Pigeons, Party Stores, and the Best Nonsense Tweet of 2011 (So Far)

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Plus: A man in a crowd with glasses has something to say

By Ray Gustini

Sep 1, 2011

Whistling Trees, Waffles, and Yvonne the Fugitive Cow

Plus: A lose-lose wealth redistribution model

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By Ray Gustini

Aug 31, 2011

Pandas, Cheney the Yachtsman, and the Week Ahead

Plus: The BBC delivers a very specific child-safety bulletin

Comments | 728 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 30, 2011

Nerd Origins, Lost Cats, and Tasteless Retweets

Plus: The Washington Post is unafraid of serious teen issues

Comments | 572 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 29, 2011

Morgan Freeman, Vulnerable Trout, and Pineapple Retweets

Plus: The Jurassic period comes alive with the Avengersaurs

Comments | 536 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 25, 2011

Tim Burton, Hotel Marketing, and Larcenous Squirrels

Plus: English dogs don't know how they lived before discovering yoga

Comments | 377 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 24, 2011

Giant Cats, Growing Old, and Qaddafi's Hat

Plus: Oh, the places you won't shop!

Comments | 659 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 23, 2011

Earthquakes, NPR and Whisks

Plus: fact-checker of the planet of the apes

Comments | 1,927 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 22, 2011

Firearm Safety, Missing Monkeys, and the Battle for Transylvania

Plus: The case for a planet of the apes

Comments | 131 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 18, 2011

Airport Holograms, Talkative Cannibals, and a Massive Cat Rescue

Did you know you can use beer to clean your earrings?

Comments | 797 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 17, 2011

mike.i'll.be, Swedish Fish, and Hot Air Balloons

Plus: Sexual harassment complaints do not play well with critics

Comments | 345 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 16, 2011

Kathie Lee Gifford, Bat Boy, and Elvis Fandom

Plus: a questionable piece of advice for aspiring astronauts

Comments | 122 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 15, 2011

Creamy Ice Cream, Greasy Breakfasts, and Baby Donuts

It was a food-centric batch of confusing tweets to start the week

Comments | 211 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 10, 2011

Catwoman, Carrots and Proud British Traditions

Plus: Tennessee's weird families are doing quite well

Comments | 1,179 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 8, 2011

Spies, Flying Machines and Ape-Smarts

Plus: Edgar Allan Poe's house needs a favor

Comments | 528 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 2, 2011

Roadside Pet Stores, Alligator Week, and Pocket Tweets

Plus: Kate Moss's bingo secret

Comments | 811 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 1, 2011

Swearing, UFOs, and Robotic Seals

Plus: what we're sending to Jupiter

Comments | 345 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 29, 2011

Agatha Christie, Border Straddlers, and One Lonely Kitten

Plus: forget everything they taught you in food critic training

Comments | 728 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 28, 2011

Gas Leaks, Glenn Beck, and Toning Shoes

Plus: Europe's arson problem, solved

Comments | 862 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 26, 2011

Rick Perry, Taylor Momsen, and the Best Spot to Hide a Volcano

Plus: one more thing that shrinks your brain

Comments | 509 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 25, 2011

Wine Talk, Password Security, and Test Tweets

Plus: Slate's anti-dog agenda rages on

Comments | 773 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 22, 2011

Parliament, Big Labor and the End of the World

The confusing tweets that ended the week

Comments | 172 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 21, 2011

Sleep Tips, Parrot Ladies and Dwarf-Eating Carp

Plus: the Atlanta Journal Constitution Twitter feed will not stand down

Comments | 288 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 19, 2011

Brooklyn, Advertising, and Rupert Murdoch's Pieing

Plus: Slate calls out the world's oldest man

Comments | 345 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 15, 2011

Disneyland, Bear Apeageddon, and the East River Esplanade

All the tweets that gave us pause Friday

Comments | 835 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 14, 2011

Summer Songs, Herbicides and a Game of Budget Hero

Plus: Slate's bad news for your face

Comments | 273 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 13, 2011

Rich Folks, Saggy Pants, and the Vast Manatee Conspiracy

Plus: the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an admirer

Comments | 520 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 12, 2011

Angry Bees, South California, and Andre the Giant

On Twitter, it wasn't just the heat that was disorienting on Tuesday

Comments | 1,897 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 11, 2011

Kittens, Insane Spiders and Exploding Mosquitos

The tweets that tied us up in knots Monday had a heavy focus on the animal kingdom

Comments | 381 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 8, 2011

Flying Cars, Canadian Gangs, and Lying Labradoodles

It was a baffling Friday on Twitter

Comments | 432 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 7, 2011

Shoplifting, Subways and Phantom Bank Robbers

The tweets that tied us up in knots Thursday

Comments | 690 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 6, 2011

Lightbulbs, 'Jaws,' and Exploding Breast Implants

Plus: why don't you kids go get a job?

Comments | 1,136 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 5, 2011

Atom Colliders, Roswell Jokes, and Punching Friends

Plus: Slate wants to show you something very scary

Comments | 479 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jul 1, 2011

Baboons, Bacon Hogs, and the End of Fun

Plus: a new name in the Hulu sweepstakes

Comments | 333 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 30, 2011

Boa Constrictors, Art Dealers, and Iran's Internet Challenge

Plus: Fun with the New York Post

Comments | 317 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 29, 2011

Russian Aliens, Bagels and Pawlenty's Golf Buddy

Plus: the first rule of fireworks safety

Comments | 862 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 28, 2011

Borscht, Monkeys, and the Pope's Tweets

Plus: tough questions about William Shakespeare's drug history

Comments | 227 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 27, 2011

Painted Dogs, John Turturro, and Feisty Potatoes

Plus: what's Saturn hiding from us?

Comments | 153 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 22, 2011

Margarine, Bionic Dogs, and Abe Lincoln's Cyborg Tattoo

The tweets that tied us up in knots today

Comments | 1,207 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 21, 2011

Wedding Toasts, Divorces, and Martha Stewart

Plus: cigarette packages are about to get more gruesome

Comments | 580 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 20, 2011

Skinny Dipping, Fried Kool-Aid and Rafael Nadal

China's hot-dog eating dark horse and other tweets that made us say, huh?

Comments | 1,493 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 17, 2011

Centipede, Phil Campbell, and Mexican Hipsters

Plus: dispatches from the mail embargo

Comments | 2,759 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 16, 2011

Beauty Pageants, Greece and 'Laundry Porn'

Plus: this year's hottest prom theme

Comments | 3,499 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 15, 2011

Chimps, Newt Gingrich and Daguerrerotyped Boyfriends

All the tweets that tied us up in knots Wednesday

Comments | 1,410 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 14, 2011

Your Stomach, Killer Bees and Pippa Middleton

Plus: our favorite beret-related pun on Twitter today

Comments | 1,117 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 13, 2011

Dessert, Viperfish, and the American Dream

A confusing series of tweets to start off the week

Comments | 1,254 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 9, 2011

Camels, Chemicals, and Newt's Jerry Maguire Moment

All the tweets that tied us up Thursday

Comments | 728 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 8, 2011

Glasgow, Cured Meats and Ice Cream Parlors

The tweets that tied us up Wednesday

Comments | 1,021 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 7, 2011

Frogmen, Ducklings and the Human Centipede

The tweets that gave us pause this Tuesday

Comments | 1,633 Views

By Ray Gustini

Jun 6, 2011

Smurfs, Retro Cuisine and Swarming Jellyfish

All the tweets that gave us pause Monday

Comments | 862 Views

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