Their thumbs sure must be sore. Two central prefix = st1 /Pennsylvaniafriends spent most of March in a text - messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $ 26,000. Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were relying on their unlimited text messaging plans to get them through the escapade , so Andes didn't expect such a big bill. " It came in a box that cost $ 27.55 to send to me." he said. He said he "panicked" and called T-Mobile, which said it would investigate the charges. The two Lancaster-area residents have been practically non-stop texters for about a decade since they attended Berks Technical Institute together. That led Andes to searching for the largest monthly text message total he could find posted online: 182,000 sent in 2005 by Deepak Sharma in India. Andes and Klinger were able to set up their phones to send multiple messages. During a February test run they found they could send 6,000 or 7,000 messages on some days, prompting the March messaging marathon. " Most were either short phrases or one word, 'LOL' or 'Hello', things like that , with tons and tons of repeats," said Andes, reached by phone. Andes sent more than 140,000 messages, and Klinger sent more than 70,000 to end the month with a total of just over 217,000, he said. A spokesman for Guinness World Records didn't immediately return messages asking whether it would be certified as a record. April came as a relief to Andes' wife , Julie, who had found his phone tied up with texting when she tried to call him on lunch breaks. " She was tired of it the first few days into it, "Andes said.

1. How many texts could they send on a particular day?
2. Did one get a cheap bill?
3. how much was it?
4. did it arrive in an envelope?
5. what did it arrive in?
6. which guy got this bill?
7. where are these friends from?
8. what month did they try to break the record?
9. did they succeed?
10. how many did they send?
11. what was the previous record?
12. what year was that done in?
13. by what person?
14. from what country?
15. for how long have these friends been texting each other?
16. was one of the wives happy with them doing this?
17. how fast did she get sick of this?
18. were their messages always long ones?
19. what is an example of one?
20. were they always unique messages?

Numbered answers:
1. 217,000
2. No
3. $ 26,000
4. no
5. a box
6. Andes
7. Pennsylvania
8. March
9. Did by Guinness World Records
10. 217,000
11. 182,000
12. 2005
13. Deepak Sharma
14. India
15. most of March
16. No
17. Immediately
18. No
19. LOL
20. No