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From: barry@uf-csg.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: A rather long and very strange chain letter
Message-ID: <151@uf-csg.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 10:06:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: uf-csg.151
Posted: Tue Jul 10 10:06:33 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Jul-84 04:53:22 EDT
Organization: CIS, University of Florida
Lines: 42

<have you hugged a bug today?>

From:		   the Sacred Halls of the 
	       Institute for Relieving Victims
                of Typewriter Knuckle Syndrome
		       (of their money)

Dear 
   
  akgua!mcnc!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!gordon@uw-june:

  I am writing to you regarding your net.joke text entitled:
  "A rather long and very strange chain letter" dated 
  Sat, 30-Jun-84 10:01:20 EDT.

  You have TKS.  If you would like to be cured, send me money.
  I am a certified TKS shaman and can rid you of this disabling
  disease.  All you have to do is send a money order for a 
  rather large sum of money to me for four (count 'em, four)
  curings.  Your name will be placed in a computer and may be
  chosen at random therefrom.  If you are chosen, then you will 
  be automatically cured of TKS and all of its symptoms.  If you
  are not lucky enough to be chosen, your money will refunded in
  full four to six weeks after the last curing occurs.

  Please be patient.  Almost every human alive in America today
  (and a few who aren't alive) has TKS and needs the cure.  You
  are one of the lucky few who even knows that he/she is afflicted.
  Unfortunately, there are only a handful of certified TKS shamans
  in the world today, and we could not possibly service everyone
  in the grip of TKS.  Therefore, we have decided to limit our 
  efforts to the few extreme cases of TKS (such as yours) with money
  in their pockets.  We are assuming, of course, that some sucker
  responded to your letter monetarily.  If not, kindly disregard
  this letter, you are beyond help anyway.


				Sincerely,
				barry @ CIS University of Florida
				;-)