Twitrelief

[Ravish Me Ripley]

Don't suppose anyone knows who won David on Twitrelief do they?

3 signed DVDs and a Skype call - not sure what the final bid was, around the £400 mark i seem to recall?

Anyone know who the lucky lady is? (I'm assuming it's a lady...it's probably a lady...yep i'm definitely running with a lady )


Also, in other news, i would like to let you lovely ladies know that i absolutely adore David. Not for his work (although i do love him for that), not for his handsome looks (though i do love him for that), not for making my life that little bit better by giving life to Ripley Holden (though i do love him for that), not even for having that gorgeous semi-Scouse accent (though i certainly love him for that) but because he indulged me on Twitter during Twitrelief, even though i am probably old enough to know better. I offered him £20 to Comic Relief for a cuddle and a photograph after a performance of Macbeth, to which he replied he didn't think he "could do it for £20". So i offered £30 and he said that "sounds good to me". I then forwarded him the receipt for my donation and told him he'd better get practising them cuddles to which he replied, "right, your on!" I squeed beyond squee believe me!! I cannot wait to meet the lovely hunk of a man...and thank God for both Twitter and Comic Relief. I think you'll agree £30 is a small price to pay to meet the lovely David

Now please excuse me whilst i go and lie down in a darkened room until May the 17th

[Illyria]

Aaaw wow, that's so cool! ;D Well done you You'll have to tell us all about it when it happens - spare no detail!

I wonder who won the twitrelief thing as well... Talking to him on Skype? I wouldn't have a clue what to say to him!

[marianne]

Mar 21, 2011 20:17:46 GMT Ravish Me Ripley said:

Don't suppose anyone knows who won David on Twitrelief do they?

Hey there Ravishing! I missed your posts these couple of days."Won David?" Makes me think of those bachelor autions! ;D I didn't even know about this Twitrelief. I looked it up before I got on this forum.

I offered him £20 to Comic Relief for a cuddle and a photograph after a performance of Macbeth,

What, only a cuddle??? And you call yourself an obssessed fan? For shame! ;D Give him a kiss from me, tongue optional. And make sure you bring a crate to stand on!

[kelsey]

Ravish Me Ripley - congratulations ..tell us all about it

BTW..i just join twitter & anyone like to follow me?..& is it the real David Morrissey on twitter?

[lilly]

Mar 26, 2011 8:22:38 GMT kelsey said:

Ravish Me Ripley - congratulations ..tell us all about it

BTW..i just join twitter & anyone like to follow me?..& is it the real David Morrissey on twitter?

Yes, and yes. What's your nom du Twitter, dear? Mine happens to be this one,, though if you or anyone else from here follows me, please be sure to tweet me and let me know you're a DMF2'er, cos I tend to block about 98% of my new followers (cos I'm cranky and antisocial like that).

These days it's ludicrously easy to identify a celebrity's identity on Twitter, though, because even if they're not Twitter-verified (which the American famosos tend to do more than the Brits), you can tell simply because of the way that they tweet; the guy who was pretending to be Eddie Izzard tweeted nothing but his old lines, and if you know what the real Eddie's tweets are really like, they're much more serious--not to mention that he's far too intelligent and creative to ever recycle his old material like that anyway!

More recently, there's been someone pretending to be John Simm, but even with only a passing knowledge of Mr. Simm's personality, it was obvious this person wasn't him; the tweets about fighting with his wife, the lack of consistently British spelling and his professed love for the show Supernatural were also substantial hints.

(Yes, illyria, I know you like it too, but trust me, even you don't go on about it nearly as much as Mr. Pseudo-Simm did!)

I personally can't wrap my head around the notion of pretending to be someone famous on Twitter, though (or anywhere else); I find it difficult enough being myself, let alone trying to be someone else! I guess these saddos are so desperate for attention that they're willing to sacrifice basic honesty and integrity in order to get it...? *smh*

What they seemingly fail to realise, though, is that they're always going to get busted sooner or later, because other famous folk run into the real person and ask about their Twitter account; once they find out the celeb in question doesn't have one, the jig is up. This is what just happened with Scot Williams--Mr. M's co-star in Meadowlands and quite the sweetiepie Scouser in his own right--who himself got taken in by the false account someone had set up pretending to be Lisa Stansfield. Once he checked with the real Lisa and found out she wasn't on Twitter, he was more than a little pissed off and summarily exposed the sad poseur for being just that.

