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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.

Another Friday, more Fibbing!!!

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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.

Fibbing Friday for November 21

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For Fibbing Friday, Nov. 21, the words to define are:

1. Imbroglio The language of “with it” guys
2. Ish Added on to any word, it means “sort of”
3. Insouciant  Unlikely to bring legal action against
4. Inanition The act of telling stupid jokes
5. Infamy  The state of babyhood
6. Impugn What the little girl walking her dog said when a passerby asked her
                    what she was doing.
7. Impecunious Description of someone who is naughty
8. Inveigle An adjective describing someone who is speaking very clearly.
9. Iconoclast What the final symbol in the world will be called.
10. Irascible  What Ira’s mother said while introducing him after his sex-change operation.

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

Halloween Humor for Fibbing Friday

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For Fibbing Friday, the definition task at hand is:

  1. Why does garlic repel vampires? It throws off their sense of smell, thus no “Fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman!.”
  2. What do you need to kill a werewolf? The present tense.
  3. What is the purpose of a Jack-o-lantern? To enable one to see to change a tire in the dark.
  4. What exactly is a ghoul? A rental trailer for ghosts.
  5. Why can’t vampires enter a home unless invited? Vampire etiquette.
  6. Why can’t vampires cross running water? Because they can’t catch it.
  7. What does a chupacabra eat? Father snakes.
  8. What is the name of the three-headed dog that guards the gates of the underworld? The Three Dog Knight
  9. Who are the Stygian Witches? Witches who hog all the brew.
  10. What alcoholic beverage is thought to be the true origin of witches’ brew? Any distilled “spirit.”

 

More Fibs for Fibbing Friday

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The task for Fibbing Friday this week is to define:
1. Ripsnorter: A surfer joke.
2. Rinky-dink: A very small skating arena
3. Rapscallion: A green onion served in a buffet at the end of filming.
4. Recalcitrant: Describing someone about to go back onto their diet. 
5. Rickrack: Lucillle Ball’s bosom.
6. Rut-roh: Slang for Canoeing the Colorado River
7. Redonkulous: A scarlet buttercup
8. Rammy: Da da’s Mama
9. Rickety-crickety: A decaying zoo enclosure for insects
10. Roodle: A tasteless piece of pasta

“Boogaloo” and Other Mysteries Solved, for Fibbing Friday

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The Fibbing Friday task-at-hand is:

1. Why is there no ‘three quarters back’ in American Football (you have a quarterback, halfback and full back) ? Because you already have one quarterback. It would redundant to have  two more.
2. What is a stickleback? A French back-scratcher.
3. What is a boogaloo? Quarters for an Eskimo ghost.
4. What is Victoria’s Secret? Falsies.
5. What is in a Victoria sandwich? Coins kept in a tiny coin purse tucked into her cleavage.
6. What is the secret of the Black Magic Box? All of its magic leaked out long ago.
7. Why do mice squeak? Not enough oil in the cheese.
8. Where will you find a TRV? Usually, right after a TOPSY.
9. What is a Demo? Someone who didn’t vote for Trump.
10. What is a toadstool? A poorly-placed stool often run into in the dark. Ouch!

Daffynitions For Fibbing Friday

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Words to define for Fibbing Friday are:

1. Baloney: a batter’s first missed pitch
2. Hogwash: A facility used to clean Harley Davidsons.
3. Codswallop: A mercy blow to a caught fish’s head after they are removed from the fish hook.
4. Bunkum: What counselors do to campers at bedtime.
5. Claptrap: Another word for mittens
6. Fly tipping: The act of giving gratuities to flight attendants.
7. Tripe:  One’s third bathroom visit of the night
8. Balderdash: A marathon race for male senior citizens
9. Trash: A choir director’s command to silence the first syllable of “Tra la la.”
10.Scrap: A rude statement made about something of low quality.

For Fibbing Friday, Sep 19, 2025

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I almost forgot Fibbing Friday!!! Here is the task at hand: Define the following:

1. Oxymoron: A dumb bovine
2. Ooky: Blown away with awe
3. Oodleplex: A conglomeration of apartment buildings
4. Obfuscate: To instruct one’s potential boyfriend on the advantages of “us” over “I.”
5. Obstreperous: Bad behavior of a woman while giving birth in the obstetric ward.
6. Oddsock: The stocking not lost to the dryer.
7. Orzo: What you paddle a canoezo with. 
8. Onomatopoeia: What to answer to your mom when she asks you if you are sneaking out. the back door to meet your boyfriend.  ( only of help if you have an outhouse.)
9. Oodles: What to call noodles after the first bite.
10. Oompah: Warning you utter to your boyfriend when your father finds you sneaking out with him at night.