I’ll tell you EXACTLY what it has got me!
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| SimieBoy and St. Murphy |
Some of the most fantastic new friends that a dirty middle-aged poof could ask for.
And a Tweet from the Premier! I kid you not. Last night I got a very eloquent but full of sexual innuendo Tweet from Barry O’Farrell after my 10,000th… “congrats!” he said to me, simply “congrats!”. He recognises my 10’000th tweet but not the equality of my relationships. But now’s not the day to bang on about that. Today I’m just happy for the Tweet.
So what was my 10,000th tweet I hear you beg, after much thought and many drafts it was this…
“10000th: Have met the coolest, funniest, most gorgeous people on Twitter, & now they're my dear friends! Will be forever grateful to Twitter”
If you had said to me 12 months ago that I would be meeting people over the internet I would have laughed in your face. I’m a nanna at heart, can be strangely conservative and I’ve been too lazy to make new friends the last few years. And besides, I loved my friends to death and didn’t feel I needed anymore.
Damn I was wrong being lazy. And narrow-minded! Another one of my judgemental characteristics I am ridding myself of.
Yesterday was a very opportune time to hit the milestone of 10,000 tweets as it comes after a weekend where I spent all my time socializing with people I’d met on Twitter. And it was a weekend chockers full of booze and crazy laughs, all with my Tweeps.
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| ShaunHeron, Arrjaydub, McCraigyDimples, St. Murphy, MatthewJFraser, Lucky Paulie, Mikey & Josh10Murphy |
There’s a reason we all look like we are possessed by the Devil…
Lets talk about Friday night. Lucky Paulie (long-time Inner Circle) and I decided to organise a Power Gay gathering on Twitter – a mix of old friends, people we’d recently met and people we wanted to meet. All up, there was a lot of meeting for the first time going on. We quickly changed our moniker from the Power Gays to the Gay-stapo – I think because we were so militant in our homosexuality. The Gay-stapo took over the Inner West.
We even hashtagged it in true Twitter style, #Impie0107. Within 5 mins we were telling dirty stories (or maybe that was just ShaunHeron and I?) and within an hour we were being debaucherous (or maybe that was just ShaunHeron and I?). Arrjaydub, McCraigyDimples and Uueaver are three retiring wall-flowers who shyly join a party… and I’m Pinocchio!
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| Lucky Paulie, McCraigyDimples and Arrjaydub |
MatthewJFraser, or as I like to call him The HYS-terical Matt Fraser, is the best thing to come out of Newcastle since coal. Josh10Murphy is not one to let a brain tumour stand in the way of a good time, and that is with not an ounce of exaggeration. Mikey Morrow was allowed to play with us even though he’s not on Twitter, we talked slower for him. We had an absolute ball! Next outing is #Impie1507 or #Impie1607, still to decide. All are more than welcome to join us.
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| Lucky Paulie and Arrjaydub |
Then I squeezed three costume changes into an over-nighter for a few days in Melbs. It was a work trip but managed to schedule some Twitter-vodka’s cause I’m nothing if not professional. My first ever Twitter-date was with Melbourne’s hottest gay-royalty couple from the ‘burbs, SimieBoy and Milney01. Milney01 ditched me for his offspring – go figure! - while SimieBoy ‘forced’ me to go to The Greyhound for some disco-dancing. I wore black cause I was in Melbourne.
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| The Greyhound |
It was with great pleasure, and some pain, that I met 3GreggyD for the first time. Classic example of when you find someone with the same warped sense of humour on Twitter it translates beautifully to real-life. I loved him like you do the straw in your first vodka, lime and soda. We all met for brunch the next day and the divine Milney01 joined us, but the absolute highlight was the Parisian French toast served with a delicious side of LoveMissLee. LoveMissLee is adored in Melbs like Barbra, Bette or Kylie. I fell under her spell too.
Goddamn I love Twitter and the people it has brought into my life!
And there is no way I can write a commemorative 10,000th Tweet post without mention of the four legs of my Twitter table… The sublime Woogsworld, the beautiful StylingYou (Twitter-Date No. 2), the fit-inducing JoThornely and the Junior St. Murphy, En_Gy (Twitter-Date No. 3). Life without the allegedly-witty banter of you guys would be like life without television – POINTLESS!!! I also have a big old Twitter-crush on LaurenMC and JoshCilento, a big old crush (and just a little gay one on CuriousSpecimen).
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| Woogsworld & JoThornely |
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| En_Gy |
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| StylingYou & moi |
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| JoshCilento & LaurenMC |
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| St. Murphy & CuriousSpecimen |
Ahhhh.... Twitter is a beautiful place.
And you know what, now that I’ve hit 10,000 I am aching, yearning to hit 100,000.
Game on Twitter!
***If you wanted to follow me I'm at StMurphy!
4 comments:
Twitter is a great place and you are now a Twitter Queen x
All hail the great Twitter God! We are all better people for meeting each other. I'm like you, I wasn't auditioning for new friends but I'm so grateful we found each other anyway.
Every time ppl would say they have online friends I would throw up a little bit in my mouth and feel sorry for them... Then I met all these cool tweeps and became one of them. Happy 10,000 th tweet, you always entertain me.
"He recognises my 10’000th tweet but not the equality of my relationships."
In 10,000 tweets I've come to know you so well. As soon as I saw you say "He recognised my 10,000th tweet" I *KNEW* you would make this segway.
Love your guts, Mr Murphy. Don't chanage.
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