Flaming Undies

Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009 - 12:24 a.m.

By now, you've seen the story about the roller coaster malfunction at Great America yesterday afternoon.

Some of the reports also include a mention about a woman who was allegedly Twittering from there.

Nope. False. Sorry.

If she had been posting from a mobile device, the specific application would have been mentioned by name. But her posts were labled 'from web', which means that unless she had smuggled a laptop into the park and had it up there with her as part of her roller coaster experience, then she made those posts from the safety of her own home.

I just LOVE it when the media reports things without doing their research.

A Twitter demand from NBC Bay Area remains unacknowledged, though, so, to borrow a phrase from the writings of Stephen King, there's at least one local news organization that realizes where the ursine mammal evacuated its bowels in the buckwheat.

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Yesterday, John stayed home from work.

The old joke is that he had vision problems.

He just couldn't see going into work yesterday.

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I found the drummer! He is just fine, and thanks to my ineptitude, he managed to sit in last week and escape again with NOBODY'S CELL NUMBERS.

He got called into work, where he cannot get to his email, and well -- nuts.

So he's not dead in a culvert somewhere, and he's stated that he's looking forward to seeing us at the next practice on the 23rd.

Glad he is okay!

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Them's the haps. Have a good Tuesday.

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