@billcolrus

Freelance writer and editor for hire. Baseball coach. Sorta musician. Husband. Father. Believer. RTs not necessarily endorsements. #CHS via #CHA via #CT

 North Charleston, SC
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Joined April 2008
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🎵Great Tunes: A Thread.🎶 Updated every day. Sometimes more than once. Enjoy. #greattunesthread #music
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There will never be a Norm Macdonald documentary great enough to appease his fans. It would be impossible to make one. That said, Judd Apatow did a great job with his. Hopefully, 50 other filmmakers will make 50 more Norm docs. Sigh.
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@Freyy_isOct 8
my favorite kind of writing is the kind that makes you stop turning pages because one line has given you too much to think about.
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Joanna Wiebe
@copyhackersOct 8
Snickers sold $376 million more chocolate bars without changing the product. Instead, they used a simple strategy most marketers completely ignore. Here's exactly what they did (& how to copy them):
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Gary Vaynerchuk
@garyveeSep 14
Years ago, anyone who had a poor experience would tell their closest friends or neighbors and that was the extent of their reach, but today ... With the reach of social media, customer reviews, etc., there’s just so much scale at our disposal. Whether it’s a great experience or a poor one, the customer has way more power to tell the masses their thoughts and it’s time for businesses to grasp that. I believe it’s incredibly important to start treating customer engagement as an offensive move versus a defensive one; proactive versus reactive by implementing a tactic I call "surprise and delight" - it's a way to light up a customer’s day without asking for anything.
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TheOlChippy
@TheOlChippySep 11
4 minutes after the north tower was struck, an unknown occupant on the 77th floor took this photo. Keep in mind, this was 18 floors below impact.
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Bethel McGrew
@BMcGrewvySep 8
Sharing a gift link to the New York Times' devastating minute by minute report of the World Trade Center's last 102 minutes, based on the hundreds of last calls and emails people made. Never forget. nytimes.com/2002/05/26/nyreg…

Fighting to Live as the Towers Died (Gift Article)

The last words of the men and women who were trapped on the high floors of the twin towers.

nytimes.com
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Daniel McFadin@danielmcfadinSep 11
I know it’s a cliche to describe what happened on 9/11 as being something out of a movie. But this footage taken by a man in New Jersey feels like a movie scene. You turn a corner……suddenly 9/11 is unfolding.
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Emo Philips
@EmoPhilipsSep 3
I hope I’m in the ten percent that isn’t
Tim Denning
@Tim_DenningSep 3

Your entire life changes when you realize 99% of society is stupid

Article · @Tim_Denning
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RIP, Dolly Parton.
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"Sniper" by Harry Chapin.
Eric Alper 🎧
@ThatEricAlperAug 21
You're in charge of the music at a party. What's your guaranteed dance-floor-filler?
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I'm past that point.
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@Freyy_isAug 21
i think i’ve reached the point where scrolling doesn’t even feel entertaining anymore. i just keep moving through posts, hoping something finally catches my attention.
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I've lived in the South for 32 years and don't own a single piece of camouflage clothing. I also don't own any golf shirts. Is that legal?
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This.
David Martin@DMart423Jul 21
If you want to hate America, doomscroll. If you want to love it, put your phone down, turn your TV off, and travel it.
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cinesthetic.
@TheCinestheticJul 15
Watching Dominic West, an actual English actor, play an American who can’t do an English accent on THE WIRE is one of the funniest acting bits ever.
cinesthetic.
@TheCinestheticJul 15
What foreign actor has done so many iconic American roles that you forgot they're not American?
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So many recent documentary series could have been an email.
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There’s an episode from Cheers where Frasier and another guy are quoting from Richard II and Cyrano de Bergerac. 34 million Americans watched this episode.
Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️
@SketchesbyBozeJul 12
Ten years ago you could make jokes about Jane Eyre and Dracula on twitter and most people would get them; nowadays I have to explain references to Alice in Wonderland and The Hobbit as if we’re living in a very on-the-nose film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451.
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Emo Philips
@EmoPhilipsJul 8
worst emcee ever
Natural Philosophy
@NaturalphilosyJul 7
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m quite sure that it is not in order to have a good time.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Merriam-Webster
@MerriamWebsterJul 3
Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.? Because we gave them that L in 1776.
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Emo Philips
@EmoPhilipsJun 10
never give a squirrel matches
The Independent
@IndependentJun 10
Utah is so bone dry amid drought that a squirrel and kids with matches started separate brush fires independent.co.uk/news/world…

Utah is so dry that a squirrel and kids with a lighter started separate brush fires

The two fires were sparked within hours on Tuesday

independent.co.uk
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cinesthetic.
@TheCinestheticJun 4
Jared Harris might be the ultimate nepotism loophole. The man is so consistently good that half the audience doesn’t even realize he’s Richard Harris’ son until someone points it out years later.
cinesthetic.
@TheCinestheticJun 2
Who is a Nepotism kid with actual talent?
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