“The depth of his stupidity was equivalent to that of the appreciation of a soothing chocolate snooze bath.”

Your Hashtagging skills are on Fleek… we thought to ourselves as we invited you to submit your very own Modern Day Metaphors.

[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…]

For this game we decided to go double dutch with our incredible Netherlands hosts @veldlot & @MattRSays who both jumped in like they’d been co-hosting all their lives. They have been such a welcome addition to The UnNamed Ones.

We also decided early on that the term ‘metaphors’ was going to be generally and liberally used as not everyone seemed to know what the meta was for… so similes, comparisons, strings of words put together randomly – we just let the fun happen…

To get the ball rolling we decided to at least give some help with metaphorical things, although this question might be beyond everyone:

Hashtag game

And so we threw out a general smattering of them:

hashtag game

And knowing that every game it’s a race to the first Trump tweet, we decided to head that off at the pass by talking about the elephant in the room as literally an elephant in the room:

Trump elephant

Our co-hosts were off on an early roll and these are just a taste of everything they had to offer:

And pretty soon we were trending in the US:

As always we got excited when our favourite Bot showed up to play:

Followed by favourite Bot number two:

And then of course it was you and a furious fight to see who could end up on top of the:

FISH LIST OF PRIZEWORTHYNESS [F.L.O.P.]

Rob got us going Punnam Style:

Quietly She diagnosed the situation:

Grendel went Trumpy:

Jess summed up lots of people’s feelings:

Katt took the high road:

Glenn got to the core of it:

Geff went solo:

Cow Pernicus had a similar idea:

While Katt took it to another level:

Aaron manned up:

While Dreamweasel was adamant:

Not to be confused with Adam Ant

Adam Ant pic

Quietly came all prepared:

While Geff was all about dividing and conquering

Jess got definey:

And Richard was all up in smoke:

Keith seemed a little baked:

John brought the politics:

Jess was back again with more social media wisdom:

Jay went pop culture:

Martini felt a little de-fence-ive:

Dave had a point:

Reesie went Shakespearean:

Andrew poetic:

Rob punned it, or should that be Rob: pundit?

Ruben took us for a ride:

Adrian wants us to look deeper:

Jess Yoda’s us:

Glenn drew some boundaries:

Aaron got biblical:

Grendel as well:

Geff played his Trump card:

Geff again, reaching into the box:

Welsh Rarebit had an appetite:

Glenn waxed philosophical:

Dogma has me down:

Christopher. No words:

Big in Japan got twordy:

Karen brought her mom pants:

Linsay got to the botTOM of it:

Travis was on point:

John made some sense of no sense:

Travis was on a roll:

Dope was Roamin’:

Hot Rockz got real:

Rishabh spoke mutual appreciation:

While Grendel was going biblical:

Hot Rockz was on the GO:

Wild Cat went on about this one:

Rob seems to have a debt wish:

Deleted Soul, well someone had to say it:

https://twitter.com/deletedsoul/status/783616961536266240

Professor Punn was true to his name

https://twitter.com/ProfessorPunn/status/783642879528927232

While Dan was spot on:

Braxton’s cup was half full… of 7UP apparently:

Marianne made it easy:

FBG shared his perspective:

AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT? We’re going to have to Part II this cos there are just SO MANY GOOD TWEETS…

But so far two have stood out head and shoulders, knees and toes above the rest and so the first two

TOP F.L.O.P.s go to:

[I] Emmett brought the brilliance:

[I] Rob saddled us with this beauty:

Both number I cos they are equally good!

But that’s not all as there were too many tweets to fit in one great F.L.O.P. compilation so click over here to continue to Part II