Generic Holiday Forward Text Messages Are Stupid

Yesterday for Thanksgiving I received 10 generic fwd style text messages that all looked something like this:

Gobble Gobble, Happy Turkey Day!:)

Or

Hey Everyone Have A Happy T Day! ^_^

A couple things:

• People do usually eat turkeys on Thanksgiving but the entire day is not about turkey. I think it’s weird when people call it “turkey day”. I eat turkey on other days too.
• On Thanksgiving (that’s what we adults call it) you’re supposed to be Thankful for what you have as a human, as an American, etc.

I dread these text messages every holiday and Thanksgiving was no exception.

An interesting detail of these messages is that 100% of them were sent by women (10/10) whom I don’t know very well.

What is the point of these?

Here’s a suggestion:

Write a personal happy holiday text message to each friend individually. Here’s an example:

Hey Greg, Happy Thanksgiving, <Insert Personal Detail Here> .

Please do not send me any of these for Christmas, unless you’ve come up with a clever way to mock these types of messages. Seriously I grind my teeth when I open my mailbox and see them.

Oh yeah. Happy Thansgiving.

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Reader's Comments

1. 

   I got the exact same text, except my friend misspelled it. It says “Gooble gooble! Happy turkey day!”

   I got a couple others as well – all three from dudes. I don’t know if that says more about me or my friends.

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2. Jason on 29 Nov 2008 8:23 am
3. 

   well the fact that i had 10 means that i gave my telephone # to 10 pretty stupid women and i’m proud to say i haven’t seen any of them naked.
   Crap just checked again, saw one of them naked.

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4. andyfox1979 on 01 Dec 2008 1:39 am
5. 

   omfg! yes! I couldn’t agree more.

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6. Britney Bernstein on 01 Dec 2008 5:38 pm
7. 

   it smelt! BAD!

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8. poop on 06 Dec 2008 6:05 pm
9. 

   omg wtf britney! you farted!

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10. poop on 06 Dec 2008 6:54 pm