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For Fibbing Friday, July 19, 2024

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It’s a Wonderful Life

For Fibbing Friday, the challenge is:

Who do you think could have recorded these (your answers do not have to be singers)

1.   Penny Lane: Laverne DeFazio (A song about the street where she lived.)
2.   I want to break free: Harry Houdini
3.   Summer the First Time: Elizabeth Taylor
4.   Waterloo: Nurf (Describing what he treated the lake as in Camp Camp.)
5.   Only the Lonely: J.D. Salinger
6.   Laughter in the Rain: Stormy Daniels (Getting the last laugh.)
7.   True Blue: The Smurfs
8.   These boots were made for walkin’: Puss in Boots
9.   Angel Eyes:Clarence Odbody
10. If you don’t know me by now:Taylor Swift

If you are a young thang you may have to Google some of these to understand the answers.

Fibbing Friday for July 12, 2024

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Here ’tis. We are asked for a brief description of what the following films/books could be about.

1.   Gray Lady Down. Movie about Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s funeral.
2.   Ladyhawke. Alan Alda’s love interest in MASH.
3.   Black Hawk Down.  The underfeathers of an ebony colored predatory bird.
4.   All The President’s Men. Movie based on the January 6th attack on the Capital.
5.   The Green Mile. What Billy Ray Cyrus’s daughter was called before she reached pubescence.
6.   The Colour Purple. What you get when you cross a spelling error with a royal hue.
7.    50 First Dates. Half a hundred initial samplings of the fruit of a palm tree.
8.   Geronimo. Along with Geronilarry & Geronicurly, one of The Three Geronistooges–a comedy trio from the late 1930s.” (Many thanks to Forgottenman who came up with this one when I’d given up on it!!)
9.   The Sum of All Fears. What we hope November 5 won’t add up to be.
10.  Stagecoach. What they call a director on Broadway.

 

For Pensitivity’s Fibbing Friday

For Fibbing Friday, July 5, 2024

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Here are the words we were given to decode for this Fibbing Friday:

  1.   Betrump: Who be the biggest asshole in the world?
  2.   Cony-catch: What my dog accomplished when my little sister dropped her ice cream.
  3.   Crapulous: My descriptive word for every bazaar or second-hand shop I pass.
  4.   Dowsabel: The label on an item of clothing that does not have to be dry cleaned.
  5.   Ear-rent: What you pay your psychologist .
  6.   Flexanimous:  The unconscious weight-lifting masculine side of a woman’s psyche, 
  7.   Gazophylacium: The largest gas station in the world.
  8.   Grum: How an angry but sad bear feels.
  9.   Hugger–mugger: Like a kissing bandit, but this one is afraid of catching Covid. 
  10.   Lucubrate: What Mrs. Malaprop does to her face each night to ward off wrinkles.

Daffynitions for Fibbing Friday, June 28, 2024

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How would you define these words?

1. Milieu:The fifth and sixth and  words of the lyrics that begin , “Skip, skip, skip to ….

2. Inviolable: Music impossible to play on a viola.

3. Dulcimer: What surfers call an exceptionally flat and unexciting ocean surface as flat as the surface of a looking glass.

4. Condominium: What inmates call a prison block.

5. Sycophant: An insane pachyderm.

6. Elegiacal: A delectable food only rumored to be fattening.

7. Zhuzh: Kitten on the keys.

8. Obstreperous: Description of a difficult pregnant woman with a throat malady.

9. Symposium: Empathy for someone in agony over the length of a Jane Fonda exercise video pose. 

10. Neophyte: The first stages of an altercation.

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For Fibbing Friday, June 14, 2024

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This week’s  Fibbing Friday puzzlers are:

1. What is a nincompoop? A bathroom pass for a Ninja.
2. What is a Tory?  What your mommy tells you at bedtime.
3. What is a gonk?  A cross between a geek, a dork and a nerd.
4. What is a pom-pom? A rhymed poem that consists of two stanzas with no “e”s in them.
5. What is a hanging basket? The basket they carry the rope in on the way to a lynching.
6. What is micropore? One of the tiny holes in the mouthpiece of a microphone.
7. What is a posy? A barely audible release of the breath.
8. What is a barometer? Police slang for a  breathalyzer.
9. What is a cable?  A mini taxi.
10. What is a fib? A misspelled federal crime detection agency.

