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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.

Caged! For Fibbing Friday, July 4, 2025

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For this week’s Fibbing Friday, it’s all a con……….

Definitions or descriptions for these please!

1. Conservative: An adjective describing someone consumed by a goal to work in a prison.
2. Conspire: The sweat of a prisoner on a chain gang.
3. Condense: A prisoner who just doesn’t “get” it.
4. Context: Books donated to a prison library.
5. Contemplate: A “how to” book on crime written by an inmate .
6. Consider:  The spouse of someone in prison.
7. Condo: A list of rules for prison inmates
8. Contour: A guided tour of a prison. I actually took one when I was a student teacher!!
9. Consent: Someone found guilty of a crime and hustled off to prison.
10. Consul: Religion found while serving in prison.

“Daffynitions” for Fibbing Friday, June 20, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, the theme this week is What The H?

1. What is halitosis? A laughing streak brought on by eating too much durian.
2. What is an hallucination? Visions brought on by oxygen deprivation brought on by excessive laughter.
3. What is hell? A condition brought on by too many people voting for the wrong presidential candidate.
4. What is a hurricane? A walking aid that makes it possible for women to walk faster.
5. What is ham fisted? A baby feeding itself its Easter meal.
6. What is the hokey cokey? Doing the hokey pokey while under the influence of blow.
7. What is hoosegow? What one asks when one discovers a gow lying on the floor at a party.
8. What is a higgler? Someone on a cocaine-induced laughing spree.
9. What is a hogger? Someone who eats more than their share of Easter ham.
10. What is a hodge? A podge’s first name.

For Fibbing Friday, May 23, 2025

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Today’s Fibbing Friday theme is “every day items redefined.”

1. Carpet. A dog that deports itself well in a car so gets to go along.
2. Flannel. What we called my Aunt Nellie who made the incredible custard we all loved.
3. Microwave. A very small, unenthusiastic flutter of the hand.
4. Timer. What the French call the sea just off the coast of Bangkok
5. Coaster. What you call it when Grandma lets two grandkids stir the pot on the stove at the same time.
6. Dish cloth. Slang word for the dress worn by a beautiful woman. (See my prior post…)
7. Bag. What be the main interest of a farmer.
8. Blender. Two often-used suffixes.
9. Grater. What the pit bull answered when his master asked him what happened to the cat.
10. Peeler. What you should offer to do for your girlfriend who spent 8 hours in the sun yesterday without sunscreen.

For Fibbing Friday, May 16, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand is:

1. What is pilau rice?  One grain of your rice
2. What are eggs benedict? Why ask him? I can tell you that they are items laid by chickens to produce more chickens or omelettes.
3. What is a souffle? A slight altercation
4. What is baked Alaska?  Summer in Juneau
5. What is crème brulee? Coffee served with dairy and a flower necklace.
6. What is a victoria sponge? An English birth control device
7. What is a raspberry roulade? Something that helps one set up regulations for Driscoll’s.
8. What is cannoli ? A small canister
9. What is kamaboko?  A security/surveillance system in a library
10. What are sweetbreads? Humans genetically engineered to have kind dispositions.