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[–] salacious_coaster 136 points 6 days ago (7 children)

I literally got this as a chain email 30 years ago.

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 74 points 6 days ago

Subject:Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:Fwd Hilarious!!!

[–] jared@mander.xyz 29 points 6 days ago

They try and keep it pretty fresh around here.

[–] Aedis@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And this is the world we got because you forgot to forward it to 30 people in the following ten seconds!

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

dev.null1, dev.null2, dev.null3...

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

The chain emails copied it out of Reader's Digest.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 5 days ago

I'm too young to have gotten chain emails 30 years ago, but https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/courtroom.quips.html may be from that era too.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I started going on the Net about 29 years ago and I'm not sure it was already around. But what I do know is that, to my great disappointment, the list has not grown with the years.

[–] Klear@quokk.au 3 points 5 days ago

I've seen a list with more than this. Like the question of "How far were the cars at the time of collision?"

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

I remember being on a joke email chain on AOL and if you didn't reply saying how funny it was you'd get blocked.