http://www.metafilter.com/tags/glurge Posts tagged with 'glurge' at MetaFilter. Mon, 27 May 2002 14:03:51 -0800 Mon, 27 May 2002 14:03:51 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/17435/ <a href="http://www.glurge.com">Glurge.</a> We're all familiar with glurge. It's that sickly-sweet <a href="http://www.glurge.com/glurge138.html">inspirational message</a> forwarded by someone who wants you to know they're "thinking of you", or the chain-letter story of the <a href="http://www.glurge.com/glurge9.html">little girl with cancer</a> who supposedly gets three cents for treatment every time you forward the message. <br><br>I prefer <a href="http://www.glurge.com/topic3.html">anti-glurge</a> for snappy writing like this: <i><a href="http://www.glurge.com/glurge77.html">"Dear world, My name is Jessica Miller and I am 7 years old. When I was born, my mother left me with my father, who locked me in the trunk of his Lumina for 7 years without food and water. While there, I got head cancer and second hand smoke. And fetal alcohol syndrome. And the flu."</a> </i><small>Via <a href="http://memepool.com ">memepool</a> and my mother.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.17435 Mon, 27 May 2002 14:03:51 -0800 email glurge hoax snopes mr_crash_davis