Daffynitions for Fibbing Friday this week are:

1. What is an heirloom? An heirloom is device  used to weave cloth and tapestry that is inherited from a parent or grandparent.
2. What is The Big Dipper? A “Big Dipper” is that most generous employee of your favorite ice cream parlor whose line you always make sure you get into.
3. What is a titfer?  Fer feeding babies.
4. What is a mud flap? That center tongue that covers up the center gap in lace-up or buckle-up overshoes.
5. What is a barrel roll? The piece of bread that comes in the largest bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
6. Why did Polly want a cracker? She was tired of her elite northern boyfriend.
7. What is meant by ‘trip the light fantastic?’ To stick one’s foot out in front of Bobby Fulton or Tommy Rogers after their weigh-in before the fight to make the skinniest one stumble as they passed by.
8. What is a diffuser? In Mexico, it is someone who applies to the National System for Integral Family Development for aid for their family. (DIF is a Mexican public institution of social assistance that focuses on strengthening and developing the welfare of the Mexican families.)
9. What is a valet? An especially short  low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it.
10. What is a noggin? It is usually located between the shoulders, but can also be located in a liquor cabinet.

Photo by Elias Null on Unsplash                  

\for Fibbing Friday, the questions refer to movie quotes, but who could have said this?

1. “Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!” Noah
2. “Shut up – you had me at ‘hello.’” Ms.Parton, the first time she heard Louis Armstrong sing “Hello Dolly”
3. “Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?” Medusa’s hairstylist
4. “I’ll have what she’s having.” Adam
5. “It’s alive! It’s alive!” Eve, after Adam ate the apple.
6. “No man is a failure who has friends”. William Penn
7. “If you build it, he will come.” Hugh Hefner’s architect for the Playboy Mansion, to his carpenter, greatly overstating the matter.
8. “I feel the need, the need for speed.” Andy Warhol
9. “On Wednesdays, we wear pink.” Harvey Milk, in reference to his dress code
10. “Florals? For spring. Groundbreaking.” Johnny Appleseed, referring to his sideline.

Image thanks to the NY Public Library

for Fibbing friday, the task at hand is:

1. Who was buried in King Tut’s tomb? Christopher Robin, who was the one who uttered the phrase “Tut, tut, it might rain,” to cause Pooh to raise his umbrella to save himself from the bees. 
2. Why did the Sphinx have a lion’s body and a human head? Because in the alternative choice,  the human body couldn’t support the lion’s head.
3. What month of the year did the Nile River overflow its banks? Oct”Ober.”
4. How many gods did the ancient Egyptians worship? Every one.
5. How much makeup did Cleopatra wear? Enough to cover her eyes and face.
6. How long was Nefertiti’s neck? Long enough to reach from her shoulders to her head.
7. Why did the Egyptians walk so strangely? Their skirts were too tight. (See illustration above.)
8. .How many pyramids did they build? Too many.
9. What was Ramses II known for? Butting heads with the Nubians.
10. What did the Egyptians do in Karnak? Watched the Johnny Carson show.

For Fibbing Friday  this week’s questions are:

1. Who made the first manned hot air balloon? Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (Donald’s mother)

2.  Which is the more widely used around the world, cow’s milk or goat’s milk?  It depends on what you are using it for.

3.  What does the word “Canada” mean? It means “can be done.” They chose it over the statement of the first French explorer who, when asked to cross a river, said, “No cana do.”  

4.  True or False, an adult male baboon can kill an adult leopard? It can, but just because it can doesn’t mean it will.

5.  Which U.S. State has the nickname “Hawkeye”? Maine, in honor of Hawkeye Pierce, whose birthplace was Crabapple Cove, Maine. (Check it out.)

6.  In which decade of the 19th Century did Christmas Day become a national U.S. holiday? the “Decade of the boughs of Holly”

7.  Which strong cheese, made from ewe’s milk and stored in caves, is named after a village in France?  Cheez-its

8.  Who painted “Whistler’s Mother”? A 4-year-old Whistler, when he got into her makeup while she was sleeping and tried to make up her face, somewhat excessively, I might add. It took her hours to scrub off the makeup.  She was not pleased and spanked him soundly.  Years later he tried to compensate by painting her portrait. She forgave him.

9.  In Denmark they are known as “laks” what are they known as in English? Something to put on bagels.

10.  Approximately what percentage of humans are left-handed? The remaining percentage that isn’t right-handed.