How to remove yourself from forward lists

I have a relative who has my e-mail address. Being a female over the age of 30, she has to forward any e-mail she finds funny to her entire address book (using the “To” field, obviously). I recently received an e-mail titled “Men and women…” containing jokes such as the following:

A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment.

Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight.

Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper, ‘Please wake me at 5:00 AM’ and left it where he knew she would find it.

The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight.

Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn’t wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed.

The paper said, ‘It is 5:00 AM. Wake up.’

Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.

Now, I love jokes that tackle the difficult subject of stereotypes as much as the next person but I spied an interesting footer after the final joke: “SEND THIS TO SMART WOMEN WHO NEED A LAUGH AND TO MEN YOU THINK CAN HANDLE IT !!!”. I decided to test her sense of humour and see what she could “handle” by responding with the following:

Funny. Here’s my favourite “men and women” joke: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/ashe1108.pdf

The punchline?

“Excluding overtime, the median hourly earnings of full-time men were £12.50, an increase of 4.4 per cent, compared with £10.91 for women, an increase of 4.1 per cent. The stronger growth in full-time men’s hourly earnings excluding overtime compared with women’s has meant that the gender pay gap has increased to 12.8 per cent, up from 12.5 per cent in 2007.”

I’ve yet to receive a response.