Bill Gardner, Twitter Hero?

After firing off a strongly worded statement vowing to protect New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary, Secretary of State Bill Gardner is blowing up on Twitter.

Though he doesn't have a Twitter account (and reportedly doesn't care much for e-mail or cell phones), Gardner has become a hot topic on the social networking site.

Using the hashtag #BillGardnerFacts, users have posted outlandish statements as an homage to Gardner's no-nonsense stance.

The hashtag was started by NECN television reporter Lauren Collins (@LaurenNECN).

Here are some of the best Tweets so far tagged #BillGardnerFacts:

• DeKoning What really happened to the old man on the Mt? He fell after losing a staring contest to Bill Gardner.
• @mattdrn The Founding Fathers wanted to sign the Declaration on June 27th, but Bill Gardner told them to move it back a week.

• @emilypoe One day Bill Gardner decided he didn't want to pay a sales tax ever again. The rest is history.
• @cvo Bill Gardner's brother was the Old Man of the Mountain.
• @museofhistory Bill Gardner scared the mountains white.
• @LaurenNECN New Hampshire was Old Hampshire. Until Bill Gardner came along and updated it.
• @dbernstein In his high school yearbook, students were listed alphabetically. Gardner had the alphabet changed to begin with G.
• @RalstonFlash God wanted to create the world in 11 days. Biill Gardner said seven.
• @CollinGately Bill Gardner can use accounts of games without the expressed written consent of Major League Baseball.
• @meg_heckman If Bill Gardner tweeted, he wouldn't be limited to 140 characters.
• @RichardFogal Bill Gardner is not bald; his hair just left his head out of fear.
• @LRStrategies Bill Gardner doesn't watch weather forecasts. He tells it when to snow.
• @ShannonShutts A, E, I, O, U...and if Bill Gardner says, Y.