text messaging - the pastime of morons: A QUESTION

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:35 am

Greg wrote:
SplatterTone wrote:WAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA!!
http://tinyurl.com/2exr9n
I wonder if he uses an Iphone to send these.....

iDunno ...

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:20 pm

Here in Vietnam, we are charged for text messaging by the letter (or number, or punctuation mark). This accounts for the strange abbreviations, which I have to have explained several times before I understand. Most of my friends know I can't read the abbreviations, so they spell everything out. Abbreviations get too expensive.

One of the worst parts about text messaging is when you get a wrong number. You'd think people would save all of the important people of their lives in their address books, but I can understand why they won't, since spouses often check how many unknown attractive people of the opposite sex are on the list...

I had a buddy get this on his phone...

VNSexy wrote: thank U so much for last nite!
had to go to work at 5.30
i did wanna wake up with you...

He swears he was alone on a business trip that night in Hanoi.

ken k · Post by **ken k** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:31 pm

a little late but here ya go.

I had my phone blocked from texting. I would get messages (mostly from advcertisers wanting to sell something) and not knowing any better I would read them and then get billed for them. So i asked not to receive any text messages anymore and they blocked my number from texting. So i imagine you could do it the other way around as well.

Some of my friends make fun of my phone. I have an old Nokia phone (6100? which I proudly bought on ebay for $10) that I can actually make phone calls on! no camera, no keyboard, no internet, no flip open lid, etc. It is huge and heavy and makes a great paperwight too...

ken k

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:34 pm

Oh weep ye for the late, great Motorola Teletac. It has NO text messaging capability and fabulous sound.

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:10 pm

SplatterTone wrote:Oh weep ye for the late, great Motorola Teletac. It has NO text messaging capability and fabulous sound.

Ummm... dude? Like where's the, like, camera?

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:14 pm

Ummm... dude? Like where's the, like, camera?

Camera schmamera. What you want is the one that has a hollow "antenna" that fires a 38 special.

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:30 pm

SplatterTone wrote:
Ummm... dude? Like where's the, like, camera?
Camera schmamera. What you want is the one that has a hollow "antenna" that fires a 38 special.

Actually, I think THIS mobile phone is much cooler.

<img src="http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii31 ... 779210.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket">

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:37 pm

I think the phone at this Mobil station is just fine...

Captain Sousie · Post by **Captain Sousie** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:59 pm

stp txtg mi i dont lke hvng t tri t rd ths bd splg

Don't you just love how some people spell after the advent of texting.

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:33 pm

Even after all these years (it is an older model

), I still want one of these:

ken k · Post by **ken k** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:22 pm

Captain Sousie wrote:stp txtg mi i dont lke hvng t tri t rd ths bd splg

Don't you just love how some people spell after the advent of texting.

ken "hukt on fonix wurkt 4 me!" k

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:32 pm

News of the WeirdTM
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WEEK OF FEBRUARY 17, 2008

LEAD STORY

Five of the 10 best-selling novels in Japan in 2007 were originally composed, and serialized, on cell phones, thumbed out by women who had never written novels, for readers who mostly had never before read one. The genre's dominating plotlines are affairs of the heart, and its characteristics, obviously, are simplicity of plot and character and brevity of expression (lest authors' sore thumbs and readers' tired eyes bring down the industry). Said one successful cell phone writer, for a January dispatch in The New York Times, her audience doesn't read works by "professional writers" because "their sentences are too difficult to understand." [New York Times, 1-20-08]

clairetheredberet · Post by **clairetheredberet** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:34 pm

Kevin Hendrick wrote:Even after all these years (it is an older model ), I still want one of these:

*cough*Doctor Who reference?*cough*

One of my friends had texting disabled on her phone-through the phone company. She couldn't send or recieve texts.

I personally just like texting or im-ing or writing over using the phone because I'm such an akward phone talker.

Not because it's the "cool" thing to do. Speed texters make me gag.

k001k47 · Post by **k001k47** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:25 pm

Doc wrote:Get your son to pay the extra $20 a month for unlimited texting.

Better than paying all those extra $$$$ in text fees.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:17 am

"blOk: we stil nEd wormz! wair R U? <=^)) "

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text messaging - the pastime of morons: A QUESTION

Hoo nose? (sinus up!)

Very mobile phone!

Re: Very mobile phone!