Irish Friendship Wish Chain Letter
Summary:Email claims that those who forward it will receive good luck while those who delete it will have bad luck (
Full commentary below.)
Status:Pointless nonsense
Example:Submitted, 2003.
Subject: Fw: I want this back. It DOES work.
This may sound nuts, but my husband got this the other day and sent it off.
About 10 minutes later a really good financial windfall happened for his
son Sean who he had sent it too as well. one of the people he sent it to
was responsible for the windfall.
AN IRISH FRIENDSHIP WISH
Good Luck!!
I hope it works...
May there always be work for your hands to do;
May your purse always hold a coin or two;
May the sun always shine on your windowpane;
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;
May the hand of a friend always be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
OK, this is what you have to do....
Send this to all of your friends! But - you HAVE to send
this within 1 hour from when you open it!
Now.................Make A wish!!!!!!
I hope you made your wish! Now then, if you send to:
1 person --- your wish will be granted in 1 year
3 people --- 6 months
5 people --- 3 months
6 people --- 1 month
7 people --- 2 weeks
8 people --- 1 week
9 people --- 5 days
10 people --- 3 days
12 people --- 2 days
15 people --- 1 day
20 people --- 3 hours
If you delete this after you read it... you will have 1 year of bad luck!
But... if you send it 2 of your friends . you will automatically have 3
years of good luck!!! :-)
Commentary:
The "Irish Friendship Wish" chain letter is a typical
example of its kind. This one is fairly mild. Some are quite
aggressive and threaten dire outcomes for those that don't continue the
chain. Of course, chain letters predate the Internet. They used to arrive
as snail mail, but the Internet has proved to be very fertile ground for
chain letters.
These types of emails are essentially just a waste of bandwidth and add needless clutter to our inboxes . And I can tell you that I've received
hundreds of these over the years and sent them all to binary oblivion and,
surprisingly (not) I haven't experienced any sudden or drastic downturns in
my luck. Furthermore,
none of the people who have sent them to me have
reported any major windfalls or extraordinary turns of good luck!
I must confess that I take a perverse pleasure in "breaking the chain". As
far as I'm concerned, if I dump one of these in the bit bucket rather than
forward it onward, I've ultimately stopped hundreds or even thousands of
useless emails from circulating around the planet and cluttering up the
information superhighway.
Another version of the chain letter is circulating as an attached Microsoft Word document. Click the link below to download the MS Word version (You will need Microsoft Word or a compatible program to view the document):
Write-up by Brett M.Christensen
