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Tag: Tweets
Pop Stars as Fish
Last night I noticed @BadAstronomer posting ideas for a Twitter meme, #fishpopstars. It’s pretty much what you’d expect: take a singer or band name and make a pun with the name of a fish.
Katie and I came up with these:
- Death Crab for Cutie
- Chum-bawamba
- Flounders of Wayne
- Vienna Tang
- Betta than Ezra
- Dace of Base (or Ace of Bass)
Some favorites from the event:
- beano76: Sushi and the Banshees
- shinkaide: Squid Vicious
- MisterElGuapo: No Trout
- ebrown2112: Fleetwood Mackerel
- Caissie: Sharkira
- dominichamon: Kylie Minnow
- ethanwc: Crash Test Guppies
- ThisModernDeath: Ling Cod Park
- earlkabong: Herman’s Hermit Crabs
- znmeb: Pike and Tuna Turner
- AndyJukes: Smelton John
- KenPlume: Mackerel Jackson
- notgiamatti: Jefferson Starfish
It looks like it’s still going on if you’re in the mood for fish puns.
Vanity Plates
If you’re going to get a custom license plate, be creative. What’s the point of putting “WHITBMW” on your white BMW? I can see that! At least say something about your car. Even something like “I♥MYVW.” (No, I haven’t seen this one specifically.)
Lesser Plays
As a spinoff of the “lesser books” meme on Twitter (taking a classic book title and making it mundane, trivial, or otherwise lesser), someone started in on “lesser plays.”
I came up with a few:
- Less Miserable (admittedly this one’s a gimme)
- Spring Just-a-few-more-minutes-before-I-wake-up.
- The Importance of being Ernie.
- Eleven Mildly-Annoyed Guys
- The Prince and I
- The Rose Temporary Tattoo
Central City Comic Con
Stopped for coffee on the way to Anaheim Comic Con. Yes, actually, I am wearing a Flash T-shirt. Why do you ask?
Even better, the rest of the convention center was taken up by a coffee convention! (For the uninitiated: There’s a running gag in the current Flash relaunch about how much coffee people drink in Central City…especially Iris Allen.)
Follow-up: read my full convention report and check out my photos.