1. “BLANK is the BLANK of BLANK.” (ALT: “I’m the BLANK of BLANKING.”)
2. “Quote that is vague enough to clarify.” -attributed to someone unexpected
3. Pun Using Movie/Movie Star/Book/Star Wars/TV Show/Public Figure. #cleverhashtag
4. Funny way to tell you about some thing I’m doing!
5. OH: “Some ridiculous quote.”
6. Funny Twitpic. “Funny Caption.”
7. {Something Dumb in the News} is clearly a sign of the Apocalypse.
8. RT an easy target celebrity (ie, Kim Kardashian). “Mean spirited response targeting his/her stupidity/irrelevance/vanity.”
9. “Wanna listen to some (UNIVERSALLY HATED BAND)?” “No thanks, I think I’ll just (SOMETHING HORRIBLE TO HIGHLIGHT HOW SHITTY THEY ARE).
10. Response to some catchy music lyric. (ie, “Did we ever find out who let the dogs out?”)
11. Preachy generalization that is masked racism.
12. Current Event joke that sounds like it belongs on a Late Night Talk Show.
13. "ATTENTION (SOMEONE): Stop doing the thing we all hate you for."
14. “One thing” = “Another, more sinister thing.”
15. Wise observation, masked as a joke.
16. “One great way to (DO SOMETHING) is to (EXTREME EXAGGERATION THAT IS HILARIOUS).”
17. "I just farted/shit/masturbated something that sounded/looked/felt like (BLANK)."
18. Self deprecating slam.
19. FAKE celebrity RT!
20. “Something relatively unfunny, but I’m DRUUUNNKKK, so it’s hilarious!”
Which ones did I miss?
The ones that are teenagers randomly bitching about their friends, but all passive-aggresively not addressing them to anyone.
Posted by: @MJButah | 01/13/2011 at 07:43 AM
21. OH: "Something so terrible/offensive that they attribute it to someone else because they have plausible deniability when someone gets offended/thinks it's terrible." ("It wasn't me!")
22. Same as the above, #attributedtospouse
23. "I would be doing (something that everything is doing right now on Twitter) but I'm not because (something that they can't possibly be doing, because there's no way in hell their smart enough.)"
24. #trendingtopics. Although those generally make me laugh first, and cry later.
Posted by: the slackmistress | 01/17/2011 at 12:17 AM
Erm, please make #23 read (something that they can't possibly be doing, because there's no way in hell THEY'RE smart enough.")
Insert #18 here.
Posted by: the slackmistress | 01/17/2011 at 12:35 PM