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Fibbing Friday, Feb 16, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday, Feb 16, 2024 the questions are:

1. Jonah wasn’t swallowed by a whale…he was swallowed by a  Wave. He was rescued by a Whale.
2. Who (or what) could make even the fiercest pirate quake in his boots? Ma Kettle
3. What did Huckleberry Finn have to really paint? Little Girl in Blue, but Mary Cassatt got the  credit.
4. What is the best food that can be paired with red wine? Peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
5. What are you wearing in the sun? Duh. A sunsuit, of course.
6. Why do dogs chase after cars? Someone put a bone on the back bumper rail.
7. What did the cat say to its kitten about the humans? They’re not Purrrfect, but they’ll do.
8. Goldfish are not fish. What are they? Crackers
9. What would you rather do instead of sleeping?  Write about it.
10. The Phantom didn’t haunt the Opera House…He haunted the  outhouse, where he scared the _ _ _ _ out of everyone. 

Image by Todd Cravens on Unsplash.

I dedicate these less than stellar answers to my sister Patti, who said she was suffering withdrawal because i had chosen not to do the Fibbing Friday this week. As usual, I minded her and did the prompt.

Fibbin’ Friday, Jan 26, 2024

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The challenge for Fibbing Friday this week is to interpret these words or phrases::

1. “A few sandwiches short of a picnic” What you get when you send a hungry kid to the deli to pick up your order for the party.

2. “Bagsy” My mysterious guest in my garden a few weeks ago.  (See him HERE.)

3. “Bog-standard”  My East Indian doctor, Dr. Adnatsgob’s  door sign, seen in a mirror.

4. “Budge up”  My dad’s advice to me when I asked him for a loan.  “Nope. No way. Better budge up instead!”

5. “Chinwag” My dog’s response to the smell of a bag of McDonald’s hamburgers.

6. “Faff” That sound a can of hair spray makes when it has just run out of spray.

7. “Full Monty”  Monty Python after the cast picnic when you haven’t sent a hungry kid to the deli to pick up your order for the party.

8. “Give me a tinkle on the blower”:  Donald Trump’s entreaty at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow.

9. “On it like a car bonnet”  What you answer, pointing to your head, when a friend asks you where the bird shit on you.

10. “Tickety-boo”  What your offense is called when a cop gives you a ticket for  sneaking up behind him and scaring him.

Fibbing Friday for Jan 19, 2024

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For Pensitivity’s Fibbing Friday  the prompts to define are:

1. Biscotza: A pizza with a biscotti crust.
2. Blabbermaul: Mobster’s girlfriend who turned informant
3. Brutz : Mean men
4. Buss: Transportation for serpents
5. Doplich: A strap with which you lead a dop around.
6. Schnickelfritz: Your answer to your friend’s query about your very bad cheap permanent.
7. Strubbly: A short person with an effervescent personality
8. Glickleck: A French request for a hickey.
9. Grex: Your second husband’s response when your first husband strides into the room.
10. Schnitz: A thin, fried cutlet of meat with a bite taken out of it.

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What are These??? For Fibbing Friday, Jan 5, 2024

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Toecover: My attempt at remembering the word for socks now that I am at a certain advanced age.

Scurryfunge: A form of mildew found on rodents.

Dutch Feast: Edam and stoopwafel.

Iktsuarpok: An expression of revulsion over a walking companion who walks at a too- slow rate. (Icks! You are poke!!!  (As in slowpoke.) I admit, it is a stretch.  How about, Someone agreeing that people named Katy make good contortionists? (Aye, Katies, warp okay!! ) This is a redo because Derrick took occasion to my first answer. Must admit, I don’t blame him. This one is a real stretch!  Let’s blame it on Pensitivity.

Rakefire: When the boss terminated your employment for jilting his daughter

Hufflebuffs: An affectionate synonym  for bare bottoms

Quafftide: Skinny-dipping at high tide.

Kalopsia: An involuntary nap brought on by over-eating

Cover Slut: The Kardashians’ tongue-in-cheek endearing nicknames for each other

“Wonder”clout: Using one’s seniority to get to the head of the “bread”line at the homeless  shelter.

For  yet another Fibbing Friday. I can’t resist.

Xmas Traditions Explained (For Fibbing Friday Dec 22, 2023)

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                                                          Leave Santa alone, Kids. He’s exhausted!!

1. Ever wondered why they call them Christmas Carols? Because Bob was already associated with bobbing for apples on Halloween, Ted was busy spreading hay for the manger and Alice was busy looking at herself in the looking glass. ( Confused? See “Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice”)

2. Why do we put a fairy on top of the Christmas Tree? We didn’t. It just kept flying up there.

3. Are St Nicholas and Old Nick the Jekyll and Hyde of Christmas? No. Old Nick is just the natural result of St. Nick’s exposure to so much carbon chimney buildup and air travel over the centuries.

4. Why do we traditionally kiss under the mistletoe? The practice started because approximately 1/2 of the world’s population is actually allergic to mistletoe and the other 1/2 needs to give them artificial respiration therapy.

5. Why is it Christmas lights work when we put them away but don’t when we take them out the following year? Because you have to remember to unplug them before putting them away!!!!

6. Why are pigs in blankets so called? Because they are cold and this is a natural response to chillbains..

7. Should we have cream or custard on mince pies? Yes.

8. How did a Christmas Stocking originate? When Santa heard there was much mischief afoot during the year and decided he needed a method of bribery to put an end to it.

9. Do you like the idea of a white Christmas?  Well, yes. Much more than its actuality.

10. Have you been naughty or nice? Yes. You can guess which.

Red-faced.The Devil made me do it.

For Fibbing Friday

Who Sang That, Anyhow? For Fibbin’ Friday, Dec. 15, 2023

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Classic Christmas hits, but can you suggest alternative artists for them?

1. Wherever you are: Blind Faith
2. Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree: The Chain Gang
3. That’s my Goal: Joe Namath and the Lime-Liners
4. Mistletoe and Wine: Alan Shephard taking solace while recovering from a bad case of athlete’s foot after returning from the Moon landing.
5. I saw Mommy kissin’ Santa Claus: Truman Hanks, the night his dad Tom came home sporting full-costume during the filming of Polar Express.
6. All I want for Christmas: Melanie Trump, handing Donald a map of the U.S.
7. Sound of the Underground: The Moles (yes, a real group)
8. Jingle Bell Rock A trio comprised of *Barry Manilow, Alexander Graham Bell and Elvis. 
9. Can we fix it: The White House Plumbers
10. Somethin’ Stupid. Hate to quote the obvious, but come on now: Donald Trump

*Known as “The King of the Commercial Jingle.)

 

For Pensivity’s Fibbin’ Friday, Dec. 15, 2023  Illustration by Little Plant on Unsplash.

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!)