Misc Jokes

Avoid Chain Letters

If you send this message off to 20 people within the next 4
days, and each of them send this letter off to 20 other
people within 4 days...

In 40 days, approx. 10 trillion of these messages will cross
the internet.

From day 40 to day 44, an additional 200 trillion of these
messages will cross the internet, at an average of 50
trillion messages per day.

From day 44 to 48, an additional 4,000 trillion of
these messages will cross the internet, at an average of
1,000 trillion messages a day, 41.7 trillion messages per
hour, 694 billion messages per minute, or 11.6 billion
messages per second.

Of course, the internet will have ground to a complete halt
way before then, and a good thing too, because by day 44
(assuming each man, woman and child in the world is tied to
the internet) you would have to respond to about 2 chain mail
letters per second, sending off 20 responses each second,
giving you 5/100 of a second to send each message. If you
drop the ball, you will break about 1,800,000 chain letters
per day, bringing
almost two million times the bad luck upon yourself than if
you broke the first chain letter to begin with.

The logical conclusion? It is better to break the
initial chain letter and receive one dose of bad luck than
to continue the chain letter, and by day 44, receive
1,800,000 doses of bad luck.

I knew one poor fellow who ended up in such a
circumstance. He ended up having 287,345 heart
attacks, losing 5,137 wives, got fired from at least 100,000
jobs, and was run over by a truck. His Visa card was also
revoked. Nobody liked him anymore. He finally ended up
committing suicide 459 times, but he was so unlucky, he was
never successful. Finally, he resigned to the idea of not
dying, and was immediately hit by a meteorite and vaporized.
But his cells went on to experience even more bad luck.