In South Africa, the refrain “You must pay back the money!” has been a common one over the last few years. It refers to our state president, Jacob Zuma, and a criminal amount of tax-payers money that was used to update his private residence including a million rand amount that was used for the swimming pool which they then claimed was a “Firepool” in case the house caught fire. This is now a national in-joke for us. But we thought maybe there are other people, organisations or entities who we feel should pay us back for things they have put us through… so we asked you to name them.

[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 was also the first game where @AFrikkinHashtag had a bit of a sponsor. The amazing folks at JuiceBubble.co.za, a South Africa online Vibey T-Shirt company sponsored this t-shirt as a prize for the Top South African tweet.

JuiceBubble.co.za t-shirt

If you haven’t visited their site yet, go and take a look cos they come out with some really great and fun designs…

i decided to rope in my old nemesis, the Jar Jar Binks suit wearing @KeshaTedder to make this a truly South African affair.

hashtag game pre ad

We started the game with some good ideas to get you going:

hashtag game starter

And used some of our best local satirical cartoonists to help drive the point home:

hashtag game starter

Plus a little ‘How to’ for those who weren’t sure how this game worked and Captain James T felt like a good example to use:

Captain Kirk

And then we handed it over to you. Wondering who would secure this week’s T-shirt prize and also just wondering who you think owes who…

Which brings us to this week’s FISH LIST OF PRIZEWORTHYNESS and some really great tweets:

Rob went rhyming:

Grendel got real, yo:

Who was connected to the people you don’t mess with:

https://twitter.com/WhoBrannigan/status/778534181919920128

https://twitter.com/WhoBrannigan/status/778534724612526080

Zen ordered Dominoes:

Glenn spoke to many people’s pain:

Tal found a great co-tag:

Veldlot reminded us of our unfortunate past:

Geff went popular culture:

Traci would get my wife’s vote:

Hm, who’s going to have that talk with Callum?

Tal went a little Chris de Burghy on us:

And then K Dawg got all smooshy:

Anyone like Ben who verbs the word ‘karma’ deserves a nod:

Daniel went a little too far:

Shelley wanted to hold the president to task:

Starlord provided probably one of the most random [but related] tweets of all time:

This resonates a little TOO closely to a true story i once lived:

Mark had me at “Ni”

Geek tried to bring accountability:

Dreamweasel was still after the Twitterer for that darn button:

Donny overshared us with this one:

Elisa wanted the bucks for all the ‘bucks:

The Rev got all Christmas Carol on us:

Chas was a little redundant:

i mean, that’s no-one right? No-one is still playing that, are they?

Ruben brought the bottom line:

Callum went musical:

Shea spoke like a man with experience:

Grendel got all localised:

Rahul pointed out Mastercard’s ploy:

Giles wanted all the cats to have some money in their purrs [i know!]:

Scott was blaming the Twitterer for his herb overload:

Brains might be on to something:

https://twitter.com/SamsaraKush/status/778543369152671746

Yes, Taylor, you know it’s true:

Probably the most referenced movie clip:

Glenn had us all hysterical, or was that historical:

Snarky got all feels with us:

Pekky was like, Snap:

Loved this one of calling out legacy:

Forget the china shop people, just stay away from the cheap seats:

Roe brought a counter culture perspective that i resonate with:

Carl brought the LOLs:

Glenn brought some local:

John brought some of his smooth verse:

Ross didn’t beat around the bush:

Shelley went to her Darth place:

All i’m saying is do NOT mess with Mireille:

Spacs gets it:

David has some Car-ma to share:

Joker has some advice you can bank on:

Meanwhile no A Hether is feeling a little lonesome:

If only Joe, if only:

This should be written into law:

This is something you’ve actually DONE?

Well, that’s it everyone – what a great list – you guys absolutely rock as always, although there were a few more that for me really just deserved that final plaudit and so here is This week’s F.L.O.P. 5:

#5 Rita holds one of the keys to a good life:

#4 Absolutely LOVED this from one Gold:

#3 And Gold was definitely loving this game cos he’s back:

#2 This is an absolute winner from the Phish:

#1 But i think this week’s winner of the JuiceBubble T-shirt goes to Shelley for fighting for us:

GREAT GAME and thank you for the most part for keeping it FAMILY – i know it’s not everyone’s vibe but it’s our vibe and most of you honour that and we really appreciate you – keep on keeping it FUNNY and CLEVER and MISDIRECTIONAL and RANDOM [but related] and of course PUNNY cos those are what we love.

And see you for the next game every Wednesday at 12 noon SA time or 6am EDT – keep the WIT in the Twitterer
love brett fish

And i will leave you with this wisdom from Moss from the hit show IT CROWD:

moss it crowd