Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Tweet-y pie - all of a twitter
I thought a saw a big brother creeping up on me this morning - LBHaringey is now following my updates on Twitter according to an email I have just received. Is that sinister? Feels to me as though it may very well be. Unless they have automated the following so that a piece of software looks for key words, that must mean there is an apparatchik somewhere (maybe in Wood Green though with the internet he/she might be in Moscow) checking what I, and at present 118 others, am/are doing.
Mind you, it won't do them much good in following my movements - I have only ever logged on twice - once when HOL advocated Twitter, and then again today. These social thingummy whatsits come and go and I think Twitter will be very short lived, since it is just another, extraordinarily effective, way to add to the information overload, which I can well do without.
I TAUT I TAW A PUDDY TAT
(Alan Livingston / Warren Foster / Billy May)
Mel Blanc - 1950
Danny Kaye - 1953
Pinky & Perky - 1962
TWEETY:
I am a little, tiny, bird. My name is Tweety Pie
I live inside my bird cage, a-hanging way up high
I like to swing upon my perch and sing my little song
But there's a tat that's after me and won't let me alone
I taut I taw a puddy tat a creepin' up on me
I did! I taw a puddy tat as plain as he could be!
SYLVESTER:
I am that great big bad old cat, Sylvester is my name
I only have one aim in life and that is very plain
I want to catch that little bird and eat him right away
But just as I get close to him, this is what he'll say
I taut I taw a puddy tat a creepin' up on me
You bet he taw a puddy tat, that puddy tat is me!
TWEETY:
That puddy tat is very bad, he sneaks up from behind
I don't think I would like it if I knew what's on his mind
I have a strong suspicion that his plans for me aren't good
I am inclined to think that he would eat me if he could
SYLVESTER:
I'd like to eat that sweetie pie when he leaves his cage
But I can never catch him, It throws me in a rage
You bet I'd eat that little bird if I could just get near
But every time that I approach, this is all I hear
TWEETY:
I taut I taw a puddy tat a creepin' up on me
I did! I taw a puddy tat as plain as he could be!
And when I sing that little song, my mistress knows he's back
She grabs her broom and brings it down upon Sylvester's back
So listen you bad puddy tat, let's both be friends and see
My mistress will not chase you if you sing this song with me
TWEETY (Spoken): Come on now, like a good cat
SYLVESTER (Spoken): Oh, all right. Sufferin' Succotash!
TWEETY & SYLVESTER:
I taut I taw a puddy tat a creepin' up on me
I did! I taw a puddy tat as plain as he could be!
(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - March 2004)
Mind you, it won't do them much good in following my movements - I have only ever logged on twice - once when HOL advocated Twitter, and then again today. These social thingummy whatsits come and go and I think Twitter will be very short lived, since it is just another, extraordinarily effective, way to add to the information overload, which I can well do without.
I TAUT I TAW A PUDDY TAT
(Alan Livingston / Warren Foster / Billy May)
Mel Blanc - 1950
Danny Kaye - 1953
Pinky & Perky - 1962
TWEETY:
I am a little, tiny, bird. My name is Tweety Pie
I live inside my bird cage, a-hanging way up high
I like to swing upon my perch and sing my little song
But there's a tat that's after me and won't let me alone
I taut I taw a puddy tat a creepin' up on me
I did! I taw a puddy tat as plain as he could be!
SYLVESTER:
I am that great big bad old cat, Sylvester is my name
I only have one aim in life and that is very plain
I want to catch that little bird and eat him right away
But just as I get close to him, this is what he'll say
I taut I taw a puddy tat a creepin' up on me
You bet he taw a puddy tat, that puddy tat is me!
TWEETY:
That puddy tat is very bad, he sneaks up from behind
I don't think I would like it if I knew what's on his mind
I have a strong suspicion that his plans for me aren't good
I am inclined to think that he would eat me if he could
SYLVESTER:
I'd like to eat that sweetie pie when he leaves his cage
But I can never catch him, It throws me in a rage
You bet I'd eat that little bird if I could just get near
But every time that I approach, this is all I hear
TWEETY:
I taut I taw a puddy tat a creepin' up on me
I did! I taw a puddy tat as plain as he could be!
