From: dean.lenort@att.net (Dean Lenort)
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [alt.religion.kibology] I'm scared.
Date: 7 Nov 1998 20:06:41 -0000

Subject: I'm scared.
From: scherlin@2cowherd.com (Sarah Cherlin)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology, alt.memetics, alt.alien.visitors

On November third, there were ten verified occurrences.
On November fourth, an estimated eighteen hundred separate incidences.
On November fifth, twenty-four hundred.
As of 12:00am November seventh pacific time, the total stands at an
estimated six thousand nine hundred messages containing the words
'Glenn', 'ape', 'statue', and 'liberty.' Prior to November third, zero
matches. Occurrences in email, ICQ or other forms of direct
communication cannot be estimated.

Oh, sure, it's harmless, you think. Funny, even. Maybe you even passed
it on yourself. But realize: people are _still posting it_. Something
about this so-called 'joke' is causing people, _compelling_ people, to
transmit it to every other person that they possibly can. Are we to
belive that an ordinary individual simply stumbled across a meme of
this power? Can it be mere coincidence that the meme incorporates
instructions for humanity to tear down the symbols of our
technological society and make ourselves like unto our animal
ancestors, so that we may greet an elder returning from stars?

Has anyone seen Andrea Chen lately?

I'm scared.