Friday, July 10, 2009

Twitter as frivolous entertainment

In my continuing saga of evaluating Twitter, I report that there is fun to be had with public word play.  Here's one where people imagine the first draft of famous movie lines (random batch presented here):
Another was to replace a word or part of a word in a common title or phrase with "tran" or "tranny". Examples
  • Tranny Get Your Gun
  • Tranny Hall
  • Tranmerican in Paris
  • I Left My Heart in Tran Francisco
  • Trancakes, with maple syrup
These are both games that pre-date Twitter, I do believe, but they suit Twitter pretty well.  Feel free to play along with either/both.

Update:  Here are some more (better) movie lines (4th one down for M):










14 comments:

Stephanie said...

OK, fine. I'll go first. "Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful bromance."

Anonymous said...

Oh oh I've got one: tranmance.

Stephanie said...

Hmmm. Maybe brotrance.

Anonymous said...

You know, if you want people to play your game you probably shouldn't criticize their efforts. Besides mine makes more sense than yours...

Stephanie said...

You're right. And you're right.

Stephanie said...

On further consideration, I think I was right in the first place. I think the TRAN is supposed to replace something that sounds a little bit the same. As far as I can tell from other entries, that's how this works. So you'd put the TRAN in for the place of MAN in romance.

Anonymous said...

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago -- never mind how long precisely -- having little or no money in my purse and nothing particular to interest my on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the TRAN.

Anonymous said...

At that very moment, in the very sort of Park Avenue co-op that so obsessed the Mayor ... twelve-foot ceilings ... two wings, one for the white Anlo-Saxon Protestants who own the place and one for the help ... Sherman McCoy was kneeling in his front hall trying to put a leash on a TRAN.

Stephanie said...

Funny!

Stephanie said...

K says:
tranny pack
Tranny Roddick
tran-me-downs
tranny bra (I reject this one as not close enough)
Midnight Tran to Georgia
tran in the a** (I'm also rejecting this)

Stephanie said...

tranberry juice cocktail
Happy Traniversary!

Stephanie said...

Also from K:

tran-do attitude


From me:
Tran of La Mancha

Stephanie said...

Julie Trandrews
Hedwig and the Trangry Inch

Stephanie said...

Frank Sinatran