Long, long ago in a galexy far, far away or at least long ago....oops wrong story. Anyway I remember getting a chain letter as kid and it scared the socks off me. Those of you who grew up in the era of cheap postage stamps and no computers probably remember those letters that arrived in your mailbox. They went something like this.....This letter has been around the world three times, don't break the chain. A naval officer in Banga Banga broke the chain and three days later died. Any way you were supposed to within three days send out this letter to 10 people and if you did something good would happen. If you didn't something very something horrible was in store for you.
The letter always seemed to be very lengthy and this being before the ubiquitous photocopiers, had to be handwritten out. I think I got through 4 or 5 before my hand gave out. So I mailed out what I had managed to write out, hoping that at least my bad luck might be a little less even though I had not managed to send out the prerequisite 10. Obviously knowing happened as I am still here.
But what got me thinking about those long ago chain letters was a spate of digital ones I have received recently. They for the most part are more positive-in the next 5 minutes send this to 7 friends and receive a miracle. I guess nothing much has changed except that we can now send our chain letters out faster and with less effort. And fill up more peoples' mailboxes faster.
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