Category Archives: Humor

For Fibbing Friday, Mar 28, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday the challenge is:

1. Verisimilitude: The tendency of adolescents to indulge in fads.
2. Grikes: Threatening squeals of astonishment.
3. Clints: What they will call cloned Eastwoods.
4. Kamenitza: What Russians call someone shooting a movie. 
5. Rillenkaren: An annoying female mountain climber.
6. Cockalorum: How a rooster keeps track of when to crow.
7. Dongle: The future tense of dingle.
8. Fartlek: A Hungarian who has just released gas from his/her body.
9. Folderol: What a female contortionist is able to do.
10. Furphy: A dog rental fee.

 

 

Overdone Quinceañera for dVerse Poets, Mar 21, 2025

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Overdone Quinceañera

She’s framed in a portrait that’s slightly off-center
wearing a fur stole her sister has lent her.
Her chin on her hand, jewels on finger and wrist,
she’s trying to hide that she’s never been kissed.
Just a teenager, she’s longing for glory,
trying to add romance to her story.
Though she looks mature, she is new to the scene.
Time enough for such glamour when she is sixteen!

 

 

An Ekphrastic poem for dVerse Poets  Open Link

Some Poultry Answers, for Fibbing Friday, Mar 21, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand is: Have some fun with dreaming up who these ‘familiar people’ were or what they could be remembered for (or whatever your mind comes up with).

1.  Perseus. A handbag designer
2.  Ares  Where they stashed the Native Americans (Naughty, naughty)
3.  Achilles  A Mexican restaurant
4.  Poseidon  King of flowers
5.  Medusa An American-based Health coverage organization.
6.  Athena Where you can usually find the best eggs. If not available, try at hen b.
7.  Hades  What Lucille Ball’s  response to her husband was when he told a good joke.
8.  Apollo  A poultry hero
9.  Cronos  A petition to make raising poultry in urban areas illegal
1o. Hermes His response when she asks him to clean up the kitchen after she has finished cooking.

“Performance Anxiety” for SOCS Mar 14, 2025

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Performance Anxiety: Nightmare

Bassoons are idly chuckling in the orchestra,
and in the aisle, popcorn crackles underfoot
as the last audience member hurries to find her seat.

I stand center stage
wondering what play this is
and how I came to be standing here.

The curtain opens.
I am naked.
And I have not even seen my lines!

For SOCs the prompt is “Crackle.”

Weird Answers for Fibbing Friday, Mar 14, 2025

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Distracting the Masseur

For Fibbing Friday, the words to define are:

1. Doohickey  What one does when carried away by passion as a teenager.
2. Donnybrook What you call a river as the sun first comes up.
3. Dingleberry A berry that grows in a small wooded valley.
4. Dingus What be Gus’s intestines.
5. Drub What I look forward to when my masseur comes.
6. Dreck What happen after d’ car crash.
7. Diggity  What goes best inside a hot dog.
8. Dook How I usually do when I take a test.
9. Dibbly  Another name for champagne.
10. Dinkum What happen before d outgo.

 

“The Offering,” for SOCS, Mar 7, 2025

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The Offering

My cat surprised me with a gift
but I must say, I’m rather miffed
with the hairball that she left––
(those locks of which she’s now bereft.)

Was this donation made by chance,
or was it planned far in advance?
Did she commence her furry tearing
with the intent that she’d be sharing?

I wonder if she formed that ball
with any future plans at all
to heave it out upon the chest
of one I thought that she loved best?

Oh that she could communicate
whether it was love or hate
that prompted this  hair artistry
produced and then coughed up on me!

 

The SOCS prompt is to close eyes, open book, point to word, open eyes and use the word as a prompt, so here goes. The prompt word that suppllied itself was “Surprised.”

I’d like to know what the little post it notes said as well! (Thanks, Brad, for passing this on to me.)

“Stranger Than Fiction”–Fibbing Friday, Mar 1, 2025

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It’s true..Chocolate Cigarettes of the Seventies!!

For Fibbing Friday  this week’s task is: 

General knowledge this week, so wrong answers/fabrications please!

1.  What three symbols featured on the game invitation card on Squid Game? Ink blobs.
2.  What do Sumo Wrestlers use to purify the ring before a match? Sum Saki.
3.  What is the name of the sport played on broomsticks in Harry Potter? Air Hockey.
4.  What is the name of the unique language spoken by Furbies?  Purrsian.
5.  Which chocolate product had the slogan ‘The lighter way to enjoy chocolate’?  Chocolate Candy Cigarettes.
6.  What unit of measurement is used for electrical resistance? Hotfeet.
7.  In what sport would you use the term ‘Daily Double’? A drinking game.
8.  Which fashion label popularised the velour tracksuit in the 2000s? “Lane” Bryant
9.  Where would you find the Mariana Trench? On Mariana’s bottom.
10. Which two words begin a darts match? “Present arms!!!”

“Indigo” for dVerse Poets, Feb 24, 2025

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Indigo

The color known so well by teens
that is used to color jeans?
Bet you thought, as I thought, too,
indigo was a shade of blue.
Yet, upon further inspection
during internet detection,
it seems more pupleish a hue
which transforms itself to blue.

For dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday the prompt is “indigo.” (Image by Levi Strauss)

To read more Indigo poems, go HERE.

Fibbing Friday, Feb. 21, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, Feb 21, 2025 the challenge is to define the following:

1.   What is a quaver? It is an over-the-shoulder receptacle for arrows in Louisiana.
2.   If you didn’t know a door as a door, what would you call it?  An In-or-Outer.
3.   007 has a license to kill, but what would an 010 have a license for? To drive a ten-speed bicycle.
4.   Define Corybantic. One member of a comedy duo known for their ribald humor..
5.   What does Crinkum-crankum mean?  An invitation to come witness Rin and  Ran in an X-rated movie.
6.   What is a Cacodemon ? Satan with dysentery.
7.   What would you do with a collop? Answer it.
8.   What is a curlicue? A cookout for doggies.
9.   Who or what is a cootie? An attractive young pigeon.
10.  What is an erf?  The sound made by a dog with a speech impediment.

Image thanks to z-grills Austalia.