In article <00a506e6$0$7979$c3e8da3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Warren Oates <warren.oates@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>One friend of my father's, back then, got involved in a chain letter
>thing for bottles of hooch. You took a bottle to the guy at the top of
>the list and put your name on the bottom and recruited _only one_ other
>person. This meant that it never got out of hand, and the guy actually
>wound up with at least 4 bottles. The cops made them stop, said it was
>"against the spirit of the law." This was Ontario, very early 60s.
My mother described a chain letter she got involved with as a kid that
involved exchanging picture postcards with kids who lived elsewhere.
(Life was pretty boring back then, what can I say?)
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