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Text Your Friends Fake Obama Vice President Announcements

by Terrence O'Brien on August 22, 2008 at 03:00 PM

Prank: Send Out Fake Obama VP Text
Got an Obama supporting friend you really want to confuse?

Follow a bit of advice from Wonkette and use one of those semi-anonymous text messaging sites to send a fake message announcing that that Barack Obama has chosen (Hillary Clinton, Gary Glitter, etc...) as his Vice Presidential nominee. No doubt your Obamaniac friend is sitting, sweaty palmed, by his cell phone waiting for the text message from the campaign that will tell him or her (and millions of other supporters) who Obama is giving the VP nod, before an announcement is made to the press. Of course, as with everything else, as the methods get more high tech, the results get easier to spoof.

Most cellphone providers offer text messaging via the Internet, just set the 'from' and 'reply to' number as 62262 and draft up a formal looking message along the lines of:
"As a thanks for all your support we wanted you to be the first to know that Barack has chosen _____ as VP"
Then laugh when your friend calls you frothing with rage. Disclaimer: We are not responsible for any physical violence that might befall you as a result of this gag. [From: Wonkette, Via: Textually]

Tags: barack obama, BarackObama, joke, obama, politics, prank, sms, text messaging, TextMessaging, vice president, VicePresident

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