Golden Globes 2014: Tam Honks, Tom Hanks’ Twitter alter ego

Amy Poehler showed why she and Tina Fey were back again to host the 71st Golden Globe Awards with a simple switch of an “o� and an “a.�

“Tam Honks� became an instant Twitter trend after a deliberate slip of the tongue from “Parks and Recreation� actress Poehler. She congratulated Chiwetel Ejiofer and Lupita Nyong’o for their awards nominations without skipping a beat, but she had some fun with Tom Hanks who received praise for his roles in “Captain Phillips� and “Saving Mr. Banks.�

That’s when Poehler uttered the possible new nickname for the veteran actor, “Tam Honks.�

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Hanks took it all in stride with a chuckle and a look of confusion. But a German Twitter account with the same was already in place before Poehler’s slip of the tongue with, of course, a picture of Hanks on a bus stop bench from 1994’s “Forrest Gump.�

The name joined other Golden Globes social media trends such as actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who donned dark shades and jokingly refused a “selfie� with actress Reese Witherspoon, and the misspelled Bryan Cranston hashtag after he earned the best actor in a TV drama series award for his role as chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-maker Walter White in “Breaking Bad.�

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