Welcome to Punday Monday!

New To Punday?

Pull up a stool, order a spiked PUNch, and get to know some of the regulars. I'm your PUNtender, Hive account@improv.

How To Make a Pun

This contest is open to everyone. Here's a handy dandy guide on how to make a pun: Learn to Pun

Rules for the PUN-test:

• If you hope to win a prize, your pun must be your original work
• Puns must be relevant to the topic of the week to win a prize, but they can be very loosely related.

Last Week's Punday Monday:

Here is last week's Punday Monday, and all the puns that were eligible to win this week are in the comments!

Hang on to your PUNderwear. The Winners of This Week's PUNday Monday Are...

(GIF by Hive account@littlescribe)

Rookie of the Week:

Hive account@joechiappetta is not having his very first week with us this week, but he hasn’t had many, so welcome him, all!

Pocket Choice Awards:

Every Friday, I put up a post to solicit audience favorites! They can vote on their favorites by sending POCKET to whomever they want to win. This week’s post is here:
https://steemit.com/pocket/@improv/pocket-friday-for-punday-monday-happy-weekend

A tight race, but just eking out the win was Hive account@littlescribe, thanks to Hive account@coinsandchains! Congrats!

• POCKET Choice Winner's Circle Season One:

Hive account@aloha-creations, Hive account@professorbromide, Hive account@tcpolymath, Hive account@miniature-tiger, Hive account@lilygolightly, Hive account@chrisroberts, Hive account@stinawog, Hive account@f3nix, Hive account@doctorcrypto, Hive account@heroic15397, Hive account@littlescribe, Hive account@diebitch, Hive account@acolucky, Hive account@ablaze, and Hive account@paul.atreides.

• POCKET Choice Winners' Circle Season Two:

Hive account@ablaze, Hive account@coinsandchains, Hive account@dollarsandsense, Hive account@doctorcrypto, Hive account@heroic15397, Hive account@littlescribe

Grand Prize (which isn’t bigger than the other prizes, just grander):

• Best Pun

• Best Pun of the Entire Week

• Best Overall Pun

DRUMROLL PLEASE.....

Hive account@acolucky! You set it up and delivered!

And What Prizes Do They Win, You Ask?

• Full Strength, 100% Upvote!

Why, as usual, all the punsters got full strength upvotes on their submissions.
WORTH $0.004! So much value!

• SBI

Which are little bitty upvotes on all your content forever. See Hive account@steembasicincome for details. I’ll send one to all of our qualified entrants this week! All of our winners get two!

• Hive account@tipu Tip + Hive account@improv 100% upvote to the post of your choice

Our category winners will each get to choose a post (of their own or someone else's) and I will give that post a fully powered upvote and a Hive account@tipu tip!

This Week's Pun Topic Is:

Thanksgiving!
As in....

What do ogres prefer under gravy? Mashed pot o’ toes!

I'm So Good at Puns

If you've never punned before, it might seem like magic! You can do it, too! Learn how in My Free How-To Guide on Punning!

Hive account@comedyopenmic nomination:

Who do I nominate for Hive account@comedyopenmic’s comedy challenge? I nominate the winners! This past week’s winners were:

Hive account@heroic15397
Hive account@ablaze
Hive account@smitop

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Sponsors, related content, prizes, and money

Sponsors!

Hive account@improv/@freewritehouse

I mean, am I a sponsor of my own contest? Yes? I guess? Also, because I’m involved in Hive account@freewritehouse and they’ve/we’ve hosted Punday Monday events over on that page, I’d like to suggest that they (we) are also a sponsor! Regardless, check out the Hive account@freewritehouse community!

Hive account@curie!

We were one of Curie’s chosen communities! Prizes have doubled in season 2, thanks to Hive account@curie’s sponsorship! Curie curators do tremendous work making sure unrecognized authors of quality content get recognized and rewarded! They do great work sifting through the heaps of posts to find the undiscovered gems.

Related Content:

• Punday Monday Year One-Day contest results HERE
• Hive account@freewritehouse offers writing and word-smithing contests every week
• Hive account@steembasicincome has a contest round-up (that includes us) where you can find more opportunities to win SBI.

Outside referrals that benefit me.

Coinbase:

Cryptocurrency investment wallet Join HERE and we’ll both get $10 of BTC

• Hot tip, I buy BTC on pro.coinbase.com, then send it to bittrex to trade for Steem and send steem to my wallet here. It’s the most efficient way with the fewest fees I’ve found. If you’ve found better, let me know. - I learned from someone else that buying LTC and sending it to bittrex then trading it for BTC then trading that for STEEM is the least-fees way. Can someone confirm?

Robinhood:

Investment platform buying/selling stocks Join HERE and we’ll both get a share of a stock (probably worth ~$4)

Earn.com:

Small tasks for small rewards. Need a business or .edu email, Join HERE and we’ll both get $1 of BTC

Mannabase:

Sign up for universal basic income distribution funded by cryptocurrency Join HERE

Swift:

Yet another attempt at a UBI Join HERE

Swell:

If you’re interested in more traditional investing, Swell invests in stocks that have a positive social impact according to their standards, and has a referral program whereby they’ll match your first $50 investment. CLICK HERE for company website.