Is there any copyright over this? Someone wants to print it in a local magazine. Michelle eye22@bigpond.com To: TOLPUDDLE-L@rootsweb.com 05/04/2003 01:40 cc: Please respond to Subject: [TOL] Do you have the symptoms???? TOLPUDDLE-L I know that most likely you have all read this before but I continue to get a giggle out of it each time it comes around with a little more added to it. Hope you can all see yourself in this disease because I sure can see me. Irene DOCTORS FIND NEW DISEASE! Doctors have discovered a new disease that is very contagious to adults. They have names it Genealogy Pox. Symptoms and Treatment are described. SYMPTOMS: Patient continually complains of a need for names, dates, and places. Patient has a blank expression on his face, and often seems deaf to mate and children. Has no taste for work of any kind, except for feverishly looking through records, libraries, and courthouse. Has compulsion to write letters and spends hours sitting at a computer. Swears at mailman when he doesn't leave mail or threatens to kick computer if there is no mail. Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins and remote desolate country areas. Makes secret night calls and hides phone bills from mate. Patient mumbles to self and has a strange faraway look in his eyes. Has a strange compulsion to gather and scatter old papers all over the house, leaving piles of paper everywhere with strange numbers and names all over them. TREATMENT: No known cure. Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse. Disease is spreading throughout the country very fast, quickly becoming an epidemic. Patient should attend genealogy meetings, workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines, and be given lots more forms and a computer situated in a quiet corner of the house where he or she can be alone. If family supports patient through this, patient will occasionally come out of strange trance and will act normal again unless you drive by a cemetery or courthouse. REMARKS: the unusual nature of this disease is such that the more sick the patient becomes, the more he or she seems to enjoy it sometimes dancing with glee and yelling, "I found it!". ==== TOLPUDDLE Mailing List ==== LOVELESS/LOVELACE GENEALOGY PAGE - UNITED KINGDOM/CANADA/AUSTRALIA http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~martyrs For the latest data on the economy and society consult National Statistics at http://www.statistics.gov.uk ********************************************************************** Please Note: Incoming and outgoing email messages are routinely monitored for compliance with our policy on the use of electronic communications ********************************************************************** Legal Disclaimer : Any views expressed by the sender of this message are not necessarily those of the Office for National Statistics **********************************************************************

Hi Michelle This one was sent to me from my pal in England. I think you would be fine printing this. I have seen it many times and I think if you put "author unknown" at the bottom you can copy it. Correct me if I am wrong gang. Irene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michelle Ayling" <Michelle.Ayling@ons.gsi.gov.uk> To: <TOLPUDDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [TOL] Do you have the symptoms???? > > Is there any copyright over this? Someone wants to print it in a local > magazine. > > Michelle > > > > eye22@bigpond.com > To: TOLPUDDLE-L@rootsweb.com > 05/04/2003 01:40 cc: > Please respond to Subject: [TOL] Do you have the symptoms???? > TOLPUDDLE-L > > > > > > > I know that most likely you have all read this before but I continue to get > a giggle out of it each time it comes around with a little more added to > it. > Hope you can all see yourself in this disease because I sure can see me. > Irene > > DOCTORS FIND NEW DISEASE! > > Doctors have discovered a new disease that is very contagious to adults. > > They have names it Genealogy Pox. Symptoms and Treatment are described. > > SYMPTOMS: Patient continually complains of a need for names, dates, and > places. Patient has a blank expression on his face, and often seems deaf > to > mate and children. Has no taste for work of any kind, except for > feverishly > looking through records, libraries, and courthouse. Has compulsion to > write > letters and spends hours sitting at a computer. Swears at mailman when he > doesn't leave mail or threatens to kick computer if there is no mail. > > Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins and remote desolate > country areas. Makes secret night calls and hides phone bills from mate. > Patient mumbles to self and has a strange faraway look in his eyes. > > Has a strange compulsion to gather and scatter old papers all over the > house, leaving piles of paper everywhere with strange numbers and names all > over them. > > TREATMENT: No known cure. Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal, but > gets progressively worse. Disease is spreading throughout the country very > fast, quickly becoming an epidemic. Patient should attend genealogy > meetings, workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines, and be given lots > more forms and a computer situated in a quiet corner of the house where he > or she can be alone. If family supports patient through this, patient will > occasionally come out of strange trance and will act normal again unless > you > drive by a cemetery or courthouse. > > REMARKS: the unusual nature of this disease is such that the more sick the > patient becomes, the more he or she seems to enjoy it sometimes dancing > with > glee and yelling, "I found it!". > > > ==== TOLPUDDLE Mailing List ==== > LOVELESS/LOVELACE GENEALOGY PAGE - > UNITED KINGDOM/CANADA/AUSTRALIA > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~martyrs > > > > > > > > For the latest data on the economy and society > consult National Statistics at http://www.statistics.gov.uk > > ********************************************************************** > Please Note: Incoming and outgoing email messages > are routinely monitored for compliance with our policy > on the use of electronic communications > ********************************************************************** > Legal Disclaimer : Any views expressed by > the sender of this message are not necessarily > those of the Office for National Statistics > ********************************************************************** > > > ==== TOLPUDDLE Mailing List ==== > LOVELESS/LOVELACE GENEALOGY PAGE - > UNITED KINGDOM/CANADA/AUSTRALIA > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~martyrs >

