Just recently, Stephen Fry achieved the landmark of one million followers on twitter (I have less than 1% of that). Apparently, that's the threshold for achieving a personal singularity.
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So that's what Twitter does to your brain…
Category: Weirdness
Posted on: November 15, 2009 7:37 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Hampus | November 15, 2009 7:49 AM
Praised be the Fry and the Laurie
Posted by: strangest brew | November 15, 2009 8:19 AM
Fuck the 19 directive....
What 'sppens to banana man?...is he a rapture monkey satisfied?
and will Ham join Dr Dino in abject arrogance ...will they satisfy one and other in the showers at an institution near damnation?
Does the Roman Catolik religion get banned as a criminal enterprise?
Will Rick Warren find a more truthful god in Cernunnos?
Will creationism become the official dogma to the C of E?
Will Religion become the dirty little secret it alrady is?
So many questions...so little hope...speak oh erotically cloned one of STEP HEN...Speak and quell our curiosity...
Praise be the Twit!
Posted by: JackC | November 15, 2009 8:24 AM
Twit on MyFace??
JC
Posted by: Charlie Foxtrot | November 15, 2009 8:30 AM
Dammit! Now my trousers have gone and ceded from the Union!
Posted by: Naked Bunny with a Whip | November 15, 2009 8:33 AM
@JackC: Again? You're insatiable.
Posted by: Clint Burky | November 15, 2009 8:34 AM
...completely and utterly random! haha
Posted by: Thomas Winwood
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November 15, 2009 8:40 AM
This sounds like a bad pickup line.I liked the "someone is coming in my ear" line, if only because I don't doubt Mr Fry has had the pleasure of such an experience.
Posted by: Fred The Hun | November 15, 2009 8:41 AM
Come again? Huh? Now I can't hear anything...
Posted by: Liudvikas | November 15, 2009 8:59 AM
Well give some more info. That windows 8 will suck is obvious. It is a rule of 2. One good OS, one bad, one good, one bad...
Windows 7 - good
Windows vista - suckass
Windows xp - good
Windows Me - sucks
well you see the trend.
Posted by: Discombobulated | November 15, 2009 9:12 AM
I love that man. Every time I think of him, an uncontrollable smile comes over my face, and I feel contented just knowing he is alive and being himself somewhere in the world.
Posted by: Cruithne
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November 15, 2009 9:21 AM
Makes me all smug to be British.
Posted by: Eliot Fischer | November 15, 2009 9:35 AM
I saw this earlier this morning... oh goodness is he funny! I was fairly well crying with laughter throughout the whole thing because it was just so delightfully weird.
Posted by: Moggie
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November 15, 2009 9:46 AM
Stephen Fry for head of the Commonwealth. That is all.
Posted by: Don | November 15, 2009 9:55 AM
Twit on My Face?
Years ago when Fry and Laurie were first on telly they had a segment called 'Sit on my faith' in which Fry portrayed a vacuously earnest vicar. Unfortunately I can't find it on YouTube.
Posted by: Dustman | November 15, 2009 10:00 AM
Step Hen's vision of a twit-based society is chilling.
If the people around me start "praising the Twit" I think I'm gonna Kirk-out.
Posted by: larry | November 15, 2009 10:00 AM
Wow, I thought that rule applied only to Star Trek movies where all the odd releases sucked and the even ones were good (or, maybe, its the other way round). If the rule of two applies elsewhere, I fear for the very state of existence!
Posted by: Zeno | November 15, 2009 10:01 AM
I have become really disappointed in Stephen Fry. He and I seemed to have a beautiful relationship, but he never writes, he never calls, he never tweets me. [sigh]
Can we ever recapture what we once had?
Posted by: Jack Mitcham | November 15, 2009 10:04 AM
"Hold on, someone is coming in my ear"
Comedy gold!
Posted by: Soulless | November 15, 2009 10:08 AM
I LOVE Stephen Fry.
