Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Confession time: "Stranger in a Strange Tweet" edition.
Well, in spite of Our Fearless Leader's little box off to the right there, I just don't grok Twitter. There are damned few applications of it that I have heard about which make any sense at all to me, and the whole notion of "following" someone's Tweets just strikes me as surreal and more than a little creepy.
Yeah, I confess: I'm an old fogey at 50.
But anyway, let's have a little fun with this, and maybe see if we can launch a new internet meme. Let's call it "The Twitter game". How you play is simple: substitute the word "Twitter," "Twitterer," or "Tweet(s)" for another key word in the title of a book or movie. Success is determined by how funny the resulting title is, and how much fun it makes of the absurdity which is ego-Tweeting.
So, here's a few to get us started, playing off of Heinlein novels (because that cranky old fart would probably find this whole phenomenon hilarious):
- Twitterer in the Sky
- Stranger in a Strange Tweet
- The Moon is a Harsh Twitterer
- The Number of the Twitter
- Beyond this Tweet
- Have Space Suit - Will Twitter
- Time Enough for Twitter
And who can forget the classic Twitter? (Extra points if you can identify the actual novel.)
Have at it!
Jim Downey
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I Tweet Gone with the
I Tweet
Gone with the Tweet.
Twitting in the Rain.
The Twitter of Oz
Twitternator
Twitternator 2: Tweet Day
Twitternator 3: Rise of the Twitters
Twitternator 4: Tweetvation
Back to the Twitter
The Karate Tweet
Jurassic Tweet
12 Tweets
Tweet In Black
Tweet Bill
Another series
Planet of the Tweets
Beneath the Planet of the Tweets
Escape from the Planet of the Tweets
Conquest of the Planet of the Tweets
Battle for the Planet of the Tweets
Jim Downey
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Like Science Fiction? Read *or listen to* my novel, Communion of Dreams, for free.
Twaitors
You're all terrible people.
Lest We Forget The 10th Dr. Twit (Series 4 2008)
"Partners in Tweets"
"The Tweets of Pompeii"
"Twitter of the Ood"
"The Sontaran Tweetagem"
"The Poison Tweet"
"The Doctor's Daughter's Twitter Account"
"The Unicorn and the Wasp Follow Each Other"
"Tweet in Silence in the Library"
"Forest of the Dead Twits"
"Midnight Tweets"
"Turn Left While Tweeting"
"The Stolen Tweet"
"Twitter's End"
Twitterpated
No pattern, just ones off the top of my head that seem amusing:
Tweeting Private Ryan
A Tweet Too Far
One Tweet Over The Cuckoos Nest
Mystery Science Twitter
When Harry Twittered Sally
Tweetless In Seattle
Metallica: Some Kind Of Twitter
Rambo: First Tweet
The Tweet and I
Lawrence of Twitter
Fear and Twitter in Las Vegas
Tweet Of The Dead
Sin Twitter
Bram Stoker's Twitter
Twitter and the Bandit
Twitterball Run
Blade Twitter
Y'all done took most of the good ones.
And my apologies if I copy one someone else already did.
The Rocky Horror Tweeter Show
Cool Tweet Luke
The Color of Tweeter
Tweet! (Guess which that one is a parody of and win 1 whole internet.)
A Hard Day's Tweet
The Magical Mystery Tweet
Tweeter Submarine
I Know What You Tweeted Last Summer
Pulp Tweeter
Reservoir Tweets
Sgt. Tweeter's Lonely Hearts Club Band (a travesty of a movie, though.)
The Incredible Mr. Tweeter (Don Knots was great in this one.)
Rob Miles
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There are only 10 types of people in the world;
those who understand binary and those who don't.
And remember . . .
The Man Who Would be Tweet
The Once and Future Tweet
2001: A Twitter Odyssey
Tweet Wars: (A New Twitter)
Tweet Wars: The Twitter Strikes Back
Tweet Wars: Return of the Tweet
Tweet Wars: The Twitter Menace
Tweet Wars: Tweets of the Clones
Tweet Wars: Revenge of the Tweets
Jim Downey
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Like Science Fiction? Read *or listen to* my novel, Communion of Dreams, for free.
Peep Wars
Those last ones are even funnier if you substitute "peeps" for tweets.
Here are some more...
A Farewell to Tweets
It's a Wonderful Tweet
Tweet on 34th Street
Tweetless in Seattle
Star Tweet
Spinal Tweet
Tweeting for Guffman
Tweets from Iwo Jima
No Tweeting for Old Men
Silence of the Tweets
The Neverending Twittering
Around the World in 80 Tweets
Buena Vista Twitter Club
O Twitter, Where Art Thou?
