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4. Democrat majority in Congress swings the tide of online marketing. Marketers will push the envelope far more aggressively in 2007 now that the fear of death by Republican firing squad has been reduced. Moral depravity will run rampant in advertising and the largely Democratic online marketers will revel in the end-result of their twisted creative brains.

Thanks to my friend Dylan Boyd from eROI, I learned about a new site for all of the funniest, best emails that you get from friends or straight from the source. The site is called FWDitOn.com – check it out. Here is one email that I’m going to post on that site:

“While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by a
truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.

“Welcome to heaven,” says St. Peter. “Before you settle in, it seems
there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you
see, so we’re not sure what to do with you.”

“No problem, just let me in,” says the man.

“Well, I’d like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we’ll do is
have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where
to spend eternity.”

“Really, I’ve made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,” says the senator.

“I’m sorry, but we have our rules.”

(more…)

A friend sent me an email with a link to this site – http://www.bushspeech.org/. I started typing out a speech that I’d love for Bush to give, but it took a while because the site only allows you to type in words that he’s actually spoken before. Somehow, I was forced to use phrases that ended up sounding like pure nonsense. I guess that’s just par for the course.

My Dad sent me this email while I was away on vacation a week ago. It got me thinking about the global perspective and how wrapped up we get in technology, computers, email, etc. But, I also started thinking about the accuracy and validity of the statistics below. For example – 30% of the world’s population (nearly 2 billion people) own and use cell phones. There are over 1 billion connected computers in the world. I’m sure I can come up with some other statistics off the top of my head, but it begs the question – how much has technology enriched your personal relationships with friends and family?

“WORLD VIEW

If we shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following.

There would be

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from The Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be nonwhite
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
80 would live in substandard housing
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6 would be from the United States
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death
1 should be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education become glaringly apparent.”

I got a legitimate-looking email from a friend that said he forwarded an article from the World Examiner with a credible link to that article. This is what I saw on the world-examiner.com site:

While I appreciate the political jabs from a Republican friend (yes, there are a few semi-decent Republicans out there), this concept struck me as brilliant. I immediately sent a “Rumor” headline article to my brother-in-law and uncle to let the word get out about their porn star past.

Try it yourself:
Make a rumor headline and send it today >>