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Silly Answers: Friday Fibs: March 12, 2021

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Okay, here are my answers for this week’s silly questions!!! Please forgive.

1. Who, or what, is will o’ the wisp?
A very good hairdresser.
2. What is a noggin?
A thimble full of egg nog.
3. What is a bobbin?
An over-active robin.
4. What are otherwise known as crows feet?
Blackbird tootsies.
5. What is jerky?
A wagon ride over train tracks.
6. What is aplomp?
The past tense of Aplomb
7. What is a caricature?
A cartoon drawing of an automobile.
8. What is a misdemeanor?
The orneriest girl in my high school class.
9. What’s the difference between a blimp and a blip?
The letter “M.”
10. What is an arctic roll?
Also called a ski slope: a thin crust covered with icing and a fine powder.

 

For the Fibbing Friday prompt.

Fibbing Friday, Feb 5, 2021

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For the Fibbing Friday prompt, here are the questions and my answers:

  1. What is Groundhog Day all about? Some people just take up more than their fair share of space on this earth. This is our chance to tell them what we think of them.
  2. What is déjà vu? Every Thanksgiving Meal of your life.
  3. What is meant by the phrase, “Hindsight is always 20/20”? From this day forward, our past memories are going to be fixed on the year 2020. Much as we wish it were not so, we won’t be able to help ourselves.
  4. What are reruns? The second and subsequent ladders in silk stockings. Now a passé term.
  5. What does it mean to be redundant? Dying the roots of gray hair previously dyed brown.
  6. What word describes unnecessary repetition? Mississippi
  7. What is the name given to TV shows when they are shown again after their original air date? I Love Lucy
  8. What phrase is used when you you can look back at a situation and clearly see what should have been done? “Been there, should have done that!”
  9. What is the feeling that you have been somewhere or done something before called? “Been there, redone that!”
  10. What day supposedly determines how long winter will last based on a particular animal seeing or not seeing its shadow? October 13, Pet Obesity Awareness Day. For a wild animal, its shadow is its only mirror and can be a shocking sight after a winter of no exercise. Many a chubby beast, faced with the truth, retreats underground again.(Yes, it is a real holiday.)

 

Friday Fibs: Oct 30, 2020

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1. What is a poltergeist?

A perching zeitgeist.

2. What supposedly happens if you look in the mirror and say, “Bloody Mary” three times?

It turns out that whatever you are trying to blame on Mary is still your own fault!!

3. What’s so unlucky about the number 13?

In a baker’s dozen, the extra bonus muffin is always one that has fallen on the floor.

4. Why do banshees scream?

For ice cream.

5. What happens to a vampire in daylight?

They get hot-blooded.

6. A Nightmare on Elm Street wasn’t about a monster who could kill people in their dreams. What was it about?

The night Elmer Timshot’s horse got loose.

7. Who did Norman Bates dress up as in the movie, Psycho?

It is said that each day after filming, he dressed up as Anthony Perkins and went home.

 

Young Frankenstein.

8. The Amityville Horror wasn’t about a haunted house. What was it about?

The horror of living among the Stepford Wives. Too much cheerfulness and perfection can be just too much.

9. What are the three witches doing at the beginning of MacBeth?

Toiling, troubling and doubling-over.

10. What classic monster lives under the Paris Opera House?

Donald Trump is going to live there after he loses the election. It is debatable whether they’ll have him as the other monsters think he gives monsters a bad name.

 

 

For Fibbing Friday

Friday Fibs

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Okay, I’m falling for it. Here are my answers to Fibbing Friday.

Here is their intro and the questions, with my answers.SEARCH

Fibbing Friday
FIBBING FRIDAY

Fibbing Friday: October 16th, 2020

Welcome to Fibbing Friday! Di and I take turns hosting, and this is my week. Answer the questions below as you see fit; just be sure to stretch, bend, break, or outright ignore the truth. Once you have your finely crafted fibs all ready to go, just tag your post as “Fibbing Friday” and link back here. Pingbacks are enabled, or you can just leave a link in the comments section.

  1. What musical group from the 1960s was known as “The Fab Four”?
    Four ladies from the Bronx who opened the first laundromat. They hummed while they worked. (They later did a commercial gig endorsing “Fab” laundry detergent.)
  2. What was the “British Invasion” in the 1960s?
    Petula Clark storming through “Downtown” New York City.
  3. What is Stephen King’s book, The Stand about? A summer job selling hot dogs.
  4. What was the TV show, Breaking Bad about?  A really bad dancer.
  5. Exactly who was Kilroy? A flasher bending over backwards next to a fence.
  6. What musical instrument is Phil Collins best known for playing? He and his brother Tom were noted for their prowess in creating music by wetting their fingers and running them around the tops of drink glasses in a Bronx bar. His brother was the better musician, so they named their signature drink after him–the Tom Collins. Phil later joined the Bronx Philharmonic and finally received his namesake.
  7. According to Genesis 1, what happened on the seventh day?  The Sun came out.
  8. What happened at the O.K. Corral? A so-so gunfight.
  9. According to Greek mythology, what was needed to cross the river Styx? Two hands, two styx and a bit of coordination. X
  10. What was the play, Inherit the Wind about? A famous chili cookoff competition.

 

Fibbing Friday: Feb. 1, 2019

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Here are my answers to this Friday’s questions:

  1. Jonah wasn’t swallowed by a whale…he was swallowed by ennui. 
  2. Who (or what) could make even the fiercest pirate quake in his boots? The dentist.
  3. What did Huckleberry Finn have to really paint?  Aunt Polly’s toenails.
  4. What is the best food that can be paired with red wine? Spam.
  5. What are you wearing on the sun? A sun bonnet.
  6. Why do dogs chase after cars? In hopes of a ride.
  7. What did the cat say to its kitten about the humans? “These creatures were created to be our servants, kids, but be polite to them. Otherwise, they may spit in the food!!”
  8. Goldfish are not fish. What are they? Misspelled adjectives describing  golf aficionados.
  9. What would you rather do instead of sleeping? Play loud music at 3 in the morning to wake up sleepers.
  10. The Phantom didn’t haunt the Opera House…he haunted the  Smart TV.
  11. What is the most intelligent life form on Earth? Cats.  (Had to tell the truth on this one.)
  12. Why did we really go to school? To get to the other side.
  13. What did teachers do during recess? Smoked doobies and played poker.
  14. How did you get to school? Pogo Stick and Parachute.
  15. What was life like before the Internet? It was a magazine back then as well.
  16. What is the best thing about social media? It is non-mandatory.
  17. What is your favorite thing to put chocolate sauce on? Pizza
  18. Doctors were all wrong…humans don’t need water. What do they need? Handi-wipe Pre-moistened Towels.
  19. Dolphins are not mammals. What are they? Those that aren’t mammals are poppals.
  20. There is a Lost Dutchman’s Mine, but where is it? In the Lost and Found.

 

 

 

 

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