Category: Puns - Dan Fiorella: Writer @ large

Dan Fiorella

Hashtag, You're It! -#Sex An Insect

9/17/2025

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.

Feeling like I'm getting in a rut...or rather they are. They keep sliding into the sex stuff. Hey, I can dish out double entendres with the best of them, but at some point it becomes repetitious. I submitted the usual dozen or so and got 5 picked, so I guess I did okay. Now if only they'd pick the article I submitted last week...

Hashtag, You're It! - # Pot A Pop Star

9/10/2025

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 dunno, the topics haven't been my favorites lately, and I've been distracted, but somehow I managed to score 11 posts onto the WH leaderboard. I was shaky getting started, but then I suddenly realized the "Pop Star" just doesn't been "todays hitmakers!" So, I pulled out some older names and played around with them and checked out some synonyms for pot and played around with them. That one account who posts but has it set up where you can't comment or even like that post, even that account got a couple up. Frankly, most of that account's contributions are pretty lame, so many that's why I got so many in. Anyway, check out...

Hashtag, You're It! - Catching up...

8/22/2025

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.

So, the family was dealing with a lot in the past few weeks and I've been off-line for most of it (except for the usual Twitter-snipes). I missed one week completely, then did not have a chance to be on the blog for longer than that. I did get to participate in the last three weeks, for an hour but this is the first chance I've had to make note of it. I've got the past two games up and awaiting the results of this week's game. Nothing much to explain about these except they are leaning into the scatological more than usual. Maybe those are the ones that connect. There were a couple of weeks it felt like I was the only one participating. And still only got in 6 on the WH website.

#UpchuckSomeChips

Hashtag, You're It! - #Pest Pastries

7/23/2025

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.

Okay, weird week. Frankly, this was the fewest "entries" I've seen to one of these hashtag games. It was very light. I did around 10. And WH did the usual weekly "winners," but it was short and mostly their own staff-driven items. It started as combining vermin and baked goods, but ended up where they all do, just making puns about yucky food. Oh, well...

Hashtag, You're It! - #Kill A Cold Drink

7/16/2025

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.

After getting scoring goose eggs last week, I tried again. One popped into my head and I decided to go from there. A lot of repetition for the category (hey, they actually included two different people posting the same joke), but I pulled up the search for soft drinks and built out from there. I got 8 in out of 14, so that's pretty darn good. And to think, I do this all for free.

#KillAColdDrink

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

6/10/2025

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.

Only 2? I only got 2 in? I was robbed. Granted, a lot of cereals have the word "pop" in it which can easily be changed to "poop," but why discount them all? I'm annoyed they didn't use my favorite, Nort 'n Honey. But I kinda screwed that one up, spelling it as Norton Honey, attaching a gif of Ed Norton from the Honeymooners, but I didn't include a picture of the cereal Nut 'n' Honey to better set up the gag. Oh, and I did it because Norton is famously a sewer worker. Yeah, I'm starting to realize that joke is too clever for its own good. But it's not a lengthy list of "winners" this week. Even the official WH entries seem light. Well, here's the link to the WH page:

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

5/27/2025

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.

Starting to get a little concerned with the games; it seemed like there were a lot of posts, but the only a small percent of the "winners" seemed to have been chosen. Of course, the WH posts dominate the page. And I got 8 included this week. But the remaining few seem to come from only 4 other tweeters. This seems light. Anyway, it was a gross topic, but I can get as scatological as the best of them, so I just had to brush up on my reality shows and dive in. I'm not really a fan of the form, and really only remember the game show-type programs. And while my most blatant ones got picked, I'm disappointed by the ones they skipped. I really liked Wet Dog the Bounty Hunter. Oh, well. Check them out at:

#ReekingRealityShows

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! - #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

comedy, writer, Dan Fiorella, Daniel fiorella, screenplay, sketches,radio,computer games, television writer