Does anyone remember “chain letters”? You send $1 to seven friends with instructions for them to send $1 to seven of their friends, including you and the person who sent you the letter, and you end up collecting a brazillion dollars. 😂😂😂 I always wondered exactly how many ppl actually tried this? And then it started again, but with books, or children’s books. Maybe it’s my lack of faith in humanity that anyone would send me money (or a book) because of a completely unsolicited letter.
OMG my dad got one once and was like WE ARE GONNA BE RICH! I kid you not, he bought a mailing list and had me and my BFF do all the printing/envelope stuffing and the deal was he would put up all the money, we would do all the work, and we'd split the jackpot 50/50. (He did this with the old lotto tickets, too, the ones you had to manually fill out. He'd buy hundreds at a time, I am not kidding.) We did not get any dollars back, but we DID get a cease and desist letter from the Postmaster General. Hahahahaha he was cute.
And if you break the chain, you have bad luck! Dollar bills were one thing, but then it was “send recipes”, and then devolved into sending k͇i͇t͇c͇h͇e͇n͇ ͇t͇o͇w͇e͇l͇s͇!
I used to get those chain emails from superstitious friends. I would reply that I would break the chain and take the chance because I wasn't a person that would send my friends bad luck.
I got in one once that was $50 and about the time I could get rich the government stopped it and they missed out on all that capital gains and income tax.
I will always wonder about this. Over 20 years ago I ran a free drawing in my business for one of my own handmade custom saddles. In order to enter all anyone had to do was send me a self addressed stamped #10 envelope to get the entry form to fill out and return. It was to build a mailing list. A friend had a magazine and paid for the advertising in another non competitive magazine if I would stuff the envelope with a subscription to his magazine.
If someone wanted a printed color brochure from me instead of the SASE they could send me $1 to cover my cost. Lots of $1 cash came in but at the same time a lady I knew that worked in the Post office got caught and sent to prison for stealing money out of envelopes. I always wondered how many of my brochure requests she intercepted. Maybe chain letters too!
As it turned out, it cost me about $5000 to give a custom saddle to the winner from Tennessee.
See my note above about the math. The PO stopping it probably had something to do with anti-racketeering laws. (Or maybe they are just mean people who don't have a sense of humor, but I don't think so.)
If you do the math on chain letters: 7 x 7 equals 49, 49 x 7 equals 343, 343 x 7 equals 2401, etc., you arrive at a classic pyramid scheme which rather quickly, as these things go, encompasses the population of your country, your continent, the world. That's why chain letters don't work.
My parents still tell me to not go to sleep with my hair wet because it causes headaches, but sometimes I do wake up with a headache so maybe they are right sometimes? Either way, it's definitely in my head.
People still believe in the two party system when it's been made abundantly clear that they are all in bed with one another. Speaking of which, have you seen the latest Tom MacDonald video on this subject? https://youtu.be/najeyO0CuXw
Ha! Also are you related to TM? His manager? Just a good old fashioned celeb crush? ;) The funny part is, without a whole lot of product and muscle, my hair is still a frizzy mess. But--as you do--I generally think, "I wonder how bad it would be if I *didn't* do this? God, I'm an idiot.
Being born, raised & still living in the desert southwest, “dry heat” really is a thing. Yeah, hotter than hell at times but add in 100% humidity everywhere else & you’re a soaking wet mess from head to toe & not in a cooling way. I absolutely hate humidity 🫤
For some people, humid = frizz, but for me, humid = flat as a pancake! I HATE humidity!! I’m so glad to be back on the High Plains of West Texas after many years in the Dallas area. I’ll take the dry wind any day!
I wish I was related! Just a fan boy with a man crush haha. He is fully independent so he manages himself...come on now Jenna! How dare you.
lol! You're not because even if your cuticles don't benefit, you always know in the back of your mind that the cold shower endings give you all the benefits that Joe Rogan and Wim Hof have both extensively talked about.
I nipped my finger real good on the cooling fan of my my lawn mower. It hurt for a while, I cleaned it, the bleeding stopped. You know the chorus, "you need stiches and a tetnus shot". I feel lucky, I bet I won't be one of the 8 people who die of tetnus this year. To be safe though, I bought a lottery ticket.
Love it!! I heard or read (and generally believed) almost everything in your list. Unsealed hair cuticles would be the worst!But at this stage of my life, I’m not willing to undergo too much discomfort, even for something as important as hair cuticles. My shower has two shower heads on opposite sides, so I turn one to nice-and-toasty, and let the other dribble cold water that I put my head partially under for a few seconds. Problem solved!