Wow...that was one hell of a tangent, wasn't it? Uhm, I'll shut up now...

P.S. Re: the Skype call--you wouldn't know what to say to him? SRSLY?! Jeez, I have so much I'd love to ask him about that I wouldn't know where to begin! (Probably hassling him about quitting smoking, though.) The final bid was £410.00, but the bidders' identities are protected--as they should be--but I don't see why it couldn't have been a lucky fella instead, after all...

[Illyria]

Bahaha... I can't actually imagine John Simm having a Twitter account at all, let alone going on about SPN on there all the time That just amuses me greatly. There are a lot of other celebs I can't imagine ever bothering with Twitter/Facebook either (Richard Armitage, Alan Rickman, the list could go on...)

Funnily enough though, I never imagined that Brent Spiner would have one, and he does and writes some hilarious stuff on his, so... well. Stranger things have happened! (like Reece Shearsmith claiming that he didn't see the point in it, and then signing up as well But I think he mainly did that because there was someone pretending to be him on there, and David Mitchell did the same thing).

Tangents ahoy! ;D

And no, I don't know what I'd say to him on a Skype call Or at all, if I got to meet him... although I guess I could talk to him about his apparent awesome eclectic tastes in music maybe

[Ravish Me Ripley]

Apologies for running off again. I found a life. Then i got bored and put it back

I'm still sick-makingly excited about the propsect of meeting David, though i really must try to think of something witty/intelligent/constructive to say to him. I will of course tell you all about it afterwards.

Not like when i met Neil Pearson (British actor). I couldn't remember my name, called myself 'sad' three times and then said thank you and walked away. I then said to my friend i should have just asked him to have my babies. Then realised he was standing behind me. It was such a *face!palm* moment but he just laughed and walked on (thank God!). Wonderfully Neil was single at the time so he took my complete fangirly meltdown in good spirit. Not sure a happily married Father would humour me in quite the same way

[Illyria]

Hah! Oh god, the embarrassment I'm glad he took it in good humour though. I think DM's got a fairly good sense of humour from the looks of things so he might be ok Hopefully it all goes well anyway! ;D

It's funny how we get that way when we meet celebs though. We sort of... put them up on a pedestal (no, not a pedal-stool ) and forget that they're just normal people underneath the celebrity status. But I think it varies, depending on who you're meeting... I met Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor (two of The Goodies) a few years ago and was able to talk to them a bit, but when I met a Home & Away actor I liked I clammed up completely and couldn't even talk to him at all... And yet I've admired the Goodies since I was a kid, you'd think it'd be the other way around, LOL! Then again I don't find them physically attractive so maybe that's why (so in saying that, if I ever met Richard Armitage or Jensen Ackles, I think I'd probably just faint in front of them before I got the chance to squeak any sort of greeting... )

[Ravish Me Ripley]

I know exactly what you mean. I've met some pretty amazing peope who i have very much put on pedestals and hero worshipped - Bob Geldof and Eddie Izzard to name two. Both were lovely and i just about managed articulate and intelligible conversations with both. And yet i met John Simm. Who, by comparison, isn't so famous. And i was rendered mute. He was so lovely though i don't think he noticed, or he at least pretended not to notice to spare my blushes

[Illyria]

Aw ;D I guess it helps a lot more when they're nice about it all I'm sure they've been in the same boat themselves at some point anyway, meeting someone they really admire for the first time and not being sure about what to say.

[lilly]

Absolutely--remember, they were once regular folks themselves, and have seen fandom from the other side of things. I recently read a charming anecdote about the time Audrey Hepburn met Marlon Brando and when she said hello, he said nothing back, so she assumed he just didn't like her; he sent her a message later explaining that he simply had lost the power of speech upon meeting her!