Twitter favourite

"I have decided to become a tiny woman from the Philippines."

- munki (Sarah Wedde), Twitter

Twitter favourite

"Stopped for the night on a gravel road surrounded by spinnifex, cooked tea on a fire and used my shower bag for the 1st time."

- twocrowsdown, Twitter

Twitter favourite

"Rode my bike on a 25 mile loop over lunch. Bicycle broke down at mile 12.555555555555555. Yep."

- matthewbaldwin (Matthew Baldwin), Twitter

Twitter favourite

"Up at 4:45 to watch the meteor shower, I carry a folding chair out on to the driveway and look up: nothing. Clouds. A raindrop hits my face."

- Morning_Porch (Dave Bonta), Twitter

quote

[Aunt Dahlia] "Have you ever heard of Market Snodsbury Grammar School?"

[Bertram Wooster, narrator] "Never."

"It's a grammar school at Market Snodsbury."

I told her a little frigidly that I had divined as much.

"Well, how was I to know that a man with a mind like yours would grasp it so quickly?" she protested.

- P. G. Wodehouse, Right ho, Jeeves, Project Gutenberg e-book

Twitter favourite

"Four priests at the Requiem Mass yesterday and none of them spotted my heathen soul. I'm calling bullshit on their magic superpowers."

- munki (Sarah Wedde), Twitter

Twitter favourite

"sad to read on Facebook that 'George Orwell has no recent activity'"

- cpev (Charlie Peverett), Twitter

Twitter favourite

"OMG, I wrote a derogatory tweet about some random person I heard on the radio and it turns out he follows me. This is my finest hour."

- matthewbaldwin (Matthew Baldwin), Twitter

Twitter favourite

Me, to the two wild turkeys wandering the Oakland Rose Garden: "Hey, jive turkeys!"
Turkeys "Wobwobwob."
Bystander: Quickly looks away.

- evany, Twitter

Twitter favourite

From Splendour in the Grass, a music festival at Byron Bay:

"Disappointed with BlueJuice. prob better before singer broke arm and leg."

- jxe520 (Ed), Twitter

Twitter favourite

"On Twitter, one must be pithy, succinct and concise. Brevity counts, too. Avoid verbosity, loquaciousness and redundancy. Get to the point."

- howardowens (Howard Owens), Twitter

Twitter favourite

'I love ending bedtime stories for my nieces and nephews with "..and they haven't caught the killer to this day. Well, goodnight!" [CLICK]'

- Tony_D (Tony Delgrosso), Twitter

quote

"That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia, was given to the enlightened world by the whaleman. After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there. The whale-ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvation by the benevolent biscuit of the whale-ship luckily dropping an anchor in their waters. The uncounted isles of all Polynesia confess the same truth, and do commercial homage to the whale-ship, that cleared the way for the missionary and the merchant, and in many cases carried the primitive missionaries to their first destinations. If that double-bolted land, Japan, is ever to become hospitable, it is the whale-ship alone to whom the credit will be due; for already she is on the threshold."

- Moby Dick by Herman Melville, installment 51 of 260 from DailyLit

Twitter favourite

Salon for haircut. Lady nxt to me is in love w/ my hair & asked her stylist to give her my color. They're holding my head up to color charts.

- phillygirl, Twitter

Twitter favourites

me: is it plugged in?
lady: yes.
me: is it plugged into the right thing?
lady: oh...no.

- jaredvenezia, Twitter

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zach: the comp. doesnt work
me: did u turn it on
zach: yea ass
me: even the switch on back
zach: (sound of switch) shut the hell up

- slinetty, Twitter

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guy: can you come fix my pc?
me: fine. (walks over)
guy: uh...it's working now that you're here.
me: go in peace. your faith has healed you.

- jaredvenezia, Twitter

Twitter favourite

"Officially 100 days until Election Day. If you're not already outraged about something please contact the campaign for your assignment."

- jdickerson (John Dickerson), Twitter

Twitter favourite

"Some days, the web feels like 5 people trying to make something; 5k people turning it into a list; and 500MM people saying, 'FAIL.'"

- hotdogsladies (Merlin Mann), Twitter

Twitter favourite

"Food-shopping for our 2-day car trip. How many packets of cashews to get me across the Balkans?"

- sgazzetti, Twitter

A blogging project: x365

An interesting idea:

"Dan Waber turned 40 on January 12th, 2006, and wanted to mark the occasion in some positive fashion. So he got this crazy idea (not an unusual event) to write 40 words (no more, no less) every day for a year, and each day he'd write about a different person (in no particular order) who touched his life. But not just anyone, it has to be someone he's actually met in person, someone whose name he still remembers."

- How x365 got started

I'm kinda sorta maybe interested in trying it myself, except that right now even trying to write and rewrite and rewrite and rewrite and rewrite the introductions to these quotes is proving to be SOMEWHAT LESS THAN ENJOYABLE.

Here's some nice work from Nathan at Okay City: x365, who - being 27 at the time - had only 27 words per post to work with:

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18 August 2007
300 - B.

"She came bounding up the first day of summer, dressed head to toe in lime-green, exclaiming brightly, 'Wake up! It's Monday!' My dislike was misplaced, but deep."

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26 September 2007
339 - H.

"A fabulous Texas woman, with a heart as big as her purse, and hair as big as her heart, both as big as that huge Texas sky."

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18 October 2007
361 - Dr. H.

"My college advisor was a great Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist with a sunny disposition and bright blue eyes that never, ever blinked. Like, never ever."

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UPDATE
I've read a bit more of some x365 work and think it would be better if participants didn't name the people they're talking about. Some of the stuff I've seen is so breathtakingly mean, it's hard to believe the writer would put his/her own name to it, let alone name the person they're trashing.

Twitter favourite

"I don't like food-scented bubble baths. I feel like I'm being marinated. It's unsettling."

- shoesonwrong (Annie), Twitter