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More Friday Fibs

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Ava Gardner

1. What is a palava? She had quite a few.  Howard Hughes, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw were some of the more famous ones. 
2. What is a pavlova? Dad’s fifth wife.
3. What is meant by purge? The irrepressible need  to urinate.
4. What is meant by purse? The poet Shelley’s first name. His second name was Bysshe.
5. What is a crash? The remains of a psychic after cremation.
6. What is a creche? Mr. Gueverra’s birthplace.
7. What is a symbol? Not exactly the seed pod of  cotton, but very close to it.
8. What is a cymbal? Not exactly a sphere, but very close to it.
9. What is lichen? Midway between a hatin’ and a lovin’.
10. What is a lychee? Guevera, when he is sheltered from the wind.

Here are this week’s Fibbing Friday questions. The theme this week is Say What?
Thanks to Forgottenman for not only remembering to remind me about Fibbing Friday, but for setting it up for me to answer. Now that is a friend!

Time for Friday Fibs

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That time of the week again – Fibbing Friday!

1. What does HG represent on the Periodic Table? A Hemorrhaging Girl.
2. Which actress said “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night”? Ann-Margret in Stagecoach.
3. What is the coloured part of your eye called? A Black Eye.
4. Which is the currency of Laos? Laotian Loot.
5. Which book was about a band of rabbits? Bugs Bunny at the Symphony
6. Which mountain range separates France from Spain? The Great Divide or Divisadero
7. Which African country was once called Abyssinia? Actually, it was not a country.This is what Karen Blixen said when she moved “Out of Africa”
8. Which song did Paul McCartney write for John Lennon’s son? “Seanny Boy”
9. Which 1960s film finds an astronaut making his way through a strange and hostile environment? Moonstruck
10. Who wrote the Little Mermaid? Her Merman penpal.

Birthday Debacle for Stream of Consciousness

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Birthday Debacle

The rumors are untrue. He is a scurrilous liar.
I did not eat the birthday cake. I did not start the fire.

My serenity is not a ruse. I’m innocent of error.
I swear I had no hand in your recent birthday terror.

The dog has done his utmost to brand me as the thief,
but the fool is barely lucid. Could you not see his relief

when you started to upbraid me as he chased me, headed south,
crumbs falling from his chest hair, frosting around his mouth?

Oh that I knew your language and I could tell you that,
but instead, for ever after, you’ll be blaming “that damn cat!!”

The Stream of Consciousness prompt is “Crumb.” Yes, guilty. I had AI make the photos.

Another Friday, more Fibbing!!!

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Image created by AI

For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand is: 

1. What is a running stitch? A cramp in the calf suffered during a marathon race.
2. What are the collywobbles?  A thirteen-year-old girl’s first attempts at walking in high heels.
3. What is a tea caddy? Someone who carries your golf clubs for you during the AA Golf  Tourney.
4. What is a stick of words? Writer’s block.
5. What is a flash drive? A trip to the hospital with a wife about to give birth.
6. What is a precipice? When you withraw an ice cube from a drink for a quick suck before drinking the drink.
7. What is a toupee? When you urinate a small bit while defecating. (Sorry for the indelicacy.)
8. What is a robin? Takin something that doesn’t belong to you.
9. What is linex? A sentence you have removed from a document you just wrote.
10. What is a brazier? A connoisseur of fine breasts.

Two Will Do

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Two Will Do

I used to like friends by the score
squeezed wall-to-wall and door-to-door.
A party didn’t even count
until the guests began to mount
up to sixty, seventy, more.
But now, I’m finding crowds a bore.

Now I find that two-by-two
is something I prefer to do.
Conversations more intimate
make it simpler to relate.
So though I used to be a grouper,
now I’m just a party-pooper.

for dVerse Poets, the prompt is Number.

Fibbing Friday

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This week’s Fibbing Friday prompts cover topics musical:

Familiar songs this week, but who do you think could do a ‘cover’…… it doesn’t have to be a singer, so use your imagination and creativity for the next chart topper………… or flop.

1. I am the One and Only. Donald Trump
2. These Boots are made for Walking. A duet by John Wayne and Puss in Boots.
3. Help Yourself. The British Empire.
4. Make me an Island. Simon & Garfunkel’s recording company. 
5. I want to know what Love is. Romeo & Juliet, another duet.
6. Penny Lane. Tom Waits (See illustration above.)
7. I Heard it Through the Grapevine. The notorious town gossip
8. I close my eyes and count to ten. Your mother, after issuing a command
9. Knock Three Times. Your hard-of-hearing mother.
10. Let me Entertain You. Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift’s Grandma’s Apologia for Staying At Home and Watching It All On TV

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Baby, I’d love to go ice-skating with you, but even in my teens, I couldn’t manage to stand up on blades to propel myself over frozen water. Besides that, I heard a rumor that they’d be there shooting a promo for your new album, and even in my salad days, I was frightened of cameras, so imagine me facing them now!

Esther’s Challenge: Can you tell a story in 61 words, using these words? (Photo assistance from AI.)

  • BABY
  • ICE-SKATING
  • ALBUM
  • SALAD
  • FRIGHT
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“Judy’s Silly Answers” For Fibbing Friday

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Daffynitions for Fibbing Friday this week are:

1. What is an heirloom? An heirloom is device  used to weave cloth and tapestry that is inherited from a parent or grandparent.
2. What is The Big Dipper? A “Big Dipper” is that most generous employee of your favorite ice cream parlor whose line you always make sure you get into.
3. What is a titfer?  Fer feeding babies.
4. What is a mud flap? That center tongue that covers up the center gap in lace-up or buckle-up overshoes.
5. What is a barrel roll? The piece of bread that comes in the largest bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
6. Why did Polly want a cracker? She was tired of her elite northern boyfriend.
7. What is meant by ‘trip the light fantastic?’ To stick one’s foot out in front of Bobby Fulton or Tommy Rogers after their weigh-in before the fight to make the skinniest one stumble as they passed by.
8. What is a diffuser? In Mexico, it is someone who applies to the National System for Integral Family Development for aid for their family. (DIF is a Mexican public institution of social assistance that focuses on strengthening and developing the welfare of the Mexican families.)
9. What is a valet? An especially short  low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it.
10. What is a noggin? It is usually located between the shoulders, but can also be located in a liquor cabinet.

A Regal Final Breath, for RDP Wednesday

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Her Highness Contemplates A Seemly End

Nobility in dying is something I shan’t botch,
for I know it shall be one that the whole wide world will watch.
I cannot go by fire, for I’m sure I would be screaming
as the water quenched the fire and set my flesh to steaming.

So unseemly and so crass. I’d find it unappealing.
So, too, a rope around my neck, hanging from the ceiling.
Jumping from a roof won’t do. Nor will a gun nor pills.
Every sort of suicide just sports too many ills.

It’s clear that death by avalanche is the only one
that will really suit me when the day is done.
A certain swift clean fall of snow seems such a pristine death.
A queenly mode of dying. Such a regal final breath!

For RDP Wednesday the prompt is REGAL

Must admit that I am rerunning a poem I wrote for RDP six years ago. At that time the prompt was was “avalanche”, but as you can see, the poem works for “regal” as well!

Reblog of Poem Published in 2019 Mistakenly Attributed to Dr. Seuss with Note from the Real Author

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Just today, Nov 4, 2025, I received this message from “Handy Barker” concerning this poem he wrote, which was quoted as a Dr. Seuss poem everywhere I could find it, or I would have attributed it to him. Here is the note I received from him, which I am publishing along with my apology:

Again, sorry, Handy…