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Fibbing Friday, Dec 9, 2023

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1. What is Free Will?   Is when you marry a lawyer and he writes up who gets your stuff when you die.
2. What is persona non grata? Is every person except for Grata.
3. What is bog standard?  Is bog not special.
4. What is builders tea?  Is Orange Pekoe on week days and Rusty Nails on Friday night!!
5. What is a couch potato?  Is any potato served with Chicken Divan.
6. What is a finger in every pie?  Is cook clumsy with knife.
7. What is meant by nip in the bud?  Is sipping beer.
8. What is to pitch in? Wastebasket is to pitch in!!!
9. What is rule of thumb? Rule of thumb is that must accompany four fingers.
10. What is to steal someone’s thunder? Is to hold hands over ears of friend during rainstorm.

 

For Pensitivity’s Fibbing Friday

Time for More Lies!

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1. What is Allium Sepa (Cepa)? What the head of the sperm bank said to his main donor as they walked past a wall of last year’s crop of babies when the donor asked him which of them were his progeny.
2. What is Arran Pilot? A person from Isfahan who flies a plane.
3. What is a love apple? A swelling on the lip caused by too-strenuous kissing.
4. To what genus do cabbages, broccoli and cauliflowers belong? Einstein (And I must point out that you have a spelling error in your question.)
5. Which vegetables were the first to be canned? Asparagus.  It was done alphabetically.
6. Pepinex and Telegraph are varieties of what? A type of energizing medicine and a means for pachyderms to communicate over long distances.
7. What is a White Lisbon? A city in Portugal after a freak snowstorm.
8. What is calabrese? A slight California wind.
9. What was described as a cabbage with college education?  Those studying to take the bar exam are known as  slawstudents.
10. What is a Pentland Javelin? A new model of sportscar.

 

For Pensitivity’s Fibbing Friday

For Fibbing Friday, Nov 3, 2023

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Here are the questions for Fibbing Friday, along with my answers:

1. Whose home planet is Skaro? Practitioners of the predecessors of reggae. This planet better known as Earth, their region as Jamaica.
2. What would you expect to find in Dinotopia? Really good fifties type food.  Hamburgers and fries, hot beef sandwiches, strawberry malts.
3. Who was born on Krypton? Spawn of the living dead. In addition to being zombies, his folks were really bad spellers.
4. Where can you find Plutonium ? In comic books and cartoons along with Bugs and Porky.
5. What colour blood would a Martian have? This is a trick question. Martians (little green men) do not have blood but rather liquid chlorophyl coursing through their veins, thus their color.
6. Who’s home planet is Gallifrey?  “In Gallifrey did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree!”
7. Who’s home world is Eternia? Home planet of the Kardashians…nature’s guarantee that we will never be rid of them.
8. What was the Hyborian Age? The present age of the hibernation of dinosaurs. In a few hundred years it will be over and they will re-emerge to take over the planet.
9. Where would you find Pellucidar? Let me be perfectly clear that such a planet is illusory and fictional.
10. What is Thedas? Anything that Theda wants!!!

 

For Fibbing Friday  Image by Nsey Benajah on Unsplash

Pants on Fire (For Fibbing Friday, Oct 20)

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We were tasked to define these words for Fibbing Friday today:
(Where does Pensitivity come up with these words????/)

1. Eunoia: A condition of continuing Intense aggravation in dissenters to Great Britain’s joining   the European Union
2. Fika: A misspelled federal insurance program
3. Redamancy: The state of being a Native American
4. Aliferous:  The description of someone who has had one too many beers.
5. Peiskos: What they call tiny pastries in the Soviet Union.
6. Querencia: A psychotic condition that comes about from asking too many questions in rapid  succession.
7. Metanoia:  A term used to describe  women who have turned down too many marriage           proposals.
8. Ataraxia:  What they called Scarlet O’hara’s state of claustrophobia at the end of the Civil War  after being confined to Tara for too long.
9. Lagom: What the French call “Double Bubble,” generically.
10. Apricity: What one calls the country area on the outskirts of Paris.

