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:
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:
