Thought/Anecdote of the Day™©®

for June 4, 2003

On The Original Pyramid Scam

Hello Friend,

Congratulations! Merely by unrolling this papyrus, you have accepted your place amongst this community’s business savvy go-getters! Any businessman will tell you, opportunity doesn’t knock on your mud hut every day! You must seize that day, for how many times will Ra journey across the sky before your heart is weighed by Anubis and the judgment of Osiris is upon you?

Well, friend, this is your chance for ensured prosperity for you and your family. And when I say prosperity I don’t mean for this harvest season, or for five harvest seasons, but for all eternity. That’s right, eternity. A truly Great Provider is one who ensures his family’s well-being beyond their time on earth, and with this simple Multi Level Marketing Plan, you will get the assistance you need to be a Great Provider.

We all know the best way to guarantee safe and easy passage to the eternal is a pyramid. Until now, building pyramids was out of the realm of possibility for us ordinary folk. I myself, and likely you too, dragged limestone bricks for Pharaoh not too long ago. But I tell you honestly that only seven floods later, my scribe is now recording this very scroll from the second antechamber of my very own pyramid! The Plan works, I am living (and one day dead) proof!

The Plan’s procedure is simple, but don’t let that fool you. It has been carefully designed, and any straying from the procedure jeopardizes all of our afterlives. Just follow the Plan.

Attached to this scroll is a smaller scroll that contains the cartouche of the person designated as “Next Due”. Send this person five limestone bricks to the specifications indicated. Once you have done this, add your cartouche to the letter and send it to as many people as you wish. Each person that receives the scroll with your cartouche will send you five bricks, so the more you send, the faster your pyramid will be done. For every six blocks you receive, you send one back to your original “Next Due” person. In this way, you are guaranteed to continue to receive bricks once your cartouche has moved down the list. It’s that easy, but DO NOT CHEAT! Your heart will fall on the scales of the underworld and Amemet will devour it as Thoth records your shame for all eternity!

Here’s how this amazing Plan will get you your pyramid:

Let’s say you decide to start small just to see how well it works (a smart businessman is cautious). Assume your goal is to get 10 people to participate on your first level. Also assume that everyone else you recruit gets only 10 members of their own. Follow this example to achieve the staggering results below.

1st level – your 10 members with 5 blocks = 50 blocks – 8 blocks back = 42 blocks
2nd level – 10 members from those 10 (5 x 100) = 500 blocks, they send you 80 blocks
3rd level – 10 members from those 100 (5 x 1,000) = 5,000, they send you 800 blocks
4th level – 10 members from those 1,000 (5 x 10,000) = 50,000, they send you 8,000 blocks

Total: 8,922 blocks!

And you’re well on your way to eternal glory!

It could not be more simple. A one-time investment of five limestone blocks will yield you a lifetime of blocks to construct your pyramid, make additions, even barter the surplus for anything your soul will desire. So get started today, and start your Ka down the path of blessed immortality

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