Twitter is used for a lot of things these days, but this has to be one of my favorites. A 28-year-old guy named Justin has set up a Twitter account simply to tweet out random things his elderly father says. The title of the feed: “Shit My Dad Says.”
Apparently, I’m a bit slow stumbling upon this; even though it was only started at the beginning of August, Justin’s account for his 73-year-old father’s sayings already has over 150,000 followers. But I don’t care, it needs to be pointed out again how awesome this idea is.
My parents, while not that old yet, often say things worthy of tweets, like when my mom seriously thought netbooks were computers built for little people. And had Twitter been around when my grandfather was, this would have been the perfect medium for his bits of comedic wisdom.
Here are some of my favorites from Justin’s dad:
“Your mother rented this film, What Happens In Vegas. I thought it was going to be non-fiction, but it’s fiction, and it’s about some idiot.”
“Who is this woman?….Kate Beckinsale? Well, you can tell Kate Beckinsale she sucks.”
“Your mother made a batch of meatballs last night. Some are for you, some are for me, but more are for me. Remember that. More. Me.”
“Your brother brought his baby over this morning. He told me it could stand. It couldn’t stand for shit. Just sat there. Big let down.”
“Love this Mrs. Dash. The bitch can make spices… Jesus, Joni (my mom) it’s a joke. I was making a joke! Mrs. Dash isn’t even real dammit!”
“Why would i want to check a voicemail on my cell phone? People want to talk to me, call again. If i want to talk to you, I’ll answer.”
You know how else I know this site idea is awesome? Some random girl at the cafe I’m at just saw Shit My Dad Says on my screen and stopped to tell me that it’s awesome.
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it is pretty funny, and I am a follower, but also, this article brought to light… 28 and living with mom and dad??
He is obviously onto something though. So many can relate, and his dad really does seem to be a crackup!
It’s not as uncommon as it used to be.
http://en.wikip...rang_Generation
“Your brother said Techcrunch was about startups and tech news. He told me I could stand it. I couldn’t stand it for shit. Big let down.
boomerang
Not nearly as entertaining, but you can follow my dad @dadlac. He’s a rare tweeter, but when he does, he has some real gems:
http://twitter....atus/1215971803
“Mom made brownies I put them in my closet so they wouldn’t get eaten by others”
Ha! Greatness! I got turned on this this Twitter stream on Wednesday. It was my first Follow Friday tweet in weeks (I think most are just irritating lists: no context, no reason? Screw you, I’m not clicking over.)
Anyway, great to see this! It’s truly great Twitter entertainment.
My dad tweets (@dmager), but this guy is hilarious.
lol, yah recently i started following Justin’s account just for how humorous these tweets are. I think its just another reflection of our simple everyday actions can bring you a small slice of internet fame.
Hahaha. Brilliant concept! You can nearly hear him saying those things!
Kate Beckinsale reference FTW
too funny! I hope my kids don’t get this idea…I’d be doomed.
The real question is how do you profit off of that userbase…He should have a store selling t-shirts w/ his dad quotes or something at minimum.
shirts are a great idea, though something tells me this was more for fun than a business model.
Here’s the ‘best of’ @shitmydadsays – Updated often -> http://favstar....s/shitmydadsays
Old. Buried.
Whoops. Wrong reply.
heh. nice way to rank the best.
You should also check out the endless twitter poem, “The Longest Poem in the World”, created in real-time from tweets
This is so amusing. You know what else would be great? If Twitter let you buy pet food online. Then it would truly change our lives.
Seriously, you’ve been down in the Twitter echo chamber waaaay too long.
that would be amazing.
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Sorry man. Cats were the old meme. Nowadays, it’s all about Sharks vs. Bears.
http://www.palm...ar-t-shirt.aspx
Wait, maybe Lion vs. Gator.
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I think its also important to note that he only follows one person and that person is Levar Burton of Star Trek/Reading Rainbow fame.
The man’s comic genius recognizes no boundaries.
