54 thoughts on “A t**t from Peter Sagal”

  1. Stop refraining already and get in there. Its just a conversation, thats all. Its not like its run by dogs or anything.

  2. Well, if there was ever a deserving first recipient, he’d fit the bill. I just now looked at his twitter stream and he’s hilarious. On Harrison Ford’s solo plane crash (he’s recovering fine):

    I blame Chewie for not fixing the hyperdrive in time.

    Let’s not even talk about the whole carbonite thing. The guy is tough, is what I’m saying.

    If “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” couldn’t kill him, nothing can.

    Should have hid in the refrigerator.

    2. The same day the crash happened, there was also an airliner that skidded off a runway at La Guardia and it nearly went into the water. What followed on CNN was 4 solid hours of essentially non-stop coverage of Harrison Fords’ crash, with witnesses saying ‘I did not see most of it’, and commenters saying ‘we do not know most details, but here is an aviation expert who can make speculations’. There was an occasional reference to the ‘other’ incident. All other programming was pre-empted.

  3. Hahaha, I think you devote more than enough of your time to the masses already.

  6. Speaking of Tweets (forced segue), I just walked past Deepak Chopra in a tea shop downstairs from my apartment. I wasn’t positive, but my wife agreed. The rhinestone studded glasses make it clear. It’s not uncommon to see celebrities in my neighborhood (Greenwich Village, NYC), but there was something unsettling about seeing him here, so close to home.

    1. Please take this as a joke.

      My father used to whistfully remark at such times.
      “the things you see, when you haven’t got a rifle”

      he did not own a rifle

      1. I’m pretty sure that Deepaks are not in season right now.

        Best to check with your local game and wildlife office to be sure.

    2. Was he glowing with infinite beingness? Did he appear to posses a superposition of possibilities?

    3. And you mean you didn’t casually saunter by his table, and accidentally spill your hot tea on his lap to test how well his molecules metabolized that?! 🙂

    4. Puh-leeze, use all y’all’s considerable charms to keep him in Noo Yawk city–anything to keep him out of San Diego.

    5. I imagine Chopra would say that he could be found wherever you want to find him – or something like that.

  7. Your resistance to tweeting seems snobbish. Yes, you may have initially judged tweeting to be trivial, pointless, shallow, or similar, but it seems you’re now invested in your stance and are unwilling to act in a way that might appear as backtracking.

    1. At 254 characters, you have just demonstrated why refusing to try to express ideas in an artificially imposed 140 character limit is a very good reason for refusing to use twitter.

      2. His reply of “everyone’s a comedian these days,” would easily fit. I don’t think character limit is what prevented that tweet. Maybe he just thinks it’s a slippery slope; one tweet will lead to another and pretty soon you’re spending all day on twitter. Any reason is fine. It’s not like he’s saying no one should use twitter or twitter’s stupid. That would be wrong.

      4. Right on topic a carton from a German computer magazine
        heise.de/ct/schlagseite/2014/22/gross.jpg
        (I hope this doesn’t embed.)

        The text says: Hello, my name is Jonas-Oliver, I’m here at Twitterer-Anomynous, because I can’t have conversations longer than 140 chara

    2. I disagree. Twitter is not “just conversation.” The medium here is the message. It is the opposite of conversation. But it has uses to promulgate information.
      The only tw**t I ever made was a status update on power repairs in our neighbourhood during the ics storm.

      Hang tough Prof Ceiling Cat.

      2. I use Tw*tter as an index to a wide variety of fascinating articles. Bloody marvellous system when you’re stuck in the Styx.

        There’s also some wonderful humour and a brief synopsis of the news.

    3. Your resistance to tweeting seems snobbish. Yes, you may have initially judged tweeting to be trivial, pointless, shallow, or similar, but it seems you’re now invested in your stance and are unwilling to act in a way that might appear as backtracking.

      That doesn’t sound like the most parsimonious conclusion, given PCC’s daily output here, his other writing demands, travel & speaking engagements, etc.

    4. Oh gawd! Now we have to validate our reasons for not using Twitter? If it comes right down to it (for me), it would probably be for the same reason I never covered my torso with “message” t-shirts nor my automobiles with bumper stickers.

      1. I spend too much time on this site to tweet as much – I do go on twitter and I like it but I spend more and more time here.

  8. Tw**ts have their risks. Their brevity means that is is too easy to say something that can be taken out of context.

    1. You can always just do like Shermer does sometimes and send fifteen successive tweets!

      1. Many people outsource their Tweets…there is a whole industry that has sprung up around social media. I find someone else tweeting for you somewhat distasteful. The idea with Twitter is it’s the real person sending out ideas. I can see companies tweeting on behalf of the company but when it comes to individuals, do it yourself or don’t do it.

  9. Tweeter, twitter, flitter, flatter . . .

    It ain’t s’ much that ever e body is a cumedeon, but that the com-edians ain’t funny no more . . .

    As to the Ford crash, if it hadn’t been a celebrity it would have been confined to the local or regional news at best.

    Just speculating, but I’d say he snagged his undercarriage on a snag (he should sue the golf course for incompetent management) while making a normal “dead-stick” (a misnomer) landing, probably tearing off the tyres and/or wheels, then hit the terra-firma short of his aim point in a nearly level attitude, ploughing two straight parallel furrows with the remaining undercarriage, the residual momentum digging in the prop, causing the lower engine mounts to buckle the firewall, perhaps injuring his foot or feet in the process, inducing a sudden stop, causing his head to be thrust too far forward, causing facial injuries and possibly facial bone fracture(s), as a direct result of the golf course’s failure to properly maintain the trees in a safe condition. He might have otherwise made a safe landing, avoiding injury to himself and his plane. At least that’s what the initial videos looked like to me.

    1. Ha ha! Why do I now imagine Jerry going into some dark forest with light saber?

  11. So much can be taken out of context. You did not work so hard for your degree to have people take snippets from what you say and then pretend to know what you meant when you said it in a tweet.
    Let the ones with nothing to lose tweet away.

  12. I don’t tw*t and I never will. And I only do FB under a fake name. I am pleased with this arrangement.

    1. I’m like you, but Facebook seems to invade and read all my contact lists, emails, web searches and the sites I visit. It’s downright scary! Plus, I can’t seem to get it completely off my computer, even when I remove teh fake name’s account. It sends spontaneous emails, attempting to lure me in closure, but instead proving that behavior which so scares me away.

  14. “400 billion tweets and not one useful bit of data was ever transmitted.” (From the Onion bit on the FB-CIA connection.)

  16. What is it with so many people thinking they have the right to pass judgement on Jerry’s or anybody else’s tw**t habits? Some of the comments above I judge as just plain rude and ignorant. This is just like all of those who think it’s OK to pass judgement on what he eats and present your own lives as examples of perfection in their performance. Not all of you are doing it and this isn’t directed at everyone above by any means, but to many i say, “Who the f**k do you think you are?”

    1. It’s an interesting human phenomenon that people like to give their opinion about something and when someone isn’t doing what they are doing, judge that person. I wonder if it has to do with humans wanting to feel that they are making the right choices and doing the right things.

      There must be sociological studies on this!

      1. Probably. We feel validated when others agree with us, and I think we all like to think our opinions are important too. It might be an extension of that.

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