The word “flounder” has risen to the top of Twitter’s trending topics section, giving the social media site a peculiar piscine flavor.
Around Us in the Sea: The unusually popular topic may be traced back to a Twitter user “”Name a fish that doesn’t have the letter “A” in it,” OG, a self-identified former factory worker, truck driver, and mover, asked the Twitterverse. I’m sure you can’t.”
OG’s query was met with several extensive lists of fish without the letter “A” in their names, indicating that Twitter has a surplus of literate ichthyologists.
Some people, on the other hand, misunderstood the game’s rules: Some respondents rearranged the oceanic species by citing “Dolphin” – but no Monkees fans chimed in with a rendition of “Porpoise Song.” One person began his list with “Anchovy” (duh! ), others with “Tuna” (perhaps they were aiming for a Brooklynesque pronunciation “tu-nuh”), and others with “Tuna” (perhaps they were aiming for a Brooklynesque pronunciation “t
The game also included images of Stephen Furst’s character Flounder from “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” but that wasn’t the idea.
While OG’s wager drew the expected Jacques Cousteau-style jokes (“Are you being koi?” “What a fluke of a question!”), the online quiz master defended his fishy wager by tweeting, “It is just entertainment that’s what’s up being social is it just entertaining bit because some people don’t have any damn thing else to do but answer stupid questions on Twitter.” Underwater Report: In addition to OG’s game, actress Halle Bailey uploaded a photo of herself as Ariel in the live-action adaptation of Walt Disney Co’s (NYSE: DIS) “The Little Mermaid” that recently wrapped production in Sardinia.
Bailey, on the other hand, didn’t show any footage of co-star Jacob Tremblay, who plays Flounder’s voice in the new film, which has yet to be released.
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