Posted by: Andrew Maynard | November 15, 2009 10:33 AM
Several steps closer to the Stephen Fry Event Horizon - or maybe we've even crossed it at some future point...
http://2020science.org/2009/03/06/deconstructing-the-fry-event-horizon/
:-)
Posted by: Sili
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November 15, 2009 11:12 AM
So the US shall have a black, Jewish, female, transgender atheist?!! Praise to be onto the Tweet!
Happy TwoMF!
Posted by: OurDeadSelves | November 15, 2009 11:31 AM
I followed Stephen Fry for a while, but it seems when he gets bored he tweets CONSTANTLY.
Annoying!
Posted by: Richard Smith | November 15, 2009 11:35 AM
Twit on MyFace, and tell me that you love me!
(20+ in and nobody else said it?!)
Posted by: Nastasie | November 15, 2009 11:47 AM
@ Richard Smith # 23
That was my first thought! And then:
I'll twit on YourFace and tell you I love you too!
Posted by: Crowley | November 15, 2009 12:41 PM
@9:
Ah, but Windows XP was begotten not by ME, but by 2000, which was begotten by NT 4, which was begotten by NT 3.5.
None of which sucked, IMHO. Vista, it seems, was a bloated anomaly.
Posted by: Dustman | November 15, 2009 1:23 PM
my wife and I started singing twit on my face too
Posted by: 386sx | November 15, 2009 1:34 PM
He's following 54,331 tweeters? Spammer!! Haahahahaa...
Posted by: Tully
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November 15, 2009 3:28 PM
I just remembered why I love Stephen Fry so very, very much.
Posted by: strangest brew | November 15, 2009 3:50 PM
#28
Posted by: Tully Author Profile Page | November 15, 2009 3:28 PM
"I just remembered why I love Stephen Fry so very, very much."
Which is far far more then can be said by the Roman Catholic Church at the mo! ;-)
Posted by: Aaron Baker | November 15, 2009 5:30 PM
That's one funny Limey!
Posted by: Gregory Greenwood
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November 15, 2009 6:50 PM
I, and a dedicated band of 'limeys' like me, dream of the day when the great Stephen Fry is Prime Minister of Britain (he could hardly do a worse job than Gordon Brown. Or Emperor of the Commonwealth. Or Supreme Ruler of Mankind. Whichever title the Great One prefers.
That is a Britain (nay, a World!) we could be proud of once more!
Just give the word, Great One, and we will rise up and be your army!
Praise be the Twit!
Posted by: RichardJ | November 15, 2009 7:41 PM
I love Stephen Fry! But I think his mate, Ben Elton, might think it plagiarism to combine Facebook and Myspace and get a religion. See Blind Faith, a post global warming novel where if you not vacuous and upload your whole life then you're a subversive.
Posted by: Blind Squirrel | November 15, 2009 8:28 PM
Wistah
Now I see that on second reading. He is a natural though isn't he? Hijacked the whole dammed thread. Now it is all about him.
BS
Posted by: Blind Squirrel | November 15, 2009 8:31 PM
#33 Wrong thread. Mea culpa.
BS
Posted by: Texan Expat in Finland | November 16, 2009 2:01 AM
Simply brilliant!
Praise be the tweet!
Posted by: Tony Sidaway | November 16, 2009 4:07 AM
At this point people are going out of their way to make a Twitter account especially so they can claim to be amongst the blessed few not following Stephen Fry. He is at worst mildly amusing but when he rises to insipidity the effects are bowel-threatening.
I shall pre-register my TWOMF account just for the pleasure of getting getting my bottom into the seat before his Fryness and his clones arrive. I shall set the account's email address to the Windows 8 registration hotline and then scramble my password. In the future we will not have this option. We will have to pay punitive taxes on every prognostication beginning "In the future."
Posted by: Bob O'H | November 16, 2009 5:06 AM
I thought it all sounded reasonable, until the suggestion that The Canaries would win the double 5 times in a row. Even once is, well, excessive improbable.
Posted by: twitter backgrounds | November 17, 2009 3:00 AM
That's a lot of followers. I wonder how many people actually read every single tweet.
Posted by: baju
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February 1, 2010 12:57 PM
I feel contented just knowing he is alive and being himself somewhere in the world