Yeah, late posting this one, but since I'm going to miss this week's game, it all nets out. Cereals/Celebrities. It's a tried and true premise. There are hundreds of cereals, but only a handful are actually commonly known or have a decent enough name to make a joke out of it (I'm looking at you Life). I'm finding that while every youngster goes with the recent stuff, from celebrities to movies and TV, as an oldster, remembering pre-1980s pop culture references seems to get me through. So, check 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.
Yeah, late posting this one, but since I'm going to miss this week's game, it all nets out. Cereals/Celebrities. It's a tried and true premise. There are hundreds of cereals, but only a handful are actually commonly known or have a decent enough name to make a joke out of it (I'm looking at you Life). I'm finding that while every youngster goes with the recent stuff, from celebrities to movies and TV, as an oldster, remembering pre-1980s pop culture references seems to get me through. So, check out:
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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. First off, I don't know why they misspelled rotten. Anyway, I went kinda nuts on this one. I pulled up a list of "the 200 best rom-coms" and just worked my way down it, until I just got tired. I did like 20 or so and got a goodly number of them included on-site. A couple of them were pretty good, many of them were kinda lame puns, but I try to bury them in content so they'll remember my name. 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 didn't think I was going to do this one. When they say something like "80s movies" my sense of time is so bad, I don't remember when movies came out. I'm like a toddler who says "yesterday" mean could be "yesterday" or "last Christmas." So, I had to google top films of the 1980s, or if a pun came to me, I had to check to see if it came out in the 80s (like Twilight Zone: The Movie). A lot of puns with the word brie, which is an easy one to do. But I came up with a couple of clever ones I'm proud of (see: Twilight Zone). And there were a number of excellent puns by others as well. So join us now as we... 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. Yeah, I’m disappointed this week. Cute topic and I churned out like twenty tweets. They picked 3. And not even my best ones. There were a ton of duplicate entries, and I guess many of them canceled each other out. And then there’s the fact that WH put all their tweets as the “winners,” leaving less room for us freelancers. There are some pretty clever gags here, so check it out! Finally got around to writing a new piece and sent it off to WH, and they went for it. It actually is another in my occasional series "Live Tweeting" which started over at The Big Jewel, here and here. We reached Toy Story Land and the first ride the kids want to go on is the Slinky Dog rollercoaster, over my vote for Spinning Martians... (the rest of it)
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, this one threw me at first, I thought they were going blue again. Then I realized they meant Fantasy MOVIES. Oh, okay, that I can manage. Did 15 or so. Got seven onto their site. And I finally did write something new and submitted it. More on that later. Meanwhile, enjoy this week's hashtag game finalists: 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 always hesitate when this kind of topic is offered, titillate. I'm a prude. I don't like working blue. And when people dive into this opening, it always feels kind of crass. But, in for a penny, in for a pound. I try to go for clever over crude, the double entendre or pun on the title, not that I always succeed. I managed to grind out 15 or so and 10 got picked, so I guess that's a victory. WH posted it over that their (ad-heavy) site, so check it out! Meanwhile, I have to start submitting some legitimate articles to them again. 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. Full disclosure, I was off the grid for a couple of weeks and my Google calendar reminded me about the game. Musicians. Food. I'll admit, my heart wasn't fully in it, but I managed to come up with 15 or so. Five made the cut. There were some solid entries here, so I was lucky to get in, I think. I'm very happy that this piece found a home. It's been a prose piece, a radio sketch and a version of it is in my screenplay, "Merry Broadcast." And now it's a prose piece again. Hope we get some eyeballs on it As we are aware, the holidays are not always a season of cheer for all people. It’s beyond the “holiday blues” that we’ve all heard about. And it’s a bit beyond medical science. Let’s look into the holiday’s maladies and try to steer clear of Sickmas and resist the general feeling of no wellness. Find out how on Weekly Humorist!
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