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thesharkguys needs your nomination for a Shorty Award!
Humor writers, veterans of several discontinued clinical drug trials and associated class action lawsuits. The best Top 10 lists @ www.thesharkguys.com
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What's your best tweet?
Don't know, but it would take a disreputable pet store's worth of dead budgies to replicate
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What are six things you could never do without?
blood flow to the brain, water, food, a heavy bag, pliers and a bicycle
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How do you use Twitter in your professional life?
To shamelessly promote ourselves, our writing, our website and our proven way to lose inches off your waist
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What's your favorite Twitter app?
The term 'app' is enough to make anyone throw app
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Twitter or Facebook?
That is like choosing among your children, if one of them wasn't dead... so Twitter.
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What was the funniest trend you've seen?
The overwhelming juggernaut that is thesharguys.com. The internet is like a levee and our site is the Hurricane Katrina of comedy
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What feature should Twitter add?
The ability to become self-aware
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Who do you wish had a Twitter feed but doesn't?
God. Example Tweet: Am preparing the next tsunami
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What are some words or phrases you refuse to shorten for brevity?
Quotes from Sir Winston Churchill. "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations" but he was not referring to Twitter
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Is there someone you want to follow you who doesn't already? If so, who?
We don't know but they better undergo a criminal background check first.
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Have you ever unfollowed someone? Who and why?
You cannot 'unfollow' someone can you? The opposite of following is running in random directions and there is no word for that.
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Why should we vote for you?
Because The Shark Guys are unquestionably the finest thing to hit Twitter since JD Salinger hit the floor
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Terms you wish would start trending on Twitter right now?
The phrase 'Hematoma is characterized by swelling of the injured area'
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What's the most interesting connection you've made through Twitter?
That it counters Camus' 'passionate world of indifference'---sort of
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Hashtag you created that you wish everyone used?
We don't know what that is, but it's illegal to be caught with it in Singapore.
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How do you make your tweets unique?
by liberally misquoting from the Book of Mormon
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What inspires you to tweet?
A neural impulse traveling from the brain (generally a good place for neural impulses to generate) makes our fingers type out things.
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Ever get called out for tweeting too much?
Yes, but it should be noted that bear repellent also works for people.
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140 characters of advice for a new user?
Do not hesitate to post incriminating photos of people in powerful positions in various positions
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How long can you go without a tweet?
Depends on whether the facility is medium or minimum security
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What question are we not asking here that we should?
Will Tweets eventually bring about World Peace or cast the yoke of oppression off the people of Tibet? In a word, yes.
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Who do you admire most for his or her use of Twitter?
Michael McKean because This is Spinal Tap is possibly the greatest movie ever and he Tweeted one of our posts.
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Why'd you start tweeting?
The more important question remains, when are we going to stop?
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Has Twitter changed your life? If yes, how?
It's irrevocably altered the way we view the color 'teal'.
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What do you wish people would do more of on Twitter?
Tweet during minor surgical procedures or from the electric chair
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How will the world change in the next year?
Average global temperatures will either rise or fall.
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What are some big Twitter faux pas?
Describing bowel movements using forlorn adjectives
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What will the world be like 10 years from now?
Nostalgic for 2010 when Tweets were 140 characters instead of 63 a decade into the future
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