Children in Chain Mail

Taking the Sting and Mush Out of Sick Kid and other tissue-drenching, unbelievably cute kid Chain letters

Chain Letter Children 101

Let's put a little reality into the picture and ultimately weaken the jolt of sickly cute, cornily laughable or sap-packed painful punches many of these child chains are designed to inflict.

The Rachel Arlington chain letter consists of a poem that was stolen and used in a dying kid hoax without its author Sally Meyers's permission.

The Slow Dance chain is also a dying child hoax with a poem, but it does more than strip the real author, David L Weatherford of any credit, going as far as to claim this very introspective poem was written by a fictional dying child of the hoax, who sometimes goes by the name of Amy Bruce.

Angel in a Pink Dress The Writing on the Wall Little Johnny Branson the Baptist

Consider this next example, an exerpt from the Captain Underpants Name Game chain, that contained a very stale joke. It had a few lines on children VS. adults too.

"And remember that children laugh an average of 146 times a day; adults laugh an average of 4 times a day.<"/p>

-Bulltosh!

It's unlikely the originator of that forward actually managed to conduct a study on laughter, adults VS. children all around the world.

Speaking from personal experience, I laugh and enjoy myself a great deal, whether sitting alone in front of the TV, or out with family and friends. I can't help but notice when small children frequently cry, scream, whine, and throw tantrums.

Regardless of age, some people simply laugh more than others.

In other words, the claim about laughter in the Captain Underpants chain is simply made up as a manipulation to get people to forward it, believing they are passing on a laugh and causing adult laugh stats to go up as a result.

It is odd how apart from being ignored little angels with terminal illnesses and the ability to crush an adult, reducing him or her to a gushing idiot on their knees with a profound or witty tongue, or even a wide-eyed look, childhood is bliss while adulthood is drudgery in these chain letters.

Childhood and Adulthood Responsibilities expertly puts reality back into the picture.