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deptstoremook
Jan 12, 2004
my mom got scared and said "you're moving with your Aunt and Uncle in Bel-Air!"

Hagetaka posted:

It just needs some strain of absurdity involved, otherwise it's just another piece of crap floating around the Internet

The only trouble with this is that most of the chain emails already have this kind of absurdity weaved into the email. The absurd yet veritable tenor of these emails is exactly what leads to their spread.

Can you believe how many barrels of oil are in Montana? It's absurd, but here are a few links nobody is going to click.

The trick, then, is to find the point where your message is more absurd than the rest (already hard), but not gibberish (probably a distant boundary!) I recommend, whatever the end product is, that it contain an encoded satire which will insult the intended audience. IT doesn't matter if someone picks up on that, as the chain letter will grow exponentially and be unstoppable after a few passes....

There are troubling ethical concerns about this idea, but it does seem like fun.

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