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Time for More Lies!

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1. What is Allium Sepa (Cepa)? What the head of the sperm bank said to his main donor as they walked past a wall of last year’s crop of babies when the donor asked him which of them were his progeny.
2. What is Arran Pilot? A person from Isfahan who flies a plane.
3. What is a love apple? A swelling on the lip caused by too-strenuous kissing.
4. To what genus do cabbages, broccoli and cauliflowers belong? Einstein (And I must point out that you have a spelling error in your question.)
5. Which vegetables were the first to be canned? Asparagus.  It was done alphabetically.
6. Pepinex and Telegraph are varieties of what? A type of energizing medicine and a means for pachyderms to communicate over long distances.
7. What is a White Lisbon? A city in Portugal after a freak snowstorm.
8. What is calabrese? A slight California wind.
9. What was described as a cabbage with college education?  Those studying to take the bar exam are known as  slawstudents.
10. What is a Pentland Javelin? A new model of sportscar.

 

For Pensitivity’s Fibbing Friday

For Fibbing Friday, Nov 3, 2023

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Here are the questions for Fibbing Friday, along with my answers:

1. Whose home planet is Skaro? Practitioners of the predecessors of reggae. This planet better known as Earth, their region as Jamaica.
2. What would you expect to find in Dinotopia? Really good fifties type food.  Hamburgers and fries, hot beef sandwiches, strawberry malts.
3. Who was born on Krypton? Spawn of the living dead. In addition to being zombies, his folks were really bad spellers.
4. Where can you find Plutonium ? In comic books and cartoons along with Bugs and Porky.
5. What colour blood would a Martian have? This is a trick question. Martians (little green men) do not have blood but rather liquid chlorophyl coursing through their veins, thus their color.
6. Who’s home planet is Gallifrey?  “In Gallifrey did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree!”
7. Who’s home world is Eternia? Home planet of the Kardashians…nature’s guarantee that we will never be rid of them.
8. What was the Hyborian Age? The present age of the hibernation of dinosaurs. In a few hundred years it will be over and they will re-emerge to take over the planet.
9. Where would you find Pellucidar? Let me be perfectly clear that such a planet is illusory and fictional.
10. What is Thedas? Anything that Theda wants!!!

 

For Fibbing Friday  Image by Nsey Benajah on Unsplash

Pants on Fire (For Fibbing Friday, Oct 20)

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We were tasked to define these words for Fibbing Friday today:
(Where does Pensitivity come up with these words????/)

1. Eunoia: A condition of continuing Intense aggravation in dissenters to Great Britain’s joining   the European Union
2. Fika: A misspelled federal insurance program
3. Redamancy: The state of being a Native American
4. Aliferous:  The description of someone who has had one too many beers.
5. Peiskos: What they call tiny pastries in the Soviet Union.
6. Querencia: A psychotic condition that comes about from asking too many questions in rapid  succession.
7. Metanoia:  A term used to describe  women who have turned down too many marriage           proposals.
8. Ataraxia:  What they called Scarlet O’hara’s state of claustrophobia at the end of the Civil War  after being confined to Tara for too long.
9. Lagom: What the French call “Double Bubble,” generically.
10. Apricity: What one calls the country area on the outskirts of Paris.

(Please forgive me for I know not what I pun!)

Fractured Song Titles, for Fibbing Friday, Oct 6, 2023

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Our topic to lie about this Friday is song titles, so here goes!

Here is the prompt: “This week I’ve chosen Song Titles, but rather than fib about who sung them, can you improvise on what they are about?”

1. Spirit in the Sky: Cocktail hour on the space shuttle.
2. MacArthur Park: What did the WW2 American Pacific commander do when he finally drove into Tokyo? (Actually, Forgottenman came up with this great answer after reading the lame one I had apologized for in an earlier version of this posting. He graciously gave me permission to claim it as my own which my conscience will not let me do!)
3. A Whiter Shade of Pale: Skin tone of Anglos after a long winter season.
4. Crocodile Rock; What we called it when we danced to  Billy Haley’s “See You Later, Alligator, After Awhile Crocodile” in the fifties.
5. Run: What we hope and pray Trump ultimately won’t be able to do again!!!
6. Don’t it make your brown eyes blue:  Contact lens ad.
7. Heaven can wait: Sign at the gate of Purgatory.
8. One night in Bangkok: Approximately 1/10th of the price of a stay at a Motel 6 in the U.S.
9. I know him so well: What Stormy Daniels  says she is “absolutely willing to testify to in court.”
10. Here comes the Sun: What Mom says to Dad every morning as she sees the paper boy pedal up on his bike.

For Pensitivity’s Fibbing Friday