06-17-2009, 10:08 AM
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Teen Iowa girl wins US texting title..$50,000
Seriously....society is now rewarding people for this??
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For the Des Moines, Iowa, teenager, her 14,000 texts-per-month habit reaped its own rewards, landing her the competition prize of $50,000 just eight months after she got her first cell phone
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In between, she finds time to send about 400 to 470 texts a day. Among her uses of the text messages? Studying for exams with friends, which she says is better done by text because she can look back at the messages to review
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Ugh.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090616/...g_championship
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06-17-2009, 10:10 AM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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I predict high insurance rates for her when shes able to drive.
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06-17-2009, 10:11 AM
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GOAT!
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She has a point tho about the studying... makes me wish we had cells back when we were kids.
...of course, I wouldn't actually be studying... more like "studying."
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06-17-2009, 10:12 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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I saw this quick interview when I turn on the TV.
Unbelievable that people are actually getting rewarded for this.
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06-17-2009, 10:13 AM
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GOAT!
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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
I predict high insurance rates for her when shes able to drive.
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I predict she'll wear a short skirt when she goes in for a quote, and leave with a pretty good discount.
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06-17-2009, 10:13 AM
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Franchise Player
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good 4 her
she dsrvs it!
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06-17-2009, 10:13 AM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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which she says is better done by text because she can look back at the messages to review
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OK, what kind of phone does she have that lets her save hundreds or thousands of texts? Because mine only lets me save 100.
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06-17-2009, 10:14 AM
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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Originally Posted by ken0042
OK, what kind of phone does she have that lets her save hundreds or thousands of texts? Because mine only lets me save 100.
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iPhone? It saves a lot of texts. Shows them in a conversation thread.
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06-17-2009, 10:15 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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That $50k wont even put a dent in her phone bill. When she grows up and has to get a job to pay for that crap it'll really cramp her txting average.
Its tough to text your BFF when you're serving me my fries.
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06-17-2009, 10:16 AM
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something else haha
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I hope her daddy bought her a unlimited texting plan or the bill might be $50,000
edit: Oh wait this is in the states so she probably has unlimited everything possible for $30, where us canadians get screwed my the cell phone companies.
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06-17-2009, 10:16 AM
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by Joborule
I saw this quick interview when I turn on the TV.
Unbelievable that people are actually getting rewarded for this.
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If competitive hot dog eating can make ESPN...
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06-17-2009, 10:20 AM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Geez, I wonder if she used a LG phone like the previous 2 winners.
I'd bet there's a teen elsewhere that texts even more, but they didn't use a LG.
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06-17-2009, 10:22 AM
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I text quite often, but nowhere near 14,000 times a month.
I'd say I send probably between 1,200 and 1,500 a month... But the people I talk to most are on Blackberry Messenger, so those don't count towards my totals.
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06-17-2009, 10:22 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
If competitive hot dog eating can make ESPN...
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That's different. That's important.
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06-17-2009, 10:22 AM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Sadly not in the Dome.
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And to think I got pissed at my teenager when he was texting to much. I should have been encouraging him! I could be bloody rich.
I text a dozen times a week and I think it is to much.
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06-17-2009, 10:40 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
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Okay that is seriously messed up.
If she's sending 400 texts per day, and assuming she's sleeping 8 hours per day, that means she's sending a text about ever 2 minutes.
And that's assuming her teachers have no problem with her texting while in class.
How the hell do yo do that? Does this girl do anything else durring the day?
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06-17-2009, 10:43 AM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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I love the names of all the texters on the Jim Rome show:
ex. Texter Manley, Text and Candy
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06-17-2009, 10:43 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: In front of the Photon Torpedo
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That advertising will pay for itself.
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06-17-2009, 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Okay that is seriously messed up.
If she's sending 400 texts per day, and assuming she's sleeping 8 hours per day, that means she's sending a text about ever 2 minutes.
And that's assuming her teachers have no problem with her texting while in class.
How the hell do yo do that? Does this girl do anything else durring the day?
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She can easily text "You coming to the movies?" to dozens of her friends in one text. That will count for as many texts as she sends the same message to
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06-17-2009, 11:11 AM
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Norm!
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Its awesome that we're raising a future generation of technology reliant ######s. One day my grandkid will come up to me and say Grandpa Crunch, can you look at this report that I did on WWII, and all the facts will be wrong because he used Wiki as his informational source. I'll tell him to go to the Library and actually do research and he'll ask me what a Library is. Then I'll shoot his parents and his teachers.
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