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Silly Answers for Fibbing Friday, Apr 19, 2024

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(A Hint)

Our words to “define” for this Friday Are:

1. Sardoodledom  Traditional time of leisure for the highest official during the Russian Empire.
2. Callithumpian  The brutal hazing of freshman students from California by ruffian seniors in Texas.
3. Turdiform  What Shitologists study
4. Persiflage The whipping of an intruder with one’s pocketbook
5. Palpebrous Easily pinched and fondled
6. Chary My favorite kind of pie
7. Malapert Herb’s mom
8. Dowsabel  The loud ringing of the bell in the stock exchange that signals a brilliant trade.
9. Maquillage The result of a fight between a big hamburger and a porcupine
10. Dysania An addiction to shooting craps

 

For Fibbing Friday, Apr 19, 2024

For Fibbing Friday, Apr 12, 2024

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Image by Diana Polke on Unsplash.

For Fibbing Friday, this week, the prompts prodding us to give voice to untruths are:

1. Accismus: What always precedes a New year’s Eve by six days?
2. Apocryphal: Tarzan’s best friend and shoulder to cry on.
3. Bridewell:  Report on the bride’s condition the morning after her wedding. 
4. Festinate: The medical terminoligy for an inflated and infected wound.
5. Snool: What’s the other name for the Xmas season? 
6. Rendling: Changing the tragic conclusion of a book by popular demand.
7. Fanfaronade: Honorary title bestowed upon the winner of the people’s choice  award in  the international hand-squeezed lemonade competition. 
8. Bloviate: The cocaine Violet  put on her breakfast cereal after mistaking it for sugar.
9. Pudibund: The extra-large  cummerbund in every man’s closet that is a precautionary    necessity in the event that he overindulges in the Xmas pudding.
10. Rebarbative: The state of a rose bush when it is growing new thorns.

For Fibbing Friday: It’s (Not) the Truth!!!

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For Fibbing Friday, the subject is “Truth,” but these are definitely not the true definitions of the provided words.

Groak: Comment by a frog with (ironically) a frog in its throat
Nefelibata: Cake mixture made by a recent addition to the cooking staff at the bakery.
Paranymph: Identical twin sisters with equally loose morals.
Flummery: Insincere flattery.
Sirenize: The part of a seductive woman located between the thigh and calf.
Carker: A dog who loves riding in automobiles.
Smatchet: The unsharp side of the axe used for smacking naughty kids.
Shivviness: An unordinary fondness for Chevrolets.
Sprauncy: What I said to Celia, my Australian friend,  when she asked me what that shrimp cocktail was.
Druxy: Beth and Jo’s pet name for Nancy Drew.

Sorry this is late! My sister just tipped me off that I’d forgotten to do it.  Done in 12 min. while waiting for company to arrive!!! Phew!!!! A new speed record.

For Fibbing Friday, Mar 29, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday this week’s probing questions are:

This week we have questions that just popped into my head for your perusal please.

1.   Why are Easter Eggs made of chocolate? Because no one ever ate the original ones the Easter Bunny brought that were made out of carrots.
2.   What is a fib? A small protective garment created especially for prevaricators to wear around their necks in spaghetti restaurants.
3.   Where will you find a cog? Exactly where you dropped it.
4.   What is a preface? Your countenance before plastic surgery.
5.   Can an elephant make a trunk call? Not when they have a cold.
6.   What is a trinket? Just a tiny little sip in Germany. “Instead of a regular-sized trink, I’d prefer just a trinket.”
7.   What is hearsay? The opposite of what they are saying over there.
8.   How many shades of grey are there? None. They took down all the old shades and replaced them with new turquoise venetian blinds.
9.   What is a bunion? A bread roll flavored with fresh scallions.
10. What is ylang ylang? It is the Ying Yang of someone with a new tongue stud.

Fibbing Friday for Mar 22, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday the prompts are:

1. Abomasum: An indigenous Australian mom’s expression of disapproval. 
2. Absquatulate:  Taking up arm and leg exercise at such an advanced age that it does no good.
3. Amphisbaena: Hispanic frogs.
4. Antimacassar: A Russian ruler opposed to talking birds. 
5. Atingle: That sensation felt after a kiss.
6. Bailiwick: If the candle gets out of hand, take the water bucket and douse it!
7. Bafflegab: Unintelligible gossip.
8.. Calliope:  What ye should do if Andy Griffith falls ill. 
9. Cornucopia: Having to put up with painful swellings on the toes and heels.
10. Cryptozoology : Exotic animals purchased with bitcoin.

For Fibbing Friday, Mar 15, 2024

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Look closely. Yes, that is me with a python around my neck, circa 1973.
Alas, not in Africa as in question #3, but in Sri Lanka! That is not its head in my mouth,
but rather the snake-charmer’s musical pipe. The snake’s head is coiled around it,
its body hanging around my neck. Hard to see as we are dressed similarly.

For Fibbing Friday the challenges are:

1. What is a juggernaut?  Everything except a jugger.
2. What is an HGV?  An Home and Garden Magazine placed face-down on the table.
3. What is an off roader?  An African Snake.
4. What is a 4 X 4? A double double-date.
5. What is a turbine? A crossroads in a city area.
6. Where will you find an octave? In an aquarium. It is the anatomical spot where one arm meets another on an octopus. 
7. What is a dovetail joint? Well, obviously, it’s the spot where a dove’s tail joins with its body!!! Also, a place where doves hang out for a bit of refreshment after flying around all day.
8. What is a messerschmitt? Oh, it is one of the Schmitt boys confessing to the headmaster who is asking who drew the rude picture of the teacher on the blackboard. (Me, Sir–Schmitt!)
9. What is a tangerine? A Gerine that has been working out in the sun all summer. 
10. What is a mattock?  On a timekeeper’s watch, the sound that occurs right after a tick during a wrestling match as he times the seconds an opponent’s shoulders have been pinned to the mat.

