For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand is to define these words:

1. lowkenuinely: A lowest ranking in one’s range of knowledge or insight
2. gruzz: Those scruffy short whiskers it is the fashion for men to leave on cheeks and          neck, as though they haven’t bothered to shave for a day or two. 
3. nerf: A nerd with gruzz.
4. 41: A steak sauce created from mixing Worcestershire Sauce and 57 Sauce.
5. AFAIK: Someone who is not genuine.
6. agentic: Able to grant wishes.
7. aura farming: A lightbulb factory.
8. bed rotting: An untended flower patch.
9. blep: A softly rolled terrycloth washcloth specifically used for erasing ink errors.
10. bloatware: Photographic filming equipment specifically engineered to make a character look fatter than they really are.

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The challenge for today for Fibbing Friday is:

1. What are florins, tanners and bobs? Different areas in a department store that sell linoleum, beauty products and haircuts
2. What is Dead Man’s Fingers? Numbness in the hands.
3. What killed the Triffids? Their super egos.
4. What’s the difference between a buck and a quid?  Bckqid.
5. How much is an old crown worth? It varies, depending on how many jewels it contains.
6. What can be known as a ‘Little Gem’? Anything under half a carat.
7. What is pearl barley? An American actress, singer, comedian and author.
8. Finish the sentence: ‘I came, I saw, I left.
9. Who said ‘Smile, it enhances your face value’? My dentist, after he saw my reaction to the bill he had just handed me.
10. Where on the human body is the zygomatic bone found? It is an area in your skull that is most affected when you over-imbibe in alcohol–causing you to walk in a zigzag pattern.

For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand is:
1. Who were Lennon and McCartney? A Russian Revolutionary and a man in a wheelchair
3. Who were Tom and Jerry? A fictional boy the size of a thumb and Dean Martin’s partner
4. Who were Dumb and Dumber? Dumbo’s twin sons
5. Who were Little and Large? Tinker Bell and Peter Pan
6. Who were Hinge and Bracket? Two singers in The Doors 
7. Who were Rodgers and Hammerstein? A cowboy singer/actor of the fifties and sixties and someone demanding another beer
8. Who were Laurel and Hardy? Olympic gold medal winners
9. Who were Calvin and Hobbes? A non-diet merlot and favorite activities one does in one’s spare time
10. Who were Barbie and Ken? A cowgirl famous for her fence-stringing skills and her family

It’s Boxing Day, and the questions this week are a mixed bag of whimsy and anything else!

1. Why is there a fairy on top of the Christmas Tree? Angels are on strike.
2. Why is the 26^th December known as Boxing Day in some countries? Disappointment over gifts leads to aggression. 
3. What would be the gifts from the Three Wise Men today? Tesla stock, a gold cellphone and tickets to a Taylor Swift concert. 
4. What is Hogmanay? It is one pig farmer. Yes.
5. How much is a monkey? It is just one.
6. Do crows crow? Yes. and cows caw.
7. Why do milking stools have three legs? The cowherd broke off the third to use in herding the cows in.
8. What is meant by perfect pitch? Three strikes.
9. Where will you find a palm tree? In your hand.
10. What is rolling stock? Cattle in a cattle car on a train or a stash of marijuana.

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Here are my responses to Pensitivity’s Fibbing Friday.

1. Why was January chosen to be the first month of the year? All the other names for months were taken.
2. Why does the Chinese New Year not start until February? It takes longer for the New Year to get to that side of the world.
3. What’s the point of eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day? Hunger.
4. Why do we make New Year’s resolutions? So we have the pleasure of breaking them.
5. What will Santa Claus be doing now that Christmas is over? He’ll be eating black-eyed peas. 
6. According to tradition, in the Twelve Days of Christmas, the 1st day is Christmas, itself. So what is the 12th day known as? The last day of Christmas.
7. Why are so many of the gifts listed in the song, The 12 Days of Christmas, birds? There was a special on them at the pet store.
8. What earthly event marks when an angel gets its wings? Popeyes sells its BBQ Wings at a discount price. 
9. What happens on the Winter Solstice? The Winter Solstice.
10. How did the tradition of the Yule log originate? A really good salesman/con artist didn’t have a gift for the Xmas party host so just grabbed up a log as he passed through the woods and convinced them that this was a sacred tradition. Word spread.

Ava Gardner

1. What is a palava? She had quite a few.  Howard Hughes, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw were some of the more famous ones. 
2. What is a pavlova? Dad’s fifth wife.
3. What is meant by purge? The irrepressible need  to urinate.
4. What is meant by purse? The poet Shelley’s first name. His second name was Bysshe.
5. What is a crash? The remains of a psychic after cremation.
6. What is a creche? Mr. Gueverra’s birthplace.
7. What is a symbol? Not exactly the seed pod of  cotton, but very close to it.
8. What is a cymbal? Not exactly a sphere, but very close to it.
9. What is lichen? Midway between a hatin’ and a lovin’.
10. What is a lychee? Guevera, when he is sheltered from the wind.

Here are this week’s Fibbing Friday questions. The theme this week is Say What?
Thanks to Forgottenman for not only remembering to remind me about Fibbing Friday, but for setting it up for me to answer. Now that is a friend!