And when I sing that little song, my mistress knows he's back
She grabs her broom and brings it down upon Sylvester's back
So listen you bad puddy tat, let's both be friends and see
My mistress will not chase you if you sing this song with me
TWEETY (Spoken): Come on now, like a good cat
SYLVESTER (Spoken): Oh, all right. Sufferin' Succotash!
TWEETY & SYLVESTER:
I taut I taw a puddy tat a creepin' up on me
I did! I taw a puddy tat as plain as he could be!
(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - March 2004)
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Interesting reaction Omotn. It never would have occurred to me.
But I'm 99.99% certain that there's absolutely nothing sinister in this at all. They're very unlikely to be checking on you. It seems like their Twitter stream is designed to keep us up to date with what the council are doing. It's another way of giving us information and I applaud it. As to how they found you, if I was them, I'd have looked at who follows Harringay Online, the local politicians etc and followed those people.
As with anyone on Twitter, if you don't want to be followed, just block them. But, I'll be giving my support, encouraging a great initiative and following them back.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Yes, I'm pleased to see them. When you are looking for people to follow when you start on Twitter, you do exactly what Hugh says and you hope that the message will spread about what you are doing and you attract more followers.
They are unlikely to be 'monitoring' you but if they are, use it to make a point about all the things that bug you. It's a two way conversation and if you can hear them, they can hear what we are talking about and it may influence more than you know.
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Permalink Reply by Danzigger on
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Hey, I'll take all the followers I can get (currently 2, including LBHaringey)
Not that there's much going on in my twitter-verse.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Pardon my intrusion, O Twitterati, but did I hear on 'Today' today that Primary school pupils are no longer to spend time learning about the Victorians and World War II (thought the latter was more Year 9ish?) to free up their curriculum to equip them to function fluently on Facebook, Flicker, Twitter, Natter, Pitter-patter ... et al. ? I rather think I had fallen back to my sub-duvet dreamworld after my 6.30 cuppa. Or was it something my work-bound missus put in the tea out of pure envy?
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You weren't dreaming, or drugged, but you were slightly mislead.
The proposal is for children to be taught to use modern media for communicating, sharing and obtaining information. This includes fluency with the Internet, Web 2.0 and Social Networking. Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia are given as examples of modern forms of communication.
Makes a lot of sense really.
Full Article here
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Thanks Danzigger. I've caught up with it now. Partly reassured, partly not. Granted this is a shorthand report of a so far unpublished review - but why the fuss and confusion between media, tools and message/content? Yes, primary/secondary pupils, even college/university undergraduates need to be taught how to USE rather than ABUSE Wikipedia or any other primary or secondary source, but in my limited experience children 60 years my junior will pick up the basics of Twitter, Flicker, Facebook etc en masse in half a morning, far faster and more fluently than even their 20/30-something teachers. Whether or not anyone needs to spend weeks on either the Victorians or any war at Primary level is another question. If Class 5 or 6 at N or S Harringay want to become experts on the Victorian origins and Edwardian development of Harringay Ladder, I'm sure in the process they will become experts in their use of media and tools such as HOL, Wikipedia, Internet, email, blogging, Facebook, Twitter, even books, newspapers, libraries and desktop publishing. Yes, pupils and teachers need to be 'freed up' from some of the curricular straitjackets of the past twenty years, not necessarily from the greater scope for creative learning of the previous thirty.
Apologies, Tweet-y pie and Sylvester, for interrupting your fun.
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Permalink Reply by Omotn on
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Your after thought of an apology is assuredly not accepted. I now believe you may be the very apparatchik I referred to earlier, sitting in the Ukraine, quite possibly in an ivory (or lapis lazuli) tower, following my every internet move (no need with this one its addressed to you), starting disruptive and disconcerting responses designed only to distract us from the intrusive monitoring you are carrying out. Just because I'm paranoid does not mean they are not getting at me. Excuse me while I shred every letter ever addressed to me and set up a new email account.
Of course the Victorians are important, we need the double standards of their society, and WWII - lest we forget.
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Relax, Omotn. Save your efforts. We're already inside your head.
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I know - I can hear you whispering - I've rarely suffered such condescension.
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I take your point. Sadly I think it is probably to with with setting targets for the education of primary school children. If at the end of seven years education, an eleven year old is web-savvy and computer literate, the school can claim to have taught them life skills that will be useful, despite the fact that children will learn these skills regardless of the school curriculum.
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Omotn, I stand by what I said, but yo may be interested in this story that's blew up today by coincidence.
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