Fibbing Friday, June 7, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday the challenge this week is:

1. What is a codpiece?  A fish’s six-shooter
2. What is a doublet? A very small set of twins.
3. Who wears the hose?  The head fireman.
4. What is a gauntlet? A very skinny head of romaine.
5. What’s kept in the moat? Nothing. There’s no room for any mo at the moat.
6. Where is the portcullis? Portcull is no longer here. It has been culled.
7. Who wields the battle axe?  Batman
8. Where is the draw bridge? At the entrance to the art academy.
9. What is a catapult? The cata pult the mouse out a his hole and eata it.
10. What is a flagon? It’s on a flag pole.

Baaad Puns, For Fibbing Friday May 31, 2024

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The questions this week were provided by Jim Adams. Thanks, Jim!

1. Rumpelstiltskin spun straw into gold in exchange for what? He would exchange for only two things: bitcoin or newly pressed stilt covers. 
2. What did humans do before the bobbin was invented? Called ahead for appointments.
3. What is the difference between knitting and crocheting?  a missing knit and an added croche.
4. What does a drop spindle do? Creates a mist to cool off crowds in a heat wave.
5. What does a painted pony have to do with a spinning wheel? They are both parts of a carousel.
6. If you stick a needle in your eye, does that show sincerity? No. It shows stupidity.
7. What was Barthélemy Thimonnier known for? The invention of a wallet one straps to one’s inner thigh to protect against pickpockets.
8. What happened in the Golden Age of sewing?  Thread price futures soared.
9. What breed of sheep makes the best wool? The ones who bring in the best return financially are Polypay sheep.  (A real breed.)
10. What happens when the cotton field gets rotten? Wool prices soar.

 

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for Fibbing Friday, May 24, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday, May 10, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday the theme is to define the below:

1.   Mini Clubman: A preteen golfer
2.   Morris Minor: A paraphrase of “More is less.”
3.   Range Rover: A mounted cowboy
4.   Hillman Imp: A mountain sprite
5.   Datsun Violet: What Violet’s husband said to her when she queried him regarding what the glare was as they took the bandages off after her surgery that gave her vision for the first time.
6.   Triumph Herald: A messenger carrying the news that there will be three umpires for the game.
7.   Austin Cambridge: A viaduct constructed from used tin automobile cams.
8.   Ford Capri : The tag of a Christmas present for Leonardo Decaprio that the dog got to first and chewed a corner off of.
9.   Alfa Romeo: Fifty percent of an entire Romeo.
10. Talbot Horizon: An illustration of a mountain created by Artificial Intelligence.

For Fibbing Friday. Apr 26, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday, today’s enticements are:

1. Who do you associate with ‘green fingers’? The Jolly Green Giant, of course.
2. Who or what was the Red Baron? The Scarlet Pimpernel’s exercise trapeze.
3. What was the significance of yellow ribbons around oak trees? So they could tell the girl trees from the boy trees when trimming out the hedgerows and thus guarantee the next year’s acorn harvesting.
4. Why did Alice follow the White Rabbit? Because she was next in line.
5. Who was The Black Knight?  Balthazar, earlier in his career.
6. What is a Blue Moon? A crude gesture by the guy who sat in the blueberry pie during the picnic.
7. Do brown cows produce coloured milk? Nope, but they are definitely British or Canadian.
8. Why was the Pink Panther pink? Embarrassment.
9. Why are pandas black and white? Mixed panda marriages.
10. What is a Silver Shadow? The effect of sunlight on one of grandma’s best forks borrowed by her grandkids and left sticking up vertically in the sand pile.