If you've ever been moved by a bumper sticker slogan, boy do I have the book for you. Nick Douglas brings us Twitter Wit, a collection of the all-time funniest Tweets! In the coming post-apocalyptic age this book is destined to become a true classic, or at least high school reading material for a generation conditioned to consume only tiny bits of advertising and self-referential drivel that's genuinely nostalgic for whatever happened five minutes ago.
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(Thanks for ruining humanity.)"I just drank some scotch to take the edge off only to discover it was all edge" -ed_x
(Sigh.)"I really wish customs agents would stop trying to punk me." -apulsk
(Ha ha! Oppression! Also wasn't that show off the air before Twitter came out?)"Having a tribal tattoo is like having a wallet chain that you are never, ever allowed to take off." -bluelanugo
(Again, this reference is just pathetically, depressingly old.)"Just deactivated my Facebook account. I suddenly feel 25 things lighter" -hodgman
(I feel terrible that I understood this.)"Twittering 'Skittles' will get you on the Skittles.com homepage. Isn't that the most underage Latino abortion thing you've ever heard?" -samreich
(OK, that one was pretty good)Get the idea? Honestly, I can't tell why Twitter Wit was written as a book rather than a blog or I guess even a separate Twitter account, and I don't understand why the average over-privileged American finds Twitter useful. Clearly I am the wrong person to live in this awful world, oops I mean review this book.ALEX DUNBARPS: Here's Nick Douglas's blog. If you understand it at all, I'll give you a carrot stick.
