I know a few well-intentioned people who send me items like the example shown below. These are variants on the IMPORTANT MESSAGES that must be sent to EVERYONE YOU KNOW in order for some marvelous thing to happen – the sort of nonsense that any quick check of The Urban Legends Reference Pages will quickly reveal to be utter nonsense – as if plain old common sense – oxymoron that that may be – should not be enough. Of course, the messages that get forward are the edited versions of the messages; below is an original message, with the portions that are usually edited out given strong emphasis! ;-) Subject: Important Hey it is Andy and john the directors of MSN, sorry for the interruption but msn is closing down. (You can tell that we are executives at an Internet company because we are so hip we only use our first names, and, in "john"'s case, do not even let ourselves be encumbered by the rules of capitalization. Doesn't that sound exactly like the sort of comm
