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BaconCat
10/29/09

In reply to Lady Breasts on the TV!
Breasts are wonderful and it is the duty of all boyfriends, husbands and life-partners to be their protectors. We must do all we can to both protect them from exposure and expose them to the protectors. #breasts
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BookishLookish
10/29/09

In reply to Lady Breasts on the TV!
If America wants to keep making money off tits, we have to keep them healthy.

#girlskeepswinging #breasts
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shostakobitch
10/29/09

In reply to Lady Breasts on the TV!
let's see some tatties! #breasts
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Z und Vielpunkt's chick
10/29/09

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Meh. I'm holding out for Katie Couric to do it. #breasts
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You Cannot Untoast
10/29/09

@Z und Vielpunkt's chick: Part of me just died. #breasts
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Sonar Jose
10/29/09

In reply to Lady Breasts on the TV!
This is why I get all my news on the internet - they'll show you where to check for breast, throat, cervical AND prostate cancer on there. #breasts
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BettyCrocker
10/29/09

@Sonar Jose: And colon cancer - all at the same time! #breasts
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blix
10/29/09

@BettyCrocker: Attaining that position gains an automatic win in Twister 2009. #breasts
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BettyCrocker
10/29/09

@blix: Right hand... puce? #breasts
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blix
10/29/09

@BettyCrocker: Yes, I still can't believe they retired raw umber. #breasts
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BettyCrocker
10/29/09

@blix: But we will always have burnt sienna. #breasts
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OCEntertainment
10/29/09

In reply to Lady Breasts on the TV!
And I'm sure that the spike in viewership they'll get for being the "risque" network that dared to show uncovered breasts never entered their minds for a second. #breasts
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depardoo
10/29/09

In reply to Lady Breasts on the TV!
Didn't Howard Stern used to give breast exams? #breasts
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Beau Nerd
10/29/09

@depardoo: BaBaBooby. #breasts
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MissNormaDesmond
10/28/09

In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
Why is anyone giving the guy shit over this? He in fact didn't whine, he made good-natured fun of himself the whole time, including characterizing himself as whining when he patently wasn't. I don't have a TV either, for pretty much exactly the same reason Ames gives -- I suck at making big ticket purchases and put it off forever. I'm a total junkie of TV, but I'm getting it off Hulu and Netflix for the time being. Maybe I'm biased because of this, but he seems lovely to me. #jonathanames
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celery
10/29/09

@MissNormaDesmond: He was whining, but with enough self-awareness that he was whining to try to play it off as self-aware joking whining but with just enough real whine that people would get the point that he was actually whining. You know, whining. Or something.

The good news is that with so much discussion of his whining, semantic satiation has blasted the concept straight out of my mind, so now I don't think anyone is whining at all. #jonathanames
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MissNormaDesmond
10/29/09

@celery: Do you actually know him, or have access to other information than what's included here, or is this just your alternative reading? I don't mean this in a combative way, I'm just curious. #jonathanames
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BowlingForDollars
10/27/09

In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
Seriously? The man creates and sells a TV show to HBO, and it never occurred to him to go buy a TV so that he might actually watch it?

What a moron. #jonathanames
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SanjivaniChrysippus
10/27/09

In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
Who is that handsome 19th century Jewish man?
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JacquesPaysan
10/27/09

In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
Just FYI, Ames totally has a TV. I have a friend who housesat for him once. Fucking, precious, oversharing douche. #jonathanames
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snugbug
10/27/09

@JacquesPaysan: Merci for the clarification. Now I don't feel so bad for judging him to be a douche just based on his cap and studied "thinker" pose in the pic above. #jonathanames
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ms_priestypants
10/27/09

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I'm going to get a twitter account and start hinting about a pony. And a new mac. #jonathanames
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raincoaster
10/28/09

@ms_priestypants: Laugh if you like, but I've gotten a digital camera, a netbook, and a $180 power cord just by whining on Twitter. #jonathanames
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ms_priestypants
10/28/09

@raincoaster: what? really? because I was only half kidding about that pony. #jonathanames
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raincoaster
10/28/09

@ms_priestypants: Really. I occasionally blog The Swag Report. Oh, and two weeks ago I got a swanky $100 brunch with a dashing explorer at a fine hotel, partly because of whining. One of my first online experiences was getting flown across the country and driven to meet Viggo Mortensen. That was only half whining, though; the other half was making amusing dirty jokes, also not a skill I thought I could monetize. #jonathanames
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SpyMagician
10/27/09

In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
Dear Mr. Ames,

Your TV show needs snappier pacing and editing. The wit is there and the jokes are there but they shockingly fall flat.

Us #jonathanames
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snugbug
10/27/09

In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
Ames, you're a writer. Words are your sacred weapon. Why do you abuse your weapon as such? Does it save you that much precious time to lower-case "i" instead of capitalizing it--"I"--as per proper written English language conventions? Does it save you that many seconds if you DON'T capitalize the first letter of a sentence?

..While we're at it.
"JASON Schwartzman," not "Jonathan Schwatzman." #jonathanames
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therealgoogle
10/28/09

@snugbug: He's just that old school:
"Reduced to i by 1137 in northern England, it began to be capitalized c.1250 to mark it as a distinct word and avoid misreading in handwritten manuscripts. "

source [www.etymonline.com] #jonathanames
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snugbug
10/28/09

@therealgoogle: What a great little nugget.. Maybe Ames should write piece of fiction whereby he imagines what William the Conqueror would have tweeted during the Battle of Hastings. Lowercase "i" and all. (Gaah, this wouldn't work because William was/spoke French.. We would need a speaker of Anglo-Saxon as the protagonist..) #jonathanames
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therealgoogle
10/28/09

@snugbug: or a Twitterama (the Battle of Hastings in four twits)

williamconq: @haroldharold, i see you're standing @ridge #holdingposition
haroldharold: @williamconq show self or u dead?
williamconq: @everyone, here i am waving hat, lol #fightsux
haroldharold: @normandyhorses, thy damn of it, more troops! #death

Williamconq was, of course, translated with babblefish #jonathanames
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snugbug
10/28/09

@therealgoogle: By Odin's bones and the robes of the druids, that was brilliant!

[Later..]

haroldharold @all: i need to appease the Gods with the sacrificial body and bounty of an ox to ensure win. #desperate

williamconq @haroldharold: LOL, a-hole, it's going to be called "beef" once my language takes over your language! #passthepâté
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MissNormaDesmond
10/28/09

@snugbug: It's Twitter. Maybe he's not pompous enough to give that much of a crap about it. Sometimes he capitalizes, sometimes he doesn't. Or maybe he's ahead of his time -- I think there's a good case to be made for not capitalizing i, actually: [www.nytimes.com] #jonathanames
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snugbug
10/28/09

@MissNormaDesmond: I admit I loved that Caroline Winter NYT piece you linked to, even though I disagree with her thrust. It's true that language is a living body that evolves constantly, but the capped "I" thing is quite a lovely relic from an Anglo-Saxon root language. It deserves to be maintained, especially since contemporary English is such a simplified Germanic language--it uniquely has un-gendered nouns, for example. I don't even know what I mean here, I'm just happy to be talking nerdy stuff that excites me on a dead thread..
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MrInBetween
10/27/09

In reply to Jonathan Ames Learns What Twitter's Good For
He seems tortured by the sudden prickly suspicion that there are millions of thoughtful people such as himself who will refuse to watch his quirky little show, even if they are given free televisions.
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