# A new UL? Just got this in my email, has anyone else seen this yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935 "2001-01-20T00:21:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/1 "2001-01-20T00:21:30Z")
PLEASE READ!!! This is from Schwab corporate headquarters - so it’s no joke. Very scary. Be careful Just when you thought you were safe, now we have the following to deal with…please read, it definitely is a serious threat to our lives and health. This is an alert about a virus in the original sense of the word…one that affects your body, not your hard drive. There have been 23 confirmed cases of people attacked by the Klingerman Virus, a virus that arrives in your real mail box, not your e-mail in box. Someone has been mailing large blue envelopes, seemingly at random, to people inside the US. On the front of the envelope in bold black letters is printed, “A gift for you from the Klingerman Foundation.” When the envelopes are opened, there is a small sponge sealed in plastic. This sponge carries what has come to be known as the Klingerman Virus, as public health officials state this is a strain of virus they have not previously encountered. When asked for comment, Florida police Sergeant Stetson said, “We are working with the CDC and the USPS, but have so far been unable to track down the origins of these letters. The return addresses have all been different, and we are certain a remailing service is being used, making our jobs that much more difficult.” Those who have come in contact with the Klingerman Virus have been hospitalized with severe dysentery. So far seven of the twenty-three victims have died. There is no legitimate Klingerman Foundation mailing unsolicited gifts. If you receive an oversized blue envelope in the mail marked “A gift from the Klingerman Foundation”. DO NOT open it. Place it in a strong plastic bag or container and call the police immediately. The “gift” is one you definitely do not want to open. PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU CARE ABOUT. \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> Mrs. Sandra Dee McNair-Boyd \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> Social WorkSecretary \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> Yale New Haven Hospital \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> Department of Social Work \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> 203-688-2256 I called the phone number listed, just so I can tell the girl who sent me this that it’s BS. The number **does** go to Yale New Haven Hospital, but I get a recording saying it’s an unassigned number. Who wever started this, doesn’t seem to have much knowledge in jurisdiction though, as evidenced by this line: "When asked for comment, Florida police Sergeant Stetson said, “We are working with the CDC and the USPS, but have so far been unable to track down the origins of these letters.” A Florida police sergeant? Something going through the US mail is a Federal offense that would most likely have the FBI on the case. Can’t people stop and do some thinking of their own before passing this crap on? I guess now I’ll fire an email back to the sender to let her know there’s nothing to worry about, and then fire one off to Snopes. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/2 "2001-01-20T00:26:17Z")
Well, I was going to send an email to Snopes and found this: [http://www.snopes2.com/toxins/klinger.htm](http://www.snopes2.com/toxins/klinger.htm) Already been debunked. ---
**Author:** ![Tzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzel)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/3 "2001-01-20T00:32:33Z")
Also, a little hint that might have tipped you off is that “Sandra Dee” is the name of the main character in _Grease_. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/4 "2001-01-20T00:34:20Z")
Thanks for reminding me. I’ve gotten the same damned e-mail about “Kelsey Brooke Jones” (who was missing for about 3 hours a couple of years ago) three times in the past two days, and just today, some (well, I can’t use what I’d want to call her) on my work e-mail list sent off to **everyone** on our list (and then some - I counted back, with the "all staff at this county division of a state agency and all staff at the local community college etc, it had to total about 300 people) - SHE sent us the idiotic ‘forward this and a coupon for Outback will appear on your computer’ arghhhhhhhhhhhh ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/5 "2001-01-20T00:39:00Z")
(Damn, I have to type faster!) I was going to say, this smacks of an UL, particularly the “Florida Police Sergeant” - um, what division of the “Florida Police”?: City? County? Highway Patrol? Unfortunately, we have had 3 “You have been exposed to anthrax” scares in Orlando today - Parole & Probation Dept in Orlando and two County Government Offices in Seminole County. The envelopes had some sort of oily substance inside: in the Orange County and one of the Seminole cases, the return address was “A Homeless Man at the Shelter”. The buildings were evacuated, several workers were decontaminated, and the FBI is currently investigating. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/6 "2001-01-20T00:41:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tzel \* > \*\*Also, a little hint that might have tipped you off is that “Sandra Dee” is the name of the main character in _Grease_. \*\* Yes, but that doesn’t limit the idea that there may acutally be someone with that name. What caught my eye was “This is from Schwab corporate headquarters - so it’s no joke.” What Schwab corporation? Why does that mean anything to me? Surely this isn’t a reference to _Charles_ Schwab. And then the whole Florida policeman with no first name, who apparently is knowledgeable about the entire case, but not one mention of any Federal Govt agencies, outside of the CDC and USPS. And if 23 people had been affected and 7 died, that would put this mad mailer into Unibomber status. We would have heard about this on the news or in the papers. I get an emial rom this person about once every two weeks, and each time I email back a snopes cite and tell her it’s BS. I would tell her to stop mailing these things to me, but then I wouldn’t be able to help her separate the fact from fiction. Hopefully, she’ll eventually pick up on the Snopes links I keep sending her and start checking these things out on her own. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/7 "2001-01-20T00:44:34Z")
