The Spence's We Three

For Jan....

Why you shouldn't respond to chain messages.

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, approximately 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.

(All for you Jan, kristy)

posted by We Three Spences @ 8:28 AM 3 comments

My E-mail

Do you ever wonder who sits down and compiles all this stuff that fills up your mail-box?
And you know that somebody thinks it's pretty cool because you can see that they have forwarded it to 10 or 15 people...At least!
So I scan it quickly, and OH NO, my eye hits on a word and I have to read that one.
Let's take the first one , about the dime.
I read it and yell into the other room, "Hey did you know there are 118 ridges around a dime."
Can you guess what happens next? Yep, someone gets out a dime and tries to count them.
Do you know how long that takes!!! You lose count and have to start allllll over again!!!
What a quality way to spend our time. Thanks e-mail friend, this has just taken up 30 minutes of my "Majong" time. Oh, the utter disappointment of time lost...or was it?
I did get to spend a few lovely minutes with my family counting ridges around a dime. :~O
This is only about half of this particular one. (you might say the cream of the crop)
Now I know you don't get this type of nonsence so I thought I'd share one of mine with you.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world. (there has to be for all of us who visit The Colonel)
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins. (this one makes me sad)
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself. (this is one I really needed to know)

Jan

posted by We Three Spences @ 5:55 PM 0 comments