Have you received your mass text from Obama yet, announcing his running mate? It's a little weird he would choose Rush Limbaugh for vice president, right? Oh, you think it's Michael Phelps?

Maybe that's because cells all over the country are being plagued by fake announcements for Obama's nomination. The senator's grand plan to embrace new technology while building endless hype around his VP nomination — by announcing his pick via text message — had the unintended result of allowing pranksters to confuse your parents more than cell phones already do.

And you only have yourselves to blame:

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