Category: Hashtag Games - Dan Fiorella: Writer @ large

Dan Fiorella

Hashtag, You're It! - #Icky Action Movies

5/21/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

They made me nervous this week. I submitted a lot but when they posted it, I was scrolling down not seeing any. They the last bunch were mind. I got 7 in this week. They get kind of gross, but that's the nature of these things, especially with the work "icky" shoved in there. Anyway, check them out:

#IckyActionMovies

Hashtag, You're It! - #Bargain Boardgames

5/14/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

Weekly Humorist seems to be going through some things. They used to post the "winners" of the hashtag games Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Then they started delaying it. I thought they were releasing it the day before the latest game, to keep things hopping. Now, they went back to a quicker release, but I got busy and couldn't address that. But I'll sit on it until Tuesday anyway.

It was a cute topic. But again, WH posted a lot of them and really forced we minions to hustle to create new ones. A couple of jokes popped right up. Then I did some via research. And then when I thought I was done, a couple more popped up and I posted them late in the day. It kind of devolved into a more general "bad" boardgames, as did mine. But there were some very funny ones. Check it out!

#BargainBoardgames

Hashtag, You're It! - #Sitcom A Restaurant

5/6/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

I almost missed this one. I kept getting interrupted while attempting to play this hashtag game. But it was a good topic. Except that WH grabbed all the low-hanging fruit. And posted all their tweets. Once I finally got into the groove, I did okay. My biggest problem was I went too far back in sit-com history to come up with puns (Make Room for Daddy, The Phil Silvers Show). But I entered a bunch, got a number of likes and got 6 of them included. Check them out:

#SitcomARestaurant

Hashtag, You're It! - #Painful Pastries

4/29/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

I skipped last week. I didn't care for the topic and wasn't in the mood to work blue. I'll get dark, I'll get mean, I'll get punny and silly, but doing blue material still rubs me the wrong way. I'm a prude like that and very tightly wound. But this week I went all in. The crowd seems to be thinning. I don't see a lot of retweeting. There's one participant who posts the hashtags, but the account is set up so you can't like or retweet any of them (not that they are that good). I managed a couple before I was forced to resort to a website to list the actual names of pastries. Because I just call everything "pastries." I got some good ones picked. They ignored my bad ones. They even included my favorite (S'ores) which actually came up late in the session. Ten included in all. I keep hoping this will make them more reception to my prose pieces (still very hit & miss). Anyway, check out:

#PainfulPastries

Hashtag, You're It! - #Moist Mystery Movies

4/8/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

This was an odd juxtaposition; mystery movies with the most disliked word in the English language. I got nine in. Almost as many as Weekly Humorist did. A lot of people have a very broad definition of what a mystery movie is, and I stretched it myself...I couldn't help it, Damp Yankees was sitting right there! I got a good number of them recognized. Although, frankly, I'm getting worried about the whole hashtag game thing. In the beginning, they used to brag how their hashtags were in the top place. I don't see that anymore. It seems to be the same group of Tweeters week in and out. It's a fun pastime and one of the few remaining hashtag games I see on Twitter these days.

#MoistMysteryMovies

Hashtag, You're It! -#Chef A Children's Book

4/1/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

This was a fun topic, merger cooking and kid's books. A bunch popped into my head, then I had to google some other children books. A lot of people when with punning actual chef names, but I'm not as familiar so I went the food route. And got 9 on the list. Some solid pun work here. Check it out:

#ChefAChildrensBook

Hashtag, You're It! - #Veterinarian Video Games

3/24/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

This topic was pretty fun and cute. Not a video guy, and haven't paid much attention to them since Pacman, so I did google a list of games to get me going. There were many good ones posted and I'm glad to report several of mine made the cut for WH's website.

#VeterinarianVideoGames

Hashtag, You're It! - #Give Booze The Blues

3/18/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

Happy to get my usual 6 items selected for this game, but as I'm reading the column, I really duped a number of items WH had posted first. I do try to go over them before I submit, but I didn't see them. And if I dupe with some other random post, well, I'm not there to wait for everyone to tweet first and then jump in. It was a solid topic with enough ways to squeeze a pun out.

#GiveBoozeTheBlues

Hashtag, You're It! - #Carnal Carnival Attractions

3/12/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

I'm a prude, I know it. I had almost decided to skip this hashtag game because it was yet another carnal-based theme. But I can be a bit of a completist and it started to bother me not to submit, because I always submit (this explains my career protectory so much). So I wound up submitting several, trying to be clever. Going for the double entendre. Going for the sly nod. Keeping it PG-13. A couple of phrases leapt to mind and I started going from there. All it all, I did okay. But you can be the judge.

#CarnalCarnivalAttractions

Hashtag, You're It! - #Sitcom A Rock Band

3/4/2025

Weekly Humorist, a humor magazine I often submit to and occasionally get in, runs these Hashtag Games on Twitter (X), where they name a topic and we submit humorous responses. These games play right into my gag reflex, so I always throw up something. I've taken to setting my calendar to get online every Wednesday to "play" (and by "play" I mean submit content to their website for free--I like to think of it as pun bono work). I always submit a bunch of them on X (Twitter) and some of them get selected for inclusion to their online site.

I was afraid I got skunked this week. As a scrolled down the site's page, I saw mostly Weekly Humorist's own posts. You have to read them the day-of to make sure you don't dupe them (and even if you try to read them all, you still wind up posting the same jokes). Finally, toward the end, my few came up. As always, the music based ones throw me, as I'm not a music guy. But I am a sit-com guy. But to avoid the usual log jam of recent sit-coms, I hit the internet to look up some titles from the 50s and 60s, and whatever others that popped into my mind as I was working the list of rock bands. There were a lot of good entries (including mine.) So, check it out at:

#SitcomARockBand

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