12 Drunk Nate Silver Tweets
The New York Times’ uber-stats wizard, Nate Silver, was on the money in his election forecasts, much to the chagrin of his Republican critics. When it was all said and done however, all poor Nate got were these 12 tweets:
“Drunk Nate Silver, updating the Wikipedia page of the 8 year-old who’ll win the 2052 election”
– Jack Bohrer“Drunk Nate Silver crashing weddings, yelling out the number of years until divorce”
– Ben Keegan“Drunk Nate Silver stumbles over to people singing, ‘Hey, I just met you. And this is crazy. But isn’t this your number?'”
– Kimera Chetty“Drunk Nate Silver sends you a text at 2:00 am that says ‘It’s 9:32 am.’ And that’s when you read it.”
– Shelby“Drunk Nate Silver looking at the Mayan calendar, shaking his head calmly, X’ing out Dec 21 and circling Dec 31”
– Aaron Brazell“Drunk Nate Silver points at the night sky. The star he is pointing at flickers then dies.”
– Alan Maguire“Drunk Nate Silver counting out exactly five hundred and thirty-eight french fries at McDonalds, then slowly dipping 206 of them in ketchup”
– Ben Jackson“Drunk Nate Silver changes a broken light bulb and mutters to himself, ‘one person'”
– Jeff Tiedrich“Drunk Nate Silver wanders supermarket aisles with a sharpie, changing expiration dates”
– Dave Levitan“Drunk Nate Silver waits 20 minutes for the G train, nods silently when it arrives, walks out of the station”
– Josh Fruhlinger“Drunk Diane Sawyer points at drunk Nate Silver. ‘YOUUUUU’ she says. ‘Youuuuuuu.’ Drunk Nate Silver giggles. Drunk Diane Sawyer giggles.”
– Rusty Foster“Drunk Nate Silver predicted ‘Drunk Nate Silver’ would become a meme two weeks ago”
– Rubina Madan Fillion
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Nate is the reason numbers are all sexy again. Part of the reason I will be sporting his face on my chest for a while when I get my shirts. Those of you of the British persuasion, will enjoy this one I ordered.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/thesmile/works/9575446-keep-calm-and-trust-nate-silver-t-shirt
Love it!
Me too. Thanks 🙂