Wonkette had the brilliant idea today to use an online texting service to fake out all the Obama supporters and other political junkies who signed up to get a message announcing the campaign's official Vice Presidential selection.
Let's try it out on everyone we know... and see if we can get one of them to spread the news around, causing utter chaos and maybe even some hilarious press coverage...
First, go here if you're texting a Verizon customer. (If not, skip to the next bolded text.)
https://text.vzw.com/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp
In the "Send To:" box, enter the number of the Verizon customer friend of yours. Don't know anybody political that has Verizon? (Yeah, most of our friends have iPhones or are voting Bob Barr.) Just enter a random number, maybe it'll go through. We tried someone who doesn't have Verizon; as far as we know, they haven't gotten it. (Either that, or they're currently alerting the media that Obama chose Michael Phelps.)
If you don't know a Verizon customer, you can try this, although we can't vouch for it. (Sprint/Nextel may work here.)
Make sure to enter 62262 as the From and Reply To, although you can probably put a fake phone number in the Call Back field.
Let us know if you come up with anything funny to say. Otherwise, we'll keep waiting by our phones for the real announcement to come our way...
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