For July’s top tweets, I picked the one tweet from each account that I use regularly in the past month. @DepressedDarth who needs chopsticks? me eat with paws. or just dunk my face into the plate. http://twitter.com/EwokLumat/status/19670390993 When you roll up your sleeves, do you ever feel like you are wearing capris on your arms? …
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Get your cherry-flavored H1N1 shots! Would you like your H1N1 shot to be flavored as blue raspberry, Coke or wild cherry? Walgreens has a bright yellow sign posted on their ICEE machine stating that people can get their H1N1 shots here at the ICEE machine. Sounds kinda gross. UPDATE: Within an hour of sending my …
Three years ago today I signed up for twitter. My first tweet was very grand: Signing up for twitter, duh. — 4:07 AM Apr 9th, 2007 Here’s my eight favorite tweets from the past month: Vending machines should have anti-gravity pulsors, so you don’t have to bend down to get your candy. — 1:17 PM …
PaperGirl had a nice post about her twitter usage, so I’m making one too. I’ve been tweeting for almost two years now as @spudart. My tweets tend to be about fun ideas and interesting observations. My most-used word is Chicago. So many fun things happening in Chicago, especially when I work at the Tribune Tower. …
Here’s a funny story that happened to me yesterday. I live tweeted a cookie run to Walgreens. Making a cookie run to the walgreens. Chips Ahoy cookies are 4 boxes for $5. #walgreens #deal Okay, so I bought FOUR boxes of cookies. I’ll walk up the 14 flights of stairs at Tribune Tower to make …
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OH HOW I LOVE WALKING IN THE SNOW! The cashier at Walgreens doesn’t think so, “All that cold makes me wanna die, y’know?” I encouraged her, “you need some good boots to go. They empower you to be oh so bravo!” She replies with “Honey, you’d have to be psycho to be tramping round when …
Here’s a letter of praise I just wrote to Walgreens: Hi there, I am a HUGE fan of Walgreens. The rebates, the employees, and the general Walgreens love. My comments here touch on these points, and I even offer some great ideas at the end of my comment. I would greatly appreciate it if you …
Print out cute photos from the internet and include them with your mail. Paying your credit card? Stick a hedgehog in with it. Submitting your student load payment? Slide a squirrel in the envelope. Sending in a rebate? That certainly needs a pug. Backstory: I bought a couple bags of dark chocolate M&Ms at Walgreens, …
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Walgreens no longer has a toy section in its downtown Chicago stores. With the redesign of Walgreens floor layout last summer, they completely eliminated their toy section. So now other than the Lego Store on Michigan Avenue, there is a complete absence of toys in downtown Chicago. How sad. Here’s the gradual disappearance: Toys R …
We all know that dart guns are fun at work. They should be a standard office equipment of any good corporate America worker. Right next to your stapler and scissors is your dart gun. Here’s one way to target higher fun productivity at work: 1) Draw a big fat target on your office whiteboard. Use …
This was rather funny. Walgreens is selling cubbie bears wearing white sox shirts. Do you see the irony?
