Have had a little fun tonight following @StephenFry on Twitter. Following this tweet:
he posted a picture of his predicament to Twitpic:

There then followed a deluge of tweets with the hashtag of #frylift, and even some cash-in merchandise:

Okay that was me. My favourite was from Father Ted co-creator Graham Lineham who called for help:
and also provided a photo:

Happily both Stephen and Graham were rescued and are now safe. This should say something about Twitter, given the numbers of posts and views involved, but I think more than anything it says it is a load of wonderful silly nonsense at times.