Bad news, you're stuck in a lift.. Good news, it's with Stephen Fry.Byline: By STEPHEN MOYES WHEN you get trapped in an elevator you need a little lift - and who better to provide it than Stephen Fry. The TV comedian, one of the world's wittiest men, found himself stranded 26 floors up but kept his four lift companions - and the outside world - amused with a succession of quips. Fry whipped out his iPhone and posted on his Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts. network site, which has 100,000 followers: "We're stuck in a lift. Hell's teeth. We could be here for hours." He then scrapped his huge vocabulary and whinged: "A**e, poo and widdle." Fry also posted a photo of the elevator display which read "This lift is not in use" and joked: "No s**t, Sherlock A Macintosh utility starting with Version 8.5 of the operating system that provides a common facility for searching the local hard disk, the local network and the Internet. ..." The QI presenter, 51, was returning from the Paramount club in London's Centre Point on Tuesday night when the lift shuddered to a halt. After 30 minutes, Fry gave his fans some good news: "Nice men freed us. Paramount had champagne for us at the bottom." Paramount owner Pierre Condou said: "I couldn't think of anyone I'd rather be stuck in a lift with. He'd keep you entertained." CAPTION(S): TWITTERING twit·ter v. twit·tered, twit·ter·ing, twit·ters v.intr. 1. To utter a succession of light chirping or tremulous sounds; chirrup. 2. a. ON Fry and lift companions take photo for site. Left, the tower |
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