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Custom Away Messages are Overrated

by Fred LeBlanc - May 22, 2008 / 1:04pm View more articles

I'm not here right now, and I'm too lazy to alert you where I am.I don't know if this is a trend or a weird coincidence, but everyone on my buddy list that was away a couple minutes ago was using the standard message that comes with their IM client. What happened to random quotes, clever sayings or even some custom form of "I'm away?"

Those were the days.

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by Nick Grant   #
on May 22, 2008 / 1:38pm
Going to lunch - be back in 10.
by Dave Tufts   #
on May 22, 2008 / 1:52pm
What Fred failed to mention was his own highly descriptive IM message...and I quote, "Owl... Lick... Bald... Win?... Oh!"
by Fred LeBlanc   #
on May 22, 2008 / 1:54pm
It's from Scene It! and it's a "status message." I'm not away... yet.
by Nick   #
on May 27, 2008 / 11:14am
I use:

"Noodle Bonanza"
"Food Town"
"Meeting"
"Saving World, BBIAF"

and others.

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