The Finger Wag – Athletes using Twitter and Social Media to their Disadvantage

TankJohnson99

(Tank Johnson)

Man in the airport and this lady wendys chicken sandwich look so good! I'm really thinkin about askin her for a bite! #realtalk On 7:04 PM Apr 25th 2010 from UberTwitter

Is he going to bite the sandwhich or the good looking man in the airport.

Ok.  I’m not really going to rag on anyone for not using proper punctuation in a tweet.  Though when the result comes out slightly homo-erotic, it’s probably best for a proofread or two.

But here’s what does bother. Food in airports.  Not in airports actually, but in airplanes.

When some jerk brings in a three course meal from the concourse onto the plane to eat it enrages me.  Why?  Well first of all, I want that food.  But I’m stuck with either a bag of pretzels or a $5 snack box.  And I swear when they make the four different snack boxes they try their hardest to make sure that half of the items in each are absolutley terrible.

Second, you really didn’t have eight minutes to finish up your onion sandwhich before getting on this plane?  You must be some sort of jetsetting executive. I understand.

Last time I flew there was a man who just barely squeezed under the Kevin Smith category.  Apparently, he was trying to get there because he brought a personal-sized supreme pizza onto the to eat.  He left it on what little there was of his lap.

The poor guy who had to squeeze in next to him showed up and the airplane eater stood up to let him in.  The pizza flipped over and opened and plopped right onto the ground.

It was perfect.

I love when the internet introduces a new word into our language.

Google. Tweet. Defriend.

In this case, Tank Johnson coined the phrase “Twitpic Worthy” or as I’ll call it, “Twitpicable”.

TankJohnson99

(Tank Johnson)

With this new dumb ass blackberry update now I can't twitpic! And NY is so twitpic worthy! Somebody Heeeeelp! On 7:23 PM Apr 16th 2010 from UberTwitter

Examples of use:

“You’ve never seen anything like the Grand Canyon.  It’s breathtaking.  Totally twitpic worthy.”

“Did you know it too Michelangelo four years to paint the Sistine Chapel? It was worth it.  It came out really twitpicable.”

“It’s a shame they won’t let camera phones into that club. One dancer had such a twitpicable bod it would double my followers.”

Go forth and spread the new language of social media.