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Fishing for Answers! for Fibbing Friday

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Fishing with dad and my sisters, 1951 or ’52

For Fibbing Friday this week, the task at hand was:

Mish mash this week, so your suggestions please!

1. What is a cannery? An attitude readjustment retreat for pessimists.
2. What is a rookery? The part of a zoo with kangaroos in it.
3. What is hooky? A very small fish hook.
4. What is pinochle?  A fist held against private parts when you need to urinate so badly that you need help in not doing so.
5. What is a ricochet? A very small portion of rice.
6. What is hubbub? The primary bubble in the middle of a cluster of bubbles.
7. What is a podcast? A baited hook cast into the exact center of a group of fish.
8. What is a wingnut? An acrobat that performs on the outside of a plane while it is flying!!!!
9. What is a switchback? Someone who has had two sex-change operations.
10. What is a cacophony? A small child who pretends he hasn’t pooped his pants.

For Fibbing Friday

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For Fibbing Friday, today’s assignment is:

1. Mad as a dieter on a bathroom scale the day after Thanksgiving.
2. It’ll all come out your nose. (Answer to the question , what happens to the drink of bubbly wine you just tried to swallow as someone told a funny joke?)
3. Two’s company, three’s less pie for me.
4.  Hi hog prices means more expensive bacon.
5.  Every cloud has rained on me lately.
6.  Sticks and stones, in great enough numbers, can build a house.
7.  In for a penny is no longer a possibility in the U.S.
8.  Don’t count your birthdays after 70.
9.  Let sleeping dogs stay off my bed on rainy days.
10. Hands, knees and nostrils. (Name three body parts.)

Another Week, Another Frying Fibday!!!

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Today’s Fibbing Friday responses are:

1. Borg:  A huge chunk of ice.
2. Caught in 4k: The condition of a tangle of spaghetti enroute to the mouth.
3. Cheese Pull: Those long strings one needs to deal with when they try to take a bite of pizza.
4. Cheugy: An edible so chewy that it makes one gag.
5. Chopped: Descriptive adjective for someone with a bad haircut.
6. Chuzz: Barely, as in, “I am chuzz 5 years old.”
7. Crash out: The partof a car–fender or bumper, perhaps––that separates and goes flying off during a car accident.
8. Blue-Pilled: Descriptive adjective for someone who has just taken a mood enhancer medication.
9. Fridge cigarette: A nicotine break on the North or South Pole.
10. Buns. What one sits upon, of course!!!

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“Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire” for Fibbing Friday

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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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For Fibbing Friday

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For Fibbing Friday, this week’s assignment is:

Mixed bag of silliness this week:
Your suggestions for these please!

1.  What is a mamba? A mother sheep.
2.  What is a rumba? A negative response to any drink made with Bacardi.
3.  What is a samba? The result of Sam Shepherd taking his name seriously.
4.  What is a metronome? An elf living in a city.
5.  What is a mantra? Someone who has transitioned from female to male.
6.  What is a salsa? It is a condiment often matched with pepper, ma’am.
7.  What is a cappella? A small hat.
8.  What is canasta? A tubular lidded container for storing flour or other kitchen staples.
9.  What is alabaster? How liquid is dispersed over meat while cooking.
10. What is a stanza? An abbreviation for street and half of the name of a Gabor sister.

For Fibbing Friday, Jan 30, 2026

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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, Jan 23, 2026

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For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand today is formidable. Let’s see if I am up to it!!!

My English translations of German Words:

1. Verklempt  A German work injury.
2, Vittle A singular piece of food in Germany
3, Vuvuzela An illness brought about by excess celebration
4, Vexillology The study of stressful situations
5. Velociraptor A very fast flying dinosaur
6. Vamoosinator A milking machine
7. Vicissitude Vivian’s sister Tootie
8. Voce What  you use to talk
9. Vagary  A soup kitchen for unemployed wanderers
10. Verbose Your immediate superior at work

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Fibbing Friday

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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

“Poached Eggs and Other Verbal Sins,” For Fibbing Friday, Jan 9, 2026

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For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand is:

1. What’s the difference between a bow and a curtsey? A “curt”sey is shorter.
2. What’s the difference between a bison and a basin? An a and an o.
3. What’s the difference between a pocket and a pouch? Wear one, carry the other.
4. How do you poach an egg? By removing it surreptitiously while both the hen and the hen’s owner are distracted.
5. What is smog? A tiny portion of og.
6. What is triage? Three years old or thirty years old.
7. What is a tripod? A vacation in a strange place.
8. How many legs does an octogenarian have? Same number as a septuagenarian, but they are less usable.
9. What is a buzz cut? A break in conversation.
10. What’s the difference between a baggie and a bagel? One carries edibles and the other is edible.

Fibbing New Year!

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Jill & Jan, 11-inch Predecessors to Barbie dolls!!!

First fibs of the new year.

1. What is a clog? A roll of hundred dollar bills.
2. What is a flip flop? A pancake in process that winds up on the floor or ceiling.
3. What is a slipper? A sinuous kiss.
4. What is a sneaker? A philandering husband.
5. What is a geta? A procurer.
6. What is a babouche? The process of childbirth.
7. What is a zori? An eye that has been punched in a fight.
8. What is a mule? A good Xmas season.
9. What is a jandal? An 11-inch Volgue doll––predecessor to Barbie!
10. What is a pantofle? A pair of bell-bottoms.