What the Tweet?

Party Pants, Old Gorillas, and An Epidemic of Duets

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Ray Gustini 463 Views Mar 9, 2012

We respect and value the social media editors who share the links that make our job easier. But sometimes, we have no idea what they are talking about. So after a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorites.

Don't tell us when it's time to put on pants. We don't respond well to that.

Just wait: In two years, every network is going to have a pilot about an old gorilla and his new friend trying to make it in the big city. But by then, everyone will have moved on to something else, like a brilliant but antisocial West Texas football coach who becomes a criminal profiler.

There's a certain zen beauty to this tweet. And also, an intriguing amount of hedging: Could what TMZ sees as nastiness actually be something else altogether?
 

If it doesn't include the Luxor Hotel and Casino, it's not a list of knock-off wonders of the world. Harsh, but that's our policy.

It will be more of a hail of duets. Same basic premise, though.

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