This is a chain e-mail and a hoax. It first appeared in 2002.
There is no such way to do this [e-mail tracking] (yet), and nothing will pop up on your screen
if you follow the instructions (which is why it is also a joke, as the answer to the riddle is
"Nothing").
The main reason it is classified as a hoax is
that this almost certainly did not come from Paul Harvey.
Subject: Fw: Paul Harvey
Can you answer this riddle?
Here is a pretty neat little thing from Paul
Harvey. See if you can
guess the riddle at the end.
Paul Harvey Writes:
We tried so hard to make things better for our
kids that we made
them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better.
I'd really like for them to know about hand me
down clothes and
homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really
would.
I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and
that you learn
honesty by being cheated.
I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the
lawn and wash the
car.
And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car
when you are
sixteen.
It will be good if at least one time you can see
puppies born and your
old dog put to sleep.
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something
you believe in.
I hope you have to share a bedroom with your
younger
brother/sister.
And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of
the
room,but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because
he's
scared, I hope you let him.
When you want to see a movie and your little
brother/sister wants
to
tag along, I hope you'll let him/her.
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your
friends and that
you live in a town where you can do it safely.
On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I
hope you don't ask your
driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding
with someone as uncool as your Mom.
If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches
you how to make
one
instead of buying one.
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read
books.
When you learn to use computers, I hope you also
learn to add and
subtract in your head.
I hope you get teased by your friends when you
have your first
crush
on a boy\girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn
what
ivory soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn
your hand on a
stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.
I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope
you don't like it. And
if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he
is not
your friend.
I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with
your
Grandma/Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.
May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during
the holidays.
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a
baseball through your
neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Hannukah/Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your
hand.
These things I wish for you - tough times and
disappointment, hard
work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.
Written with a pen. Sealed with a kiss. I'm here
for you. And if I die
before you do, I'll go to heaven and wait for you.
Send this to all of your friends. We secure our
friends, not by
accepting favors, but by doing them.
Paul Harvey RIDDLE:
When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids
got the answer,
compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors.
What is greater than God, More evil than the
devil, The poor have it,
The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?
Send this to 10 people and then press shift and
you will get the
answer.
P.S. You won't believe this, but this really does
give you the
answer!!!!
If you receive a message about this then please ignore it and don't pass it on as this only serves to propagate
it.