I derive endless amusement from the Elvis Quotes Twitter account.
It’s probably
unlikely you’ve happened to stumble across it, but if you haven’t, you’re
probably familiar with its sort. It’s one of those accounts that’s presumably
posting predominantly scheduled tweets proportedly related to Elvis, but most
of them are hugely incongruous.
The last few days
are is a case in point. I can’t imagine the King would have had a lot to say
about the ageing process of Lindsay Lohan, least of all when she achieved fame
a good twenty years after he died; nor would be that interested in the
perceived attractiveness of the Female Olympians of the 2014 Sochi Winter
Olympics; that’s unless he had some alarmingly specific (and useless) prophecies.
What amuses me most is the account name suggests the tweets are words of wisdom
taken verbatim from the great man himself, when in truth they’re just scarcely
concealed clickbait.
I’d love to know
who was behind it, if only to congratulate them for their slipshod attention to
detail, which borders on flagrant. They’re not even written in a consistent
tense. Some are in first-person, presumably with the intention of stoking up
conversation, which just makes Elvis sound needy…
…or like a
middle-aged parent trying to sound down-with-the-kids.
Maybe I’ve got it
wrong, and he did say all these things.
One of these days, I’ll do some research. If nothing else, I’ll compile a
comprehensive anthology, which may make for an amusing book; it’s
something to do, anyway.
(Er, Elvis?)
