Rob Fenwick » twitter http://www.northumbrian.org.uk a Northumbrian abroad Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:05:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Out of context http://www.northumbrian.org.uk/ive-been-taken-out-of-context/ http://www.northumbrian.org.uk/ive-been-taken-out-of-context/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:21:44 +0000 Rob Fenwick http://www.northumbrian.org.uk/?p=277 One of life’s simple pleasures is the unexpected sentence, or the overheard snippet of conversation which, when taken out of context, is inspiring or baffling. It’s partly what makes Someone Once Told Me one of the most consistently entertaining sites on the ‘net.

I’ve always said that some day I would compile a book of unexpected sentences, the sort of things that make you say “well, I never thought that would come out of my mouth”, but I like to start small and pilot first – so before the book comes www.twitter.com/adventitiously

Adventitiously will be a 24 hour stream of consciousness, taken completely out of context. It will launch without warning (even I don’t know when I’ll do it), it will consist completely of passing thoughts of mine, things I overhear, or things I say. Nothing will be explained, it’s for you to imply your own meaning to the moments. An example from today might’ve been:

“If it had to be that big, did it have to be that colour?”

It might be hilarious, it may be profound, most likely it will be a complete waste of time.  We’ll never know unless we try. Whatever happens, I’d like to gather your reactions around the hashtag #adventitiously. So, if you fancy a day out of context some time soon, please follow @adventitiously now.

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