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| Clever Girl... >> Writing >> SMS fun Remember how for a few months at the beginning of 2000 Optus was letting us send... I think it was 500 free SMSs per month? I do. As everyone I knew got the hang of those tricky functions there was a surge of beeping in the corridors - song lyrics made up on the bus, tales of lost love or lipstick, yes, round robin SMSs sent out in lectures in the hope someone else was equally bored - I even recall 2 hour long SMS conversations with people, one with Iyer springs to mind. But the thing I think most people (well, the Scooby Gang ;)) will remember about the days of free SMSing is the trend of having entire conversations based on... well, poetry. And, lucky you, I happen to still have a copy of one of these conversations, between myself and Andrew... some time in April 2000, I assume? To make it easier, I'll put myself in italics. ;) Hi Andrew Where r u? Wentworth's blue So's Saru U r due 4 interview so get your ass over here or we'll sue You Andrew Right now I'm sitting in a chair If u look hard u'll find me there I am at home but soon will leave And come by train, do you believe? I hope you're having fun at home As I am on my mobile phone Alas, u'll soon receive a summons Oh damn, nothing rhymes with summons! U think that nothing rhymes with summons? Then I can brighten up your day If u think hard u'll realise 'gummons' Rhymes with it in every way! How silly - how could I forget? That in a rhyming couplet Words do not have to exist Especially when Andrew is pissed! U think I'm pissed? Oh thou art wrong I merely wish to write a song Of love, and lust and joy and pain (Oh no, not Dawson's Creek again!) But u know I luv Dawson's Creek I fear u think that I'm a freak Surely to Neighbours you refer If that is so then I concur! There was more, after this, I'm sure, but I seem to have lost those messages (and the fact that I still had a copy of these after more than a year is a miracle in itself), so... lucky you. ;) back |
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