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11 January 2007

Don't be a masshole.

post by: mudpuppie at: 16:03 | 18 comments

Hee hee! And here I was thinking I was going to have to defend myself for living in Massachusetts for two years.

posted by Specklet 11 January | 16:09

No, go right ahead.
(Massachusetts represent, yo)

posted by plinth 11 January | 16:12

Did I say two years? Wow, that's a weird slip. I lived there SIX years.

posted by Specklet 11 January | 16:19

Hehe, I thought this was a Massachusetts driving post, too.

And yes! I hate mass texters!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 11 January | 16:19

I've never gotten a text message. That makes me old, right?

posted by jrossi4r 11 January | 16:22

But they have texting in other New England states too, don't they?

posted by mmahaffie 11 January | 16:23

they have texting in other New England states too, don't they?

No, no, no. We write everything on big scrolls, and then the Town Crier reads them.

posted by Miko 11 January | 16:27

I don't even know how to send a text message. That makes me even older. Or cheap. Or both.

posted by JanetLand 11 January | 16:28

I don't own a cell phone. I must be a luddite. One with a desktop computer. And I work with industrial controls. Ah well, I guess I am old too.

posted by eekacat 11 January | 16:30

This lecture is not addressed to those of you who send out a text to everyone in your phone book hyping some event. ... No, it's meant for everyone who decided to share their holiday cheer via mass text messages.

From my 30-year-old step-brother via text on Christmas: Cash is short, times are hard, here's your f***ing xmas card!"
I know, he's classy.

posted by youngergirl44 11 January | 16:36

Er, what?

...usually went something like this: "Getting home from work soon, what's the plan?"

Or, if you use predictive text, "Getting me from work pot, why the plane?"

There's no way that can be predictive text going wrong. That's just fat fingers.

posted by chrismear 11 January | 16:37

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posted by iconomy 11 January | 16:43

Ack! I'm caught!

posted by mudpuppie 11 January | 16:47

hahahaha!11!

I love you, ico! You, mudpuppie - back to the slaving away! hahaheehee!

posted by taz 11 January | 16:51

*crosses arms, pouts*

posted by mudpuppie 11 January | 16:55

*teehee*

posted by iconomy 11 January | 16:56

thank you TPS, mass texters are indeed a scourge.

I loathe predictive text algorithms and turn them off every chance I get. I'm faster with old-skool texting anyway.

Tho I will admit to being old AND old-fashioned enough to want to spell most things out rather than use 'txtspeak'... more because it makes one's communiques resemble the lame angst-ridden diary entries of my mid-80's Prince-crazed teenage peers than anything else.

Although like others, I had expected this would be a rant about Massachussetts drivers.

posted by lonefrontranger 11 January | 18:25

I used to use the term damn near every day when I lived in NH. Never heard it in this context, and I don't enjoy it as much.

posted by SassHat 11 January | 21:14

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