(Please forgive me for I know not what I pun!)

Fractured Song Titles, for Fibbing Friday, Oct 6, 2023

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Our topic to lie about this Friday is song titles, so here goes!

Here is the prompt: “This week I’ve chosen Song Titles, but rather than fib about who sung them, can you improvise on what they are about?”

1. Spirit in the Sky: Cocktail hour on the space shuttle.
2. MacArthur Park: What did the WW2 American Pacific commander do when he finally drove into Tokyo? (Actually, Forgottenman came up with this great answer after reading the lame one I had apologized for in an earlier version of this posting. He graciously gave me permission to claim it as my own which my conscience will not let me do!)
3. A Whiter Shade of Pale: Skin tone of Anglos after a long winter season.
4. Crocodile Rock; What we called it when we danced to  Billy Haley’s “See You Later, Alligator, After Awhile Crocodile” in the fifties.
5. Run: What we hope and pray Trump ultimately won’t be able to do again!!!
6. Don’t it make your brown eyes blue:  Contact lens ad.
7. Heaven can wait: Sign at the gate of Purgatory.
8. One night in Bangkok: Approximately 1/10th of the price of a stay at a Motel 6 in the U.S.
9. I know him so well: What Stormy Daniels  says she is “absolutely willing to testify to in court.”
10. Here comes the Sun: What Mom says to Dad every morning as she sees the paper boy pedal up on his bike.

For Pensitivity’s Fibbing Friday

The Lost Blogger Attempts Fibbing Friday, Sept. 15, 2023

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1. Have a break :  What one sumo wrestler said to another before jumping, full weight, on his leg.
2. You’re never alone with a strand : What the keeper said to the Hawaiian lady wearing a lei as he advised her to take it off before she entered the apiary.
3. Snap! Crackle! Pop! The answer the sumo wrestler’s body made to the statement of the sumo wrestler in line 1.
4. The Ultimate Driving Machine:  What other golfers call  Jack Nicklaus.
5. Don’t leave home without it:  The front door key.
6. Have it your way. The final retort of the loser in a marital disagreement
7. Good to the last drop:  Slogan inscribed on the side of a nuclear bomb.
8. Hello Moto: What the one-year-old birthday boy said as he opened his first Hot Wheel gift.
9. Taste the rainbow. What the rain says to the earth just as the sun comes out as it is departing.
10. Because you’re worth it. My reassurance uttered mentally to my conscience each time I buy a new piece of art knowing I have no place left to hang it!

 

For Fibbing Friday Sept. 15, 2023

Fibbin’ Friday, June 23, 2023

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The questions for this week are:

1. What is rubella?  It is what Bella’s husband learned to do too late in the game, after he’d already married her. 

2. What is Winter Fever more commonly known as?  Cold sweats.

3. What is Scrofula? ‘S Count Dracula’s pet Crow.

4. What is Grippe? The present tense of Groppe.

5. What is Quinsy? A state of whimsy brought on by the consumption of too much quince wine.

6. What is St Vitus Dance? It is what they renamed the road that ran along the edge of the San Andreas fault after the last big earthquake.

7. What is Dropsy? The eighth dwarf, seldom seen in public.

8. What is Croup? The inedible remnants of a bowl of soup consisting mainly of soggy  croutons.

9. What is Ague?  A gue is one-half of two gues.

10. What is Apoplexy?   Consternation  brought on by the constant updating and altering of computer applications. (Or, if you were from South Dakota, seizures brought on by an over-indulgence in Coca-Cola, but otherwise you might not understand this one.)

For Fibbing Friday, June 23, 2023

“Pants on Fire” For Fibbing Friday, June 16

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Here are this week’s questions:

What can you make with saw dust and snow?

Dusty the Snowman

2. What did the mole say to the wart?

Want to meet me at Wolemart?

3. Why is Atlantis lost?

GPS hadn’t been invented yet.

