
![]() 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.
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![]() 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:
![]() 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.
![]() 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.
![]() 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.
![]() 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:
![]() 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. Can't say this was one of my strong efforts. I submitted a dozen and got 4 selected, but they picked one of my weakest puns (Pander Express) but one of my stronger (Dairy Drama Queen). There were some solid entries, but a lot of weak ones that made it. There's always next week...
![]() 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 last game caught me off guard; sure, it was another musical one, but the combo of bullying and ballads got me. Sure, a lot of people don't really post ballads, they just grab any old song title and play with that. I, on the other hand, pulled up a list of the 40 best ballads and worked my way down, while checking a list of synonyms for "bully." Made up the usual dozen and got 8 picked for the site. Yay, me!
![]() 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. When I opened up Twitter this week for the game, I kinda floundered. You know sometimes when you know a lot of things, but none of them come to mind? That was this. Actors; there are thousands of them. Animals? Of course I can name animals. But I just stared at the screen because nothing was coming to mind. I did devise a strategy; I was going to focus on classic actors. So I looked up a site for the top actors of the 1940s. Then I had to look up most popular zoo animals just to get the juices going. I managed to come up with a dozen, and I got 5 in. Yay. Check them out!
![]() 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. After getting skunked in last week's game, I racked up a dozen entries in this week's game. I read it and it felt like a really different name game, something away from music and sex and insults. Again the usual routine, I had to look up a list of 40 best-know aliens which gave him a lot of ways to avoid the whole Star Wars/Star Trek quagmire. Also, I'm not much of a cocktail drinker so, I had to look that up. Then it was just a matter of mashing them up. A little bummed my favorite one, Klaatu Bacardi nikto, didn't make the cut. Oh, well. check out the fun at:
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