goran@erix.UUCP (Goeran Baage) (04/29/85)
Last week I received the chain-letter which I have enclosed below.
If it has been around as long as is claimed, several of you people
out there must have seen it. Any comments or personal experiences?
I think it is disgusting, I don't mind getting some luck and
happiness, but being threatened with all sorts of horrors and
unhappiness if I don't sent the letter along, STINKS.
I can't really figure out if one sends such a letter to friends
or enemies.
I personally will not send any copies around, others than the
N copies I now sneak on to you Netlanders (much
more than 20 copies - should bring me eternal luck :-}).
The following chain-letter text has been translated from a
partly unreadable Swedish copy (no doubt it has been translated to
and from many languages - is the original meaning still there,
I find it hard to believe that a missionary would write something
like this?).
Goeran Baage
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LUCK LETTER
This letter has been sent to You in order to bring You luck and
happiness. The original is kept in New England. It has been traveling
around the world nine times.
Happiness has been sent to You. Within four days after receiving
this letter You will be lucky. It is no joke. Luck gets to You as a
mailed letter. Send copies to people that You think need some luck
and happiness. Send no money because destiny hasn't got a price.
Don't keep the letter.
You must send this message along within 95 hours.
A K?P-officer got 70 000 dollars. Jon Eliot got 40 000 dollars, but
lost them because he broke the chain. In the Philippines Gens Welch
lost his wife six days after received the letter. He did not send it
along. He anyhow received 7555(?) dollars after her dead...
Send 20 copies of the letter and see what happens within four days.
The chain was started in Venezuela and the original letter was written
by Saul Anthon D?ruof, a missionary from South America. Because the
letter must travel around the world, you must send 20 copies to
relatives and friends. After a few days you will have a nice surprise.
It is true, even if you don't believe in the supernatural. Constantenia
Dias received one of these letters 1953. He asked his secretary to make
20 copies and send them. A few days later he won 2 million dollars in a
lottery. Arlo Dattit, a clerk, got the letter but forgot to send it on
within 95 hours. He lost his job. Later when he found the letter he
sent it. A few days later he got a better job. D??ar Fairchill got
the letter but didn't believe in it and he throw it away. A few days
later he died.
NOTE. Send no money. Don't disregard this. It actually works.