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April 23, 2007 at 10:17 am by Casey McIntyre in Randomly NotedMorgan Pozgar, texting champ
(Photo from Yahoo.com)
As if the young folks needed any more lame excuses for “sports” (you know you saw that cup stacking champ clip on YouTube), some teenage girl with speedy fingers was named the 2007 United States Text Messaging Champion this weekend, taking out other top texters by typing the phrase “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious, if you said it loud enough you’ll always sound precocious” of Mary Poppins fame in less than 15 seconds without abbreviations.
OK, I know I’m going to look like a dork for pointing this out, but nowhere in the article does it say if competitors were allowed to use predictive text (um, hello! Texters everywhere know that this would make anything textable in under 15 seconds) and in the pic it looks like that girl is using a Sidekick — making it way easier for her tiny teen fingers to get to all those letters. Second-place champ Eli Tirosh was MRJLY BUMMED when she lost due to a spelling error, saying, “whatevs, rly sucks, i g2g, ttyl.”
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