Yesterday the Twitter followers of Sarah Brown, the wife of the British Prime Minister, were left puzzled by a tweet – purporting to come from her – which seemed to bear no resemblance to any accepted use of the English language.
The short message was apparently sent from Mrs Brown’s own computer whilst she was out of the room. Whilst she was apparently away her followers received the following message:
Vole for me. I are Brighton’s best ever Prim Mincer. Evil Tories wil eet your brians – onest!
The Rope contacted several leading experts on the English language, but none of them could explain the mysterious message. One said:
It bears no relationship to anything approaching written English that I’ve ever seen. My best guess is that some kind of (limited) alien intelligence is attempting to contact us. It is an attempt doomed to failure, though, not because of the terrible English usage, which seems about average for Twitter, but because no-one on Twitter ever pays any attention to what anyone else tweets, unless it is a link to a cute picture of a kitten, of course.
A spokesman for Mrs Brown said later:
Some people have suggested she may have accidentally sat on her phone. I can categorically state that this was not the case as Mrs Brown’s phone was irreparably broken recently when it seemingly accidentally hit a wall with some considerable force whilst the Prime Minister was in the same room discussing his latest poll ratings with some members of his staff.
However, a short while later the PM’s wife herself issued another tweet claiming that the Downing Street cat had sat on her keyboard whilst she was out of the room, thus accidentally creating the mysterious message.
1 comment:
The content of the message is the subject of mixed interpretations.
However, all are clear that it's a coded leadership challenge.
D
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