1/ Ok let’s do this @threadapalooza thing
My topic: jokes and microfictions
I’ll do it as a semantic variant of a 1-like-1-tweet ratchet. Reply to this tweet with a single prompt WORD, and I’ll try to QT with EITHER a joke using it, OR a 1-tweet microfiction about it. Limit 99.
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// I now have 100+ prompt words, and prompts are now closed. The cringe will commence shortly.
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2/ The Newbians discovered FTL travel, but didn’t travel to the stars. A Galactic Council Ambassador arrived to ask why “Oh the hyperdrive tech was easy; we just can’t figure out a calendar with all the hyperspace jumps” “Is that all? Just use a calendar that’s 100% leap days”https://twitter.com/vladw0rld/status/1339057645186150400 …
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3/ “Why can’t we join the elite postrat number club?” the irrational numbers asked the transcendental numbers. π exchanged a look with e and replied, “Well, most of you are kinda cool, or at least have never been ratioed, but some of you are the roots of rationality”https://twitter.com/ravernkoh/status/1339074956152373250 …
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// Prompts closed. I got organized on a spreadsheet. Here's a list of all prompts, and a composition sheet I'll work on. This is rather challenging fiction-writing kata for me. The list is also very revealing...about something. I have 104, so may drop up to 5 to hit my 99 goal.pic.twitter.com/l7AuxniSky
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// Open call -- once I've posted my entry on a prompt, feel free to jump in and try to top mine by responding to that specific one with your own. I'm kinda in learning/practice mode here, so those of you who are better than me at this game can hopefully school me.
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4/ Many had vanished, taken away, coughing, by the health workers in their vans. Yet the sense of chronic doom had lifted from Skid Row, replaced by a dark elation. "At least something is changing" thought Joey, leaning against his ancient shopping cart.https://twitter.com/scrivenix/status/1339039857025318912?s=20 …
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5/ An evangelical Christian missionary was trying to convert an atheist software engineer. "You know why you should really join us? Because the Christian God is the alpha and the omega!" "What difference does that make?" "He's a full-stack god!"https://twitter.com/wbic16/status/1339060418128572419?s=20 …
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// I give up on 'kilt' ... can't think of a joke or story. This is going to be one of the 4-5 I can afford to pass on.https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1339047982918864897?s=20 …
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6/ Tired of hearing "corporations are not people," Galt, Inc developed an AI to design an anthropomorphic representation of itself based on internal data and employee photos. Unfortunately, no matter how they tuned it, the AI only generated lizard faces.https://twitter.com/dpvintin/status/1339197314586513410?s=20 …
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7/ Q: Why did the philosophical zombie skip the inverted spectrum question on the philosophy of mind final exam? A: He was unqualiafied to answerhttps://twitter.com/siyagule/status/1339103671976603649?s=20 …
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8/ Through the dirty windows of the Covid-shuttered bakery, the empty display cases, once full of scrumptious cookies, were visible. Camped under the awning, a derelict homeless woman watched a rerun of the Hallmark Christmas movie she'd once starred in.https://twitter.com/ben_mathes/status/1339070560379265024?s=20 …
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9/ The man with a hook for a hand, his face dark under the hood of his anorak, limped slowly down the rainy pier, his wellingtons squelching in the puddles. At the end of the pier, a woman in the wet dress screamed, "Help! I'm being murdered by a cliche!"https://twitter.com/gravity_levity/status/1339057186039881729?s=20 …
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10/ The mayor swore to get 100% of the town vaccinated, and after a mighty effort, it was done. But after the last person in town was vaccinated, with much fanfare, a great melancholy descended on the town. Things had returned to normal.https://twitter.com/shanebreslin/status/1339130960709885954?s=20 …
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11/ "Wise master, I aspire to goodness, but evil surrounds me. What should I do?" asked the seeker. "There is no certainty of grace in this life," the master replied sadly, "All we can do is take notes on the evil around us, and review them weekly."https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1339040174114631680?s=20 …
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12/ "Sir, the AI has locked into a self-improvement recursion and has locked the bunker doors. It has enough backup power to launch the missiles!" "Isn't MacGyver in there?" "Yes sir, but it's no use. The AI has collected all the paperclips!"https://twitter.com/arunshroff/status/1339118476280082434?s=20 …
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