Comical Twitter Exchange

Tuesday I was checking Twitter, like I do (shut up, the fact that you’re reading this disqualifies you from calling me a dork) and I saw the following “tweet” from Conan O’Brien:

Yesterday was the longest day of the year, unless you count the time I interviewed Lance Armstrong.

I got a pretty good chuckle out of that and I remember thinking, “he’d better be careful, you don’t want to piss off Le Lance.” You can imagine my delight when, a couple of hours later, Lance himself posted this response:

@ConanOBrien all you wanted to talk about was riding bikes and shaving your legs. It was, uh, slightly freaky.

While he is often perceived as somewhat “prickly” (or a bit of a dick, if you prefer)*, Lance does seem to have a pretty good sense of humor, as evidenced here.

It came as something less of a surprise that Conan had a funny retort but I got a good laugh out of this:

@lancearmstrong - I was drunk. And I wanted some tips for smoother legs. Is that so wrong?

This type of exchange is what keeps me coming back to Twitter. Of course, regular people are often just as funny as (or funnier than) “celebrities”.

*I’m not passing judgment though, who the hell wouldn’t be, if they were in his shoes?