Tell him we love him

He has just gone in.
I am on a chair just outside.
The nurse promised to hold his hand.

They do it in the theatre
but I expect he will be sedated.
Others coming out have been.

Done. Full sedation.
I am with him in recovery.
He is snoring.

In the waiting area.
They will give him tea and toast.
He is a bit unsteady at the moment.

Everything ok.



Text replies from a hospital waiting room to messages expressing concern. Submitted by Angi Holden.

You Latinist

You Latinist?
I doubt it.
Nah lad.
You alive?
Year man, hope so.
I’ve survived on ice cream.

It’s all good in the hood
thank you
prick.
I’m gonna get cained and wash-up
In the bath. Ahhh

The new terms will take effect from
7:30 pm
with balls and like a man.
Start your year helping someone else –
Just destroy the toilet and leave non alive.




Lines picked at random from recent text messages received by class members of the year 2 Music Practice Degree at UCLAN (Preston University). Submitted by Winston Plowes with contributions (in order) from DF, TF, AL, BE, JH, KM, JH, MG, SO, LG, JL, CE, NW, CH and MM.

Swiftly

I am going to be a bit of a crush on you
and your lovely email address and
password for the first time today
and get a different thing to do it
for you to the gin bar in the UK who
are you a call on the anti-Russia
LGBT backlash the UK and Ireland
and the other day and night and
I am a beautiful person to person
who is the best address to to
the café now and then you came to
the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the



Text created by accepting all the predictive text suggestions made by the Swiftkey typing app, 11th August 2013. Submitted by Marika Rose.

Hi Emily,

This is just to let u know
I love u no less than I did at school.
Maybe it’s time we both moved on,
I will always love u
no matter how this ends.



From a text message that was sent, accidentally, to my friend Anita, 1 May 2012. Submitted by Lynda.

Remember This

Thanks to the girls for
a laugh-out-loud weekend
away. I will never forget
us walking into that bar
full of golfers when we
were dressed in our
white dressing gowns
and slippers.



A text message featured in the Metro newspaper's Good Deed Feed, 4th October 2011. Submitted by Marika Rose.

Decline

Looks fab. Alas I
tame the feral youths
of Wythenshawe on Wednesdays.



Taken from a friend's facebook page, turning down an invitation on 3rd October 2011. Submitted by Ailsa Holland.

This Text Is Just To Say

The rose bush
is falling over
with the wind.



A whole text message from my wife, 23 May 2011. Submitted by Gabriel Smy.

An Exclamatory Discourse In Predictive Text

Oh goody.
Oh honey.
Oh goofy.
Oh gooey.



Mobile phone predictive text spelling suggestions for the phrase 'Oh goody.' Submitted by Gabriel Smy.

Park Life

Took nuts w me to the park today
Squirrel sat on my lap

Closest I'll ever get
To anyone

(Eating out of the palm of my hand...)



Text message from a sister, submitted by Steve Kirk.

Planned Engineering Works

Sorry, I am so fucked!
Picc and vic lines down
(At least it sounds funny)
On a bus
will need +1 more bus
or 2 more tubes
Going to be very late
I am so sorry.




Text message sent by a friend running late for dinner, 13th November 2010. Submitted by Fiona Green.

How r u?

How Gow
Inw Iow

are ape
cre bre

you wot
wou wov

? . , -
! ' @ :




Word suggestions from a Sony Ericsson mobile phone whilst writing a text message on the 14th October, 2010. Subtmitted by Marika Rose, .

up4it

I spoke2Safia,
She was well up4it,
But timings r gonna b tricky.
The kids go2bed@10/11!

She said
She could
Change their bedtime4our class,
I don't think that's practical!

The kids r away
@their dads4most
of the w/end...
We could change
Times@the w/end
Dependin,
Coz she's flexible.

What do u think?

By Liz. A text from a friend, received 1 April 2009.

The Colour of Pain

FOOTB NUFC:
Barclays Premier League:
Newcastle 1
Man Utd 2
(Dimitar Berbatov 55)
Go to Orange World



A text received 4 March 2009. Sadly. Submitted by Gabriel Smy.