Few people know that everybody's favorite Christmas song to hate — "The Christmas Shoes" — was inspired by a chain email that was going around in the late 90s.
Here, preserved on Google Groups from #Usenet, is that email:
https://groups.google.com/g/bit.listserv.christia/c/yQtaBTVVn4c/m/Jm25J-L7iTIJ