Happy Easter to all my Tolpuddlian Pals and why not send a little funny as your Easter Prezzie. My boss sent me this, I love it, but its scary because I have days like this:-)) Stay safe and be happy! Irene A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. If this wasn't you today...it will be tomorrow!! This is how it manifests: I decided to wash my car. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the rubbish bin under the table, and notice that the rubbish bin is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the rubbish first. But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the rubbish anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my chequebook off the table, and see that there is only one cheque left. My extra cheques are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the bottle of soft drink that I had been drinking. I'm going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the soft drink aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that the soft drink is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the soft drink, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered. I set the soft drink down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the bench, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, we will be looking for the remote, but nobody will remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the TV room where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do. At the end of the day: the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm bottle of soft drink sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still only one cheque in my chequebook, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys. Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired. I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail. Do me a favour, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember who I've sent it to

Happy Easter All, So why are you worried Irene? Sounds like a perfectly normal day to me - I have 'em all the time and, yes, it is exhausting to be so busy and yet achieve so little. Must try and remember all that management training especially the bits about delegation.......... Cheers (maybe something a little stronger than a soft drink if only I can remember where I last saw the bottle) Dawn ----- Original Message ----- From: "eye" <eye22@bigpond.com> To: <TOLPUDDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 2:01 PM Subject: [TOL] Happy Easter > Happy Easter to all my Tolpuddlian Pals and why not send a little funny as > your Easter Prezzie. > My boss sent me this, I love it, but its scary because I have days like > this:-)) > Stay safe and be happy! > Irene > > > > > A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder > > Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit > Disorder. > If this wasn't you today...it will be tomorrow!! This is how it manifests: > I decided to wash my car. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there > is mail on the hall table. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the > car. > > I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the rubbish bin > under the table, and notice that the rubbish bin is full. So, I decide to > put the bills back on the table and take out the rubbish first. > > But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the > rubbish anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my chequebook off > the table, and see that there is only one cheque left. My extra cheques are > in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I > find the bottle of soft drink that I had been drinking. I'm going to look > for my cheques, but first I need to push the soft drink aside so that I > don't accidentally knock it over. > > I see that the soft drink is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in > the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the > soft drink, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be > watered. > I set the soft drink down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses > that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on > my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back > down on the bench, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV > remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when > we go to > watch TV, we will be looking for the remote, but nobody will remember that > it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the TV room where > it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. > > I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor. So, > I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the > spill. Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to > do. > > At the end of the day: > the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm bottle of soft > drink sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still > only one cheque in my chequebook, I can't find the remote, I can't find my > glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys. > > Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled > because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired. > > I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, > but first I'll check my e-mail. > > Do me a favour, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know, because > I don't remember who I've sent it to > > > ==== TOLPUDDLE Mailing List ==== > LOVELESS/LOVELACE GENEALOGY PAGE - > UNITED KINGDOM/CANADA/AUSTRALIA > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~martyrs >

Oh man - did I relate to that!! I was actually worrying as I followed the 'trail' - the warm drink, that remote control, water on the floor....I clean forgot about my emails and the stuff i was going to do on the web after...... Is there a treatment/medication??? Have a great Easter!! Cheers, Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: "eye" <eye22@bigpond.com> To: <TOLPUDDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 11:01 PM Subject: [TOL] Happy Easter > Happy Easter to all my Tolpuddlian Pals and why not send a little funny as > your Easter Prezzie. > My boss sent me this, I love it, but its scary because I have days like > this:-)) > Stay safe and be happy! > Irene > > > > > A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder > > Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit > Disorder. > If this wasn't you today...it will be tomorrow!! This is how it manifests: > I decided to wash my car. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there > is mail on the hall table. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the > car. > > I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the rubbish bin > under the table, and notice that the rubbish bin is full. So, I decide to > put the bills back on the table and take out the rubbish first. > > But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the > rubbish anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my chequebook off > the table, and see that there is only one cheque left. My extra cheques are > in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I > find the bottle of soft drink that I had been drinking. I'm going to look > for my cheques, but first I need to push the soft drink aside so that I > don't accidentally knock it over. > > I see that the soft drink is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in > the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the > soft drink, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be > watered. > I set the soft drink down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses > that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on > my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back > down on the bench, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV > remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when > we go to > watch TV, we will be looking for the remote, but nobody will remember that > it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the TV room where > it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. > > I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor. So, > I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the > spill. Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to > do. > > At the end of the day: > the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm bottle of soft > drink sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still > only one cheque in my chequebook, I can't find the remote, I can't find my > glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys. > > Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled > because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired. > > I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, > but first I'll check my e-mail. > > Do me a favour, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know, because > I don't remember who I've sent it to > > > ==== TOLPUDDLE Mailing List ==== > LOVELESS/LOVELACE GENEALOGY PAGE - > UNITED KINGDOM/CANADA/AUSTRALIA > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~martyrs > >