What the Tweet?

Baseball, Turkeys, and KillerThin Mints

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Ray Gustini 846 Views May 20, 2011

Here at The Atlantic Wire, we respect and value the social media editors who share the links that make our jobs easier. Sometimes, though, we have no idea what they're talking about. So after a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite head-scratchers.






RT @mandystadt: What does Jennifer Aniston smell like?...“Like a wealthy white lady in New York." Scoop on new perfume: http://nyp.st/j1 ...less than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet Reply


In perfume terms, this a rave. No Aniston movie has ever received reviews like this.

Albert Brooks’s Dark Vision of the Future http://nyti.ms/k0XhYnless than a minute ago via The New York Times Favorite Retweet Reply


Everyone sweats on TV, nobody winds up with Holly Hunter. That is bleak.



The story involves the Girl Scouts, and whether the ingredients used in Thin Mint cookies are destroying the orangutans' habitat. So this tweet could just as easily read, 'Are Girl Scouts killing orangutans?' But then it would seem silly.


 


Ponder this for a second. When is this not true?


What's 42 seconds from @Oprah worth? About $1 million in turkeys | http://buswk.co/kDT8Ki (via @BW)less than a minute ago via HootSuite Favorite Retweet Reply




Or £616,484 in pounds.

 

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