As always, you nailed it! Loving your unique take on the absurdity of the world as I sit here waiting all day to be called for jury duty. Big screen TV on continuously here - Wtf?? The drug adds??? Take XYZ drug for great sex! (Gray-haired couple dancing in the forest)
“Side effects include: dementia!”
So you’ll have great sex but not remember it!!
Talk about repeating propaganda - is everyone (anyone) believing ANY of these drugs are worth THE RISKS?? Blood clots,
Arthritis, suicidal thoughts, breathing difficulties, heart failure, ANAL LEAKAGE, on and on. Just thought this was somehow fitting to the discussion <<grin>>
And we are one of TWO countries (I see you NZ) on the planet who allow this BS. (Maybe you will actually have even worse sex--but not remember it!) We're so screwed.
I just read today about the deadly side effects from a new Alzheimer's drug, Leqembi. I can't find the original article, unfortunately. It can cause brain bleeding and swelling. My memory (which, TBH, is not completely trustworthy since a previous concussion) is the article said that they increased the allowable pre-existing "microbleeds" to 3 or 4, to be able to get the drug. Some have died of brain bleeds after getting the drug, and the modest benefit is questionable, given the risk. Yet, when I just did the search - the reports on the drug appear to be much more favorable than the article I read this morning.
Every time a physician recommends a medication to me, I research it fully before picking it up from the pharmacy. Sometimes, if it's just a recommendation - I will say that I will have to think about it. We all need to be much more thoughtful about any medication we agree to take, because we certainly can no longer trust the FDA, the AMA, or the rest of the medical establishment.
The only way I'd ever take a Pharma product again (*except IVM and maaaaybe antibiotics) is if it were 100% guaranteed I'd die if I didn't. I'd need that in writing. Otherwise, I'll be over here with my oils and my berries and a prayer. ;)
As to the round earth, until I explained gravity to my mom, she knew the Earth was round but was taught we lived inside the globe otherwise, why didn't we fall off. I heard that other people believed this too including Hitler who thought they could bounce radio signals off of the inside of the globe and detect where the enemy was. They probably taught this in school once upon a time!
My mother told my sister and I that if we ate cotton candy we would get worms. Of course we ate it when we got older just to prove her wrong. 😩😂🤣. But we probably did get worms because our dear mother was so very right about so very many things. We will forever miss that very wise woman.
She left this earth suddenly (heart attack) 27 years ago this month. 😢
No ridiculous lies to report other than the ones you talked about, Jenna. But I can agree that perimenopause is wild--and lasted 17 plus years for me. Being female is not for the faint-hearted.
I am not here to trash trans women. They don't bother me at all. But being a woman is about so much more than just physical appearances or a physical body. The mind, heart, and soul of a woman count just as much. But then, that applies to being a man, too. And I think Jenna's Dad encapsulated what is most important about being a man and a Dad.
“But being a woman is about so much more than just physical appearances or a physical body. The mind, heart, and soul of a woman count just as much. “. Absolutely 💯, a person may think they’re anything they wish but it doesn’t make it true. I have compassion for those with a real confusion on their sexual identity.
I wrote my best friend's memoir, which is the story of her dysfunctional, abusive childhood and very ill, wheelchair-bound mother. One chapter is three sentences long: "My anxiety was at an all-time high. It was three roundtrip miles from my house to Stanley Elementary, a trip that took me twice as long as it should have because I couldn't step on a single crack. The *last* thing my mother needed was a broken back." (My friend was about eight at the time.)
In my twenties, I had a roommate who had a black cat, Romulus. (I had FOUR of my own at the time; two tabbies, a tortie, and an orange--the crazy cat lady in me runs deep.) The day she moved in I realized I was going to have to let go of that particular "belief" or I'd be dancing around the apartment or locked in my room to avoid that cat! (But honest to God I was like WHO GETS A BLACK CAT THAT IS LITERALLY ASKING FOR TROUBLE.)
Great post. Interestingly, my wife and I were just watching the Jim Breuer Covid on Broadway routine where among the multitude of ridiculousness, for example, he points out 6 feet distancing while you were boarding the plane. THEN THEY STICK YOU IN A TUBE RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER!
