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sharing the good, and exposing the best of the worst on twitter
My Eyes!
Every now and then we come across a bio pic that is so disturbing, even a quick glance causes it to be permanently burned into our retinas, so that the horror of that brief viewing will follow us to our graves.
Since we can’t unsee it, we’re going to pass the image your way. Like a gruesome auto accident you can’t help but watch, this image will shake you to your core. You life will never be the same.
Turn away now, before it is too late.
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Twitter: The Final Frontier
If you’re old enough to remember when Star Trek launched in 1966, and you’re still a fan, congratulations on a life filled with intense wonder and deep philosophical meaning. If you attend StarCon or StarFest in costume and speak Klingon, never mind, because you won’t even get the sarcasm of the last sentence.
Since the latest Star Trek movie opens in theaters today, we thought we’d list the Star Trek characters on twitter, so while you’re sitting in your lawn chair, where you’ve been unshowered and unshaved for three days while waiting to get your tickets for this earth-changing event, you can find someone to talk to.
We would have arranged them all according to ship, or season, but that would ruin the illusion we’ve been trying to maintain that we actually had dates in high school.
Hanging On Every Word
How to get lots of followers on twitter:
- Write really interesting stuff
- Interact with others
- RT good posts
If that doesn’t work:
- Write whatever random thought comes to mind
- Make sure it’s as dull as possible
- Retweet yourself
It seems to be working for @Stacybee
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How It’s Made (aka: The Puppet Master)
How It’s Made is a show on the Discovery Channel that takes the viewer through the process of creating a diverse array of interesting things, such as flutes, bongos, mozzarella cheese, and marbles, from start to finish. We never saw an episode on puppets, which is why we were so fascinated when we discovered the making of a puppet on twitter.
Follow along, as we show you, step-by-step:
1. JoAnna Weaver-Grimes creates her account: JOJO1317
2. JoAnna sets her agenda: Politics and Religion
3. Imagine her disappointment as her posts go relatively unnoticed (no responses, no retweets, only 8 followers). Decides people would be more responsive to a 7-year-old, so she changes her username to VEG1317, and becomes Torye-Beth Grimes. (Both users have the same, exact posts through their entire stream, at the same time). In case you think we’re making this up, watch the transformation, here:
Are puppets innocent, sweet, trustworthy creatures? We say, “No.” Let’s be honest, if Punch was still around today, he’d be locked up for Domestic Violence, and we wouldn’t want Alf running around a houseful of kittens. The only puppets we really liked were Statler and Waldorf, who technically weren’t puppets, exactly, but that’s beside the point. The point is, we’re pretty wary of people who use their kids to fulfill their personal agendas, and if the kid is real, we feel bad for her. As one of our stand-by Fail Bird Handlers, @mindofchester, remarked:
Upon reading her twitter updates, you can see that it’s not her at all but her parents: “Thanks mom for helping type all of this! Parents r great and right all the time.”
Come on!! I mean, how douchey do you want your kid to look?!?
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