'Drunk Nate Silver': The best tweets from the funniest post-election meme

Of all the memes and internet inside jokes spawned by the long-gestating presidential election on Nov. 6, the liveliest one involves New York Times statistical prognosticator Nate Silver — arguably the campaign's most celebrated and controversial figure not named Barack or Mitt. Silver got a lot of flak from Mitt Romney supporters and more gut-based political commentators, but he correctly predicted how all 50 states would vote, and came within a hair of calling the popular vote. So on Nov. 7, after the eerie accuracy of Silver's data model became clear — and Silver informed his readers that he was "going to get some sleep and grab a beer" — campaign consultant Dan Levitan mocked Silver's seeming compulsion to issue forecasts, tweeting: "Drunk Nate Silver is riding the subway, telling strangers the day they will die." Twitter took over from there:

"Drunk Nate Silver, updating the Wikipedia page of the 8 year-old who'll win the 2052 election"

– Jack Bohrer

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"Drunk Nate Silver crashing weddings, yelling out the number of years until divorce"

– Ben Keegan

"Drunk Nate Silver stumbles over to people singing, 'Hey, I just met you. And this is crazy. But isn't this your number?'"

– Kimera Chetty

"Drunk Nate Silver sends you a text at 2:00 am that says 'It's 9:32 am.' And that's when you read it."

– Shelby

"Drunk Nate Silver looking at the Mayan calendar, shaking his head calmly, X'ing out Dec 21 and circling Dec 31"

– Aaron Brazell

"Drunk Nate Silver points at the night sky. The star he is pointing at flickers then dies."

– Alan Maguire

"Drunk Nate Silver counting out exactly five hundred and thirty-eight french fries at McDonalds, then slowly dipping 206 of them in ketchup"

– Ben Jackson

"Drunk Nate Silver changes a broken light bulb and mutters to himself, 'one person'"

– Jeff Tiedrich

"Drunk Nate Silver wanders supermarket aisles with a sharpie, changing expiration dates"

– Dave Levitan

"Drunk Nate Silver waits 20 minutes for the G train, nods silently when it arrives, walks out of the station"

– Josh Fruhlinger

"Drunk Diane Sawyer points at drunk Nate Silver. 'YOUUUUU' she says. 'Youuuuuuu.' Drunk Nate Silver giggles. Drunk Diane Sawyer giggles."

– Rusty Foster

"Drunk Nate Silver predicted 'Drunk Nate Silver' would become a meme two weeks ago"

– Rubina Madan Fillion

"Drunk Nate Silver knows exactly how long Drunk Nate Silver meme will be funny"

– Kaitlyn Dowling