Retweet Theater: Fail Whale
I may be on spring break this week, but, well, what the hell. (Warning: salty implications.)
The retweeted assertion, referencing the technical difficulties of Twitter, was “I’ve seen so many fail-whales today I’m ready to invest in a Japanese harpoon-fabricating concern.”
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Okay I’m glad I wasn’t drinking something when it got to connectile dysfunction. OMG!
Someone out there has even more time and even stronger opinions than I do. I saw a few fail whales today myself, and my Twitter avatar died for a while too, so I… uh… well… somehow lived. Even when the Lileks “Reddy Kilolwatt” avatar disappeared for a couple hours.
I know it’s surprising, but it’s actually true! Even when our avatars disappear, we can live on!
And is it entirely perverted to suggest that maybe Ms Lego should consider breast enhancement?
O)r at least a T-shirt?
wonderful. Pinter-esque.
but mostly fackin’ stone dead funny. Lileks, this is some of your best stuff ever.
Namaste and thank u,
Peter I
Ok, the first couple were rough, but this one is pretty funny.
Very good. Spit out my coffee. Love it.
More proof that it takes talent to do these things. I tried to do the first scene in the last comic sins entry. Spent the entire evening on it and it is mediocre at best. but then again, There are no Batman and Robin Avatars available.
@ DaveinAZ – Thinking Ms. Lego needs enhancement -Perverted? No. Thinking the Mr. Lego should have augmentation? Yes.
I love Retweet Theater & I heartily laugh at those who thought you made up the term fail whale.
When Reddy turned demonic-red last night in Twitter, I just about died from giggling.
“Connectile dysfunction.” God, I wish I’d thought of that. That, and breast enhancement for legos.
I still think she looks like a prostitute.
Bill
I got accused of being paranoid on another site when I jokingly said guys like that seem to be assigned to sites to be annoying.
This guys(s?) seems to have joined Twitter for the sole purpose of criticizing JL and annoying the following. However, all they ended up doing is becoming bikini-clad entertainment.
I think the kids have a word for that: “FAIL!”
I also love the street name: “Tennis Elbow Bend.”
Frankly, I think she needs plastic surgery. (Ha! I crack me up! I’ll be here all week. Please tip your waitress.)
And for Lance Lawson fans who haven’t seen this before because it was buried after 45 comments in another thread:
tinyurl.com/cf9364
Ha! Now THAT was funny!
What a hoot! The contrast between the words and the deadpan voices and expressions is the best part.
I usuallly watch these on my little portable over a wireless connection so the first time through I get lots of long, apparently meaningful pauses. Some of them actually make it better.
This one sounded like you were talking to your wife – especially the end.
James, you may have found your medium. Tragic as that may be.
Brilliant.
love the little hand gesture at the end.
My god, that is hilarious.
I think I hurt myself laughing so hard!! That’s the funniest one I’ve ever seen!
I love the fact that if I subscribe to the bleat feed Google Reader tells me, “You have subscribed to “(title unknown).”"
Sorry if I missed this elsewhere, but what app or website are you using to create this stuff?!
Criminy, Torso Coverup suggestions?!?!? Is lanczos the only one here to suggest that the lady’s bikini bottom (underpants?) are excessively spacious?
Frank, the logo at the end tells you where to go to make those movies. It’s http://www.xtranormal.com.
And James, this rocks. As everybody else said, it’s utterly hilarious.
Connectile dysfunction – THAT’s getting added to the daily Vocab!
and prefer under-achieved wombat to fail whale ever day!
Spit-take!!!
The movie-making website is xtranormal.com, but it’s down right now.
That’s why I can’t confirm that the gesture the woman makes at the end is basically the equivalent of saying “wanker.”
By the way, (or should that be BTW?) anybody seen this?
http://current.com/items/89891774/supernews_twouble_with_twitters.htm
Oh, yeah – I would say that is definitely the “Wank” gesture. Didn’t know that was in the xtranormal animation pallette. As Jar-jar Binks would say: “How wude!”
Yeah, Xtranormal has crashed big time – maybe a Bleatalanche?
And we don’t even get a cute little whale picture – just a System Error 111.
MySQL, PHP, Apache – all that free software is so groovy, but sometimes you get what you pay for.
I’ve been resisting the urge to go over to Xtranormal and waste the day making movies since you posted the first one of these. Today might be the day I lose that battle — if it ever comes back online, that is (maybe the Productivity Gods are trying to tell me something).
Yeah, the hand gesture at the end is the whipped cream on the cake.
I’m obviously not spending enough time on Twitter. Never seen the fail-whale. Avatar still intact. And I don’t get the term “pinter”.
Is Pinter-esque another piece of Internet lingo I have to know to be cool today?
Harold Pinter, Playwright.
Bob
harold Pinter…..
Famous for long….
pauses….
in place of….
drama or even….
wit.
(and for spittle-spewing anti-American hatred)
I’ll take Tom Stoppard, thanks.
Ahh! Thanks for the insight.
When he mentioned “Spring Break” and then “fail-whale”, I was wondering if he was perhaps at a beach where some tickets ought to be written for not meeting some aesthetic standard – not having the right proportionality for wearing their “whale tail” swimwear. I see I was mistaken, and owe the host a modest apology (I say “modest” for his gleeful inclusion of the wank motion on the end – he is not above some earthiness).
I learn so much here, : ‘D
1st one I’ve seen and quite funny in a twisted kind of way. Love it!
I’m guessing Scottsdale.
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Just read the Pinter Wiki-Bio. Now I get it. I’m from a science background and never let the fine arts interfere with my education.
I wish there were some feature on the site where I could retract a comment previously submitted, and held for moderation. I tried too hard to be funny there, and now I wish I could get a do-over…