Oops, he did it again!

RE: E-mail I got from Dad (who is over 63 years old - read: way to old to be allowed to use a computer) today about someone asking you to dial #90 on your phone and it would give the caller “unlimited access to dial long distance phone numbers and bill them to your home phone” (of course it was forwarded from a forwarded message, from a forwarded message, from a forwarded message…so you had to open about 20 messages before you could get to it)

The e-mail even said “I checked http://www.snopes.com/ and it’s TRUE”

Well, kinda…If you live in an office building that uses a PBX phone system and the stars were aligned just right on the 5th Tuesday of the month when the wind is out of the east and the person was Hannibal Lector and could dial phone calls from his jail cell with just a gum wrapper…

Since I get one of these e-mails from him about 3 times a week, in the spirit of goodwill, peace on earth and god-damned Christmas, I replied only with

“Chicken Little,
Check http://www.snopes.com/
Love,
Your Son”