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Noah: @2Ducks Get in the boat.
2Ducks: @Noah We’re not coming.
Noah: @2Ducks You have to come. RT @God There’s a big flood coming yr way. Plans: http://bit.ly/uS4ve
2Ducks: @Noah So? We float either way.
2Swams: Why didn’t we think of that?
PS — Big fans of comedian Eddie Izzard, especially his Old Testament bit. Caution: British use of swears (more socially acceptable than Canadian cussing, those sailors).
Twitter Historian on July 31st 2009 in Biblical Tweets, Comically Old
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Hat tip to Sean Tucker:
@TrickyDick (Richard Nixon): A real man NEVER wears makeup
And then, Kennedy’s response….
JFK4PREZ (John F. Kennedy): @Nixon Uh…. a real man doesn’t commit campaign fraud.
Twitter Historian on July 30th 2009 in 1960s, Submitted
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Earlier today, we heard Bill Gates’ claim about Twitter, and now Al Gore drops this inconvenient truth bomb on us……
Al Gore: I invented Twitter.
[He also invented the Internet.]
Twitter Historian on July 28th 2009 in 1990s
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Lorne Michaels: @NBC I got your next big thing: “Sunday Morning Shakespeare”
[SNL, Saturday Night Live, New York]
Twitter Historian on July 25th 2009 in 1970s, Entertainment
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Last week, our William Shakespeare Historical Tweet got the Twittersphere a-thinking about great lines of Shakespeare, retold in 140 characters as #Tweetspeare.
Here are 50 lines from @WillyShakes’ famous plays contributed by HT fans. Leave your comments about which line belongs to which play, and, perchance, dream up some more!
- @historicaltweet: @Romeo, O @Romeo, why is your username @Romeo?
- @jpker: To Tweet or not to Tweet, that is the question.
- @truejedi: Shall I compare tweet to a summer’s day?
- @briancormier: Get thee to a tweetery!
- @roboaaron: Friends, Romans, Tweeps, lend me your ears; I come to bury @Caesar, not to @reply him.
- @writeordie: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty tweet from tweet to tweet.
- @smrtmnky: Check your phone! Just got a tweet that @Rosencrantz & @Guildenstern are dead!!
- @Anastasialadiab: My lord, I have tweets of yours that I have longed long to retweet. I pray you, now receive them.
- @smrtmnky: To dream perchance to tweet. Ah! There’s the URL!
- @janeaustenworld: All the world’s a-twitter. And all the men and women merely twittering tweets.
- @jdbridgman: Once more unto the Twittersphere, dear friends, once more.
- @katedjones: Full of scorpions are my tweets, dear wife.
- @histfon: The lady doth tweet too much, methinks.
- @dancentheaisles: Tweet havoc, and let slip the RTs of war!
- @LaLaGiDeoN: I have wasted tweets, and now doth tweets waste me.
- @jdbridgman: Once more unto the Twittersphere, dear friends, once more.
- @funkwurm: That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as tweet.
- @Soccer_Mum: Alas, poor @Yorick! I knew him, @Horatio, a fellow of infinite tweets, of most excellent @replies.
- @MLx: Out! Out damn bot!
- @Anastasialadiab: Tweet me, Kate!
- @Anastasialadiab: He that hath a Twitter account is more than a youth, and he that hath no Twitter account is less than a man.
- @Anastasialadiab: Tweet low if you tweet love.
- @Anastasialadiab: Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever / One tweet in sea and one on shore, To one tweet constant never
- @Anastasialadiab: A wicked tweet this way comes.
- @AnthonyBialy: A tweet, a tweet! My kingdom for a tweet!
25 more Tweetspeare lines after the jump…
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Twitter Historian on July 24th 2009 in Comically Old
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