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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Books You Can't Spell "Twitter" Without "Wit" (or "Tit")

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:34 PM

There is an interview with Nick Douglas, the "author" of the forthcoming Twitter Wit, a collection of funny Twitter posts that I wrote about back in February, over here.

Though Douglas is one of a few hundred Twitter users that tweet out consistent bursts of humor, he asserted to me that tweets, unlike other literary forms, are well-suited for brilliant blips of hilarity from casual everyday users. “It’s possibly like poetry,” he told me. “Except it’s a lot easier to write a clever one liner than it is to write a poem that’s good. It’s easy to write bad poetry, or rather you’re more likely to write bad poetry, but I actually think the vast majority of people could write a very funny line.”

There are two samples of this wit, which, again, Douglas did not even write, in the interview:

Oh my gosh I didn’t mean to knock you off your tricycle! Here, let me hold your ice cream sandwich while you LATER ASSHOLE

and

Why do they design martini glasses so they’re easy to spill on the bus?

I have nothing more to say about it. This whole affair makes me feel dirty.

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Or "twit".

Posted by kid icarus

on May 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM

This reminds me of a fantastic blog that's been eating up my time all day today:

http://textsfromlastnight.com/

AMAZING text messages, saved for posterity.

Posted by UNPAID COMMENTER on May 21, 2009 at 3:24 PM