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 an unexpected topic. And a hard one, too. WH tends to grab a number of ideas first and present them as examples (and "winners"). There don't seem to be a lot of fairy tales...I mean after you hit the Disney movies, where to you go? To Google. I did the usual, looked up both fairy tales and synonyms for frugal. I managed to get some original and off-beat ones. And I came up with one or two that I'm pretty proud of. And many people were able to do variations on the same ones (Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks) that each were solid.
This was an unexpected topic. And a hard one, too. WH tends to grab a number of ideas first and present them as examples (and "winners"). There don't seem to be a lot of fairy tales...I mean after you hit the Disney movies, where to you go? To Google. I did the usual, looked up both fairy tales and synonyms for frugal. I managed to get some original and off-beat ones. And I came up with one or two that I'm pretty proud of. And many people were able to do variations on the same ones (Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks) that each were solid.
