MY INBOX: January 2001

DATE COMMENT
January 25, 2001 the perpetual motion machine
January 25, 2001 It's back! Rec'd this email just a few days ago, one of many we receive. You must have seen it. Just think, free money just by sending emails!
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Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 5:47 PM
Subject: Fwd: FW: FW: PLEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEEE READ!!!!!
From: Debbie Nelson
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January 17, 2001 Re: the Subways are for Sleeping thing (I always wondered about that), I knew someone who knew someone who made a movie on a shoestring, back in the sixties, and entitled it "Winner of 12 Academy Awards." It's not a hoax, but I thought it was pretty funny.
January 17, 2001 Cold Fusion
G. Soal's ESP findings
Uri Geller
January 16, 2001 perpetual motion
January 12, 2001 This is from Schwab corporate headquarters - so it's no joke. Very scary Be careful Just when you thought you were safe, now we have the following to deal with...please read, it definitely is a serious threat to our lives and health. This is an alert about a virus in the original sense of the word...one that affects your body, not your hard drive. There have been 23 confirmed cases of people attacked by the Klingerman Virus, a virus that arrives in your real mail box, not your e-mail in box. Someone has been mailing large blue envelopes, seemingly at random, to people inside the US. On the front of the envelope in bold black letters is printed, "A gift for you from the Klingerman Foundation." When the envelopes are opened, there is a small sponge sealed in plastic. This sponge carries what has come to be known as the Klingerman Virus, as public health officials state this is a strain of virus they have not previously encountered. When asked for comment, Florida police Sergeant Stetson said, "We are working with the CDC and the USPS, but have so far been unable to track down the origins of these letters. The return addresses have all been different, and we are certain a remailing service is being used, making our jobs that much more difficult." Those who have come in contact with the Klingerman Virus have been hospitalized with severe dysentery. So far seven of the twenty-three victims have died. There is no legitimate Klingerman Foundation mailing unsolicited gifts. If you receive an oversized blue envelopee in the mail marked "A gift from the Klingerman foundation". DO NOT open it. Place it in a strong plastic bag or container and call the police immediately. The "gift" is one you definitely do not want to open.

Another urban legend
January 10, 2001 Water into fuel? "The Greatest Invention" by Walter Scott Meriwether: Esquire magizine February 1935. Reprinted condensed Readers Digest Apr (year unknown)
January 10, 2001 Dick Tuck is a man for all seasons. A true American Hero. What a Guy. Great Hoaxster!!!!
January 10, 2001 I love crop circles. Even after the first perpetrator confessed in a book, people still believe in crop circles as some kind of supernatural or alien communication. There are over 700 links to this stuff so people can "learn" more about them and probably conduct chats, etc. Unfortunately I know several well-educated people who, if they don't believe in crop circles, do believe in some other nonsense. And, it is futile to point the nonsense out to them. I probably believe some things that are silly, and which may actually be hoaxes, too. Human nature is the funniest thing there is.
January 9, 2001 Subject: FW: CO Detectors do work!
Please allow me to relay an incident that I would like distributed. About two weeks ago, my entire family almost died.
It was a Saturday evening and we had a blazing fire that had been burning in the fireplace the entire day. The three kids had just finished taking their showers, and we were all planning on watching a Christmas movie and then heading to bed. We then heard a piercing sound coming from the top of our staircase. I went up to investigate and discovered that our CO detector was going off. It's one with a digital readout, and I couldn't believe the numbers it was reporting. I told my wife it must be picking up something false - after all, we only have 3 gas appliances, a relatively new furnace that had just been serviced, a gas dryer that we had not used that day, and a water heater that was only three months old. So, I reset the CO detector, and then watched the numbers quickly climb back up, reach the point where the alarm went off again, and continue to climb. Now we couldn't ignore it. My wife and I stared at each other and tried to figure out what to do, still not really believing that we could have a CO problem. So I unplugged the detector and took it into the basement, plugged it in again, and watched it peg itself out. Now there was no doubt that we had a serious problem. We took the kids to a neighbor's house and called the fire department. They arrived with their handheld units and expressed shock at the levels when they entered the house. After a bit of investigating, the problem was determined (it was easily fixed - a ventilation problem) and the house cleared out.
The firemen told us that they normally see minor excursions, but this was a deadly level of CO. They also told us that if we had gone to bed that night without a CO detector, we assuredly would not have woken up the next morning. That CO detector, purchased on a bit of a whim two years ago, saved my entire family's lives. I've seen stories about families dying from CO poisoning and assumed that it happened to "someone else", surely people in an old house with broken down appliances. Our experience is testimony otherwise. We had no real symptoms, a little headache, but we assumed that it was sinus. Without the warning of that CO detector, we would have gone to sleep and quickly been overcome by the CO in the house - it was at that high of a level.
Give your entire family a gift of a CO detector this year, and buy one for someone you love!

Another urban legend
January 7, 2001 Check this address and let me know what you think and find. I feel it must be a hoax.
POP!The First Human Male Pregnancy
January 5, 2001 In the late 1800s in Rhinelander WI, a man named Gene Sheppard had people believing he had discovered a creature called a Hodag in the forest. He made up many stories about the beast and built one that he kept in a cave and charged people to see. Only when someone from the Smithsonian came to investigate, did he fess up. To this day, this is the town mascot. Their police cars say home of the Hodag on them.
January 2, 2001 I just have to say what a job compiling this list on your site. You must do a lot of research. It's people like you that keep the web fresh and interesting.
Thanks for the great work