A Frikkin Hashtag: #IWasWinningUntil

With the Olympics fading off into the distance, it’s a good time to remember what stopped you all from winning when we played this Hashtagging game two weeks ago:

[The Story So Far: Every Wednesday at 12 noon South African time [6am EDT] an inspired and growing number of brilliant, creative and absolutely fun people from all around the world take part in what is called a Hashtag game. @AFrikkinHashtag [say it out loud] is South Africa’s #1 Hashtag game and is always a lot of fun. The F.L.O.P. [or Fish List Of Prizeworthyness] is the collection of some of the best tweets from each week’s game and is what all seriously comedic Hashtaggers aspire to…]

As far as we can figure out, my guest host Daryl [@DarylONT ]was THE FIRST CANADIAN to co-host @AFrikkinHashtag and he was super great.

As per usual i tried to get the ball rolling with some examples:

#IWasWinningUntil I wasn’t.

#IWasWinningUntil they handed the envelope to Steve Harvey.

#IWasWinningUntil someone asked me to hold the door. #Hodor #GoT #HoldTheDoor

#IWasWinningUntil the wheels started to come off.

#IWasWinningUntil someone decided to bring food that contained raiSINs… #RaiSINsAreEvil #STOPPIT

#IWasWinningUntil a friend of mine suggested I wear these bootfeet to work…

#IWasWinningUntil I tried to prove I was not a racist by mentioning “my black friend”

#IWasWinningUntil I realised the pack of runners I was keeping behind me were actually from the next race which had already started.

#IWasWinningUntil an unfortunate multi-tasking situation ended badly…

MEET THE CO-HOST

Daryl broke his no co-hosting rule for us for which we are eternally grateful and jumped right in and these are just a few of his tweets:

HOT GAME

It took just under 17 minutes before this game started trending, which is close to our record, as you all wildly jumped on board and helped make this such a fun game. i had to remind a few people of our FAMILY VIBES that we try play Afrikkin Hashtag with but for the most part you totally got it.

As you know by now it’s kind of a running gag that we only count a Hashtag game as a real game once the Seinfeld bot turns up and he did not disappoint:

It was great to have Sporting News playing with us this week:

James Michael Sama was another celeb who joined in with this fun tweet:

And for the second time we had the official National Lampoon joining in:

And we loved that an organisation like Hills Pet Nutrition also brought some smiles:

While even Adam Barta joined in with an important declaration:

And Adriano and Paulina joined us for the second time with this winner:

And no, we have NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU and with such a popular game and SO MANY GREAT TWEETS we have no doubt missed a bunch of good ones, but this long list of tweets that follow are a SHOUT OUT to those of you who made us laugh or think or appreciate or eyebrow raise as you brought the FUNNY, CLEVER, MISDIRECTIONAL and RANDOM [but related] and so without further much ado about nothing, this week’s top tweets list which is also known as the F.L.O.P. which stands for the

FISH LIST OF PRIZEWORTHYNESS

First up was the incredible Jayme with this keen observation:

Followed by herself actually, for a sense of irony:

Then pH1 joined in with this PUNderful one:

Geff joined in with some classy misdirection:

And Johnsense broughtwhat i believe in the inustry is known as the “face bump”:

googergeiger gets huge song lyric tie in points:

While Rob was just asking for trouble, given my history of hatred of all things raiSIN:

Grendel chimed in and while that looks incredibly painful, i have it under authority that it will heel quickly:

Ross was in the house, but not far from where we left him:

Zen Meister went all meta on us, although we suspect he cut and pasted this:

Shota became a little animated:

Christopher was taken out at the end:

My favourite nemesis K Dawg decided to look at it from a different perspective:

While everyone’s favourite Bunni made a rookie error:

Tee was at least in the game:

And Abed [the person, not n actual bed cos they can’t tweet #TrueStory] was tricked:

Johnsense was back and you know that saying “Cat’s got your back?” Well…

Craig decided to lower the bar:

Whereas Jeff was all out of supplies:

View was trying to see the humid in his present situation. Humour, i meant humour!:

Veldlot was not intimidated:

K Dawg was back and we kinda suspected this:

While Shota [like many of you] just needed to know it was a good thing:

Mrs Touch panic’d:

And Shota was back with more fish in the sea:

While Jayme could see into the future:

Gabe brought the Monty:

While Ryan went a little nuts:

Patty learned that Science wins:

Whereas Wayne had a dilemma:

Shandilyn was totally in the lead:

Joey got a little philosophised:

And Maybe Stacey maybe overshot a little:

Simon had a rethink:

This one by 1965 is so completely random and brilliant all in one and i can’t look away:

Jayme had a really bad idea:

Andy was gutted:

AdultGeek made a common mistake:

And Joey was not amped with his result:

CEM was SO SURE, but then:

Patty almost had it covered:

Taro Rivas got a close encounter:

The Gnurb showed up and stepped on some toes:

AltMidnight joined in with not the most successful pitch of all time:

Hot Rockz needed a nudge:

Who had some trouble with the spices:

https://twitter.com/WhoBrannigan/status/763335690637545472

Will had a too-late realisation:

Derek of just one of the Latzes fame said it to us straight:

Vivian was so close:

While Richard brought some lip [synch]:

Warren got literal on us:

Weird Savant explained the science:

Sean had to be man’s best friend’s best friend:

Alex sensed something was wrong:

And Regina was reminded of a basic lesson:

Those were some amazing tweets everyone, THANK YOU SO MUCH for playing… but every almost winning list has to have four winners and so while we have some incredible tweets throughout this list, these were the four that just climbed on top of the shoulders of the rest and basked in the sun. That’s right, i’m talking about this week’s:

F.L.O.P. FOUR

[4] Elle reminded us of our childhoods:

[3] The Quintessential brought the Grandma Police:

[2] Radio Free Olive wins the Random [but related] this week:

[1] But i think this tweet from Ivory Widow is a clear winner of non-winneryness:

Well done Ivory Widow and everyone else. If you did not make the F.L.O.P. this week [yes, it’s a good thing – tell your friends!] then don’t stress cos there is another fun game happening this Wednesday with everyone’s favourite unicorn chaser @SugarGretel aka Grendel co-hosting it all the way to the top.

Let’s keep the game FAMILY and let’s continue to thrive on FUN and CLEVER and MISDIRECTIONAL and RANDOM [but related] and any other areas of greatness you think those don’t cover. Make sure you’re on the @HashtagRoundup app cos that’s where all the cool games hang out… and let’s all keep the WIT in the Twitterer.

As always, i am your host brett “Fish” anderson, owner of the world’s most famous stuff dolphin, No_bob [because he doesn’t bob] and i will leave you with this final comic strip from my favourite Pearls Before Swine with a kind of #IWasWinningUntil theme:

i wonder what the chances are that Stephan Pastis would co-host an @AFrikkinHashtag Pearls-themed game? Maybe if we all emailed him and asked nicely…