Tag Archives: Fibbing Friday

for Fibbing Friday, Nov 8, 2024

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                                                                                                                             Image thanks to Unsplash.

For Fibbing Friday  the definitions requested are:

1.   What is a belly laugh? A sort of tinkling chortle.
2.   What is a belly flop? The result of too many trips to the donut shop.
3.   What is a jelly belly? The ultimate belly flop. (See # 2.)
4.   What is a yellowbelly? The result of making love in a dandelion patch.
5.   What is a liger? A cross between a leopard and a tiger.
6.   What is a hoatzin? A lady of ill repute at a meditation retreat.
7.   What is a kinkajou? An Israelite who prefers adventurous sexual practices.
8.   What is a puggle? A very small body of water that is being waded in by a two-year-old.
9.   What is a chimichanga? Mexican Jello.
10. What is a snollygoster? A really big booger.

 

for Fibbing Friday, Nov. 1, 2024

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                                                                                                  Photo thanks to Givenchy

The words we were given to concoct definitions for this Friday are:

1. Vemödalen: The note my German friends  left me when they unexpectedly had to leave for a photo shoot for Givenchy.

2. Anecdoche: A poetic device in which the ending word of each line must rhyme with the word “neck.”

3. Ellipsism: An addiction to the  excessive use of  . . .’s in one’s writing.

4. Kuebiko: A Japanese baby much given to making adorable sounds bound to win over adoring adults

5. Lachesism: An addiction to making sure all doors and windows in a house are secure.

6. Exulansis: A scientific study which deals with the ananlysis of what creates happiness.

7. Adronitis: An addiction for sending cameras into the sky to spy on one’s neighbors.

8. Onism: An unnatural need to acquire possessions.

9. Altschmerz: A sudden pain brought on when flying at a high altitude.

10. Occhiolism: A neurotic need to follow one nightcap with seven more.

For Fibbing Friday

For Fibbing Friday, Oct 18, 2024

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The words for Fibbing Friday are:

1. Rubaboo: What you do when you hit your arm hard against something!
2. Wampum: What you should do to a fresh date.
3. Taradiddle: What Rhett called his affair with Scarlett!
4. Yitten?:  What the shy cowboy asked the school marm to ask her out to dinner.
5. Dingus: What the hit and run driver did.
6. Pronk: What the stuffy British governess called the joke pulled on her by her charges.
7. Fipple: A cross between a fig and an apple.
8. Bupkis: What be the opposite of a down kiss.
9. Deckled: What the ship’s officer did to the pretty new passenger.
10. Brouhaha: A giggle prompted by lofting a few too many beers!!!

Fibbing Friday, Sept 27, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday, the task is to define these terms:

1.    Merry-go-sorry: It’s Xmas, and in the middle of wishing them season’s greetings, you realize someone is in great distress and so you  apologize and let them skip ahead of you into the restroom. .

2.    Momist: A momma’s boy

3.    Obfuscate: What Prince William calls his wife when she is pregnant and in a bad mood.

4.    Obnubilate: that affectionate gesture an expectant father makes when rubbing his wife’s baby bump.

5.    Peacockize: To change the channel to NBC

6.    Sillytonian: A musician who provides background music for cartoons.

7.   Slug-a-bed: A sleeping worm

8.   Snout-fair: A pig fest. (Or, a meeting of plastic surgeons.)

9.   Teen: A suffix that adds angst to the numbers four, six, seven eight and nine. 

10.  Wasteheart: The organ of the body that is clothed by a waistcoat.

11.  Whiffler: Someone who makes the final decision regarding fragrances in a perfume factory. (Or, alternatively, a farting baby.)

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.

More Fibs for Fibbing Friday, Sept 6, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday the challenge is:
Some real silliness this week inspired by song lyrics, daft thoughts that entered my head and fill ins from the internet.

1. What is a ‘da doo ron ron’? What a baby says when his daddy does something naughty.
2. What is meant by ‘de do do do, de dah dah dah’? What do horny mothers do? 
3. What is a Rock a doodle do? The sound an obsessively rhotic  rooster makes.
4. How would you define the word PRICKLE? An insufficiently de-bristled cucumber preserved in vinegar .
5. What is an airhead? A person addicted to oxygen.
6. What is Mahna Mahna? The husband of a Womahna Womahna.
7. What is a rockin’ robin?  A red-breasted bird in a popular nightclub.
8. What is a hoecake? Dessert served in a bordello.
9. Why did Tiny Tim ‘Tiptoe Through The Tulips?’ Because he didn’t want them biting him.
10. Why isn’t it easy being green? Because people keep expecting you to mature and change colors.

