I've read the "what's so bad about chain letters" section, and tend to agree with most of it. My original had NO swearing in it and nothing about animal poo. Also, it has been changed by people over the years. I wanted to keep my satirical email non-denominational (though I do mention the Pope), and keep the concept so ridiculous that it couldn't be real and wouldn't be making fun of any real illness. I, too noticed the "Jesus" comment at Snopes, and it always irks me a little. Why did I do it? I wanted to make fun of the same chain letters you want to stop, not to make fun of religion. This is the first time someone demanded to know who wrote it (in the past, I tried telling people I wrote it, and no one cared). It's been a couple of years since I last looked. Every once in a while I check the web to see if it's still out there. "I wrote Billy "Smiles" Eavans (the Burlap Boy), about 12 years ago. Note his mention of different mutations of this forward as it spread. Jason Dole found my article and made this interesting reply back in 2010 when this meme-mangling site was still at. NOT COOL!īut the all important question remains: who really wrote Billy Smiles Evans? I sharply disagree! Don't drag Jesus into this! That would turn the joke into a mocking of Jesus Christ and of Christianity, and as if there aren't already way too many ludicrous chain letters and people doing that. Snopes inserts their own crappy personal suggestion by saying this glurge needs a reference to Jesus in it to make it complete. Loathed as I am to include a Snopes link, it is necessary to let their nasty attitude toward Jesus and Christianity be seen. None of the hoax-busting sites I've checked out, trace authorship back to anyone. So, who committed this anti-chain letter, really? Elburto, the one on Contra's Reddit chain letter thread, the one who was so sure of himself and sent it to only one person, or the poster on Salon who's memory seems a bit unclear but for being sure they wrote it? Is Elburto on Reddit the same person as the one on the Salon article? We will get to that, but first, my original post.Įlburto and this person are they one and the same?īoth claim to have written the notorious Billy Evans Burlap Sack Boy chain letter. I had written a post, basically asking the real author of this chain letter to stand up and own up, and eventually, someone did. along with queries from people about whether or not it was true. The Billy Evans burlap body boy is one of those annoying anti-chain letters, this time, parodying the sick kid hoax.Īpparently some people didn't get the joke, and as a result, it was widely spread, undergoing some changes, and made its way on to hoax-busting sites like TruthOrFiction, Hoax-Slayer. Billy Smiles Evans Burlap Sack Boy Chain Letter Authorshipīilly Smiles Evans Burlap Sack Boy Meme Authorship
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