Chain Letter

[BenDToy]

I have recieved a chain letter, supposedly requesting compliment slips for a small boy suffering from cancer, to get into the Guiness Book of Records. I have no wish to be a misery, but it looks very like one I received a number of years ago, which was definitely a fake. I am reluctant to throw this in the bin because a lot of people have been involved in the chain up 'til now but there seems to be no way of checking up. The original consultant is named but not the hospital.There are also one or two famous names on the list. Can anyone offer some advice.

[Obo]

In my opinion you should do what should be done with all chain letters... stick it in the bin

[BenDToy]

Obo Many thanks for your advice, and I'm pleased to report that I found a reference to the very same letter on a newspaper site, and it is dated 1998. If anyone is interested the link is http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/oxfordshire/arc
hive/1998/02/26/BUSI0VQ.html The fictitious child is supposedly in Carshalton, Surrey. I had already taken your advise anywasy, but it just goes to show.....

[Obo]

For future reference I believe the website www.snopes.com has some details of a number of such widespread hoax chain letters (oh and btw before Spellmaster gets here it's Guinness not Guiness!)

[jenstar]

Guinness do not either condone chain letters nor list them in the book. Any chain letter that claims they do is written by a stinking liar (but then, aren't they all?)

[Spellmaster]

Obo, as I have pointed out on numerous occasions I am not a pedant who goes around correcting every spelling error - we all make them, me included. What I do correct are the frequent misuses of the apostrophe by people who clearly do not understand what the apostrophe is used for, and the unneccessary use of American spellings where perfectly good British spellings exist.

[Moog]

Give is a rest Spellmaster we have all seen you correct all sorts of errors on this site including spelling

[mykola]

the only people who benefit from thing`s like this are / is probably the royal mail.......

[5029]

The reason they request compliment slips (or sometimes business cards) is so they can compile mailing lists and then send you loads of junk mail