So… I got this Chinese Proverb in my email, a powerpoint attachment from a good friend, and knowing myself not to open anything right away especially those attachments with .pps extension, I decided to just let this one have a go since the one who sent is, is a respectable friend of mine who I know wont send any emails with malicious attachments.

I viewed it in google docs, but did not download it yet, just viewed. It was a Chinese proverb, a goodluck chain letter :D. I read through the end, and got sooo curious with it, I searched on Anthony de Croud since he was the so called author/originator of this chain letter that brought goodluck to many, mind you not just so so good luck but fortunes some even worth millions of dollars… :D. Who doesn’t one money, heck even thousands of dollars would be really good for me these days… lol.

If you google search Anthony de Croud, you’ll find 44,000 results.. not bad eh. So he’s popular, and this chain letter of his has circulated the world 8 times… *whistles… I wonder how many people got goodluck and badluck, since breaking this chain letter will bring bad luck to the receiver… I think I will do a research on this one, to cut off idle time… lol.

Anthony de Croud from letter I received is a missionary from South Africa… and searching more, here’s what I found…

– he had a partner Pearlas Sandborn (in sending this letter)
– this letter started in the Netherlands
– the letter started circulating in the 20th century…
– the letter is circulating in different languages – German, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Romanian, Italian, Slovenian, Albanian, there’s even a portugist version but one receiver said it’s full of spelling and grammatical errors lol (this made me think Anthony de Croud is a linguist :D), maybe there’s a whole lot more out there, I haven’t receive one yet in my language.
– sadly Anthony de Croud doesn’t have a pic, that would really be more interesting then.

Well in this high-tech age, he did not have his own website yet… He could’ve asked some people to post comments there as a testimony of the goodluck they received from forwarding his Chinese Proverb chain letter to 20 people.And that wouldreally make it even more interesting. He could post his missionary going ons and those who have received goodluck may donate to it… since if it wasn’t for his chain letter they would not have received good fortunes, some millions of dollars others hundreds of thousands of dollars, :D.

Here’s the copy of his Chinese Proverb. (It told me to send 20, heck, that’s a whole lot of emails to spam, lol.. so I decided to just post it and who knows more than 20 may read this post at least that’ll bring me goodluck then (?)and add 1 more page to Anthony De Croud’s popularity… rofl.

ABOUT MONEY

WITH MONEY YOU CAN

BUY A HOUSE, BUT NOT A HOME.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN

BUY A CLOCK, BUT NOT TIME.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN

BUY A BED, BUT NOT SLEEP.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN

BUY A BOOK, BUT NOT KNOWLEDGE.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN

SEE A DOCTOR, BUT NOT GOOD HEALTH.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN

BUY A POSITION, BUT NOT RESPECT.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN

BUY BLOOD, BUT NOT LIFE.

WITH MONEY YOU CAN

BUY SEX, BUT NOT LOVE.

THIS CHINESE PROVERB BRINGS LUCK.  IT ORIGINATED FROM THE NETHERLANDS.

THIS PROVERB HAS GONE AROUND THE WORLD 8 TIMES. NOW IT IS YOUR TURN TO HAVE GOOD LUCK ONCE YOU HAVE RECEIVED IT.

THIS IS NOT A JOKE

YOUR LUCK WILL ARRIVE BY MAIL OR VIA THE INTERNET

SEND A COPY TO THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY NEED LUCK. DO NOT SEND  MONEY, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT BUY LUCK, AND DO NOT KEEP IT
FOR MORE THAN 4 DAYS.

ONE MAN, GOT HIS FIRST COPY OF THE PROVERB IN 1953 AND ASKED HIS SECRETARY TO MAKE HIM 20 COPIES.  NINE HOURS LATER HE WON $99 MILLION IN THE LOTTERY IN HIS COUNTRY.

AN EMPLOYEE OF HIS RECEIVED THE SAME CARD, BUT DID NOT FORWARD IT. A FEW DAYS LATER HE LOST HIS JOB. AFTER THAT, HE CHANGED HIS MIND, SENT IT, AND BECAME RICH.

IN 1967, ANOTHER MAN GOT THE PROVERB; HE LAUGHED ABOUT IT AND DISCARDED IT. A FEW DAYS LATER HIS SON GOT SICK. THE MAN LOOKED FOR THE NOTE, MADE 20 COPIES, AND SENT THEM. NINE DAYS LATER, HE GOT GOOD NEWS: HIS SON WAS SAFE AND SOUND.

THIS CARD HAS BEEN SENT BY
ANTHONY DE CROUD, A MISSIONARY IN SOUTH AFRICA.

BEFORE 96 HOURS PASS YOU BY, YOU SHOULD FORWARD THIS MESSAGE
TO 20 OTHER PEOPLE.

YOUR LUCK WILL COME WITHIN 4 DAYS FROM THE MOMENT YOU
RECEIVED THE MESSAGE.

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE?

THIS CARD HAS JUST BEEN SENT TO YOU FOR GOOD LUCK.

NOW LUCK IS FINALLY AT YOUR DOOR.

SEND 20 COPIES TO ACQUAINTANCES, FRIENDS, AND FAMILY.

ONE DAY LATER YOU WILL GET GOOD NEWS OR A NICE SURPRISE.

I SENT THIS CARD EXPECTING IT TO GO AROUND THE WORLD.

SEND ONLY 20 COPIES AND EXPECT GOOD TIDINGS TO ARRIVE IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

IMPORTANT:
DO NOT MODIFY THE TEXT THAT I SENT YOU. FORWARD IT EXACTLY THE WAY YOU GOT IT.

GOOD LUCK!

There goes…
It says do not modify the text, but I have done so while copying and pasting it here… lol

Want goodluck? 😛