# Texts from Bennett **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760 "2011-12-01T23:20:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/1 "2011-12-01T23:20:53Z")
[This](http://textsfrombennett.tumblr.com/) is the single greatest thing I’ve seen in months. Truly the words of a master. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/2 "2011-12-01T23:45:33Z")
Those texts are literally stunning. Brain bleach, stat! ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/3 "2011-12-01T23:58:42Z")
My god, what an idiot. I hope this is all fake but, sadly, I know there are people that stupid out there. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/4 "2011-12-02T02:16:51Z")
Oh my God, that makes me speechless. And after spending any time on phone apps, I’ve found there’s lots of people who quasi talk like that. So I’m sure there’s ones even worse. I weep for humanity. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/5 "2011-12-02T03:23:16Z")
I think, in his own special way, Bennett is a creative genius. I mean, can’t get poisonous dog treats? No problem, dip a frisbee in poison instead. It’s brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/6 "2011-12-02T03:36:43Z")
I’m already fond of the colorful Bennett and his overachieving cousin. I will invite them both over for Christmas dinner, and I can’t wait to meet Bennett’s Plus 1. Ima go ahead and serve corn dogs, board the dog, hide the bath beads, and roll up my car windows, though. He sounds like the inner city version of Allstate’s Mayhem. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/7 "2011-12-03T00:22:34Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I think, in his own special way, Bennett is a creative genius. I mean, can’t get poisonous dog treats? No problem, dip a frisbee in poison instead. It’s brilliant. I liked the notion of the “rockwilder”. 🙂 Oh, **and** the idea that “Dats da problem. My hookup is out of them”, as though any OTHER day he would know exactly where to get poisonous dog treats, oxymoronic though they might be. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/8 "2011-12-03T00:41:52Z")
I’m pretty sure this is fake. It’s honestly too _creative_ to be real. I know my fair share of Bennetts of all ages. Stuff like Van Gogh’s ear and a Native American girl on Thanksgiving would just never occur to them. It’s not on their radar. The only stuff they ever chat about is how intoxicated they are, and relationship drama. They’re not people who throw out quirky, random anecdotes. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/9 "2011-12-03T01:10:08Z")
[The Smoking Gun](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/texts-not-from-bennett-765319) is reporting that it’s not real, which is a shame. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/10 "2011-12-03T01:14:23Z")
If you think Bennett’s bad, imagine the chicks who apparently hook up with him. He seems to get more action than I ever did at his age. Proof that edumacation is over-rated. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/11 "2011-12-08T07:47:09Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > [The Smoking Gun](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/texts-not-from-bennett-765319) is reporting that it’s not real, which is a shame. I’m shocked. Shocked I tells ya! (And, no, I’m not one of those “FAKE!!!” or “PHOTOSHOP!!!” guys, but this one pinged the ol’ BS radar hard.) ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/12 "2011-12-08T19:59:23Z")
I don’t care at all whether it’s real. It’s quite entertaining either way. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/13 "2011-12-08T20:09:11Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’m shocked. Shocked I tells ya! (And, no, I’m not one of those “FAKE!!!” or “PHOTOSHOP!!!” guys, but this one pinged the ol’ BS radar hard.) Those PMs are fake. I can tell by the pixels. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/14 "2011-12-08T20:14:10Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > I don’t care at all whether it’s real. It’s quite entertaining either way. I agree. I don’t believe half the stuff on Lamebook or that autocorrect screw-ups website is real, either, but it’s still amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/15 "2011-12-08T21:15:55Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Those PMs are fake. I can tell by the pixels. And from seeing a few shops in my day. the Metro (a free daily they give out in NYC and other cities) had a headline like “Texts From Bennet Fake, Which Should Have Been Obvious To Everyone” which was a little snarky, even for them. But I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texts-from-bennett/604760/16 "2011-12-09T04:56:42Z")
Oh, yeah. Clearly fake. And getting more brazenly so: [“tinkle and toot”](http://textsfrombennett.tumblr.com/post/13953797964/bennett-tells-a-secret-about-his-socks)?