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Sappy poem and completely unrealistic. So you can't catch rainbows or build me mountains or toss my troubles away, in fact, you add to them whenever you send this or any kind of chain mail junk. As for the part about always being there as a friend, that's a laugh and a half! The only time I ever get email from this person is when it's a stupid forward or form letter! Funny - no, disgusting how people send on this mushy crap about "friendship" but never make contact otherwise. Yeah, I'm so convinced this person is my truest, best friend who is always there...Not!

My suggestion to anybody who gets this forward and is even tempted to pass it on: don't pass it on. Don't set your sites so high either. So you can't catch rainbows and move, sorry, build mountains. That's fine, I never asked you to. But there is one thing I'm begging of you to do to show me you really are a friend - and that is to stop sending forwards! Please, you can do it! It's not anywhere near as hard, heck, it isn't impossible at all to quell the urge to pass it on!

I may not be able to perform all those ridiculously impossible ideas mentioned in the fwd, but the one thing I can do is have the will-power and the consideration not to send fwds, but send my own personal email instead.

Sorry to report this chain is going around again, and with slightly differently worded instructions that mean the same thing as all other fwds "Pass it on and get the same thing back in the millions and you got friends!"

No, it just means you got on people's forwarding lists!

----- Original Message -----
From: some friend I just invited to my no-forwarding list, obviously she doesn't get it!
To: me who doesn't appreciate this junk
Subject: Fw: A Hug Certificate For You

----- Original Message -----
From: somebody else I know from a chat room - geez, why do they fall for this stuff?
To: somebody I don't recall
Subject: RE: A Hug Certificate For You

> This poem is very sweet. It will be interesting to see who sends it back.
> Forward this on and back. Thanks!

-There's nothing sweet about getting junk email instead of real email your friends actually write, and no, who wants to get back the same copies of the same dreadful sap? All that proves is too many people are afflicted with forwarditis and they need a cure, fast!
>>
> If I could catch a rainbow

-Oh, the "Catch a Rainbow" poem yet again. Didn't like it the first time and don't appreciate getting it again! My first comments still stand.
>
> This is a Hug Certificate!!

-These canned friendship hugs are fake as the day is long and that makes them more annoying and painful than a cramp in the foot.

> Send One to All Your Friends Who You Think Deserve A Hug (Which, Hopefully
> Includes the Person Who Sent It to You).

-No, don't! Who wants ten zillion copies of the same sappy dreck as if that proves you have friends - please!
>
> You might send it to your enemies as well!
> It'll really tic 'em off!

-It did tick me off but not because I'm your enemy! However, send me any more of this junk and you will have a new enemy!
>
> If you receive this back 2 times . You're off to a good start, unless you
> sent it to yourself. That's cheating!

-Gads, what a retarded idea! I don't like getting this junk from habitual forwarders as it is, why in the flippin heck would I do something so stupid and send myself a copy!? And no, you're not off to a good start if you send this to two people. All that shows is that you forward chain email, and if you think that's impressive, it isn't.
>
> If you receive this back 3 times. You're a good friend.

-WRONG! It only means you've been dumb enough to forward it to at least three people and they were stupid enough to send copies back! Friendship has nothing to do with it except for the fact that you can lose friends by passing on this crap!
>
> If you receive this back 4 times
> ..... You are popular I wanna be just like you.

-Words of advice: get a clue, get a hobby other than forwarding chain email, get a life, get out more often, stop sending chain email!
>
> If you receive this back 5 times or more, there are angels watching over
> you....

-Oh, such as the
angel in a pink dress.
that everybody was supposed to feel sorry for because she was dressed in rags, worn out shoes and hat, and deliberately invisible to everybody but some hero in a chain letter story that was the only one to see her and as a result she revealed herself as a pink angel? No thanks, I don't need chain mail angels watching over me, I need real friends to send me real email, not this kind of dreck!

-So, what gives, the angels only care about you if you spam your friends with chain email? They all get together and tally up all the people on the net, figure out which ones are worthy of watching over because they were "friendly" and "considerate" and "Godly" enough to forward and so got back the most copies of some silly half-baked chain email letter and poem and decided "ZOW-weeee!" that made them worthy of being watched over? Please! Give me a break!

-Why, oh why do my friends fall for this junk!?

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