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 guess this is scatological...sewer suggests matters of the fecal kind, so we try to open the scope a bit to other bodily fluids and functions. Some extended the range to a wider range of sewer-themed items (my alligator-pun got passed over) and now I'm kicking myself for not thinking of Mock Ninja Turtle Soup or some Ed (Won) Norton or It-themed item. Oh, well. But I got 6 in so that would probably have been my max anyway.
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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 decent twist on the hashtags, despite my lack of knowledge of any video games post 1980. And making obscure Watergate and cyclone reference would seem to be a handicap, but I got in 5, so that's pretty good. And I even managed to get political. I mean, villainous covers a wide range of topics.
Recently our company updated our office software. It'll be "transparent" to you, they said. When we opened up our PCs that Monday, there was a lot of stupid changes. I mean, I get "updating" something to make it process faster, interact with other programs better, or run smoother, but how is changing the color of stuff an "update?" And where's my cursor??? I had a lot of opinions concerning our updates. Knowing our tech guys are deaf to our complaints, I decided to vent in a piece of prose that the Weekly Humorist thought was amusing and they published it. So, here are my thoughts on software updates:
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. Food puns; Those are fun, right? I mean, to be honest, I didn't get a lot of the jokes, but then my knowledge of appetizers is from Chili's. I've been coming into the games a little late, so I try to check out what's up, as not to repeat or copy anything. But here, someone made a post about the movie 12 Monkeys and I instantly thought monkey bread and we were off to the races. I got 8 picked, so that was good. They didn't pick my favorite. A number of people posted variations on "Artichoke Dip." I decided to flip it and post "Choke Artie Dip." I thought it was cute. Anyway, as we reach the End Times, leave some room for:
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. Falling a bit behind, busy digging out from a major snow storm. I almost didn't bother submitting to. It's been very sex-related lately. I guess they have their reasons. I was ready to click off then a joke popped into my head, so I submitted it. Then another, then I did the usual thing, googling a list of space movies and synonyms for "nookie." wound up doing the usual dozen or so and got 7 in. Enjoy!
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. Having missed two weeks due to holidays and stuff, I was happy to get back into it. Then the topic came up. They keep going back to the blue topics and it was underwhelming. I mean, how many versions of "Snickerdoodle" can there be? I got a couple in, but I was disappointed my favorite one didn't make the grade. I mean, I make a reference to the 1970's porn disco hit by saying How do ya like it? How do ya like it? And I respond: s’more-s’more-s’more! How did that get passed over as opposed to the 5th variation of snickerdoodle? WH is still pushing their in-house tweets, but I noticed they picked some others who happen to post similar puns instead, so there's hope.
Weekly Humorist once again posted their "Best of 2025" and my piece, Camp Crystal Lake Addresses its Poor Yelp Ratings got selected! Check it out, along with all the other bits that helped keep 2025 bearable! 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. As the holidays close in, WH is trying to keep seasonal while leaning into salacious. The categories are getting looser, no matter what the adjective is, the results are usually just bad puns of the topic. I managed to come up with my usual dozen, but only managed to get 4 into the finals. And, again, getting concerned. There didn't seem to be a whole lot of activity on the hashtag game and the "winners" were the magazine's own and those of some staff members. This on top of a lack of reaction to my last submission is setting this up to be a blue Christmas.
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. Now we're sliding into the Christmas holidays, so let's get the puns a'leapin'! I mean, I know it says "carols" but they pretty much mean any Christmas song, really. And to avoid the ones I saw posted already, I googled a list of other popular tunes, to widen my net. It got pretty scatological, however, I scored a six on this week's leaderboard. So Merry Christmas and 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. Falling behind again, this is from 12/3, which I should've posted last week, but here we are.
I mean, it was almost like there were too many toys to choose from. I finally did pull up a list of toys (most popular, hall of famers) and just went pun-happy. They say "chop," but it was pretty much just making a toy sound unpopular. I got 9 picked, so no complaints here |
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