# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1)

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442 "2022-04-25T22:50:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1948 "2022-12-11T12:02:50Z")

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Here’s a post from yesterday in the breaking news thread. The original includes a cite to Business Insider that the preview here doesn’t show.

> [@Now that Musk bought Twitter -- Breaking News only](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/108):
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> Scraping up cash where they can: From an industrial-sized pizza oven to a statue of the Twitter bird, here are all the weird things you can buy from Elon Musk’s Twitter fire sale…

Anyhow, when I heard they were selling the big blue sign off the building I could only think of Lord Musk wearing a cloak with some weird, elaborate cheesy sci-fi-style collar and intoning to the assembled Twitter-slaves at HQ something like: “You will have no graven images before me. I am the One. I am the Ony. I am the Musk. Worship me or die!” as a crane rips the sign off the wall with a resounding crash.

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