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Fibbing Friday for Nov 15, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday, the challenging words to lie about are:

1.  What is a decibel? Mr. Arnaz’s wife,  Lucille Ball
2.  What is an imbecile? Answer to the question, “What you be doing on April Fool’s Day?”
3.  What is meant by an ‘impasse’? An admission by someone who is obviously out of date in their clothing choice.
4.  What is a monogram? One’s one surviving mother of one’s mom or dad.
5.  What is smorf? The sound an aardvark with a cold makes.
6.  What is a precedent? The leader of our country.
7.  What is anaglypta ? A nag is usually mainly lip ta her husband.
8.  What is a skewbald? Someone as hairless as a cue ball.
9.  What are kitten heels? The backs of kitten feet, obviously!!!
10. What is a pascal? A demand made by your father.

(I found Lucille Ball’s photo on several websites without attribution.)

For Fibbing Friday, Oct 25, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday the words to “refine”  are:

1. Sonder:  S on der is reds spelled backwards.
2. Opia: Anyone else’s myopia except for mine.
3. Monachopsis: What  happened when my sister went out with Mona’s boyfriend!
4. Énouement: Falling action on the “e channel.”
5. Vellichor: Vaht es in the middle of your stomach.
6. Rubatosis: What ballerinas do after an especially vigorous session.
7. Kenopsia: An animal’s extreme aversion to being pent up in a cage.
8. Liberosis: The distinctive odor of a collection of books in a tropical region during a period of high humidity.
9. Jouska: A fruity breakfast drink in Russia.
10. Chrysalism: An addiction to picking cocoons out of blankets. (If you don’t understand this one, it might help to go HERE and then  HERE.)

 

Photo thanks to Dancewear Nation.

For Fibbing Friday, Sept 20, 2024

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Super Mini  Mochi Squishy Toys

For Fibbing Friday  the words to define are:

1. Bumfuzzle  A tramp’s chin stubble

2. Fartlek: The outcome of overindulging in Czech Chili.

3. Erf: The bark of a hare-lipped dog.

4. Bumbershoot: An unnecessary shot taken at a retreating bear.

5. Smicker: A drunk’s response when first catching sight of Mickey Mouse in Disneyland.

6. Cleek: A camera shot taken by a Frenchman.

7. Salopettes: Yellow cats and dogs .

8. lollygag: What happens when you choke on a sucker.

9. Cutesy-poo: What you find in a baby’s diaper who has swallowed a Super Mini Mochi Squishy toy.

10. Noob: What you have after a boob job.

For Fibbing Friday, July 26, 2024

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Spider

For Fibbing Friday, July 26, 2024, the prompt reads:

Something a little different this week courtesy of Jim Adams who has been inventive in making up words and asks us to describe what these, if they existed, are or could be used for.

1) Antiplixen One opposed to the eighth  (before Rudolph) of Santa’s reindeer.

2) Mortangru  A dead kangaroo

3) Clydearum  What Clyde’s wife said to him just before she presented him with the bill to her last shopping trip. “Clyde, dear, um . . . .!”

4) Monogrifrt An antisocial vagabond con man.

.5) Ulangabop An African dance of the 40s and 50s.

6) Krixashobie. Overheard response of one southern boy to another southern boy’s admiring comment of “That new girl Kirixa? She sure fine!” 

7) Xgreapey  A ranking of wine.

8) Knobweg The home of a spider with a cold.

9) Betalafil  What they called the winning falafel in the falafel cookoff.

10) Dvpslyaran  One addicted to the collecting of DVDs.

For Fibbing Friday, June 21, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday, we were asked to define these terms:

  1.  Narcolepsy: A disease brought on by the excessive consumption of illegal drugs.

  2. Antediluvian: The state of a cucumber before it is subjected to the pickling process.

  3.  Serrefine: What a drunk covers his leftover food with before refrigerating it.

  4.  Guetapens: I like Scripto, Pilot or Uni Ball.

  5.  Promiscuous: Naughty behavior at a high school dance.

  6.  Tendentious:  The state of a dental patient before surgery.

  7.  Kismet: What one dinosaur said to another during foreplay.

  8.  Autochthonous: Having the natural ability to pronounce digraphs correctly.

  9.  Macerate: Describing food cut up for you by your mother.

  10. Gladiolus: The attribution of human emotions to flowers.

For Fibbing Friday. (Thanks, Forgottenman, for furnishing the link and the prod.) T-Rex Image by NBC News.

