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shinyshiny.tv - 12/23/2008

Would you tweet your plane crash?

— shinyshiny.tv — Your plane has just slid off the runway during take-off, one of the engines catches fire, your heart's beating at one hundred miles per hour and your life is almost certainly flashing before your eyes. So what do you do? Tweet it all? I can't ... (more) Would you tweet your plane crash?

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