Tweets of the Week Part 6

And the winners are ...

The Week 6 TotW crop is a slight improvement thanks for a little more time on my end to mine for those little golden nuggests of tweety goodness that are overlooked when I'm very busy. And the Oscars on Sunday night provided some good fodder - Pete Abraham of the Globe is especially funny - he's a must follow @PeteAbe, even for Yankee fans.

Somehow I can't bring myself to celebrate Presidents' Day, because I'm still pretty p.o.'d at Franklin Pierce.
@alyankovic - Wasn't he the doctor on M*A*S*H?

OK, where have I been? Melo to the Knicks-who cares? I don't. But I guess New Yorkers do right? Baseball won't be much fun for them. LOL @nsnsports.net - Gotta love Spring Training smack talk.

Beyoncé, Mariah Carey and Usher paid huge sums to play for #Gaddafi family. That's enough reason to throw his dumb ass out of power. @jivanjames - The only person on Twitter consistently more funny than @PeteAbe is @jivanjames - His real name is John James and he works at the Free Press ... for now. (He'll get that joke.)

At home, drinking alone. Some say this is a sign of alcoholism. I say it's a sign of dedication. #halfbottleofvodkatogo @jivanjames - Everyone needs a hobby.

Just wrote a poem: "I would have to wash out my jockey/if the G-Men pick up Shockey/Toss Shockey the rocky/I hate hockey" @JeremyShockey @therealcarl2 - Brilliant!

Pilot just showed! Plane applauds. Unfortunately, the tags on his carry-on read "Holiday Inn Express." @richeisen - Sorely missed on SportsCenter.

Rose is dirty great ass player @ozzieguillen - Ozzie either likes Derrick Rose's game a lot or he thinks he's a hottie with a hygiene problem.

Charlie Sheen says he's "addicted to winning." Good thing- he's current frontrunner for biggest d in the land!!
@Michelle_ESPN - Charlie needs to learn to speak his mind.

The "Pajama Jeans" infomercial that plays during the 2am-3am hour is the saddest hour of the day.
@SarakKSilverman - Untrue - I can't wait until they make these for men.

We should all Twitter like Anne Hathaway speaks. So ... I'm off to bed now. Woooooooo! @PeteAbe - I think this is funny - Wooooooooo!

Phones should have an Oscars app that plays increasingly louder music when somebody you're talking to starts to babble @PeteAbe - My brain actually does this. Usually, it plays the theme from Magnum, P.I. This is fortunate because my head bobs even as I tune out.

I am live-tweeting the Oscars!!! This Sucks. Now I am done live-tweeting the Oscars. @therealcarl2 - I with ya Carl. People I've never heard of winning awards for movies I'll never see. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.

(Weak) Tweets of the Week 5

Not sure if I need to follow funnier people or if my standards for a checkle are getting too high, but here's a very small batch of TotW.

I imagine whales feel like oversized bumpy pickles. #random
@Alphacat1 - This would be a great name for an indy-rock band.

I think they have the air conditioning on here at Collins Perley... Coldest hockey rink I've ever been in!
@WCAX_Seth - Go about 10 miles further north to Highgate and you will see just how wrong a person can be.

So..Watson wins on Jeopardy, huh? When that thing comes to life I, Robot style and sh*t gets sinister.... remember SVP tried to tell ya. @notthefakeSVP - Relax Scott, that's at least a couple years away.

Justin Beiber is so young he doesn't even sweat yet?!?! Now that's just not right.
@ESPN_Michelle - I think Ms. Beadle has a crush.

1 melatonin, normal... 2 melatonin = CRAY CRAY dreams of petting tiny albino baby turtles and talking to a tree stump. help. @katyperry - Yes. I follow Katy Perry - she has me living a teenage dream.

Trivia answer and my UVM women's hoop Dream Dozen

If you are interested in such things, here's my take on the top 12 UVM women's basketball players of all time and the answer (at the bottom of the article) to my little Trivia Time challenge.

Trivia time!

I'm doing research on a list of the top UVM women's basketball players of all time and I came across a trio of questions that I think are pretty interesting.

These questions are all about UVM women's basketball program ...

1. Who has the best all-time free throw AND 3-point field goal percentage? (It's the same person)

2. Who holds the single-season record for most 3-pointers made in one season?

3. Who holds the single season record for most assists in a season.

(Hint all three players competed for the Cats in the last 20 seasons and one of them is a Vermonter.)

I'll post the answers at the end of my UVM women's Dream Dozen list on Examiner.com later tonight - Here's my top 10 list of the top UVM men's basketball players.

Tweets of the Week chapter 4

Hey all, gotta confess I was a little busy this week and the TotW are a little on the light side but what they lack in quantity hopefully they make up for in quality. For those who want to make sure their TotW-worthy postings are seen, might I suggest you DM me after your post.

Also, I've cleaned out some of my follow clutter and am looking for some topical and funny folks to follow - all suggestions will be followed (for a while, at least.)

Thanks for checking back!

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Watching Rocky, drinking Theraflu from a hotel glass while reading my wife's Bachelor tweets 3k miles away. Reminds me of the night we met. @sportsguy33 - I prefer Pertussin with club soda, as George Costanza says: "It's quite refreshing."

Rugby is grown men dressed like bumblebees reenacting a prison shower scene @therealcarl2 - I played Rugby once at JSC - lasted 30 seconds and someone hit me so hard I didn't care that the girl was trying to impress saw me cry.

Soccer is just a bunch of kickers that couldn't make it in the NFL @therealcarl2 - Did I mention my first rule if I was named world soccer czar would be the first goal wins and goalies can't use their hands. Now that's a sport!

Just watched my show. Is it just me, or do I look like a women’s basketball coach? @ConanOBrien - I was thinking a woman, a very skinny, big-headed woman. Named Skeletor.

This next series of posts - which came in five minute intervals for 25 minutes - are why, if I could only follow one person on Twitter, it would be @OzzieGuillen.

Why the pizza take so friking long

Nice pizza for my diet yess ready for springtraining

I going to star my diet in arizona ease help

Please help me to lose my panza @OzzieGuillen - WTH is a panza?

Que comica en la asamblea de venezuela que ejemplo estamos dando que lastima que gente como esa decidan en nuestro pais que bolas tienen - I'm guessing this post means either he was he was happy with his pizza, found his panzas or assembled a comic in Venezuela.

Today I received my 1099 for 2010, covering book royalties. Thirty-three dollars and ninety-nine cents. O, the glamorous world of authoring! @RobNeyer - Blogging (and journalism) are just as (not) lucrative.

Enosburg hangs on for a 29-39 win. @LamoureuxPhoto - Unless they are playing golf, this score is only half right - just picking big guy - (but seriously, the higher score always come first).

When Ray Kinsella takes Terrence Mann to Fenway, 2 dogs and 2 beers costs $7. Field of Dreams really is a fantasy. Still love it @PeteAbe (Two dogs and a soda at any high school sports game comes close these days - man, that's an old - but great flick.)

What a week for @Twitter. No better place to comment on the #Grammys or to help overthrow the government of #Egypt. @TomCaron - Amen!

This Bieber/Usher thing is kinda creepy. Someone call child protective services. @jivanjames - Amen again - a real MJ-Culkin vibe - I expected Bubbles burst onto the scene at any moment.

That's all I got - not a lot - but a month has passed and TotW is alive and well. Whoda thunk it?