from yahoo news... (photo, contents are from yahoo news, just reworded them cause i don't want to post the whole content here, just click the link to view the entire transcript)..
teen at the picture is kate moore, 16 year old high school sophomore from des moines, iowa. her messaging habit has won her a whopping USD60,000 in prize money in less than a year!
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she joined in LG US national texting championship held in new york and won USD50,000 and a chance to compete in the burgeoning sports's worldwide championships, held last month.
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the phrase that won her the championship which took her less than 60 seconds to type was "zippity dooo dahh zippity ayy.. my oh my, what a wonderful day! plenty of sunshine comin' my way ... zippittydodahzippityaay! wonderful feeling, wonderful day!"
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and i thought our nation takes pride in being the texting capital of the world! i wonder if we had a representative in this contest... she was 2nd place on the world championship, team #1 was from korea, 3rd place was from argentina, see here.
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