I went to Trader Joe’s one day that first summer. It was 1000° outside and they had everyone lined up 6 feet apart on the stupid little stickers Outside in the sun and they were only letting like five people in the store at a time. I had driven 45 minutes to get there so I was not about to leave but it was insanity. 🤦♀️
Here's one my sisters told me when we were kids and I think it came from Seventeen magazine, "If you squeeze the blackheads next to your nose, it'll give you brain damage!"
I threw caution to the wind, and did it anyway. But I thought about it every time I did it.
It was obvious to me that some kids took the warning to heart. Gross.
But, unlike me, they grew up free of brain damage.
Does anyone remember “chain letters”? You send $1 to seven friends with instructions for them to send $1 to seven of their friends, including you and the person who sent you the letter, and you end up collecting a brazillion dollars. 😂😂😂 I always wondered exactly how many ppl actually tried this? And then it started again, but with books, or children’s books. Maybe it’s my lack of faith in humanity that anyone would send me money (or a book) because of a completely unsolicited letter.
OMG my dad got one once and was like WE ARE GONNA BE RICH! I kid you not, he bought a mailing list and had me and my BFF do all the printing/envelope stuffing and the deal was he would put up all the money, we would do all the work, and we'd split the jackpot 50/50. (He did this with the old lotto tickets, too, the ones you had to manually fill out. He'd buy hundreds at a time, I am not kidding.) We did not get any dollars back, but we DID get a cease and desist letter from the Postmaster General. Hahahahaha he was cute.
And if you break the chain, you have bad luck! Dollar bills were one thing, but then it was “send recipes”, and then devolved into sending k͇i͇t͇c͇h͇e͇n͇ ͇t͇o͇w͇e͇l͇s͇!
Kitchen towels??? UM NO THANK YOU. I'm far too picky. Same goes for random recipes! Isn't that what Pinterest is for? (I actually have a pinterest board titled "shit that looks good but I'll probably never make" true story. https://www.pinterest.com/jennawrites/shit-that-looks-good-but-ill-probably-never-make/)
Haha, don’t fall for that glitter one!
bahahahahahahahaha (good think I'll never make ANY of those recipes!!!)
😂🤣😂 I made those baked jalapeño poppers once. Labor intensive and just, meh.
lol
Okay, call me a sap, I did the recipe one and still have a handful of good recipes I got that way!
Good for you! I just know what I like, and it probably isn’t your split pea soup or stuffed green peppers.🤷♀️🤣 #PickyBitch
🤣🤪
I used to get those chain emails from superstitious friends. I would reply that I would break the chain and take the chance because I wasn't a person that would send my friends bad luck.
I got in one once that was $50 and about the time I could get rich the government stopped it and they missed out on all that capital gains and income tax.
Dammit!!! I remember wondering why they would stop it, too. That’s good money for the post office! Why do they care???
I will always wonder about this. Over 20 years ago I ran a free drawing in my business for one of my own handmade custom saddles. In order to enter all anyone had to do was send me a self addressed stamped #10 envelope to get the entry form to fill out and return. It was to build a mailing list. A friend had a magazine and paid for the advertising in another non competitive magazine if I would stuff the envelope with a subscription to his magazine.
If someone wanted a printed color brochure from me instead of the SASE they could send me $1 to cover my cost. Lots of $1 cash came in but at the same time a lady I knew that worked in the Post office got caught and sent to prison for stealing money out of envelopes. I always wondered how many of my brochure requests she intercepted. Maybe chain letters too!
As it turned out, it cost me about $5000 to give a custom saddle to the winner from Tennessee.
The best laid plans of mice and men! LOL
See my note above about the math. The PO stopping it probably had something to do with anti-racketeering laws. (Or maybe they are just mean people who don't have a sense of humor, but I don't think so.)
If you do the math on chain letters: 7 x 7 equals 49, 49 x 7 equals 343, 343 x 7 equals 2401, etc., you arrive at a classic pyramid scheme which rather quickly, as these things go, encompasses the population of your country, your continent, the world. That's why chain letters don't work.
My parents still tell me to not go to sleep with my hair wet because it causes headaches, but sometimes I do wake up with a headache so maybe they are right sometimes? Either way, it's definitely in my head.
People still believe in the two party system when it's been made abundantly clear that they are all in bed with one another. Speaking of which, have you seen the latest Tom MacDonald video on this subject? https://youtu.be/najeyO0CuXw
Mosimportantaball, how are your hair's cuticles?
