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Gotta Love The Internet: Eastwooding with an Empty Chair

By on September 1, 2012

Oh Internet, my birthday was days ago now – you really shouldn’t have! So Much #emptychair, #eastwooding and #invisibleobama on my feeds this morning!

 

Buzzfeed | Eastwooding – Clint Eastwood went on television and spoke to an empty chair, and the internet responded in the only way it knows how.
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For anyone interested in what Clint Eastwood actually said in his 12 minute speech (that was supposed to be only 5 minutes long), the Washington Post has a transcript.

For the rest of us, please share your favourite exploration of the #emptychair, #eastwooding and #invisibleobama hashtag/macro memes.

This one is my fave so far:

The Iron Throne from the TV version of Game of Thrones with an added caption

Eastwood is coming

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5 responses to “Gotta Love The Internet: Eastwooding with an Empty Chair”

  1. Peta
    Peta September 1, 2012 at 7:15 pm |

    Oh dear. He has history, of course. He used to talk to the trees, the stars and the breeze.(They ignored him too).

  2. tigtog
    tigtog September 2, 2012 at 8:45 pm | *

    Peta, I’ve been mostly away fromt the computer all weekend, but this reply made me snort last night and I’m still snorting now. What colour internets would you like?

  3. maiforpeace
    maiforpeace September 4, 2012 at 6:43 am |

    a photo of President Obama sitting on a sunny outside patio next to an empty chair

  4. maiforpeace
    maiforpeace September 4, 2012 at 6:44 am |

    Sorry that was another captioned photo.

  5. tigtog
    tigtog September 4, 2012 at 7:00 am | *

    I’ve embedded the photo for you, mai (complete with alt and title tags for our vision-impaired readers)

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