A Frikkin Hashtag: #ThisParrotIsntDeadIts

Three weeks ago,  co-host Chris aka @Taliesyne, who with the backdrop of storms trying to flood his house in Australia, helped me to see #YouHadMeAt [and occasionally #YouHadMeat] break the 40 thousand tweet barrier and just go pretty mental…

Two weeks ago, at our last game, it was Kage aka @swissmistress who joined in with the much more specific-flavoured tag of the Monty-Python inspired #ThisParrotIsntDeadIts:

It was a crazy fun game – we didn’t quite get one of the Pythons to play with us, although we did confuse Eric Idle a little bit and got his good wishes and just missed out on Camilla Cleese [daughter of John] joining in.

@AFrikkinHashtag I don’t know what a hashtag is or how you came to think I would be on this.

— Eric Idle (@EricIdle) November 11, 2015

Well Eric, that would have been easily remedied if you’d taken the 30 seconds needed to read through this simple guide to Hashtagging that i put together with this tag in mind.

@AFrikkinHashtag ah I would have, but I only just saw this tweet ?

— Camilla Cleese (@CamillaCleese) November 13, 2015

For the most part it was a lot of silly fun in the spirit of Monty Python and although it was not as big as some of the other games, we did trend in Philly and some other places in the States for a little bit:

Philadelphia 1 #VeteransDay 2 #2DaysUntilMITAM 3 #PURPOSETOUR 4 #PrayForMizzou 5 #ThisParrotIsntDeadItspic.twitter.com/w1guQvptEF

— Trend Topics USA (@TrendTopicsUSA) November 11, 2015

As always, there were too many good ones to share them all, but here are some of the ones that stood out for me in what we call the

FISH LIST OF PRIZEWORTHYNESS

Starting with some examples from myself and my co-host Kage:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts pining… for the Fjords… with @BrettFishA & @swissmistress on @HashtagRoundup pic.twitter.com/8NRH06Jhto

— A Frikkin Hashtag (@AFrikkinHashtag) November 11, 2015

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts pondering the meaning of life. @AFrikkinHashtag @montypython

— KJ (@swissmistress) November 11, 2015

Ever with a way with words if not spelling, is @giutarman with:

#ThisParrotISntDeadIts a polygon ?

— Guitarman (@giutarman) November 11, 2015

Jonathan had this clever *cough* chirp:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts re-buffering.

— Jonathan Hart (@ee_jwhart1) November 11, 2015

Jeff thought it was in business mode:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts applying for a job as a wax statue at Madame Tussauds

— Jeff Dwoskin (@bigmacher) November 11, 2015

While Patch and a number of others thought it was political:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts recovering from watching the GOP debate.

— Patch Bohan (@Trickpatch) November 11, 2015

Todd got a little personal:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts been trapped in a theatre with Shia LeBoeuf

— Todd Only Knows (@tr_wildebeest) November 11, 2015

While my wife, tbV [the beautiful Val] got philosophical:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts knock, knock, knocking on Heaven’s door.

— Valerie Anderson (@val_c_anderson) November 11, 2015

As did Aidan:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts meditating to reflect on it’s life choices. Does Polly *really* want a cracker, or does Polly just want to be loved?

— Aidan forgets why he (@aidno) November 11, 2015

Alan thought it was a Christmas move:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts Rehearsing Its Part As Tiny “Parrot” Tim In Our Local Production of A Christmas Carol

— alan (@stjace) November 11, 2015

Miles tried to skirt around the obvious:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts being economic with living.

— Miles Lacey (@kiwiasmiles) November 11, 2015

And Richard returned to knock it out of the park with this clever wordplay:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts just taken too many parrots eat em all ??????

— Guitarman (@giutarman) November 11, 2015

Just Another Biker brought out some Hitchcock:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts playing with the children pic.twitter.com/rSKCe4zItc

— Just Another Biker (@justanotherbikr) November 11, 2015

Whereas Rob was in complete denial:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts Alive!!!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/6ayt5IVoSx

— Rob (@GenericZA) November 11, 2015

Whereas Patch suspected foul, or was it fowl, play:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts stealing the possum’s schtick

— Patch Bohan (@Trickpatch) November 11, 2015

Python points for Office for cross-Polly-nating:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts being repressed pic.twitter.com/uKMqNHwHV4

— View from my Office (@viewfrommyoffic) November 11, 2015

As well as Brian:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts Thinking of material for when it taunts you a second time! pic.twitter.com/ydoN4zJvgK

— Free Base Brian (@TigerEagleFan) November 11, 2015

And Brendan:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts Something completely different pic.twitter.com/cSZVqoBbb5

— Brendan McInnis (@BrendanMcInnis) November 11, 2015

Whereas Keith got punny:

#thisparrotisntdeadits a bit stiff, cos its eaten too much Polyfilla….

— it’s only Keith (@snowpop49) November 11, 2015

Bradley thought out of the box, or in this case, the cage:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts a pigeon in drag

— Bradley S. Howell (@BradleySHowell) November 11, 2015

And finishing off with one of my absolute favourites of the day was John with this classic misdirectional:

#ThisParrotIsntDeadIts got a chance to make par, but that’s a pretty bad lie in the bunker.

— John Drummond (@4eyesJohnny) November 11, 2015

Thank you to everyone who played and well done to all of you who made this list where it really is all about being nominated. We are back with a bang tomorrow so be ready for that and if you want to play all of the Hashtaggames more effectively make sure you download the @HashtagRoundup for smart and easy access.

See you soon on @AFrikkinHashtag which after one month of official games has just crosses the 1000 mark of followers – tell your friends and let’s get it to 10000 in no time.

[For next week’s game #2015WasTheYearThatIFinally, click here]