Ha! Also are you related to TM? His manager? Just a good old fashioned celeb crush? ;) The funny part is, without a whole lot of product and muscle, my hair is still a frizzy mess. But--as you do--I generally think, "I wonder how bad it would be if I *didn't* do this? God, I'm an idiot.
Everywhere in TX except West TX is humid = frizz.
Being born, raised & still living in the desert southwest, “dry heat” really is a thing. Yeah, hotter than hell at times but add in 100% humidity everywhere else & you’re a soaking wet mess from head to toe & not in a cooling way. I absolutely hate humidity 🫤
THE WORST. Austin is weird, it can be super dry one day and disgustingly humid the next. I wear a lot of hats.🤣
Hat give me hat hair, which is worse then frizz.
The worst is that sticky sweat in your hair on the back of your neck - ugh!😣
For some people, humid = frizz, but for me, humid = flat as a pancake! I HATE humidity!! I’m so glad to be back on the High Plains of West Texas after many years in the Dallas area. I’ll take the dry wind any day!
I grew up in El Paso, Texas and didn’t understand humidity until I moved to southwest Louisiana!
I wish I was related! Just a fan boy with a man crush haha. He is fully independent so he manages himself...come on now Jenna! How dare you.
lol! You're not because even if your cuticles don't benefit, you always know in the back of your mind that the cold shower endings give you all the benefits that Joe Rogan and Wim Hof have both extensively talked about.
I nipped my finger real good on the cooling fan of my my lawn mower. It hurt for a while, I cleaned it, the bleeding stopped. You know the chorus, "you need stiches and a tetnus shot". I feel lucky, I bet I won't be one of the 8 people who die of tetnus this year. To be safe though, I bought a lottery ticket.
Let me count the ways Vicks cure’s everything. 😁
And Windex! 🤣
😂🤣 I read "Vicks," and mentally thought "And Windex!" But you beat me to it.
Great minds 🧠 🧠
Love it!! I heard or read (and generally believed) almost everything in your list. Unsealed hair cuticles would be the worst!But at this stage of my life, I’m not willing to undergo too much discomfort, even for something as important as hair cuticles. My shower has two shower heads on opposite sides, so I turn one to nice-and-toasty, and let the other dribble cold water that I put my head partially under for a few seconds. Problem solved!
Genius!
My mom said that the commies would take us from within. She was so right! It's a long game.
As always, you nailed it! Loving your unique take on the absurdity of the world as I sit here waiting all day to be called for jury duty. Big screen TV on continuously here - Wtf?? The drug adds??? Take XYZ drug for great sex! (Gray-haired couple dancing in the forest)
“Side effects include: dementia!”
So you’ll have great sex but not remember it!!
Talk about repeating propaganda - is everyone (anyone) believing ANY of these drugs are worth THE RISKS?? Blood clots,
Arthritis, suicidal thoughts, breathing difficulties, heart failure, ANAL LEAKAGE, on and on. Just thought this was somehow fitting to the discussion <<grin>>
And we are one of TWO countries (I see you NZ) on the planet who allow this BS. (Maybe you will actually have even worse sex--but not remember it!) We're so screwed.
I just read today about the deadly side effects from a new Alzheimer's drug, Leqembi. I can't find the original article, unfortunately. It can cause brain bleeding and swelling. My memory (which, TBH, is not completely trustworthy since a previous concussion) is the article said that they increased the allowable pre-existing "microbleeds" to 3 or 4, to be able to get the drug. Some have died of brain bleeds after getting the drug, and the modest benefit is questionable, given the risk. Yet, when I just did the search - the reports on the drug appear to be much more favorable than the article I read this morning.
Every time a physician recommends a medication to me, I research it fully before picking it up from the pharmacy. Sometimes, if it's just a recommendation - I will say that I will have to think about it. We all need to be much more thoughtful about any medication we agree to take, because we certainly can no longer trust the FDA, the AMA, or the rest of the medical establishment.
The only way I'd ever take a Pharma product again (*except IVM and maaaaybe antibiotics) is if it were 100% guaranteed I'd die if I didn't. I'd need that in writing. Otherwise, I'll be over here with my oils and my berries and a prayer. ;)
My mom told us that if we made a ugly or funny face it could freeze that way for the rest of our lives. We believed her.
I believed that one as well.
As to the round earth, until I explained gravity to my mom, she knew the Earth was round but was taught we lived inside the globe otherwise, why didn't we fall off. I heard that other people believed this too including Hitler who thought they could bounce radio signals off of the inside of the globe and detect where the enemy was. They probably taught this in school once upon a time!