“Off Notes” For Fibbing Friday, Mar 8, 2024

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My sister Betty started a family tradition by playing a saxophone later handed down to my sister Patti, then me, then my niece Cintra!!  It must now be at least 75 years old. I wonder where it is now!  I dedicate this piece to Patti and Cintra, who are together now in Arizona.

For Fibbing Friday, the challenge is a supposed musical interlude:

1. What is a French horn?  A former Parisian lady of the night who went to school and became a nurse.  (French ho RN) I came back and read this a week later and couldn’t figure it out, either, so thought I’d give a clue.)

2. What is a cornet? A very small callus on a toe caused by too much time spent in the marching band.

3. What is a clarinet?   ‘S  a  cream pastry with chocolate frosting served in a small mesh  takeout bag.

4. What is a snare drum?  ‘S an Eardrum pronounced in a southern accent.

5. What is a viola?  An unpleasant one night stand.

6. What is a double bass?  A set of conjoined fish.

7. What is the difference between a Concert, Upright or Grand? The first is a musical presentation. The second is a musical position and the third a musical pretension.

8. What is campanology?  An impossibility, because there is really nothing to compare to the truly flamboyant!! 

9. What is a trombone? It is what the llp bone is connected to.

10. What is timpani? A type of drum made out of a tin frying pan.

Fibbing Friday, Mar 1, 2024

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Murdo Grade School

 

These are more recycled questions from Teresa Grabs who was the Fibbing Friday originator :

  1. What is the most intelligent life form on Earth?  Duh. AI, of course!!!!
  2. Why did we really go to school?  For Recess.
  3. What did teachers do during recess? Oops. You aniticipated my answer to number 2! That said, I’m sure they sat at their desks missing us.
  4. How did you get to school? I walked…through wind, rain, snow, sleet…to my school which was directly across the street from my house. My parents never once drove me.
  5. What was life like before the Internet? Butterfly nets, basketball nets, net stockings, 
  6. What is the best thing about social media? No whiffs of bad breath.
  7. What is your favorite thing to put chocolate sauce on? My tongue.
  8. Doctors were all wrong…humans don’t need water. What do they need? Cheetos Torciditos.
  9. Dolphins are not mammals. What are they? The  second most intelligent life form on Earth, right after AI
  10. There is a Lost Dutchman’s Mine, but where is it? If we knew, it wouldn’t be lost, would it? 

 

For Fibbing Friday

“Best Attempts” for Fibbing Friday, FEB 23, 2024

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1.  What is an orderly? The opposite of a chaotic.
2. What is an auxiliary? A hospital for sick oxen.
3. What is a clip? A fingernail shaving.
4. What does ECG mean?  Eat Carefully, Girl! (Mother’s parting instructions to her daughter leaving for her first dinner date.)
5.  What is The Crash Team? Every college student the night before a final.
6.  What is a candy striper? Someone responsible for adding the red to candy canes.
7.  What is an IV? The Roman numeral after III and before V.
8.  What is a call button?  A shirt closure for hire.
9.  Why is everything white? Because you are in a hospital.
10. Why don’t they have biscuits on the tea trolley? Because they just donut!

FOR PENSITIVITY’S FIBBING FRIDAY

Hallofourthofvalenmas

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1953

 

Hallo-fourthof-valen-mas

This festival’s the weirdest of any that I’ve seen—
a crazy combination of Christmas and Halloween.
The hire-a-Santa in the mall wears bear paws on his feet
and when the kids climb on his lap, they mutter, “Trick or Treat!”
Below the Christmas wreaths above, door knockers are kept busy
as grandmas baking Yule logs are kept in a fine tizzy
by swarms of little carolers who can barely reach
the door knockers, who gather with arms up to beseech
the homeowners for candy after every song,
then stuff it in the Christmas stockings that they brought along.

Scores of scavengers dressed  up like shepherds or like kings
as well as Virgin Marys or angels sporting wings
abandon Christmas pageants to Trick-or-Treat instead.
You might ask me by what edict the world was made to wed
Halloween and Christmas? What legislative body
chose two celebrations equally over-gaudy
and mixed them both together to try to regulate
the number of occasions  on which we celebrate?

I think it was the W-H-O that thought up this solution
to try to deal with Covid and to try to curb pollution,
then issued this weird sentence and made us all comply
to celebrate all holidays on the fourth of July!
And so in combination with the skeletons and holly,
as witches and small ghosts are enjoined to act more  jolly,
fireworks are exploding in the sky far up above,
and as they trick-and-treat they also express love
by handing out their valentines—kill two birds with one stone
by trading hearts for Hershey bars with a ghostly moan.
And that’s how Hallo-fourthof-valen-mas has come to be
the only time when we’re allowed a group festivity.
And since part of it’s Halloween, without being asked
every guest, no matter what their politics, comes masked!!!

 

In question 4069, Ann Koplow has asked us to describe a new holiday. This is mine.