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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.

At the Olympics Awards Ceremony (For RDP)

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At the Olympics Awards Ceremony

You are the one we’d love to beat.
We train, we strain, we sweat. We cheat.
Anything to win the heat
and gain the glory of your defeat.
You are so handsome, fit and neat.
Sure of hand and swift of feet,
with fame and glory, you are replete—
the hero of each match and meet.

You are not boastful, do not bleat
your successes down every street.
You are humble and discreet.
You do not replay and repeat
each mile covered. Nor do you greet
those you’ve defeated when we meet
with prideful leer or smile cloying—
but still, we find your fame annoying.

You win each medal, then repeat
year after year at every meet.
Your well-toned muscles, hair like wheat,
make you every lady’s treat––
propel you to the winner’s seat,
your win made obvious and concrete
while those below complain and cuss.
Could you not leave some fame for us???

For RDP, The Olympics

Cheated (At the Olympics Awards Ceremony)

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Cheated

You are the one we’d love to beat.
We train, we strain, we sweat. We cheat.
Anything to win the heat
and gain the glory of your defeat.
You are so handsome, fit and neat.
Sure of hand and swift of feet,
with fame and glory, you are replete—
the hero of each match and meet.

You are not boastful, do not bleat
your successes down every street.
You are humble and discreet.
You do not replay and repeat
each mile covered. Nor do you greet
those you’ve defeated when we meet
with prideful leer or smile cloying—
but still, we find your fame annoying.

You win each medal, then repeat
year after year at every meet.
Your well-toned muscles, hair like wheat,
make you every lady’s treat––
propel you to the winner’s seat,
your win made obvious and concrete
while those below complain and cuss.
Could you not leave some fame for us???

 

The prompt today was “Cheat.”