WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
IF YOU RECEIVE A GIFT IN THE SHAPE OF A LARGE WOODEN
HORSE
DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT!!!! It is EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE and
will
overwrite 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!
Poseidon
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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 tip-offs that this is a hoax:
1) This "Forward this message to everyone you know"
business. If it were really
meant as a warning about the Greek army, why tell
anyone to post it to the
Phoenicians, 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 a horse to
overwrite 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