The Twitter King
Lost in Translation (requires no change)
And on a Star Tweet riff . . .
Star Tweet: The Motion Twitter
Star Tweet: The Wrath of Twitter
Star Tweet: The Tweet for Spock
Star Tweet: The Tweet Home
Star Tweet: The Final Tweet
Star Tweet: The Undiscovered Twitter
Jim Downey
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Like Science Fiction? Read *or listen to* my novel, Communion of Dreams, for free.
Twitter Madness
Are You There Twitter? It's Me, Margaret
Sweeney Todd: The Daemon Barber of Tweet Street
Harry Twitter and the Sorcerer's Stone
An American Twitter in London
Dawn of the Tweet
Don't Forget
... the whole Captain Twitterpants series.
Tweetings.
Gone With the Tweets (GWTT)
I Have No Mouth And I Must Tweet
Do Androids Dream of Electric Tweets?
Twitter Be Not Proud--Donne
Because I Could Not Stop to Tweet/He Kindly Stopped For Me
So Long, and Thanks For All The Tweets
Twitterlein
Starship Tweeters
Twitter Road
The Twitter Masters
The Tweet Into Summer
The Tweeting Stones
Between Twitters
Twitter Cadet
And then there's . . .
- Tweet Hard
- Tweet Hard 2
- Tweet Hard: With a Vengence
- Live Free or Tweet Hard
Jim Downey
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Like Science Fiction? Read *or listen to* my novel, Communion of Dreams, for free.
Foreign films.
Tweeting Ned Devine
The Man Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Tweet
The Seventh Twitter
Crouching Twitter, Hidden Dragon
La Dolce Tweet
Farewell My Tweet
Aguirre: The Tweet of God
The Obscure Tweet of Desire
The Hidden Tweet
Twitter of Blood
Jim Downey
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Like Science Fiction? Read *or listen to* my novel, Communion of Dreams, for free.
More...
The Seven Twitterers
and its rip-off The Magnificent Twitterers
Aan that one's further rip-off Twitter Beyond the Stars
And to close out: The Man from T.W.I.T.T.E.R.
"I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion." -G.K. Chesterton
Das Tweet
And: The Lavender Tweet Gang.
Not a foreign film, despite its locale, but excellent:
The Quiet Tweet
Starring the same man as was in:
Tweet to Alaska
Donovan's Tweet
And don't forget
True Tweet.
Jim Downey
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Like Science Fiction? Read *or listen to* my novel, Communion of Dreams, for free.
Still more movies
Twitter Without A Cause
Some Like It Tweet
It's a Twitterful Life
I'll never forget those wonderful musicals:
Tweet Your Wagon
Oklatweetka
Seven Tweets for Seven Brothers
or those classic sf/horror favorites:
Tweetenstein
Bride of Tweetenstein
Tweecula
Tweeture from the Black Lagoon
Plan 9 From Twitter Space
I Was A Teenage Weretweet
Phantom of the Twittera
Tweet of the Living Dead
The Tweetford Wives
Tweet of the 50 Foot Woman
20 Million Tweets to Earth
Voyage to the Bottom of the Twee
Tweetzilla
or those great TV series:
The Tweetlight Zone
Tweet 54 Where Are You?
Tweetigan's Island
I Dream of Twitter
The Beverly Tweetbillies
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Twitter
Betweetched
It's long-range stalking
Well, I'm a young fart. I'm just not that into reading about whether someone's hair is weird or if their son flushed a banana down the loo.
A variation on one of your titles:
- Twitterer in a Strange Tweet
And now for something completely different:
- Monty Python and the Holy Tweet
- The Life of Twitter
- Monty Python's Flying Twitter
- The Meaning of Twitter
(The Meaning of Tweet?)
- Tweetalot
- The Final Tweet
- Monty Python's Big Red Tweet
- Not the Twitterer (He's a very naughty Tweet)
- Erik the Tweeter
- Fawlty Twitters
- A Fish Named Tweet
You forgot . . .
. . . Fierce Tweets.
Jim Downey
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Like Science Fiction? Read *or listen to* my novel, Communion of Dreams, for free.
I didn't like that one.
And I am having a lot of trouble with "The Tweets of Baron Twitterer" - that just doesn't seem funny. Either do any of the more subtle variations.
Hhhmmm - The Tweets of Twitter Munchausen?