One of the joys many people, including myself, find with Twitter is the beauty of the tweeted “overheard” statement, which is some odd statement that is, well, overheard, that you just feel compelled to share with the rest of the world. (Because of character constraints, “OH:” is usually used before the statement instead of “Overheard” though I confess when I first saw people using this I wondered what Ohio had to do with anything.)
Usually neither attribution nor context is given, which makes them that much funnier. In fact, in my office, it’s become somewhat of a competition between coworkers to see who makes my “overheard” tweets. I work with a very creative, linguistic bunch and there’s never a dull moment in our conversations. My overheard tweets aren’t always coworkers, mind you, oftentimes they’re friends outside the office, like at gigs or something.
Anyway, the other day I decided to see which gems I had tweeted “OH:” recently, so I went to my profile and searched “OH:” in my tweets only. Twitter only archives the past few days now, which I just learned, but the tweets in my past few days’ archives were not only hilarious, but kind of sounded like a funny story if you read them in chronological order.
Keep in mind that NONE of these tweets are related in any way, shape or form, and most had completely different contexts:
To “get it,” you have to read from the bottom up, but to make it easier, here they are in succession:
“That’s like, WAAAAAY down the road. Like Friday.”
“Haven’t you seen Subway commercials? Don’t you know the right way to say it?”
“I wore so much black I out-blacked myself. Black is the new black!”
“You are the reason that dress was invented.”
“Woo! It’s nice and bright in here! It makes me wanna take this dress off!” #unrelatedtothelasttweet
“We’re going to drool all over her like a pork chop.”
“… and it doesn’t give you the risk of having quintuplets!”
“You just want me for my numbers.”
“You gotta perpetuate the SEO-ness of your lineage.”
“Who the hell are you and why are you soliciting me?!”
OK, maybe it’s only funny to me, but I’m curious to see if anybody else’s completely unrelated overheard tweets also look like they kinda tell a story. It’s an interesting and fun exercise.
Here’s what you do:
- Just view your own profile on Twitter.
- Plug “OH:” (or “overheard,” whichever you use) into the search box and make sure that the box is checked to read only your own tweets.
- Read from the bottom up.
- Do they kinda tell a story?
- If so, take a screen shot & share.
Come on, you know you want to. It’s fun!
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