A Frikkin Hashtag: #MoreAccurateNameFor

Yes, we all know they are gloves, but if we were more honest with ourselves we’d all be calling them Finger Pants, right? This week we decided to take a look at some more accurate names for everyday things that we know and love…

[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…]

This week it was the amazing Shelley aka @HydraHybrid who jumped into the co-hosting seat for A Frikkin Hashtag and she was great.

As always AFH features on the @HashtagRoundup app and if you’re not already playing your games through there, it’s a great way to keep on top of what games are happening when.

Also as always we try keep AFH a FAMILY game and are always on the lookout for tweets that are CLEVER or FUNNY or MISDIRECTIONAL or RANDOM [but related] – we should probably add PUNNY as a 5th pillar category because some of the best tweets we get during our games tend to be well thought out puns. Also pictures tend to help your tweets get noticed above others and i would recommend Canva as a free app that is simple and great for putting together a good Hashtagging tweet.

Back to the game and we were anticipating that this would be a fun one…

As usual we put out some tweets just to get you into the vibe of it…

Shorty McShortyhands might be a #MoreAccurateNameFor a T-Rex – join @HydraHybrid and @BrettFishA on @HashtagRoundup

Everyone knows my hatred of raiSIns by now so they couldn’t get a pass:

A #MoreAccurateNameFor grapes could be nectar pouches or the more premeditated baby evil bags [#RaiSINsAreEvil] or..

Takkies, sneakers, running shoes, runners are all things we call these by. But a #MoreAccurateNameFor them might just be…

Always up for some fun LOLs at my “nemesis” Kesha’s expense and her love of the Jar Jar:

You may know her as @KeshaTedder or maybe even K Dawg, but to AFH she’ll always be Binksie. #MoreAccurateNameFor

And a bunch of our UnNamed Crew [including myself] are huge Doctor Who fans so had to give him a nod:

Call it Tardis or Time Travelling Phone Booth: a #MoreAccurateNameFor it might be The Inside Out Timey Wimey Machine

Our favourite Bot popped in to let us know it was really a bonafied game:

Shelley dived firmly into the fray and these are just two examples:

And then there was you… and by now it seems most people actually know what the F.L.O.P. is and why it’s a good thing to be added to it… but for those who don’t the Fish List of Prizeworthyness is the list of Top Tweets for the Afrikkin Hashtag game and this week it is starring the following people:

FISH LIST OF PRIZEWORTHYNESS

Jennifer was clearly sucking up for a gig with us… AND IT WORKED – guess who is co-hosting tomorrow’s game?

Geff has his opinions on the Twitterer

It doesn’t take long for our favourite Bunni to drop by:

And clearly she was thinking of jerky [which is awful] because Biltong is amazing and should not be associated with the R word ever…

Radio Free Olive dropped in with a pretty accurate observation:

The Zenmeister is never far behind and this was one of my favourites:

Mrs Touch brought hers with this classic:

Jayme found this amazing pic and rename:

Ben was on the money with this one:

Ross was on fine form throughout this game:

Bunni was back with the ever accurate:

And again with this Puntastic:

This Bunni is on fire:

Jayme was back with this beauty:

And Ross “But-how-do-you-really-feel Moorhouse:

This one from Tee brought the giggles:

Looking forward to a fun game of Rock, Paper, Cutty Cutty

While the Fox thought the Skunk needed a do-over:

Ben was back with some strong feelings about these okes:

Who brought the obligatory Who, nailing it completely:

https://twitter.com/WhoBrannigan/status/775999797870235649

Tait was on Pun form:

Even more Bunni cos animals:

Eye seems to have hit a snag:

While David threw us into a loop:

Ed spoke of things many of us have only heard rumours of:

Not me though. i was there when it happened and have tried to close my account nine different times. #Impossible

Coco spoke on behalf of hipsters everywhere:

While Danielle went a little deep on us:

Craig brought the Australian vote:

And Richard got a little overshary:

In fact coffee might have been the number one thing people gave alternate names for like Ed:

Jo nailed the accuracy issues of LOLs:

Imogen had a slight confession we hoped her boss didn’t see:

Duke Silver might have had the best new name, but…

Or should that have been butt…?

Nayla was right on target with this one:

https://twitter.com/nylaamin_/status/776007231187800065

Chaz was having rhyming computer issues:

May Bug brought the mommy vote:

While Ogre was pretty much on:

https://twitter.com/Ogreing/status/776010103275212800

Christian nailed the dark side of coffee:

Angel had a point:

While Kevin locked this one up:

Renato was also punning it:

John got poetic:

HR Manager is on to you:

Cody made me smile:

H.D. is largely correct:

Excepting for Terminator II – we’ll always have Terminator II.

Elizabeth PUNched this one home:

TOP F.L.O.P.S

So many tweets, so much greatness… and yet at the end of it all, some tweets just tend to stand head and shoulders above the rest and this week we really had a tough lot to choose from and so just chose them all. These are the ones that gave us that little extra LOL [slash slight giggle inside our head]

[9] Tuna misdirected to perfection:

[8] Ed perfectly captured the imagery of this one:

[7] Keith brought this one down to size:

[6] Ed really brought the politicals in the best of ways:

[5] Ben completely nailed it with this one:

[4] Who was in the house and on point:

https://twitter.com/WhoBrannigan/status/775998034215702528

[3] While Jeff the boss left us with imagery we won’t soon be free from:

[2] And Ross brought the dark:

[1] THIS, from Alicia though, wins this week’s TOP F.L.O.P.:

Tough tough choice this week cos ANY of those could have been top – you completely outdid yourselves. Thank you everyone for playing and Shelley for being such an amazing co-host. As always my most excellent and growing crew of UnNamed Ones who do all the hard work in exchange for Buckets of Cheerful Banter. We look forward to another stunning game this week where THERE WILL BE A T-SHIRT PRIZE FOR THE TOP SOUTH AFRICAN TWEET alongside all the rest of the greatness associated with AFH.

Til then, keep the WIT in the Twitterer and i will leave you with this final thought:

Be kind. Remember there might just be a human on the other side of that screen.

love brett “Fish” anderson and the world’s most famous stuffed dolphin, No_bob [who doesn’t!]