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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.

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.

For Fibbing Friday, the subject is “Truth,” but these are definitely not the true definitions of the provided words.

Groak: Comment by a frog with (ironically) a frog in its throat
Nefelibata: Cake mixture made by a recent addition to the cooking staff at the bakery.
Paranymph: Identical twin sisters with equally loose morals.
Flummery: Insincere flattery.
Sirenize: The part of a seductive woman located between the thigh and calf.
Carker: A dog who loves riding in automobiles.
Smatchet: The unsharp side of the axe used for smacking naughty kids.
Shivviness: An unordinary fondness for Chevrolets.
Sprauncy: What I said to Celia, my Australian friend,  when she asked me what that shrimp cocktail was.
Druxy: Beth and Jo’s pet name for Nancy Drew.

Sorry this is late! My sister just tipped me off that I’d forgotten to do it.  Done in 12 min. while waiting for company to arrive!!! Phew!!!! A new speed record.