fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) (05/14/91)
(this is for the benefit of people who don't read rec.humor.funny) Remember the pyramid scheme posting that everybody got inflamed about? ----- Article 2708 of rec.humor.funny: Path: pasteur!agate!apple!olivea!samsung!news.cs.indiana.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!uupsi!looking!funny-request From: TWPIERCE@amherst.UUCP (Tim Pierce) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Pyramid Posting Contest Winner! Keywords: original, usenet, chuckle Message-ID: <S27a.6f8d@looking.on.ca> Date: 13 May 91 10:30:03 GMT Lines: 39 In article <1991Apr8.071852.20549@agate.berkeley.edu>, evberic@monsoon.Berkeley. EDU (Eric van Bezooijen) writes: > Dear Friend, > > My name is Dave Rhodes. Congratulations! You have become the TEN THOUSANDTH member of Usenet to post the infamous "Dave Rhodes" letter! Yes, you and you alone have risen above the months and months of flame wars arising from pyramid postings and displayed a heretofore unseen level of persistence! For your efforts, you will receive the grand prize: THIS and HUNDREDS OF OTHER flames directed specifically to YOU, arriving both in YOUR personal mailbox and posted on the net for the world to see! As a special added bonus, in a runoff lottery, you may become the next "Dave Rhodes" poster to lose his network access for promoting pyramid schemes on Usenet. Only a select few have been this privileged thus far! Just think: it might be YOU! Good luck on the final drawing! Sincerely, Tim Pierce Chairman and CEO Usenet Lottery and Bingo, Inc. P.S. To all those contestants in the ongoing "Craig Shergold" game: don't worry, there's still time to send in your entries! Don't forget -- you might be THE ONE! -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. If you don't need an auto-reply, submit to rhf@looking.on.ca instead. ----- (incidentally, if you finger his account you'll notice that his account has been deactivated). -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ..!ucbvax!cory!fadden fadden@hermes.berkeley.edu (when cory throws up)