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Fibbing Friday for November 21

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Image by Colin Horn on Unsplash

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.

 

 

Panto-Mimes, For Fibbing Friday, Sept 12, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand is: These are characters in pantos or animated movies, but who would you nominate for the role (fictitious or real person)/

Note: Because I had never heard of Pantos before, I am going to write a description of what characters I can find on the Internet before I cast the role.

1. Widow Twanky.  (Male) A traditional pantomime dame. She has a reputation of being a strict mother but neither son takes her that seriously. She runs the town launderette and is always complaining about being overworked but really she does very little. She speaks loudly and dresses the same way): D0NALD TRUMP
2. Buttons. (He is typically a male servant of the household):  DAN SCAVINO –Trump’s former golf  caddy (really), now deputy head of staff at the Whitehouse.
3. Cinders. (She  dreams of attending the royal ball and marries the prince):  MELANIA TRUMP
4. The Beast. DONALD TRUMP
5. Gru. (The main character of Despicable Me.): DONALD TRUMP
6. Cruella de Vil KRISTI NOEM
7. The Fairy Godmother RICHARD GRENELL  presidential envoy for special missions since 2025.
8. Abanazar. (the primary villain, an evil sorcerer, in the traditional British pantomime version of Aladdin. He poses as Aladdin’s uncle to trick him into retrieving a magic lamp):  ELON MUSK
9. Carabosse ( The wicked antagonist): PUTIN
10. King/Queen Rat.  DONALD TRUMP AND MELANIA

Mr. Trump is such a fine actor that I had to cast him in a number of roles. Pretender to all, master of none.

 

Fibbing Time Again (Half Lies This Time)

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The latest Fibbing Friday prompts are:

1. Which is the highest ever grossing show on Broadway? Sweeny Todd was the grossest Broadway Play I ever saw.

2. How many times has Rafa Nadal won the French Open?

3. Who played the Young Victoria?

4. Who sang the 1957 original of That’ll be the day? The Babylonians, who named each of the days after one of the five planetary bodies known to them (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) and after the Sun and the Moon.

5. What’s the Buddhist state of happiness called? California

6. Which lake has a mythical creature named after it

7. Which year was the Chevrolet Corvette introduced

8. What kind of cells are found in the brain? Brain Cells.

9. How many different actors have played James Bond? They’ve never hired a “different” actor to play James Bond.  Just the normal ones.

10. Which is the world’s oldest active volcano.

Sorry, I give up on the rest.  

“Chickening Out and More” for Fibbing Friday, Aug 29, 2025

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Today’s Fibbing Friday prompts are:

1. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it was being egged on to do so.
2. Why are eggs oval in shape?  Because they are formed in a Mama Chicken’s ovalries.
3. Who said Humpty Dumpty was an egg? I don’t know, but he said it in September or some other day in the fall.
4. What is fumigate? A scandal involving a Chinese restaurant famous for its egg fu young.
5. What is a wuss? Past tense of iss.
6. What is a spotter? An un-housetrained puppy.
7. What is the speed of light? Certainly a lot faster than the speed of heavy.
8. What is a hangover? The amount of bottom on three sides of an occupied bar stool.
9. What is a grammy? Grampy’s wife
10.What is lycra? Question asked of a best male friend by an Australian male who wants to flirt with a girl he suspects his friend likes, too.–– “Like ‘er, aye?”––(Did I spoil it by over-explaining?)