FILE - In a Aug. 2, 2010 file photo, Charlie Sheen waves as he arrives at the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen, Colo., for a hearing in his domestic abuse case. Sheen says Wednesday, March 2, 2011 that after his two young sons were removed from his house overnight, he's 'very calm and focused' but ready to fight to get them back. Interviewed Wednesday live on NBC's 'Today' show, Sheen confirmed the nearly 2-year-old twins, Bob and Max, were removed after a court order was granted to his estranged wife, Brooke Mueller, who is their mother. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)Associated Press NEW YORK - With "tiger blood," "Adonis DNA" and his "fire-breathing fists," practically invented a new language with his rants and ramblings.
And while it may not rate an entry in Webster's, the sitcom star's batty, blustering poetry has resounded in social media. Sheen gained 1 million Twitter followers in just 25 hours and 17 minutes — record time, according to Guinness World Records, which keeps track of such obscure achievements and had not previously crowned a champion in that particular category.
His unique lexicon grows daily, spreading rapidly over the Internet and onto T-shirts. On "The Alex Jones Show," he said he has "poetry in my fingertips," and added: "Most of the time — and this includes naps — I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air."
He has frequently repeated his most famous sayings — "winning," "tiger blood" — like trademarked catch phrases. Early Thursday, he announced his latest slogan — er, "fastball" — with more hype than a CBS promotion for his show, "Two and a Half Men."
"Ready for my next fastball, world?" he wrote on Twitter. "PLAN BETTER Applies to everything where an excuse now sits. Try it. U won't be wrong. Ever."
Despite the accusations, Sheen's ramblings have gone a long way toward endearing him to some of the public. The Twitter analysis firm Research.ly has found that positive sentiment for Sheen online far outweighs the negative.
Online, his best sayings have been compiled into lists, compared with the meandering speeches of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, substituted into New Yorker and Family Circus cartoons, added as subtitles to pictures of cute animals, put to song and remixed, and mashed-up with his scene from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
Though the 45-year-old Sheen hasn't previously been widely known to be lyrical, he has penned a book of poetry before: 1990's "A Peace of My Mind," with illustrations by director Adam Rifkin. It's out-of-print,
Sheen, who has called social media a "cash cow," seems likely to profit from his instant Web stardom, though he has not done so yet. He is being advised by the startup company Ad.ly, which helps celebrities earn money in endorsements on social media.
He already has at least one grateful business — a dairy whose owner told TMZ he's been flooded with calls since Sheen posted a photo of himself holding a bottle of the company's chocolate milk. The American Red Cross tried some cross-marketing of its own with this tweet: "We may not collect (hashtag)tigerblood, but we know our donors & volunteers have fierce passion for doing good!"
Wherever his words take him, Sheen won't fail for lack of positivity. As he's said: "Can't is the cancer of happen."
but GQ located a copy and has been publishing excerpts.
One verse: "A night of drink/ A night of hate/ A night as dark/ As last night's date."
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