Green Eggs And Spam

You gotta love the effort on the part of the "spammers" these days. Google (gmail), is quite good about catching (most) spam. Occasionally I will still click into the spam folder out of curiosity and see what goodies I find. Most of the time it is mediocre junk advertising for larger penises, or satisfying your woman... but I took a look at it, and IT TURNED OUT TO BE A REAL LINK!!!

The text read as follows, and believe me I was really shocked, and I must say honored!!!

Hi,


Barack Obama (Washington, DC) has confirmed you as his fourth cousin once removed on We're Related.



Follow this link to see how you are related:
http://apps.facebook.com/we_r_related/?page=profile&fid=0U812&ref=fl.30



We're Related Team

Then I clicked "Learn More", and found out that it was a great April Fools joke by Facebook... And I consider myself a sharp cookie! Can you believe I actually thought enough for a second to look?? Bear in mind that I was not able to execute even ONE SIMPLE April Fool's Prank yesterday...

I must admit, though, that I was a tad relieved because I was really a little melancholy at the thought that I wouldn't be able to date him... Wait! Oh yeah, I'm married... oh well, and oh yeah, he's kinda married too.

Not that the cousin thing would've been a problem, I am from Mississippi after all. ;)

Comments

Reb said…
That is a good prank, very funny.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Ken Skinner said…
Well, it could be true... after all, George Bush, John Kerry and Hugh Heffner are related:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/04/politics/main604163.shtml
Friday, April 03, 2009
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