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“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?)

Attempted Humor, For Fibbing Friday, Aug 8, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand this week is:

1. Which Monarch famously said ‘I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.’ Well, easy.  DONALD TRUMP!!! (He lied about the heart part.)
2. What is the rarest blood type in humans? Blue Blood
3. Who wrote the novel Brave New World? Hiawatha
4. Which famous composer was deaf for much of his later life? Kurt Graunke–listen to his symphonies as proof.
5. What was the name of Rick’s nightclub in the movie Casablanca?  Fred
6. What is the world’s largest species of penguin? The PenGuinness. (It set a world record, don’t you know!)
7. Who was the first female Prime Minister of the UK? Clementine Churchill. (Winston’s puppet master.)
8. Which painter cut off part of his own ear?  August Macke the Knife.
9. What is the most widely spoken language in the world by number of native speakers? Nonverbal Communication
10. Who were the Axis Powers of WW2? The woodcutters.

Image by Sivani Bandaru on Unsplash.

I know. My answers, for the most part, are just awful. I hope someone does better than this….

“It’s Mostly About Me!” For Fibbing Friday, Aug 1, 2025

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These are funny phrases Pensitivity101 found on the internet and she admits to having no idea who said them, so who would you suggest as the speaker?

1. I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.  “Some” wives––but of course not me!!!!
2. My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I forgot to do.  Who has been reading my mind?
3. My diet plan: make all of my friends cupcakes, the fatter they get, the thinner I look. Who has been reading my diary? 
4. My wallet is like an onion. When I open it, it makes me cry. Mike Tyson.
5. You never realize what you have until it’s gone. Toilet paper is a good example. Anyone, during the Covid-19 Epidemic. 
6. Chocolate doesn’t ask silly questions, chocolate understands. Wisdom taught to me by my mother, largely by example.
7. I don’t need a hair stylist, my pillow gives me a new hairstyle every morning. Albert Einstein.
8. My favorite exercise is a cross between a lunge and a crunch… I call it lunch. Anyone on a diet/exercise program.
9. Whoever said nothing is impossible has never tried slamming a revolving door. Anyone who voted for Trump.
10. I don’t sweat, I sparkle. Sparkle Plenty, during menopause. (If you don’t know who Sparkle Plenty is, you are much younger than “ME”!

What’s in a Name? For Fibbing Friday, July 18, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, the theme is What’s in a Name?

The following are all nicknames for celebrities (true answers later) but who or what would you suggest they could be?

1. Nitro: What they call fish eggs after dark.
2. Skinny Legs: Cruel nickname of Jiminy Cricket
3. Iron: How Ronald McDonald introduces himself. 
4. Mailman: An extremely repetitious description of a fella.
5. BoJo: What they call former president Biden now that he’s taken up the violin.
6. Teflon Tony: Anthony Bourdain’s nickname.
7. Iron Lady : The Statue of Liberty. (Actually only wearing an outer garment of copper.)
8. J.Lo: Mr. Leno on a bad day.
9. Smokin’: What mom said at the family reunion when she answered the door for the twentieth time. 
10. Bottler Brown:  James Brown’s moonshiner brother.

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To “L” With It, for Fibbing Friday, July 11, 2025

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Another Friday brings yet another opportunity to fib.  Here is this week’s Fibbing Friday challenge:
To ‘L’ with it this week: Some may be familiar, so fib away with your definitions, please.

1. Lunkhead: A certain American president
2. Lugubrious: a feeling of dread and gloom brought on by the process of carrying numerous heavy boxes when in the process of moving from one house to another.
3. Lickspittle: What dogs do to the faces of owners who are sputtering in rage.
4. Lampoon: An ironic humorously-shaped lamp fixture
5. Lollywater: The product of rinsing off a child’s sucker when they drop it on the ground.
6. Lollypopper: A child pulling a Tootsie Roll Pop out of their pursed lips.
7. Lumpen: A small swelling.
8. Loofah: Polite slang for the letting of a small fart while on the potty.
9. Lippy: One’s condition after a botox injection.
10. Lughole: Something it is impossible to do.