It is axiomatic that whenever you see the words, “Please forward this to everyone you know”, it’s going to be an UL. It’s a dead giveaway. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/8 "2001-01-20T00:45:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tzel \* > \*\*Also, a little hint that might have tipped you off is that “Sandra Dee” is the name of the main character in _Grease_. \*\* But giving her a hyphenated last name makes it sound so AUTHENTIC! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/9 "2001-01-20T00:49:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > **Yes, but that doesn’t limit the idea that there may acutally be someone with that name.** My aunt’s first name is Sandra, middle name Dee. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/10 "2001-01-20T00:53:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \* > \*\*It is axiomatic that whenever you see the words, “Please forward this to everyone you know”, it’s going to be an UL. > > It’s a dead giveaway. > \*\* The email warning I got for the ILOVEYOU virus had those exact same words at the top of the email. I just wonder why people can’t use some common sense before blindly forwarding things. Once, the girl who sent this to me, my friend Dan from work, and I were all going out one night in her car. She stopped for gas and inspected the gas pump handle before gassing up her car. When I asked what she was doing she told me, in all seriousness, she was looking for needles because she had gotten an email warning about people putting HIV infected needles under the pump handles so you’d stick yourself when gassing up. We argued have the night over that being a UL. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/11 "2001-01-20T00:55:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Snooooopy \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Tzel \* > > \*\*Also, a little hint that might have tipped you off is that “Sandra Dee” is the name of the main character in _Grease_. \*\* > > But giving her a hyphenated last name makes it sound so AUTHENTIC! \*\* I went to high school with a girl named - no shit - Velvet Beaver. _Velvet Beaver!_ What the hell were her parents’ thinking? Anyway, after learning that name, I’m not quick to dismiss a name for sounding made up. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/12 "2001-01-20T01:04:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > \*\*PLEASE READ!!! > This is from Schwab corporate headquarters - so it’s no > joke. > \*\* That right there should tell you it’s a hoax, CF:) ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/13 "2001-01-20T01:17:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > > \*\*PLEASE READ!!! > > This is from Schwab corporate headquarters - so it’s no > > joke. > > \*\* > > That right there should tell you it’s a hoax, CF:) \*\* Oh I figured it was a hoax when I saw who it was from - she’s horrible about this sort of thing. I just wanted to post it before anyone else here saw it in their emails. No offense, but we do have some youngsters posting here who may fall for this sort of thing. I just sent Laura an email listing ways you can spot an email hoax and gave her the the Snopes URL (again!!!) Let’s hope she uses it this time. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/14 "2001-01-20T01:19:52Z")
> [@](#): > > I went to high school with a girl named - no shit - Velvet Beaver Did you ask her out? How could you NOT??? ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/15 "2001-01-20T02:03:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tzel \* > \*\*Also, a little hint that might have tipped you off is that “Sandra Dee” is the name of the main character in _Grease_. \*\* I thought her name was Sandra Olsen. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/16 "2001-01-20T02:12:48Z")
you know, I **knew** Sandra Dee was a movie star (married at one point to Bobby Darrin I think?), but for all I knew it was the characters’ name, too (she was one of the original Gidget’s in the movies) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/17 "2001-01-20T02:55:37Z")
No, Sandra Dee was the song Rizzo sings… Look at me, I’m Sandra Dee Lousy with Virginity Won’t go to bed til I’m legally wed I can’t I’m Sandra Dee Watch it-hey, I’m Doris Day I was not brought up that way Won’t make a fuss even Rock Hudson Lost His heart to Doris Day I don’t drink, or swear Or rat my hair -ew! I get ill from one cigarette-cough cough cough Keep your filthy paws off my silky drawers Would you pull that crap with Annette? Elvis Elvis-let me be keep that pelvis far from me! As for you, Troy Donahue I know what you wanna do Just keep your cool Now you’re starting to droooooool Hey-fungol-I’m Sandra Dee… ---
**Author:** ![SpinneZiege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@SpinneZiege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpinneZiege)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/18 "2001-01-20T18:19:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tzel \* > \*\*Also, a little hint that might have tipped you off is that “Sandra Dee” is the name of the main character in _Grease_. \*\* Good one Tzel! I never would have noticed that one, considering I’ve never stayed awake during Grease. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-ul-just-got-this-in-my-email-has-anyone-else-seen-this-yet/50935/19 "2001-01-21T02:31:11Z")
:::Rilchiam pulls her glasses down like pince-nez, grabs the nearest heavy book, and strides to the front of the room::: “Attention, all.” Slaps book down on the table. "Thank you. “The character to which you are referring, was, in fact, named Sandy Olson. The character of Rizzo mocked her by referring to her as 'Sandra Dee”. As Wring stated, Sandra Dee was an actress best known in her teens and early twenties. She was one of several actresses to play Gidget, as well as Tammy (a role originated by Debbie Reynolds). She was skilled at playing innocent young women making the transistion into an adult world; unfortunately, she did this in an era in which finding one’s role as a woman meant finding the right man. "In fact, Rizzo’s description of Sandra Dee (“Lousy with virginity”) was inaccurate. In the film **A Summer Place** , Dee’s character got pregnant (by Troy Donahue) out of wedlock. She was an easy target, as Britney and Christina are now, but from what I understand, she was hardly spoiled, as they seem to be. Pushy stage mother, marriage too early, and so on. I believe someone on this board tended to Britney’s superficial wound before a concert, to which she reacted as if a limb was being severed. “That is all. Continue on.” :::Rilchiam fussily wipes glasses with linen handkerchief, picks book up again, and marches out:::