OT: Historical Twitter Accounts?
by Merope on Aug 20, 2011 10:30 PM PDT
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We (Mr. Merope and myself) were talking, in the car, on the drive home from McCovey's about people we wished had Twitter accounts.
There are two people I wish had lived to participate in the Twitters:
Douglas Adams and Carl Sagan
We thought Charles Darwin on the Beagle and maybe one of those ancient Greek philosopher types would be interesting...
I will not divulge our whole list here cuz that is what I am going to ask you.
What historical, cultural, etc etc type of person would have been an interesting Tweeter?
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Andy Kaufman
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
Bill Hicks, William T Sherman, Eleanor of Aquataine, Mark Twain
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 20, 2011 10:43 PM PDT reply actions
Five, quickly
Stephen Jay Gould
Alexis de Tocqueville
H. L. Mencken
Herb Caen
Philip K. Dick
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
Herb Caen
Can you imagine ? That would have been awesome. Every Tweet would have ended with …..
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
or this
Day 35. Still raining. Considering it has never rained before, this has to be some kind of record. #letmeout
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
Yogi Berra
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Dorothy Parker.
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Aug 21, 2011 7:08 AM PDT reply actions
Epicurus
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 21, 2011 8:54 AM PDT reply actions
Harald Hardrada
Thomas Jefferson
Winston Churchill
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Francis Drake
Totally agree with the Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken suggestions.
I'm as tall as Mel. Why can't I hit 500 home runs?
Carl Sagan....
would have said “why the hell am I using a format that limits my observations to 130 characters when I could get a blog instead”.
Eric Hoffer would have been the guy, Twitter would have been right up his alley.
by Stoned Slacker on Aug 21, 2011 12:51 PM PDT reply actions
FTFY
Carl Sagan….would have said "why the hell am I using a format that limits my observations to 130 characters when I could get a blog instead where I could enter billions and billions of characters".
e. e. cummings would be well suited to that I imagine.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
Not that he's necessarily "historic" yet...
in the sense that he’s still with us, but Muhammed Ali would have been awesome on the twitters in his prime.
RIP 2011 Giants Post Season
He would have been good.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Aug 23, 2011 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
No one
I liked the twitterless world
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 22, 2011 12:55 PM PDT reply actions
There actually is a Civil War twitter account that’s quite cool. If I weren’t so lazy I’d look it up.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
Tiglath-Pileser I, King of Assyria, 1114-1076 BC
Just took Phoenicia. Bouts ta pile up some heads outside the city so y’all know I was here. #kickinass #takinnames
Defeat of 5 kings with 20,000 warriors complete. Tomorrow: payin a lil visit to the Zagros tribes.
Re-roofed temple of Assur with cedar obtained as tribute from Syria and Phoenicia – placed a library in it.
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
Proud adoptive Father of Joe Panik. Stolen 6/11/11.
Job 1:14-15
Charles Manson
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 22, 2011 5:57 PM PDT reply actions
Assurbanipal (I see your Tiglath-Pileser, and raise you) – supposedly the only Assyrian king to learn to read and write, as the last great king of the Assyrian dynasty, it would be fascinating to read how he viewed the end of his reign; Babylonia took over as the leading dynasty just 18 years after Assurbanipal’s death.
Adolph Hitler – just what was he thinking?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – influential thinker, writer, and musician. How did he arrive at his then-cutting-edge opinions?
Bobby Kennedy – a candid inside look at Camelot by the brother who cared most deeply?
Issac Newton – “Bodies that tweet tend to stay atwitter.” #gravitysucks
2011 SF Giants: We are disappoint.
Marquis de Sade
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Aug 23, 2011 12:12 PM PDT reply actions
Rene Descartes
I tweet, therefore I am.
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
I’d love to have seen two San Francisco-related tweeters: Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce.
However, if we’re talking about 19th century tweeters, we can not go without mentioning the still-alive Twitter Account of Old Hoss Radbourn
"The knowledge of the game is inversely proportional to the price of the seat." ---Bill Veeck. •Read My Blarrrgh...er, um....Comic. That doesn't really come across so well when said sarcastically. The Lunatic Fringe•
Bierce makes me think of W.C. Fields. That would be a good one.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
CusterCalvary George Armstrong Custer
We’ve about to attack Sitting Bull.
SittingBull Sitting Bull
@CusterCalvary
That’s what you think.
CusterCalvary George Armstrong Custer
Epic Fail
"The knowledge of the game is inversely proportional to the price of the seat." ---Bill Veeck. •Read My Blarrrgh...er, um....Comic. That doesn't really come across so well when said sarcastically. The Lunatic Fringe•
by BruteSentiment on Aug 24, 2011 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions
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