A Frikkin Hashtag: #UnorthodoxWaterSavingTips

Cape Town where i live has been facing serious water shortages and so we turned to you for help:

The Story So Far: Every Wednesday at 12 noon South African time [6 am 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…]

With Angry Ref in the co-hosting seat we knew we would be in good hashtagging hands:

So we sent out some invites:

And started with some examples, just to, you know, move things along:

Stop shaving. All that water you waste every time you trim the facebeard? Just let is all hang out au natural #UnorthodoxWaterSavingTips

The game trended for a good while which was fun:

And a couple of our friendly bots dropped by to take a look:

And probably our biggest or most fun hit was the City of Joburg getting involved:

And then of course it was all left up to you – clever, fun, unorthodox, witty and out of the box? We knew you’d be up to it and the tweets we loved the most make it on to this week’s:

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

Baz fired shots at a former game that used to sit on top of this perch:

Jimish was thinking substitution:

Geraldine was into teaching her dog some new tricks:

Dreamweasel was being sneaky about it:

While Sambo had a whole new take:

Patrick is apparently still single:

While Grendel was encouraging alternative methods:

You may not want to take Latrell up on the whiskey on the rocks he invited you over for:

Wendy was all about letting the council take charge:

While Sarah was about taking it into your own hands:

Josh had an idea:

While FRanky was thinking on a much larger scale:

Rob, ever the practical man:

Although Groot took Rob’s offer and raised it:

Grendel enlisted some help from a friend:

Ian was feeling a little more philosophical:

Rebel went for a geographical solution:

While David’s solution was all-purpose:

Elaine was dabbling with H’s and O’s:

Richard was feeling a little sinister:

Peanut had a slow and steady solution involving Netflix and Spill:

While everyone’s favourite Bunni was heading in the opposite direction:

While Chantelle was trying to help you avoid making a pool of yourself:

Ayisi was on a mission:

Bonecreak stretching a little bit:

Rob was taking the fight to Hollywood:

While Miles was more about the trickle down effect of wealth:

Rick was all about the combo:

Sammy a touch malicious:

While Bakers had a revolutionary plan:

Sho, some amazing suggestions and we are trying some of them out as we speak slash type… but as with any AFH list, there must be a few which just had that little bit extra and so i give you this week’s TOP TWEETS which made it on to the:

F.L.O.P. 11

[11] Richard was getting a little hysteri… sorry historical!

[10] Ian was all about embracing community:

[9] Craig had a simple solution:

[8] While Emmalea could be heard hysterically laughing from behind a locked door:

[7] Clinger resorted to a tried and tested truth:

[6] While Tali had just had enough:

[5] Jimish felt like he had a simple fix:

[4] While Finch was pretty much stating the obvious:

[3] Tali was back, this time with a coffee substitute:

[2] Grendel’s idea had us all cheering [slash drooling] long and hard:

[1] While Caroline, who doesn’t seem to have any friends left at all, or at least none that will stand downwind of her, wins this week’s game with this completely amazing suggestion making her our TOP F.L.O.P.:

Thank you to everyone for playing and especially Cape Town folks remember we have to keep this thing up – water is tight, yo!

Huge shoutout to @AngryRef for co-hosting and as always the dynamic UnNamed Ones for being the crank turners behind the curtain making the magic all look so super easy… you guys rock!

Til next time, let’s all work on keeping the WIT in the Twitterer, and see you at the tags

love brett fish and No_bob [the world’s most famous stuffed dolphin!]