Importfail or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Twitter
Much to my great surprise I am now on twitter. My twitter handle is @dickness. I resisted Twitter because I thought it was basically like the update feature on Facebook, but it turns out there is much more creativity on Twitter than I had anticipated. I am not actively trying to recruit followers for Twitter. I am mainly doing it for fun, but if you choose to follow me that would be great also.
My favorite part of Twitter so far are the different tags that become trends. The first one that I followed was 1stdraftmovielines. I did not participate in it, but found it really amusing. The tag was pretty self explanatory. Take a real quote from a movie and change it slightly so that either it does not work or is laughably different than the initial quote. It was interesting to see tweets from professional writers, comedians and regular folk as well.
I find it inspirational to be a part of these trends on Twitter. After observing the 1stdraftmovielines trend, I decided to participate with the next one which was failedwesterns. Another simple premise, just take the title of a Western movie and change it slightly to one that would be a failure or if you preferred you could just think up your own that would likely fail. Most chose to tinker slightly with actual titles.
A Tweet that I came up with for the failedwestern tag was The Assassination of Uncle Jesse by the Coward Robert Saget. I later saw a similar one when I did a Twitter search only it was the coward Kimmy Gibler instead of Robert Saget. That Tweet preceded mine. I had not seen that one so it hadn’t influenced my Tweet, but I actually preferred mine. Obviously Bob Saget’s character Danny Tanner had a seething hatred for Jesse played by John Stamos. Jesse was married to Becky played by the lovely Lori Laughlin. Becky was the co-host of a morning show with Danny and he obviously had a thing for her. Danny had no shot with Becky as Jesse was not only more handsome than Danny, he was also far cooler than him. He was the leader of a band called Jesse and the Rippers and when he wasn’t performing with the band or writing commercial jingles he spent the rest of his time grooming his perfect hair. Really Danny had no shot at competing with Jesse for Becky nor did he likely stand a chance in a man to man battle with Jesse so he instead chose to kill him like a coward.
A Full House post not about the Olsen Twins or how the show was a precursor to the debate about same sex parenting was made possible by my use of Twitter. I don’t know if I am encouraged by that or slightly alarmed by how much I remember about a show that I always hated.
I have even been inspired by Twitter to come up with my own tag in the hopes that it can become the next trend. It is unlikely it will since I don’t have many followers, but that is not the point. The tag for this new idea is importfail. The idea came to me after watching the Red Sox play the Blue Jays in Toronto. A sign behind home plate said Bud Light Lime now available in Canada. It seemed to me that all of the advertisements for Bud Light Lime showed people frolicking on the beach in skimpy outfits drinking. I don’t think Canada is a natural fit for Bud Light Lime and they may have made a mistake marketing it there. While you may disagree with my premise that Bud Light Lime in Canada is an import fail I would be interested to hear an idea you think would be an importfail. If you have one just log in to Twitter and post it with the country then the import followed by the tag #importfail. For example, Canada: Sonic Drive-in the girls will bring your order to the car on ice skates instead of rollerskates #importfail.
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