Category Archives: Prompts

Happy Friday the 13th, 2024 Fibbing Friday!!!

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For Fibbing Friday, Sept.13, 2024 the prompts are:

1. If flower seeds give us flowers and tomato seeds give us tomatoes, what does bird seed give us? An Antarctic explorer.
2. How do you make a cat flap? Put  him out the window of an airplane in flight and hold on tight!
3. Why is Friday 13th considered unlucky? The number 13 is unlucky because there were 13 people at the Last Supper and the reason Friday is unlucky is because your bad luck from it being the 13th  is going to cause you to miss the weekend.
4. When is the Witching Hour? Right after the I Ching Hour. 
5. Are familiars always cats? Yes, but then so are strangers.
6. Where did McDonald’s originate? The Edinburgh Trump Tower.
7. What was the first thing Sleeping Beauty said when roused from sleep by her prince? So what happened to the frog?
8. What’s the difference between a sink and a basin?  kba
9. Why does the wind howl? Because it has been whipped around too many corners.
10. Why do we say swinging the lead?  Because we are celebrating  getting the lead out and getting on with it.

For Fibbing Friday, June 14, 2024

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This week’s  Fibbing Friday puzzlers are:

1. What is a nincompoop? A bathroom pass for a Ninja.
2. What is a Tory?  What your mommy tells you at bedtime.
3. What is a gonk?  A cross between a geek, a dork and a nerd.
4. What is a pom-pom? A rhymed poem that consists of two stanzas with no “e”s in them.
5. What is a hanging basket? The basket they carry the rope in on the way to a lynching.
6. What is micropore? One of the tiny holes in the mouthpiece of a microphone.
7. What is a posy? A barely audible release of the breath.
8. What is a barometer? Police slang for a  breathalyzer.
9. What is a cable?  A mini taxi.
10. What is a fib? A misspelled federal crime detection agency.

Catfight! for Fandango’s Challenge, June 3, 2024

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Catfight!!!!

With unsheathed nails and open maw,
Tooth by tooth and claw by claw,
that truce unbroken for so long
suddenly shifts from right to wrong.
Familial peace disturbed for now,
they execute their noisy row.
No metaphor that fur will fly
before they reach their usual tie
and go to curl up in the sun,
their sibling spat for each unwon!

For Fandango’s prompt: Altercation

Fibbing Friday for Mar 22, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday the prompts are:

1. Abomasum: An indigenous Australian mom’s expression of disapproval. 
2. Absquatulate:  Taking up arm and leg exercise at such an advanced age that it does no good.
3. Amphisbaena: Hispanic frogs.
4. Antimacassar: A Russian ruler opposed to talking birds. 
5. Atingle: That sensation felt after a kiss.
6. Bailiwick: If the candle gets out of hand, take the water bucket and douse it!
7. Bafflegab: Unintelligible gossip.
8.. Calliope:  What ye should do if Andy Griffith falls ill. 
9. Cornucopia: Having to put up with painful swellings on the toes and heels.
10. Cryptozoology : Exotic animals purchased with bitcoin.

The Numbers Game #3, Jan 8, 2024

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Today’s Post is pictures numbered 124. Click on photos to enlarge.

Welcome to “The Numbers Game #3.”  Today’s number is 124. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.

This prompt will repeat each  Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below.

To Kiss or Not to Kiss?

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To see what led up to this poem, you must first go to Forgottenman’s blog and peek in on a Skype conversation we had prior to my writing it. Go HERE to see his blog, then hurry back here. (In case you wonder who Remi is, that’s what Forgottenman calls me.  Long story…

To Kiss or Not to Kiss.

Please forgive my oscillation
due to my slight trepidation
concerning your excitation
due to your anticipation
of a proposed osculation.
But I fear your oscitation
creates a slight oppilation
blocking much of my elation
concerning your machination.
Will there be conciliation
or gradual occultation
leading to my castigation
and reduction of your station
as simply a tiny ration
of my love life education?

Below are the words he prescribed to be included in a poem, along with their definitions, which he did not bother to provide. Must say, I had never heard of four of them:

Oscillation: to move back and forth between two points, like a pendulumTo vary between two states, amounts, feelings, or opinions
To be undecided about something, or waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
Osculation: kiss
Oscitation:  the act of being inattentive.
Oppilation: the act of crowding or filling together, an obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines.
Occultation: the state of being hidden from view or lost to notice.
Conciliation: the action of stopping someone from being angry; placation, the action of mediating between two disputing people or groups.re settled through conciliation by the official body”

These are additional rhyming words added by me. None of them obscure, so no definitions necessary:  anticipation elation trepidation education excitation castigation machination station ration.

