This week we reprint a classic from TOM GILL PREDICTS- Volume 15, No. 49, from March 2001.
It is based by an email chain letter that was going around the Internet 13 years ago.
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Imagine if the ancient world had email... and set yourself in ancient Troy, in what turned out to
be the final days of the Trojan War. And imagine that you had been copied in to these emails.
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FROM: laocoon@doomgloom.edu <mailto:laocoon@doomgloom.edu>
TO: hector@studmuffin.com <mailto:hector@studmuffin.com>
Hey Hector,
This was forwarded to me by Cassandra--it looks legit. Please
distribute to Priam, Hecuba, and your 99 siblings.
Thanks,
Laocoon
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WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
IF YOU RECEIVE A GIFT IN THE SHAPE OF A LARGE WOODEN HORSE DO NOT
ACCEPT IT!!!! It is EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE and will destroy your ENTIRE CITY!
The "gift" is disguised as a large wooden horse about two stories
tall. It tends to show up outside the city gates and appears to be abandoned.
DO NOT let it through the gates! It contains hardware that is incompatible with Trojan
programming, including a crowd of heavily armed Greek warriors that will destroy your army,
sack your town, and kill your women and children. If you have already received such a gift,
DO NOT OPEN IT! Take it back out of the city unopened and set fire to it by the beach.
FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
from Poseidon
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FROM: hector@studmuffin.com <mailto:hector@studmuffin.com>
TO: laocoon@doomgloom.edu <mailto:laocoon@doomgloom.edu>
RE: Greeks bearing gifts
Laocoon,
I hate to break to you, but this is one of the oldest hoaxes there is. I've seen variants on this
warning come through on other listservs, one involving some kind of fruit that was supposed
to kill the people who ate it and one having to do with something called the "Midas Touch."
Here are a few tipoffs that this is a hoax:
1) This "Forward this message to everyone you know" crap. If it were really meant as a warning
about the Greek army, why tell anyone to post it to the Phonecians, Sumerians, and Cretans?
2) Use of exclamation points. Always a giveaway.
3) It's signed "from Poseidon." Granted he's had his problems with Odysseus but he's one of
their guys, isn't he? Besides, the lack of a real header with a detailed address makes me suspicious.
4) Technically speaking, there is no way for one horse to destroy your entire city. A horse is just an
animal, after all.
Next time you get a message like this, just delete it. I appreciate your concern, but once you've
been around the block a couple times you'll realize how annoying this kind of stuff is.
Bye now,
Hector
It is based by an email chain letter that was going around the Internet 13 years ago.
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Imagine if the ancient world had email... and set yourself in ancient Troy, in what turned out to
be the final days of the Trojan War. And imagine that you had been copied in to these emails.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
FROM: laocoon@doomgloom.edu <mailto:laocoon@doomgloom.edu>
TO: hector@studmuffin.com <mailto:hector@studmuffin.com>
Hey Hector,
This was forwarded to me by Cassandra--it looks legit. Please
distribute to Priam, Hecuba, and your 99 siblings.
Thanks,
Laocoon
=========================================
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
IF YOU RECEIVE A GIFT IN THE SHAPE OF A LARGE WOODEN HORSE DO NOT
ACCEPT IT!!!! It is EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE and will destroy your ENTIRE CITY!
The "gift" is disguised as a large wooden horse about two stories
tall. It tends to show up outside the city gates and appears to be abandoned.
DO NOT let it through the gates! It contains hardware that is incompatible with Trojan
programming, including a crowd of heavily armed Greek warriors that will destroy your army,
sack your town, and kill your women and children. If you have already received such a gift,
DO NOT OPEN IT! Take it back out of the city unopened and set fire to it by the beach.
FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
from Poseidon
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FROM: hector@studmuffin.com <mailto:hector@studmuffin.com>
TO: laocoon@doomgloom.edu <mailto:laocoon@doomgloom.edu>
RE: Greeks bearing gifts
Laocoon,
I hate to break to you, but this is one of the oldest hoaxes there is. I've seen variants on this
warning come through on other listservs, one involving some kind of fruit that was supposed
to kill the people who ate it and one having to do with something called the "Midas Touch."
Here are a few tipoffs that this is a hoax:
1) This "Forward this message to everyone you know" crap. If it were really meant as a warning
about the Greek army, why tell anyone to post it to the Phonecians, Sumerians, and Cretans?
2) Use of exclamation points. Always a giveaway.
3) It's signed "from Poseidon." Granted he's had his problems with Odysseus but he's one of
their guys, isn't he? Besides, the lack of a real header with a detailed address makes me suspicious.
4) Technically speaking, there is no way for one horse to destroy your entire city. A horse is just an
animal, after all.
Next time you get a message like this, just delete it. I appreciate your concern, but once you've
been around the block a couple times you'll realize how annoying this kind of stuff is.
Bye now,
Hector
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