For Fibbing Friday, Aug 30, 2024

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Image by Mike Kotsch on Unsplash

For Fibbing Friday,  The task at hand is:

1.  What is a gigolo? A short laugh.
2.  What is meant by paramount?  Two mounted horses, walking abreast
3.  What is a scenario? The breaking of any one of the Ten Commandments  in the second most populous city of Brazil.
4.  How many fingers do fish have? None. They are all periodically removed, breaded, fried, fast-frozen and packaged to sell in supermarkets.
5.  What is a bell hop? A debutant ball in the South.
6.  Why do pets ‘shed’? Because they find his comments embarrassing.
7.  What is the difference between toilet tissue and toilet paper? One you read to pass time on the potty and the other you use when you are finished reading and ready to “depot.”
8.  What is a chalet? A short jerky movement executed while dancing the cha cha 
9.  What is a clog? What a blogger calls his or her writer’s block.
10. Why can Lego™ be dangerous? Because someone free soloing up the face of a  mountain might obey someone who thoughtlessly shouts it from below!!!!

More Blather For Fibbing Friday, Aug 16, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday, Aug 16, 2024  the prompts to define are:

  1. Ambidexter: Dexter’s answer to the gender question on his draft papers.

2. Blatherskite: What townsfolk call the cat of the town gossip.

3. Breviloquent: How one would describe a well-presented short speech.

4. Crapulence: Any speech by Donald Trump.

5. Graumangere: A dog trainer specializing in threatening dogs.

6. Grimoire: Material for a burial shroud.

7. Illaudible: Sounds heard while upchucking.

8. Podsnappery: Static heard over earbuds.

9. Poetaster: A literary cannibal.

10. Polemic: An Irish resident of the northernmost point on Earth.

For Fibbing Friday, Aug 9, 2024

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The prompts for Fibbing Friday this week are:

As we have a fortnight of the Olympics, here are the other 10 questions in the newsletter this month. Fib away for gold my friends!

  1. In which four years have the modern Olympics been cancelled? During the four years when they chose not to stage them.

  2. When were women first permitted to compete in the modern Olympics? During the Second World War when all of the men chose to enter the sharp-shooting events.

  3. When did the first Refugee team make its debut? When the original fugee team retired.

  4. What does the Olympic motto “Citius, altius, fortius” mean?  This city is impossible to fortify.

  5. What do the five Olympic rings represent? Five of the seven rings of Saturn.  Two had already been claimed by MasterCard.

  6. Who is the most decorated modern Olympian, with 23 Olympic gold medals? Liberace

  7. Which two countries discovered they had the same flag at the 1936 Olympics? Liberia and the U.S.  They had an arm-wrestling match and Liberia lost, so had to remove 47 of its stars. It got to keep all its stripes.

  8. At the 1908 Olympics the City of London Police team won the gold  medal in which event? Bobby Sledding

  9. Which city will host the Summer Olympics for the third time in 2028? Draper, South Dakota

  10. Who founded the modern Olympics? I don’t believe it was ever lost.

 

Feeble Tries at Olympic Humor, for Fibbing Friday, Aug 2, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday, the prompts are:

  1. The Olympic Games originated in Ancient Greece but in which year were the first known Games held?  It’s all Greek to me.

  2. What prize was given to winners in the ancient Games? The prize was that they were allowed to live. Losers were exported to the Roman Colosseum and disposed of to protect the gene pool.

  3. The flame which burned during the ancient Games was in honour of which goddess? Joan of Arc. (A Soothsayer predicted her future birth and death.)

  4. What was the only event type at the first Ancient Olympics? Discus throw.

  5. Which Roman Emperor declared himself the winner of an Olympic chariot race, even though he fell out of his chariot? Feebleus Erectus the First.

  6. When did the Ancient Olympics cease and why? Not enough athletes left. They’d all been sent to Rome and disposed of in the Colosseum.

  7. In which year were the first modern Olympics held? In the new century, 1900

  8. How often are the Olympic Games held? Too often.

  9. In which year were the last solid gold medals given? In 1907, the year plastic was invented.

  10. In 2024 Paris will equal which other city in hosting the Olympics three times? Barely worth noting as a record, as they were held in Olympia, Greece for 383 years.