#ThingslongerthanOscarssentence trends on twitter

Hundreds of Twitter users chimed in with thoughts — most poking fun — of things that lasted longer than the time the athlete will serve in prison.

This item trended as one of the highest on Twitter as there was no stopping the punch lines.

Here are some of our favourite tweets about it:

#ThingsLongerThanOscarsSentence the trial and reading the judgement!

— TemplarJnr (@TemplarJnr) October 21, 2014

https://twitter.com/Mr_Ndilula_JR/status/524487783189315584

The end credits from the last Lord of the Rings film #ThingsLongerThanOscarsSentence

— Phill Morley (@PhillMorley) October 22, 2014

#ThingsLongerThanOscarsSentence Michelle's verse in Survivor. pic.twitter.com/XtHOxveziW

— MTV Base Africa (@MTVBaseAfrica) October 21, 2014

#ThingsLongerThanOscarsSentence the Goku and Frieza fight.

— That Bro Eon (@ThatBroEon) October 21, 2014

https://twitter.com/JinxHowitt/status/524816933045407744

https://twitter.com/SpenceWrightt/status/524814762610147328

Even some well-known local celebrities such as Eusebius McKaiser and Mark Pilgrim couldn’t resist:

#ThingsLongerThanOscarsSentence @Kenny_T_Kunene's political career. OH…WAIT!

— Eusebius McKaiser (@Eusebius) October 21, 2014

https://twitter.com/MarkPilgrimZA/status/524521011677384704

#ThingsLongerThanOscarsSentence Bafana Bafana's participation in the 2010 World Cup

— Mbuyiseni Ndlozi (@MbuyiseniNdlozi) October 21, 2014

The tweets carried on until the next day as more twitter uses found some humour in the trial sentencing:

https://twitter.com/carlakuhn3/status/524818771907969024

https://twitter.com/jadekouletakis/status/524813096192577536

https://twitter.com/imbec_/status/524819986687479808

There was ‘no chill’, and this twitter user summed it up for us:

#ThingsLongerThanOscarsSentence This Hashtag game.

— Steve Heffernan (@SteveHef) October 22, 2014