She must have been buddies with Calvin's (of Calvin and Hobbes) parents! 😄
"sink like a piano" A new simile always brings a SMILE!
“What if I run out of them“ and other things that keep me up at night.🤣
My mother told my sister and I that if we ate cotton candy we would get worms. Of course we ate it when we got older just to prove her wrong. 😩😂🤣. But we probably did get worms because our dear mother was so very right about so very many things. We will forever miss that very wise woman.
She left this earth suddenly (heart attack) 27 years ago this month. 😢
Sorry Laura Kasner 😢🙏
Depressing to realize I've been denying just how many "braindead, half-blind fools" there are in the world.
No ridiculous lies to report other than the ones you talked about, Jenna. But I can agree that perimenopause is wild--and lasted 17 plus years for me. Being female is not for the faint-hearted.
Yeah- the trans women get to be pretend women without all the ‘fun’ experiences of periods, pms, surprise pregnancy, menopause etc.
I am not here to trash trans women. They don't bother me at all. But being a woman is about so much more than just physical appearances or a physical body. The mind, heart, and soul of a woman count just as much. But then, that applies to being a man, too. And I think Jenna's Dad encapsulated what is most important about being a man and a Dad.
I agree with ALL of this!
“But being a woman is about so much more than just physical appearances or a physical body. The mind, heart, and soul of a woman count just as much. “. Absolutely 💯, a person may think they’re anything they wish but it doesn’t make it true. I have compassion for those with a real confusion on their sexual identity.
Aunt Marge told me eating tomato's would grow hair on my chest.
And if you had hairy arms you were going to marry a rich man.
Ha! And rain on your wedding day is really good luck! Tell that to the wedding coordinator and the caterer and oh yeah, the bride.🙈
Pick a dandelion and you pee your pants per my mom .
Wow, she REALLY wanted to protect her dandelions!
😉
I still avoid cracks because “ step on a crack, break your mother’s back.” Even though I realized it wasn’t true.
I wrote my best friend's memoir, which is the story of her dysfunctional, abusive childhood and very ill, wheelchair-bound mother. One chapter is three sentences long: "My anxiety was at an all-time high. It was three roundtrip miles from my house to Stanley Elementary, a trip that took me twice as long as it should have because I couldn't step on a single crack. The *last* thing my mother needed was a broken back." (My friend was about eight at the time.)
https://www.amazon.com/Size-Everything-memoir-Erin-Cole/dp/0979913519/
Don’t walk under a ladder and heaven forbid a black cat walks in front of you . 😝🙁😖
In my twenties, I had a roommate who had a black cat, Romulus. (I had FOUR of my own at the time; two tabbies, a tortie, and an orange--the crazy cat lady in me runs deep.) The day she moved in I realized I was going to have to let go of that particular "belief" or I'd be dancing around the apartment or locked in my room to avoid that cat! (But honest to God I was like WHO GETS A BLACK CAT THAT IS LITERALLY ASKING FOR TROUBLE.)
lol
Never heard the hairy arm thing
Great post. Interestingly, my wife and I were just watching the Jim Breuer Covid on Broadway routine where among the multitude of ridiculousness, for example, he points out 6 feet distancing while you were boarding the plane. THEN THEY STICK YOU IN A TUBE RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER!
WE GOT SO HOSED!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_6dqy2JjowU
So funny and so true!! 🤣🎯
I went to Trader Joe’s one day that first summer. It was 1000° outside and they had everyone lined up 6 feet apart on the stupid little stickers Outside in the sun and they were only letting like five people in the store at a time. I had driven 45 minutes to get there so I was not about to leave but it was insanity. 🤦♀️
Here's one my sisters told me when we were kids and I think it came from Seventeen magazine, "If you squeeze the blackheads next to your nose, it'll give you brain damage!"
I threw caution to the wind, and did it anyway. But I thought about it every time I did it.
It was obvious to me that some kids took the warning to heart. Gross.
But, unlike me, they grew up free of brain damage.
I am almost positive that I didn’t write that, but I definitely read it! Like you, I completely ignored it. #CertifiedPimplePopper 🙈
Aunt Mary: Don't eat apple seeds, you can die. *I think she was right! Something to do with creating cyanide during digestion.
I feel like I’m proof that she was wrong… I throw entire apples, seeds stem and all, into my smoothies and have for decades!🤷♀️🙈