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May 19

A day at the Zoo

Posted on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 in Twitter

10:19:54 AM: TBK has headed off with the big zoo keeper, his first task is mucking the farm animals out!

11:35:08 AM: Sheltering from a rain storm in a hut and observing a male Lion trying to convince a female Lion she wants some loving. Exciting stuff!

12:31:19 PM: The school kids on the table next to us in the restaurant appear to have the female reincarnation of Hitler as their teacher. Poor buggers!

1:46:11 PM: I met a talking Raven called Jill today. She was pretty chatty, for a Raven.

4:10:49 PM: A baby meercat just stole Steph’s heart! And TBK just fed the Penguins!

4:30:59 PM: Just watched an African Python consume an entire rat in one go. Awesome!

May 17

Swine Flu Bands

Posted on Sunday, May 17, 2009 in Culture, Humour, Music, Twitter

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A couple of weeks ago, as  the world was gripped with Swine Flu fever (forgive the pun!), a great game emerged on Twitter. Feeling somewhat disillusioned with the mainstream media’s attempt at convincing us we were “all going to die”, a bunch of twitter users began various games based around a swine flu theme.

My favourite game to emerge was the ’swine flu bands’ game, where you had to come up with as many musician/band names that played on words related to swine flu as possible, and tag them with the Twitter hashtag #swineflubands – these could then be viewed on Twitter Search.

I got rather carried away one afternoon and came up with a bunch, whilst laughing my socks off at some of the names that other Twitter users had come up with.

Check out the  #swineflubands I came up with here,  and everybody else’s here.

(Pic: ‘Swine Flew’ album cover by One Bad Pig, originally released in 1990, well before swine ‘09!)