Category: Weekly Humorist - Dan Fiorella: Writer @ large

Dan Fiorella

Hashtag, You're It! -#Crude Christmas Carols

12/17/2025

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.

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!

#CrudeChristmasCarols

Hashtag, You're It! -# Chop A Popular Toy

12/16/2025

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.

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

#ChopAPopularToy

Hashtag, You're It! -#Horrific Holiday Sides

12/3/2025

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.

It's been a busy start to the holiday rocket sled ride. If WH did a hashtag game on 11/26, I missed it as I was elbow-deep in stuffing prep. Oh, a segue! Here's the game from 11/17 all about side dishes!

#HorrificHolidaySides

Hashtag, You're It! -# #Winterize A Wine

11/19/2025

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 know I've been lax about the blog, but here I thought I had to post 2 hashtag games from Weekly Humorist, and it looks like they didn't feature the previous week's game, "Mock A Cocktail." Granted, it was nothing to write home about, but it's odd that WK decided it had enough content for the week that they didn't publish a best-of article. Oh, well. Anyhoo, they did a "Winterize A Wine" game the next week, and I remember thinking they were way too similar. Maybe that occurred to them, too. I managed a couple of decent entries here, but only got four in. It's always troubling when the WH humor team gets most of the slots on the list, as was the case here. We'll get 'em next time!

#WinterizeAWine

Hashtag, You're It! -# Zombie Superheroes

11/5/2025

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.

Last week's game was the last heading into Halloween, and I thought it was going to be a tough one; I mean how many synonyms for "zombie" are there? And how many superheroes? It took a little bit for the gears to start meshing, but then the puns started to flow. I mean, I submitted almost 20 bits, and got nine in, so that's a pretty decent showing. I did look up the Top 100 superhero movies and that also opened a door...they considered things like "The Mask" and James Bond superhero movies, so that opened up the opportunities for humor. So, for a last whiff of Halloween, check out:

#ZombieSuperheroes

Leave it to the Prose: Camp Crystal Lake Addresses its Poor Yelp Ratings

10/27/2025

Halloween was on its way, and because of various issues at home, it's been sort of on the backburner here. Yeah, I finally put up some window decorations, but didn't pull out the figures or the lights. I've barely watched any real Halloween-related shows or movies, but I've seen the promos for all the Fright Festivals, including the slasher movies, like "Friday the 13th." And the 14th. And the 15th. And the 16th...Finally, an idea popped to mind and I wrote it up and sent it to Weekly Humorist. And they liked it. So let's head on over to Camp Lake Crystal and see how they're holding up:

Hashtag, You're It! -#Hurl-a-Ween

10/23/2025

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.

Now that we are in Spooky season, WH is sidling into the holiday with their usual horror-themed hashtag games. It gets tricky to do puns with horror films these days because so many titles are one syllable word titles and you really have to work at it. On the other hand, my love of older movies comes into play and it's easier to pun off a title that everyone is aware of. I got 5 included in the latest batch, so, I'm holding on. And I should have an article being posted soon, as well. Happy Halloween!

#HurlOnAHorrorMovie

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

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