedey had one wish, for her boyfriend of three years, David Marsden, to propose to her.
Then one day when she went to lunch David proposed!
She accepted, but then had to leave because she had a meeting in 20 min.
When she got to her office, ! ! she noticed on her computer she had some e-mail's. She checked it, the usual stuff from her friends, but then she saw one that she had never gotten before. It was this poem. She simply deleted it without even reading all of it.
BIG MISTAKE! Later that evening, she received a phone call from the police It was about DAVID! He had been in an accident with an 18 wheeler. He didn't survive!
CASE 2: Take Katie Robinson She received this poem and being the believer that she was she sent it to a few of her friends but didn't have enough e-mail addresses to send out the full 5 that you must.
Three days later, Katie went to a masquerade ball.
Later that night when she left to get to her car, she was killed in that spot by a hit-and-run drunk driver.
CASE 3: Richard S. Willis sent this poem out within 45 minutes of reading it. Not even 4 hours later walking along the street to his new job interview with a really big company, ! when he ran into Cynthia Bell, his secret love for 5 years. Cynthia came up to him and told him of her passionate crush on him that she had had for 2 years.
Three days later, he proposed to her and they got married.
Cynthia and Richard are still married with three children, happy as ever!
This is the poem: Around the corner I have a friend, In this great city that has no end, Yet the days go by and weeks rush on, And before I know it, a year is gone.
And I never see my old friends face, For life is a swift and terrible race, He knows I like him just as well, As in the days when I rang his bell. And he rang mine but we were younger then, And now we are busy, tired men.
Tired of playing a foolish game,
Tired of trying to make a name.
"Tomorrow" I say! "I will call on Jim
Just to show that I'm thinking of him."
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes, And distance between us grows and grows. Around the corner, yet miles away, "Here's a telegram sir," "Jim died today."
And that's what we get and deserve in the end.
Around the corner, a vanished friend. Remember to always say what you mean.
If you love someone, tell them.
Don't be afraid to express yourself.
Reach out and tell someone what they mean to you. Because when you decide that it is the right time it might be too late. Seize the day. Never have regrets.
And most importantly, stay close to your friends and family, for they have helped make you the person that you are today.
You must send this on in 3 hours after reading the letter to 10 other people.
If you do this, you will receive unbelievably good luck.
*NOTE*
the more people that you send this to, the betterluck you will have.
Whew.....it's so true...Pretty scary, isn't it? This email alone has killed over 243,756 people because they deleted it. There are others out there just like it.
MY GOD, PEOPLE!! DON'T YOU WANT TO LIVE?? DO YOU WANT YOUR LOVED ONES TO LIVE?? What must we do to convince you, DO NOT DELETE THESE EMAILS!!
Bon himself deleted this email, then 10 minutes later overdosed on cocaine.
Fortunately, he survived, but only because Wayne was able to act quickly enough to forward the email to 35 people (enough to cause Bon to merely have his stomach pumped and require a small amount of rehabilitation).
*Based on the Playaz personal medical expertise and best guess
Posted by Phil at 2:52 PM | Comments (24)
September 23, 2005
Heed my warnings! These stories are true!!
Please forward the following to all of your friends and family within the next 30 minutes, or you will all be eaten by locusts:
I know you probably hate these emails as much as I do, but I felt I had to forward this to everyone I knew, because I would hate if it happened to someone else. A week ago, my next door neighbors Bill and Karen had been planning a family vacation with their only child, a beautiful little girl who's first birthday was coming up. My neighbors were going to visit Karen's parents in Florida to celebrate little Katie's first birthday together.
Because of skyrocketing airline costs, my neighbors were going to drive, so needless to say there was alot to pack for such a long trip. Money had been tight with them for a while now, since Bill had lost his job over three months ago, and the family was stressed out and fought a lot, seemingly all the time. While they were busy packing, Bill and Karen had an argument over who forgot to fill the car up with gas.
With both of them now in a huff, Bill and Karen got in the car to leave but the car would not start. I'm sure they were thinking "what else can go wrong"? Bill turned the car over again and again and the car was making this awful grinding noise and refused to start.
Bill got out and looked under the hood. Inside was the mangled body of his daughter, Katie. Somehow, amidst the fighting and packing, Bill and Karen lost track of Katie, and she had crawled up into the engine block where she got trapped in a fanbelt. Bill's continuous attempts to start the car had killed his little girl.
Please, PLEASE know where your children are at all times....the little things in life are not worth it when it is SO EASY to lose track of your child. I told this story to my auto mechanic and he said he has heard of 4 instances in the last year about small children doing this. They are very curious, and there is lots of room for a child to crawl under your car.
If your car won't start, open the hood and see if your child is under there. DONT KEEP TURNING THE KEY!!!
PLEASE, do not lose sight of the things that are precious to you!!! Pass this on to everyone you know, and tell them to go home and give their little girl or little boy a hug and say "I love you!!"
I swear this is true. Also, I just got an email saying this weekend the "Bloods" will kill you if you flash your headlights at them. That is all.
-Playaz Public Service announcement
Posted by Phil at 4:02 PM | Comments (54)