For Fibbing Friday, May 17, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday the prompt questions are:

1. What did the fan say? Cool!

2. What really kicks off summer? Boot Camp.

3. Who rules the world? A Surveyor

4. What is the best thing to do to someone who snores? Get them their own room.

5. Who/what was your last unexpected house guest? Hurricane Sheila. Last house guest ever–expected or unexpected.

6. How does a blanket keep warm? It snuggles up to a warm body.

7. Why shouldn’t you snoop? Because ‘snot polite.

8. What is the worst thing that could happen to you? Nothing.

9. What do the gopher and mole do when they meet? Gopher supplies at the Mexican market and make molé.

10. What lurks in your backyard? Three dogs.

Bonus question
11. What is the best way to torture someone? Chuckle every time you see them.

Baby Talk for Fibbing Friday for May 3, 2024

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This week’s theme from Pensitivity is Out of the Mouths of Babes. You might be familiar with them, but if you didn’t know what they were, what are your thoughts?

1. What is a Moo Moo?  A greeting by Farmer Brown’s stuttering cow MayBell.
2. What is a Bow Wow? Robin Hood’s performance at the archery competition
3. What is a Gee Gee? Colette’s 1944 Novel, spelled by a non-French person.
4. What is a Botty Cough? The result of AI getting a cold. (That is as in Artificial Intelligence, not Jolson)
5. What is a Chookie Egg? Part of an Australian breakfast.
6. What is a Choo Choo?  A meal in the dining car of a train.
7. What is a Tick Tock? The language of a blood-sucking arachnid.
8. What is a Paw Paw? Your father’s hand.
9. What is a Heffalump?  A cow udder.
10. What are Jammies? Minor collections of broken up ice in a river.

For Fibbing Friday, Mar 29, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday this week’s probing questions are:

This week we have questions that just popped into my head for your perusal please.

1.   Why are Easter Eggs made of chocolate? Because no one ever ate the original ones the Easter Bunny brought that were made out of carrots.
2.   What is a fib? A small protective garment created especially for prevaricators to wear around their necks in spaghetti restaurants.
3.   Where will you find a cog? Exactly where you dropped it.
4.   What is a preface? Your countenance before plastic surgery.
5.   Can an elephant make a trunk call? Not when they have a cold.
6.   What is a trinket? Just a tiny little sip in Germany. “Instead of a regular-sized trink, I’d prefer just a trinket.”
7.   What is hearsay? The opposite of what they are saying over there.
8.   How many shades of grey are there? None. They took down all the old shades and replaced them with new turquoise venetian blinds.
9.   What is a bunion? A bread roll flavored with fresh scallions.
10. What is ylang ylang? It is the Ying Yang of someone with a new tongue stud.

Fibbin’ Friday, Jan 26, 2024

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The challenge for Fibbing Friday this week is to interpret these words or phrases::

1. “A few sandwiches short of a picnic” What you get when you send a hungry kid to the deli to pick up your order for the party.

2. “Bagsy” My mysterious guest in my garden a few weeks ago.  (See him HERE.)

3. “Bog-standard”  My East Indian doctor, Dr. Adnatsgob’s  door sign, seen in a mirror.

4. “Budge up”  My dad’s advice to me when I asked him for a loan.  “Nope. No way. Better budge up instead!”

5. “Chinwag” My dog’s response to the smell of a bag of McDonald’s hamburgers.

6. “Faff” That sound a can of hair spray makes when it has just run out of spray.

7. “Full Monty”  Monty Python after the cast picnic when you haven’t sent a hungry kid to the deli to pick up your order for the party.

8. “Give me a tinkle on the blower”:  Donald Trump’s entreaty at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow.

9. “On it like a car bonnet”  What you answer, pointing to your head, when a friend asks you where the bird shit on you.

10. “Tickety-boo”  What your offense is called when a cop gives you a ticket for  sneaking up behind him and scaring him.

What are These??? For Fibbing Friday, Jan 5, 2024

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Toecover: My attempt at remembering the word for socks now that I am at a certain advanced age.

Scurryfunge: A form of mildew found on rodents.

Dutch Feast: Edam and stoopwafel.

Iktsuarpok: An expression of revulsion over a walking companion who walks at a too- slow rate. (Icks! You are poke!!!  (As in slowpoke.) I admit, it is a stretch.  How about, Someone agreeing that people named Katy make good contortionists? (Aye, Katies, warp okay!! ) This is a redo because Derrick took occasion to my first answer. Must admit, I don’t blame him. This one is a real stretch!  Let’s blame it on Pensitivity.

Rakefire: When the boss terminated your employment for jilting his daughter

Hufflebuffs: An affectionate synonym  for bare bottoms

Quafftide: Skinny-dipping at high tide.

Kalopsia: An involuntary nap brought on by over-eating

Cover Slut: The Kardashians’ tongue-in-cheek endearing nicknames for each other

“Wonder”clout: Using one’s seniority to get to the head of the “bread”line at the homeless  shelter.

For  yet another Fibbing Friday. I can’t resist.