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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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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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Top Cat, Top O’ the Wall

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.

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.

For Fibbing Friday. 

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.