The Numbers Game #2: 123

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Today’s Post is pictures numbered 123. Click on photos to enlarge.

Yesterday, I Initiated a new prompt called “The Numbers Game.”  For years I’ve been noticing that when I do a search according to the number of a photo I’m looking for either in my WordPress Media file or in my Photos file on my computer, that I come up with a varied bunch of photos with the same number. It finally occurred to me that it would be fun to publish them and to ask others to do the same. 

Today’s number is 123. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post all the photos you find and include a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. For Bushboy and others of you who replace your number titles with words, I’m asking Brian to choose a word to use for the prompt and to include it in his comments, along with a link, below. If you do the same, use his prompt, not mine.

This is the second prompt this week, but after this, I’ll do it just one day a week on Monday. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below.

 

Time for More Lies!

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1. What is Allium Sepa (Cepa)? What the head of the sperm bank said to his main donor as they walked past a wall of last year’s crop of babies when the donor asked him which of them were his progeny.
2. What is Arran Pilot? A person from Isfahan who flies a plane.
3. What is a love apple? A swelling on the lip caused by too-strenuous kissing.
4. To what genus do cabbages, broccoli and cauliflowers belong? Einstein (And I must point out that you have a spelling error in your question.)
5. Which vegetables were the first to be canned? Asparagus.  It was done alphabetically.
6. Pepinex and Telegraph are varieties of what? A type of energizing medicine and a means for pachyderms to communicate over long distances.
7. What is a White Lisbon? A city in Portugal after a freak snowstorm.
8. What is calabrese? A slight California wind.
9. What was described as a cabbage with college education?  Those studying to take the bar exam are known as  slawstudents.
10. What is a Pentland Javelin? A new model of sportscar.

 

For Pensitivity’s Fibbing Friday

Fibbing Friday, Sept 8 2023

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1. What is Mascarpone (From Judy) Cornbread sullied by eye makeup. It was a rushed morning!!! ( That is, I had to apply my eye makeup while I was eating my breakfast.)
2. What is a Marsupial? Similar to chowder served on a space mission.
3. What is a Giblet? A baby gibbon.
4. What is Good Husbandry? Doing the dishes and taking out the garbage.
5. What is Onomatopoeia?  What John Lennon said to his wife as he walked into her room in search of his freshly ironed shirt. (Work for it. It’s there!)
6. What is a Glaucus Atlanticus? A gelatinous sea scum sometimes found off the eastern shore of the United States
7. What is a Sunda Colugo? What they call Santa Claus in the Congo
8. What is a Fossa? The petrified remains of a prehistoric sea creature found near Boston.
9. What is Halitrephes Jelly?  A lubricant combined with a mouth wash.
10. What  is Aliferous? Chant voiced by Cassius Clay’s supporters after he changed his name.

These questions were for Fibbing Friday. Who am I to resist a legitimate fib??? Do you like my new hairdo and my new eyeglasses? Both are a real improvement to my life. Hair off my neck and reading glasses with no Zoe chew marks on the lenses. I’m taking care to always put them in a stiff-hinged case inside a covered basket on my bedside table before I fall asleep so Zoe can’t drag them off down into the garden when she wakes up before I do.

Car Meets Wall: Fibs for Friday: July 21, 2023

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Here are my answers to the words to define for Fibbing Friday, July 21, 2023:

  1. Fo-shizzle: The un-fo-tunate end to my housekeeper Yolanda’s first (and last) driving lesson—driving my car with me in the passenger seat.

  2. Crunk: Parking sound effect made during  Yolanda’s first/last driving lesson. (Said car having been parked head-on against a brick wall at a very rapid speed.)

  3. Booyah: My response once we had exited the car and saw that the car had in fact been totaled!!!

  4. Gnarly: Sound of an epithet expressed through gritted teeth.

  5. Outtie: How one could describe my wall  with a car (mine) jutting through it .

  6. Phat: Magnified one thousand times, the sound of a car hitting a brick wall.

  7. What’s Crackalackin? The sound of a shattered windshield as it releases and falls to the ground.

  8. Cowabunga: What I should have said instead of my actual statement as the car hit the wall.

  9. Ankle biters: A description of my teeth upon impact, before withdrawing them from where they’d come in contact with my lower leg.

  10. All that and a bag of chips. How I explained what was left of my wall after they’d removed the corpse of my car.

(No sympathy posts, please. This actually happened 3 years ago, so both the wall and I have recovered enough for me to laugh about it and be grateful neither of us was seriously injured, as you can see from the response above.)