ah..so the moral is....quit while you're a head.....
Dave@SWCP.com Taos Garage Annex in Albuquerque
'59 AH :{) '54 100
http://www.britishcarforum.com/TaosAnnex.htm
----- Original Message -----
From <John.Deikis at med.va.gov>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Cc: <team-thicko@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:44 AM
Subject: Finally, one that we can believe
> > Dear Friends, Forgive me for blanketing the list with this, but I felt
> > that those of us who throw away money on chachkas as stupid as little
> > cars and driving in circles going vrooom-vrooom out to examine our
> > consciences and perhaps open our hearts to the less fortunate. I will
> > accept Paypal if the program seems too complicated, and you can be
assured
> > every penny will go to Billy.
> >
> > This is a passionate plea for all your help... Please, for little Billy
> > Evans, who wrote:
> >
> > am a very sick little boy. My mother is typing this for me, because I
> > can't. She is crying. Don't cry, Mommy! Mommy is always sad, but she
says
> > it's not my fault. I asked her if it was God's fault, but she didn't
> > answer
> > and only started crying harder, so I don't ask her that any more.
> >
> > The reason she is so sad is because I'm so sick. I was born without a
> > body.
> > It doesn't hurt, except when I try to breathe. The doctors gave me an
> > artificial body. It is a burlap bag filled with leaves. The doctors said
> > that was the best they could do on account of us having no money or
> > insurance.
> >
> > I would like to have a body transplant, but we need more money. Mommy
> > doesn't work because she said nobody hires crying people. I said, "Don't
> > cry, Mommy," and she hugged my burlap bag. Mommy always gives me hugs,
> > even
> > though she's allergic to burlap and it makes her sneeze and chafes her
> > real
> > bad.
> >
> > I hope you will help me. You can help me if you mindlessly forward this
> > email to everyone you know. Mindlessly forward it to people you don't
> > know,
> > too. Dr. Johansen said that for every person you forward this email to,
> > Bill
> > Gates will team up with AOL and send a nickel to NASA. With that
funding,
> > NASA will collect prayers from school children all over America and have
> > the
> > astronauts take them up into space so that the angels can hear them
> > better.
> >
> > Then they will come back to earth and go to the Pope, and he will take
up
> > a
> > collection in church and send all the money to the doctors. The doctors
> > could help me get better, then. Maybe one day I will be able to play
> > baseball. Right now I can only be third base.
> >
> > Every time you forward this letter, the astronauts can take another
prayer
> >
> > to the angels and my dream will be closer to coming true. Please help
me.
> > Mommy is so sad. I want a body. I don't want my leaves to rot before I
> > turn 10.
> >
> > If you don't want to forward this email, that's okay. Mommy says you're
a
> > mean and heartless bastard who doesn't care about a poor little boy with
> > only a head. What kind of cruel person are you that you can't take five
> > freakin' minutes to mindlessly forward this to all your friends so that
> > they
> > can feel guilt and shame about ignoring a poor, bodiless nine-year-old
> > boy?
> > Please help me. I try to be happy, but it's hard. I wish I had a kitty.
I
> > wish I could hold a kitty. I wish I could hold a kitty that wouldn't
chew
> > on
> > me and try to bury its shit in the leaves of my burlap body. I wish that
> > very much.
> >
> > Thank You,
> > Billy "Smiles" Evans (the boy with just a head, and a burlap sack for a
> > body)
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