First, a fun announcement!

Hope you don’t mind a little self-promotion at the top, here. Several Steemians, myself included, wrote a book! Check it out! https://steemit.com/book/@improv/published-byexjduz

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, @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 @littlescribe)

Rookie of the Week:

No rookies this week! But grateful to the advanced punners for your puns!

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/3j8ffx-pocket-friday
No votes from @mustang88 this week. Hopefully next week! Use that POCKET!

@paul.atreides made @acolucky win!

• POCKET Choice Winner's Circle Season One:

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

• POCKET Choice Winners' Circle Season Two:

@ablaze, @coinsandchains, @dollarsandsense, @doctorcrypto, @heroic15397, @littlescribe, @jk6276, @acolucky, @deceth, @richatvns

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.....

OOOO, he knows I like Shaggy Dog Stories!

@richatvns!

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 from @improv. This week they also got votes from @freewritehouse! They will next week, too! Together, these upvotes could total in excess of five whole cents!

• SBI

Which are little bitty upvotes on all your content forever. See @steembasicincome for details. I’ll send one to all of our qualified entrants this week!
Our entrants were:
@richatvns, @acolucky, @paul.atreides

Our winners get bonus prize SBI for winning! (plus one for choosing the POCKET winner this week!

Congrats, @richatvns, @acolucky, @paul.atreides

• @tipu Tip + @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 @tipu tip!

This Week's Pun Topic Is:

Magic Fest
(I missed Magic Fest, which is a big weekend of Magic: the Gathering, but I will not miss out on making puns about it. I acknowledge that this is a very geeky field, and not all of you may have a deep knowledge about it, so I offer you resources… One, you can find info about Magic on dailymtg.com and two, you can make other kinds of magic puns, like about the kind of magic seen on Fool Us)

As in,
Why do cat planeswalkers avoid the alphabet? Because they Age on ‘E’.
Bada bing, you been punned! You see, there’s a cat (leonin) planeswalker named Ajani, and that sounds kind of like “Age on ‘E’” and for the most part, aging brings you closer to death, so you might want to avoid the letter E.

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!

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Sponsors, related content, prizes, and money

Sponsors!

@improv/ @freewritehouse

I mean, am I a sponsor of my own contest? Yes? I guess? Also, because I’m involved in @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 @freewritehouse community! Furthermore, they/we’re using their SP to upvote your puns!

@curie!

We are one of Curie’s chosen communities! Prizes have doubled in season 2, thanks to @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
• @freewritehouse offers writing and word-smithing contests every week
• @steembasicincome has a contest round-up (that includes us) where you can find more opportunities to win SBI.
• @contestkings features our contest and MORE!

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