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Old 04-21-2009, 11:05 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Their thumbs sure must be sore. Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000.

News from The Associated Press (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ODD_217?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&C TIME=2009-04-21-21-00-35 - broken link)
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Old 04-22-2009, 12:00 AM
 
Location: Boston
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I need to break this record...
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