Somebody recently posted a review on Imgur of a strain of marijuana that was supposedly named after former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. "Although the name sounds like it won't get the job done, this is a very powerful indica dominant strain," it said.
The review advised that Rob Ford Kush was best used as a "night time smoke" because of its "strong medicinal effects."
So the folks at Toronto's CityNews decided to be cute and ask Ford on Twitter what he thought of this.
Hey @TorontoRobFord did you know there's a medical weed strain named after you? Any comment? https://t.co/N8ZTSlHAyC
Seemed like a funny idea at the time, I guess.
Ford responded the next day with this:
Sure how about Hey @CityNews did you know that 'City' and 'News' are 2 separate words? or how's it feel to have 1/4 the followers of @CP24?
Better send some aloe vera to CityNews...
Ford's Twitter account had never been so interesting. It seemed that Ford — or whoever is running his account — was suddenly really good at Twitter. So we decided to ask him some burning questions from our daily lives.
@elamin88 a hot cup of coffee should help with both.
Nailed it.
He seemed to understand our workplace.
@iD4RO You work at Buzzfeed. Your job is to create/look at things that make the rest us waste time at work. How bad can it be?
(By the way Ishmael, I'd like to have a one-on-one with you later today.)
He was at times profound.
@laurenstrapa What's wrong with breakfast at lunch?
We asked him to help explain Internet slang, and he hashtagged us an answer.
@katangus #Irony
He showed a deep understanding of memes.
Rob Ford compared High School Musical to Grease.
@saspler Since HSM was supposed to be Grease 3, and Grease 2 was such a mess, I couldn't say.
Some other journalists tried to hijack our conversation, and Ford responded to them, too.
@JaneLytv sure https://t.co/gDy4bKMnzi
But he was clearly just trying to be polite.
Twitter Rob Ford seemed to have a response for everything.
@pdmcleod You tell me. https://t.co/hVSrHQZeeQ
What could we possibly ask that he wouldn't answer in an amusingly-Internety way?
Oh, riiight.
.@TorontoRobFord haven’t you been accused of domestic violence a bunch
.@TorontoRobFord remember when you said “oriental people work like dogs” remember that
.@TorontoRobFord what is crack like