Did you catch the Guardian newspaper special report on text messaging?
Have a read:
Link: SMS: the new medium for bad tidings | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
After the government’s announcement today it will use text messages to remind people not to overstay their visas, David Batty investigates the now common practice of giving bad news via SMS.
Very useful chronical!
[foreign person] “I’m gonna pay £20,000 to get into Britain via a 3 week journey underneath a lorry and then in the pit of a fishing trawler during a 36 hour sea crossing in gale force winds…and then run into hiding and stay scrounging of the gullible English for ever and ever…..”
“…or at least until I get a personal text message from the Minister for Pointless Departments saying ‘we know where you are ha ha ha ha!!’; in which case I will hand myself in to the nearest policeman and admit my dastardly plan has been thwarted by a super-intelligent race with the most highly advanced intelligence gathering tools known to man”.
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steve/itagg.com