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14 September 2007

It's Friday, I feel like laughing. What's the funniest text message you've ever received? Sent?→[More:]Here are the first ones that spring to mind for me.

Received: One Saturday a few years back, I was stuck in traffic on the highway, not moving at all. I was getting a serious case of frustrated road rage when my phone dings. It was a text from my best mate D. It read:

"Big PETA rally at the KFC on Mockingbird. Fuck. I really wanted some chicken."

And I just busted out laughing. As I read it, I was picturing him like some kid that had just lost his balloon and was despondently watching it fly off into the sky.

Sent: About six months ago I got a random text from my buddy G. Given the nature of it, I think he probably sent it out to a bunch of people just to see how they'd react. It read: "Some guy just tried to pic a fight with me at the dentist. Seriously who the fuck does that?"

To which I replied: "I dunno, man. Some people just really fucking love Crest." He told me I won the best off-the-cuff reply award. I still haven't gotten my trophy.

So what are yours?

post by: ufez at: 15:33 | 25 comments

The non-sequitur award, from a long-distance ex-boyfriend:

I can't stop thinking about you. There are two stick bugs fucking on my screen door.

posted by desjardins 14 September | 15:40

on my pager: LOW BATT

Don't carry that pager any more, but somebody else does. Somebody who was Not Nice to Theora. My friend continued to randomly send Low Batt messages for a couple years after I left that (vile, abusive) job.

posted by theora55 14 September | 16:12

There was a Friday a few weeks ago where it was rumored that they were going to announce that Fidel Castro was dead. I texted my pal ColdChef to keep me informed, since I was out playing tourist with Stynx & his family, and since he will often text when someone notable dies. About 20 minutes later, I got a text: Zac Ephron was mauled by a cougar. I responded that Zac Efron was mauled by ME

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 September | 16:42

I had a funny text from TPS once, when she thought she was texting stynxno. But it was only funny because of that.

zac efron? ugh. dude looks like a lady /derail

posted by gaspode 14 September | 16:50

I don't remember that at all?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 September | 17:04

Never received a text message. Or sent one. So I guess that the first one I get would be the funniest. And the least funny too.

posted by octothorpe 14 September | 17:07

Text from my friend Chad:

Dude if you get the chance, follow a girl riding a Buell. It's like getting a spanking."

posted by black8 14 September | 17:08

I've gotten a lot, but the best was from (internet celebrity) Rhodri Marsden: "Is this the REAL Charles Darwin?"

posted by chuckdarwin 14 September | 18:19

funniest this week, both from the same person:

i hate sailor dancers.

&

going to jail. be out soon.

posted by small_ruminant 14 September | 18:25

I hate text. It's too much like words.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 14 September | 18:42

I got a cell phone (first one) earlier this year. I use it mostly when I travel since it doesn't really work at my house. I was on a plane stuck on the runway and sent my sister a message

Hey check me out, I am texting from the plane.

she replied

dude, welcome to 2002.

posted by jessamyn 14 September | 19:48

My friend sent me one that said:

Oh shit, now they got Doppler One Million.

posted by Divine_Wino 14 September | 19:50

*commences Doppling*

posted by jonmc 14 September | 19:51

Got a text this afternoon, "Im at work. Processing checks at my desk with my computer." Which is good to know, but would probably mean more if I had the faintest idea who the sender was.

posted by sysinfo 14 September | 20:58

I have never sent or received a text message.
I also do not know my own cell phone number.

posted by jrossi4r 14 September | 22:49

jrossi, I'd send you text messages if you knew your number!

posted by mudpuppie 14 September | 23:01

Okay, so I was trying to txt my friend to say "The road by my house is very icy. Stop before the steep part begins." The T9 text predicting system interpreted "icy" as "gay", and in a hilarious coincidence, interpreted "steep" as "queer". So I ended up sending:

"The road by my house is very gay. Stop before the queer part begins."

posted by agropyron 14 September | 23:19

I also have only had a cell phone for just under a year and don't even have texting turned on (it's a phone, phone me). And, even though it's my only personal phone, I can't seem to remember the number. Kind of a phone luddite, for a guy who makes his living with computers. First my coworkers were sort of shocked that I didn't have one and then they were shocked when I finally did.

posted by doctor_negative 15 September | 00:42

I went to a housewarming party for a buddy and told my friend in Egypt about it. He had never heard of the housewarming party tradition, so I tried to explain to him what it was. Later on, I got an adorable txt asking, "How was your warming up party?" I cracked up, picturing me hanging out with a bunch of freezing cold people as we all threw my friend's furniture into a fireplace or something.

Definitely not as funny as agropyron's, but I still giggle about it.

posted by miss lynnster 15 September | 00:44

Ha, I am buying my first phone tomorrow. Unlimited regional calls for $25. Ok, I had a phone once about two years ago for a month.

posted by craniac 15 September | 01:57

Predictive text engines turn Cool into Book

Dude, that is so book.

posted by chuckdarwin 15 September | 03:03

My mum keeps getting her mobile stolen - and would repeatedly text me from her new number just saying 'this is my new phone'. So I'd have to call and see who it was.

Now she's worked out she has to tell me who she is if she's doing this. Also, she doesn't use much punctuation in texts. So the most recent read: "this is my new phone old one stolen by fairies love mum".

posted by altolinguistic 15 September | 04:34

A friend just reminded me of a text message I'd sent her that she thought was pretty funny. After a flurry of messages in which she gloated about beating me in a game of Sorry!, I texted her:

Me (6/29 5:23 pm): Here's what I like about you:

There was no subsequent message.

posted by eamondaly 15 September | 06:47

Due to predictive texting, I have sent, "Do you want to in out tonight?" instead of "Do you want to go out tonight?" to several of our (male) friends.

posted by youngergirl44 15 September | 13:30

My cell phone doesn't have texting nor do I remember it's number. I have, however, texted the mister's phone. This happened just last week while he was out of town and I was keeping him updated on the Jeep. I'm no longer a text virgin.

Also, if I had texting enabled I would pass out my number willy-nilly to you folks. It would make my day to get silly texts from y'all.

posted by deborah 15 September | 19:58

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