{"id":2737,"date":"2016-02-26T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:47:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:47:34","slug":"excel-twitter-20160226","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/02\/26\/excel-twitter-20160226\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitter 20160226"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re drowning in Excel data, do you think that a game of Battleship would help? If not, Excel might force you to take a break, and watch some Winnie the Pooh.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>This Week\u2019s Tweets \u2013 Plain Text<\/h3>\n<p>Here are the tweets in plain text. The embedded tweets are below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oh, look at that. Excel found a new way to be stupid.<\/li>\n<li>My old coworker and I are playing battleship in our respective offices and on an excel worksheet. We are adults<\/li>\n<li>I thought college was listening to slightly stupid, pounding nattys, and playing lacrosse in some form. Not spending the day on excel sheets<\/li>\n<li>I even have a Advanced Excel certification thing. But once I hear &#8220;V-Lookup&#8221; at work I&#8217;m taking an extended lunch then faking food poisoning<\/li>\n<li>Dear all college students: learn how to use vlookup and pivot tables now. The business world runs on excel<\/li>\n<li>Time to complete a quick calculation in Excel: 2 minutes for the actual work, 20 minutes to downtown and install nine thousand updates.<\/li>\n<li>Kid next 2 me is watchin old Winnie the Pooh &amp; I won&#8217;t lie he has now caught me twice tryin 2 watch. Fine man, ill go back 2 my Excel work<\/li>\n<li>Can someone please explain Excel to me in layman&#8217;s terms or just do my stupid survey research project for me? Thanks.<\/li>\n<li>Excel crashed but I already saved all my work. Take that! I can&#8217;t lose today. #iWin<\/li>\n<li>Work is like drinking from a fire hydrant this morning. Am drowning in excel data. Send coffee and rations!<\/li>\n<li>I used to procrastinate project work by cleaning my room. Now I automate tasks and write #Excel formulas instead. Productive? Sure!<\/li>\n<li>Our finance professor had to send an email titled &#8220;how to not hard code in excel&#8221; &#8230;&#8230;this is an upper level class come on people<\/li>\n<li>when you get a call from your aunt in another state &amp; you think something bad has happened, but they are calling to ask you an Excel problem<\/li>\n<li>Excel just shut itself down and essentially told me: &#8220;Woah buddy, how about a break?&#8221; You&#8217;re not the boss of me!<\/li>\n<li>the endorphin rush of getting a complicated formula to work in excel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you like this week&#8217;s tweets, please do me a favour and share the link. Thanks! [bctt tweet=&#8221;Here are this week&#8217;s best #Excel tweets, for your Friday entertainment&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Am drowning in Excel data. Send coffee and rations! http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/\" src=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/twitter20160226b.png\" alt=\"Am drowning in Excel data. Send coffee and rations! http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/\" width=\"396\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>This Week\u2019s Tweets \u2013 Embedded<\/h3>\n<p>Here are the embedded tweets. The tweets in plain text are above.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Oh, look at that. Excel found a new way to be stupid.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/702854148455321600\">February 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>My old coworker and I are playing battleship in our respective offices and on an excel worksheet. We are adults<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lilyxyz (@ZaldivarLily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZaldivarLily\/status\/702185977666666497\">February 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I thought college was listening to slightly stupid, pounding nattys, and playing lacrosse in some form. Not spending the day on excel sheets<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hank Aistis (@_hankdatank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_hankdatank\/status\/702298934748831744\">February 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>I even have a Advanced Excel certification thing. But once I hear &#8220;V-Lookup&#8221; at work I&#8217;m taking an extended lunch then faking food poisoning<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Killer Croc (@definitelyLexy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/definitelyLexy\/status\/701924454356619264\">February 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dear all college students: learn how to use vlookup and pivot tables now. The business world runs on excel<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 powera1d (@powera1d) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/powera1d\/status\/702547172034646016\">February 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>Time to complete a quick calculation in Excel: 2 minutes for the actual work, 20 minutes to downtown and install nine thousand updates.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Cole (@DavidColeAIA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidColeAIA\/status\/702285903004172288\">February 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kid next 2 me is watchin old Winnie the Pooh &amp; I won&#8217;t lie he has now caught me twice tryin 2 watch. Fine man, ill go back 2 my Excel work<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 vin1215 (@VinceBalsamo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VinceBalsamo\/status\/702164661685215232\">February 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>Can someone please explain Excel to me in layman&#8217;s terms or just do my stupid survey research project for me? Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Erica (@r0sesfadedblack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/r0sesfadedblack\/status\/701584636544217089\">February 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>Work is like drinking from a fire hydrant this morning. Am drowning in excel data. Send coffee and rations!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anna H (@alsoannabanana) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alsoannabanana\/status\/702508313171210240\">February 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I used to procrastinate project work by cleaning my room. Now I automate tasks and write <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Excel?src=hash\">#Excel<\/a> formulas instead. Productive? Sure!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katharine Frazier (@Katharine3691) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Katharine3691\/status\/702520447691313152\">February 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>Our finance professor had to send an email titled &#8220;how to not hard code in excel&#8221; &#8230;&#8230;this is an upper level class come on people<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julia Shrek (@juliashrek) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliashrek\/status\/701808020142039040\">February 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">when you get a call from your aunt in another state &amp; you think something bad has happened, but they are calling to ask you an Excel problem<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 T \u2665 (@ms_tlovee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ms_tlovee\/status\/702176690764537856\">February 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>Excel just shut itself down and essentially told me: &#8220;Woah buddy, how about a break?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not the boss of me!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amar (@AllThatAmar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllThatAmar\/status\/702681127979499520\">February 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">the endorphin rush of getting a complicated formula to work in excel<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Fernandez (@JoeFernandez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeFernandez\/status\/702307949566304256\">February 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Am drowning in Excel data. 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