4. Why have Earthlings not returned to the moon?

No McDonalds

5. Why is the Earth round?

Because it’s not cool to be square.

6. Why are potato chip bags always half-full?

Because husbands are sent out to buy them.

7. What happens to lost socks?

They go to singles bars and pair up with somesock new.

8. Why do people stub their toes on furniture?

Because they walk on their feet. If they walked on their hands, they’d stub their fingers.

9. Who will be the next President?

Whoever can promise the biggest tax cuts to the nation’s multibillionaires.

10. Where did Trump come from?

The gods were playing bridge for high stakes and no one bid no Trump!!!

11. How will Trump’s administration end?

In Hell, hopefully.

12. How do clouds suddenly appear in the sky?

Because they long to be close to you.

13. Why does the universe revolve?

It’s on vacation–just taking a spin around its block.

14. If Time Lords are real, then why haven’t we met any yet?

It isn’t time yet.

15. What is a zombie’s favorite food?

Zombilaya.

 

 

 

For Fibbing Friday, June 16

Smartass Answers For Fibbing Friday, June 9, 2023

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For Fibbing Friday, the Questions (and my answers) are:

  1. You wanted to book a trip to Athens, but the agent misunderstood you…where did they send you?   There was a bit of a spacing error in my request, so they sent me to a poultry farm to look at hens!

2. What will customs agents find in your luggage? My misplaced breakfast sandwich. It was a very early flight!

3. What do you sneak aboard the flight, and what do you sneak it in? My pet snake. I sedated it,  wound it around my waist, gently closed its teeth round its tail and wore it as a snakeskin belt.

4. The plane crashes — everyone survives — where did you crash? In my in-flight dream. 

5. What are three things you find at your crash site? The drink the stewardess delivered to my tray table as I slept, the end of the movie I was watching when I fell asleep and that we had arrived at our destination.

6. What is the first thing you do when you get back home? Check to see if my house sitter ate all of my Costco Vanilla ice cream!!!!

7. The airline offers you money, but you turn it down…what do you get instead? My head examined.

8. You decide that a cruise is safer. Where do you go? Along the Ukraine coast via the Bermuda Triangle.

9. Sadly, you get marooned on a deserted island but find huts and scientific equipment made out of coconuts…what do you do? Look for the trees the scientific equipment came from. I’m hungry.

10. A fishing boat rescues you, but you have to pay Poseidon for safe passage…how do you pay? Trident gum.

11. He rejects your fare and throws you across the world…you land safely, but where do you end up?  I Fallon Nevada. 

12. How does your story end? THE END!!!!

The A to Z Guide to Phobias

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The A to Z Guide to Phobias

Beanophobia: A well-founded fear when they serve baked beans at the banquet before your Jr.prom.
Deanophobia: That long-ago fear in college that you’d be caught sneaking into your dorm after hours.
Geneophobia: The fear that Ancestry.Com will unearth something dastardly in your family tree.
Jeanophobia: Your grandmother’s fear that you’ll show up in shredded jeans for you aunt’s wedding.
Keeneophobia: An unexplainable dislike of Nancy Drew Mysteries.
Leanophobia: An iffy excuse for breaking your diet.
Meanophobia: What keeps you as far away as possible from the snotty group of girls in high school. 
Preenophobia: Your stubborn refusal to sneak into the girls room during the interval of the movie to check out your hair and lipstick.
Queenophobia: A co-occurring disorder suffered by Anti-Anglophiles.
Sceneophobia: That feeling of dread when you let your boyfriend talk you into going to a slasher movie.
Teenophobia: A common phobia suffered by the parents of children between the ages of 12 and 20.
Weanophobia: the reluctance of first-time mothers to give up nursing.
Weeniephobia: A debilitating fear of hot dogs that causes one to avoid fairs and football games.
Xenophobia: An unreasonable dread that one might have been born in 1966 instead of 1965.

No surprise that the  prompt today was Xenophobia, Image by Vadim Bogulov on Unsplash.