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Best Responses to Shirley Temple Opening Pandora’s ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Box on Twitter

Poor Shirley Temple Black/person pretending to be Shirley Temple Black on Twitter (we believe nothing till an account is verified): The 84-year-old former pre-tween movie star was on Twitter less than one day before she was asked about cultural phenom Honey Boo Boo. The question, which came from Model Alliance’s Coco Rocha, could be taken as an insult–why ask Shirley Temple about the TLC star unless you consider Ms. Temple’s celebrity status to have been similar?–but luckily Ms. Temple was just confused. Confused enough to ask Twitter: “i have been asked what i think of ‘honey boo’, can someone tell me who that is.” The resulting answers were, for lack of a better word, fantastic. Read More

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Update: Irrepressible Salman Rushdie Responds to Twitter Handle Win

Congratulations to Salman Rushdie, who finally gained his official Twitter handle after shaming another person off of it. Mr. Rushdie joined Twitter this week but had to take the handle @SalmanRushdie1 because some goofball had already been tweeting out from @SalmanRushdie. As of yesterday, it was still being reported that Mr. Rushdie was verified at @SalmanRushdie1, but had sent a message to the faux-tweeter: “Who are you? why are you pretending to be me? Release this username. You are a phoney. All followers please note.” Read More