DENVER (CBS4) – It’s the boulder seen ‘round the world. The “large boulder the size of a small boulder” that has the internet rolling in laughter.
“I expect to be the butt of many jokes for a while now,” Susan Lilly said.
READ MORE: Oh Baby! Roxborough Family Visits West Metro Firefighters After Unusual BirthLilly is the Public Information Officer for the San Miguel Sheriff’s Office. On Monday, she sent a tweet from the agency’s account to warn motorists of a hazard in the eastbound lane of Highway 145.
Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area. pic.twitter.com/EVMmDf0IJu
— San Miguel Sheriff (@SheriffAlert) January 27, 2020
What she meant to write was, “Large boulder the size of a small car” is blocking the road. Instead, what Lilly wrote reads, “Large boulder the size of a small boulder.” Before she had time to even think about deleting it, Twitter was rolling over the error.
“I took a look and I said, ‘Uh oh. I made a mistake there,’” Lilly told CBS4’s Kelly Werthmann in a FaceTime interview. “Then I saw the numbers just going and going and going.”
Susan Lilly is the Public Information Officer for the San Miguel Sheriff’s Office. (credit: CBS)
Within a few hours, Lilly’s mistake was shared tens of thousands of times, liked by nearly more than 187,000 Twitter users – and the numbers keep climbing! Not to mention the several thousand comments from the confused but amused.
(credit: CBS)
“I particularly like the ones that say that it gave them joy that day,” Lilly said, noting she definitely hasn’t found time to read all 7,000+ responses. “I noticed a lot of meteorologists have (shared it) and a lot of columnists, a couple comedians.”
“NASA shared your tweet,” Werthmann said to Lilly.
READ MORE: COVID In Denver: School District & Denver Health Host First Of Several Mass Vaccination Events For Students“Yeah, I didn’t know that,” she replied.
CBS4’s Kelly Werthmann talks to Susan Lilly via FaceTime. (credit: CBS)
Some responses on Twitter included movie clips, others made memes or edited the image. One user, @TheBrofucius, came up with a name for the fallen boulder, “Biggie Smalls.”
We shall name it…..Biggie Smalls.
— The Brofucius (@TheBrofucius) January 27, 2020
“I guess some people are calling it ‘Internet Gold,’” Lilly said. “I’ve never heard that expression before, but I like it.”
Lilly also wasn’t sure she had heard of one of the many celebrities who shared the now viral tweet.
“Chrissy Teigen, the model. I had to kind of figure out who that was because I don’t pay attention to pop culture,” she said with a laugh. “I mean, I know who she is, but I can’t name a song that John Legend sings.”
Chrissy Teigan (credit: CBS)
Some might say you’d have to live under a “large rock the size of a small rock” to not know who Chrissy Teigen is, but now the Internet knows Susan Lilly and her nickname should be etched in stone.
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Kelly Werthmann
