For Fibbing Friday, the assignment is: What do you make of these?

1. What is a skiff? A very poor ranking for a ski jump.
2. What is a liner? Art Linkletter’s half brother.
3. What is a ferry? The means by which a tiny mythical winged. creature is conveyed from shore to an island.
4. What is a destroyer? A puppy, up to the age of 1.
5. What is a cruiser? A party given for the employees of a cruise ship line.
6. What is a galleon? 4 quartes.
7. What is a pedlow? A trike for a very tiny child.
8. What is a kayak? A negative response to my middle name.
9. What is a schooner? A botched sneeze.
10. What is a coracle? The center part of a carbuncle.

For Fibbing Friday the 13th, some of the word clues were difficult, to say the least, so be patient and sound them out with me, please!!!! (Illustration done by AI)

1.  What is a canopy? What you hand the lab assistant for your UTI test.
2.  What is a cookie? How the chef gets into the restaurant kitchen.
3.  What is a pup cup? A stinky chamber pot.
4.  What is a typhoon?  It is on a typed sheet of paper that requires correction.
5.  Why are nails sharp at one end? To enable them to scratch itches.
6.  What’s the difference between a chip and a fry? Both are beauty shop errors, but one is a faulty manicure and the other a faulty permanent.
7.  What is a shoe horn? A trumpet that signals a retreat during a battle.
8.  Why do spirit levels have bubbles? Because they are served with a carbonated mixer.
9.  Why do we have tea leaves but coffee grains? Because that’s the color mom wanted the eaves painted and because the housepainters spilled some of the brown paint from the walls onto the wheat plants in the window boxes. 
10. What is a diplomat? A judge at a diving competition.

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.)

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.

Illustration created with the help of AI.

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.