Fractured fairy tale tweets...

While I do have disdain for social networking sites such as Facebook and their ilk, I will say that during election night of the recently held Federal elections here in Australia, Butters and I did tune in to Crikey.com and the veritable blizzard of Twitter traffic as the news analysis of the results droned on.

Now the majority of the tweets were as you would expect, inane blather of 140-chrs or less, but there were those that did provide some amusing moments. The one that had me laugh out loud was when the TV commentators talked about the race for the seat of Lalor, Victoria now held by the current Prime Minister, Ms Julia Gillard, against the Liberal candidate, Ms Sheridan Ingram.

When Ms Ingram's pic appeared on the screen came the well-timed tweet, "Rapunzel rapunzel let down your hair!"

I think soda shot out of my nose.

- Famer Ted