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The Twit

QIC: Greenspan

Date: October 13, 2020

PAX: Palin, Lamb Chop, Burns, Zima, Huckleberry, Root Canal, The H.O.G., Turnover, Cheesesteak, Bevo

Two weeks ago, $5 Footlong put out an APB for Flatline Qs.  YHC jumped at the opportunity to Q the high-octane AO and began surveying different pax’s “least favorite exercises.”  Simultaneously, YHC was researching stats related to Twitter, our former virtual home, to share with fellow pax as a fond farewell.  At 5:29:55, YHC let out a war cry and departed the launch point with nine pax in tow.

Warmarama:

Pass.

Beatdown:

Mosey to nearby parking deck.

Fact 1:  There are 300 million active twitter users, although there are a couple billion accounts.  Journalists make up 24.6% of active users (74 million).

Exercise:  Pull-ups x 25 (rounding up from 24.6)

Mosey out of parking deck and up Cherry Street.  Pause along the sidewalk.

Fact 2:  48 million active users are actually bots.

Exercise:  Monkey humpers x 48

Long PELOTON run down 4th Street to Grace Court.

Facts 3, 4, 5:  36% of active users are identified as Democrats, 21% as Republicans, and 29% as independents.

Exercise:  WW2s x 36, Burpees x 21, Prisoner Getups x 29

Mosey down Brookstown to West End; mosey on West End to Pilot View.

Fact 6:  29% of active twitter users are urbanites.

Exercise:  Hand-release Mike Tysons x 29

PELOTON run up Pilot View to Summit Street.

Fact 7:  17% of active twitter users are rural dwellers.

Exercise:  Crab Cakes x 17

Fact 8:  10% of active users create 80% of the content on twitter.

Exercise:  Ten donkey climbs on wall

Mosey to 500 5th Street courtyard.

Exercise:  80 squats (modified to 40 due to time contraints)

Fact 9:  Retweets make up 25% of all tweets

Exercise:  25 x Flight Attendants

Mosey down Spruce Street to Hanes Brand Theater.

Fact 10:  Original character limit for a single tweet was 140 characters.

Exercise:  Shoulder taps x 70, Fast feet x 70

Jailbreak home.  Circle up with SSHs and burpees for 1 minute.

Announcements:

  • Zima has Q at Conspiracy tomorrow. Wobegon has Q at Mayhem tomorrow.  Don’t sack.
  • Huck has Q at Flatline and WIB next week.
  • Bevo has Q on Halloween at IS and promises a “get out of jail free card” for those who wear a costume. Zima noted that he has Qed Halloween 3 years in a row and he is the only one in the 3 years to wear a costume.  Palin suggested everyone wear a costume this year since Zima is not Q.

CoT:

  • Prayer request for Drip’s procedure today.
  • The father and sister of the pastor of The H.O.G.’s church are both very sick.
  • Prayers for $5 Footlong’s health and recovery.

YHC took us out.

NMM:

  • Solid work by everyone. People got tired of Twitter quickly but were quieter than expected considering the audience.  Especially notable was the muted Palin….wait, he was just too far ahead of us on the runs for us to hear him.  Burns was interested in the exercises associated with the political affiliations that were presented at Grace Court.
  • Huck was really looking forward to this workout and contributed the crab cakes and prisoner get ups this morning. Huck and Zima lamented their banishment from Qing Mayhem at hearing the announcement for Wobegon’s Q tomorrow.  In other news, Turnover seemed to have slipped away during the announcements portion of COT.
  • Zima started asking questions early in the parking deck about the Twitter statistics. YHC quickly pointed the sleeveless one to Pew Research for all of the stats used today:  https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-users/
  • Zima and Huck appear to be carpooling into the city from WeFoCo fairly frequently, but Huck is always the one driving.
  • Bevo thinks we need an another an option outside of the parking deck for pull-ups. He noted also that we were all essentially doing worm ups by the end of the set.
  • Cheesesteak was doing his customary alternative version of everything this morning.
  • Lamb Chop had a good time on the runs but seemed surprised when we arrived at the bottom of Pilot View. Queue Bevo: “Are you kidding?  Who didn’t see this coming?”  We almost didn’t make it to Pilot View for, as we were sprinting down Brookstown, a sweet Land Cruiser circa 1978 revved out of a driveway with at least 3 pax in its path.
  • Pharaonic Dr. Toot made the helpful suggestion to continue on Pilot View after we reached Summit Street because it was “flatter.” Yeah, all right.  Was like being told that I needed a crown, but I could have a lead one that was less expensive.
  • The H.O.G. got a good three mile EC run in and considered running Marshall solo more challenging than the Pilot View Peloton.

Thanks fellas.  Great to be with you this morning.  YHC handed Huck the keys as he chauffeured Zima out of the parking lot.