It was a week ago that @RachaelBL sent this Tweet (http://twitter....atus/3455680046) that @Slate RT’d and then got circulated around Twitter last weekend and this past week.
Last Friday, @ShitMyDadSays had less than 5K followers and now it has over 156K? Talk about word of mouth. I haven’t seen that kind of growth since @BasementDad and that came through hacking the system.
Funny that an account of someone’s interpretation of their grouchy dad’s comments has grown faster than most celebrities’ accounts.
Interesting, yeah that’s some awesome word of mouth growth on Twitter.
It made the front page of digg and was there for quite some time too..
The funniest part is that he’s only following 1 person: Levar Burton. RIP “Reading Rainbow”
ha ha yeah that is really funny.
$1 of twitter revenue says “justin” is levar or michael ian black.
why the two of them?
This reminds me of the woman who archived all of her Jewish mother’s answering machine messages…
http://bit.ly/13jHV4
who the heck uses real audio anymore?
Wow, classic! Twitter has the ability to expose ourselves to some really interesting stuff online nowadays LOL
“The dog don’t like you planting stuff there. It’s his backyard. If you’re the only one who shits in something, you own it. Remember that.”
11:33 AM Aug 26th from web
This is another classic IMHO.
Twitter, just like the web, is more noise than signal. I hope it goes away and soon.
Thanks for posting this, this is an awesome find! I just hope the guy keeps it real.
I dunno if this is supposed to be a follow fridays TC day, but especially if you are a Chicago person you will absolutely LOVE this one:
http://twitter....om/CTABusDriver
“I hope all of my twitter followers ride my bus at some point. I want to give every single one of you nerds a punch in the face.”
“You’d be surprised how easy it is to tweet and drive. These buses practically drive themselves.”
“Crap. Driving a hybrid bus today. If one more Prius driver gives me a thumbs up I’m going to turn his ride into a clean-energy car fire.”
content is still king, no matter what the medium is.
hey is that drag and drop sharing mechanism on the images within the post new?
Am I to much a cynic for asking if this is real and not a clever marketing scheme of some sort?
If it was, I think there’d be link to a webpage in the bio but there is very little information provided.
this so sad
Yea, phenomenal growth….can I get that for my business….wait my business isn’t that @#$%^&* silly !
I hope you got the cafe girls number, or at least her twitter handle
“What’s this I hear about you putting your old man’s words onto this twatter thing? F*** that, you’re outta here!”
This is brilliant stuff. Such comedy in our mundane lives!
Damn, I’m seeing this guy popping up everywhere.
Bet he’s wishing he could monetize all this attention!
It’s only a matter of time before the unauthorized T-shirts start showing up.
The domain smds.com is for sale for about $6500, a real bargain!
There’s a lot of love in those cranky, obscene tweets
Some friends of mine just started http://www.twit...stuffourmomsays . I think this is going to be a trend.
Some of those are hilarious! Very creative. Followed
it’s kind of line textsfromlastnight.com.. Oddly enough my parents aren’t that much of grouches.
One assumes you’re aware of TheFatJew as well. Funny as hell, but *very* NSFW and very not politically correct. Between TheFatJew and ShitMyDadSays I laugh my ass off every day.
this is really funny. i will look him up on twitter and follow
Here’s another good one. http://www.twit...er.com/fterlife
haha this is great! i’ll be subscribing…now
Book Deal.
You’re not too late to the party… he was only at 1500 followers or so two weeks ago. Is there a way to chart the followers/day easily?
Shit I tell my kids (33, 27). Make fun of kids, you’ve been there. Don’t make fun of old people you haven’t been there.
Watch, Rate, And leave a Comment
http://www.yout...h?v=Zad1TB2-tmM
Could you tell me again, my vocabulary challenged friend, how awesome everything is about this twitter account. Is it even real
that is one cool dad to have.
finally, something worthwhile from a twitter article. 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
I almost hear Frank Costanza (George Costanza’s father) saying those …