Anyway, one of the cool things that twitter does is aggregate opinion on various topics. By using a hashtag, status updates can be pooled by subject. One the best topics recently is #ashesrumours, started by @FollowTheAshes. There are some common themes, here are some of the best so far:
- on the same flight that david boon drank 52 cans of beer, geoff lawson drank 52 west coast coolers
- Shane Warne broke Boons 52 beer record at his daughters ballet recital.
- Sally left Brand Power as it has been taken over by a former English skipper and renamed Brand Gower.
- Justin Langer is in fact the first Terminator prototype, he went missing from a factory in Singapore in 1994
- as punishment for his poor bowling performance, @philtufnell was once made to run 10 laps of Mike Gatting
- Several Australian batsmen have been forced to sit out training after contracting Swann Flu
- @swannyg66 wanted to be the next Warney.....but he lost his mobile phone
- in honour of his father, bruce lee, brett lee once starred in a film called 'enter the batsman'
- Brett lee is the love child of a stripper name crystal and bing lee
- andrew strauss is a cyborg....but a really annoying one
- Andrew Strauss can carry 12 cricket balls clenched between his buttocks
- when don bradman met king george in 1934 he only referred to him as the 'g-dog'
- Ricky Ponting will change his nationality to a New Zealander if he becomes the 1st Aussie capt. to lose the Ashes twice in Eng
- Ricky Ponting and George W Bush swapped jobs for a period of 7 weeks in 2006 without anyone noticing
- Graeme Manou doesn't even know who he is
- Shane Watson & Sth African rugby player Percy Montgomery to play Prince Charming in Shrek 4. Darren Lehmann to play Shrek
- Shane Watson once broke his neck shaking his hair
- Shane Watson once cut his arm off whilst filing his nails
- shane watson once broke his leg padding up to bat.
- What, a buttock strain now? Shane Watson confident that his injuries are behind him
- Stuart Broad is still dressed by his mum before every match. She also does his hair.
- Nathan Hauritz likes to play with his new transformers figures for at least 30 minutes before taking the field
- graham Onions only realised he had an amusing surname when Monty Panesar started making bhaji jokes.
- eddie mcguire is also the president of paul collingwood the cricketer
- Andrew Flintoff practices his bowling style by throwing rocks at puppies.
- Umpires Billy Doctrove and Rudi Koertzen often enjoy a spliff or two during breaks
- despite being the great great grandson of alexander graham bell, ian bell has never used a telephone
- Ian Bell is so virile that he made 7 women pregnant, just by smiling at them
- shane warne's smoking makes up 50% of aus's greenhouse emissions.
- Sir Geofrey Boycott killed 17 Nazi Stormtroopers with a stick of his Grandmother's rhubarb
- Boycott to take all 11 batting slots at Edgbaston - as the only man who can do it properly.
- Boycs once killed a man with his bare hands for batting 'like a woman'
- Rumour has it that Mitchell Johnson can bowl
- Ravi Bopara can, in fact, bat.
- If he wanted to, Mitchell Johnson could probably hit a barn door at 10 paces
- Marcus North is taping a series of commercials in which he sells GPS devices to Mitchell Johnson.
- 3 women died of excitement at Lords, when Jimmy Anderson smiled at them
- At Lords, the Queen slipped her phone number to @JimmyAnderson9
- Daniel Radcliffe to be announced as 12th man, with a special brief to fill in for J Anderson if required.
- @jimmyanderson9 was once mistaken for derek zoolander. Actually, it may have been twice.
- The Headingley Test of 1981 was re-enacted on location in the Arizona desert when tapes of the original were lost.
- when simon katich wears a woollen jumper, the static from his chest hair powers his car.
- Richie Benaud invented the Flipper in honour of his favourite TV show.
- The pitch at Edgbaston is so wet that one of the rollers sank.
- Ian Thorpe will be 12th man for Australia at Edgbaston.
- Swimming googles have been supplied to all the players and officials for start of play at Edgbaston
- Phil Hughes had a small role as a House Elf in the new Harry Potter film
- It wasn't only Phil Hughes in the Potter film - Andrew McDonald played one of the Weasley brothers
- stuart broad was also in harry potter as malfoy's double. But he just couldn't look evil.
