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For Fibbing Friday, May 23, 2025

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Today’s Fibbing Friday theme is “every day items redefined.”

1. Carpet. A dog that deports itself well in a car so gets to go along.
2. Flannel. What we called my Aunt Nellie who made the incredible custard we all loved.
3. Microwave. A very small, unenthusiastic flutter of the hand.
4. Timer. What the French call the sea just off the coast of Bangkok
5. Coaster. What you call it when Grandma lets two grandkids stir the pot on the stove at the same time.
6. Dish cloth. Slang word for the dress worn by a beautiful woman. (See my prior post…)
7. Bag. What be the main interest of a farmer.
8. Blender. Two often-used suffixes.
9. Grater. What the pit bull answered when his master asked him what happened to the cat.
10. Peeler. What you should offer to do for your girlfriend who spent 8 hours in the sun yesterday without sunscreen.

For Fibbing Friday, May 16, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand is:

1. What is pilau rice?  One grain of your rice
2. What are eggs benedict? Why ask him? I can tell you that they are items laid by chickens to produce more chickens or omelettes.
3. What is a souffle? A slight altercation
4. What is baked Alaska?  Summer in Juneau
5. What is crème brulee? Coffee served with dairy and a flower necklace.
6. What is a victoria sponge? An English birth control device
7. What is a raspberry roulade? Something that helps one set up regulations for Driscoll’s.
8. What is cannoli ? A small canister
9. What is kamaboko?  A security/surveillance system in a library
10. What are sweetbreads? Humans genetically engineered to have kind dispositions.

 

Mind Twisters, For Fibbing Friday, May 2, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand is:

1.  What is a Lover’s Knot? A menage a trois gone wrong.
2.  Where is the Milky Way? The Freeway after a collision between a milk truck and a semi carrying a load of candy bars. 
3.  What is a belly flop? The result of a failed diet.
4.  Why do they say ‘Break a leg’ before a performer goes on stage? Sour grapes.
5.  What is a goof ball? A football thrown or carried over the opponent’s goal line by mistake.
6.  What is two for his heels and one for his nob? (Remember: FAMILY FRIENDLY!!!!!) A pair of shoes and a matching hat.
7.  Why should every woman have a LBD? Because they are out of BLTs.
8.  What is an Updo? A face lift.
9.  What do pearl, silverskin and button have in common? Two types of onions and a type of mushroom..
10. Why does the rain in Spain stay mainly in the plain? Because it has a speech impediment.

for Fibbing Friday, Apr 25, 2025

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Image thanks to the NY Public Library

for Fibbing friday, the task at hand is:

  1. Who was buried in King Tut’s tomb? Christopher Robin, who was the one who uttered the phrase “Tut, tut, it might rain,” to cause Pooh to raise his umbrella to save himself from the bees. 
  2. Why did the Sphinx have a lion’s body and a human head? Because in the alternative choice,  the human body couldn’t support the lion’s head.
  3. What month of the year did the Nile River overflow its banks? Oct”Ober.”
  4. How many gods did the ancient Egyptians worship? Every one.
  5. How much makeup did Cleopatra wear? Enough to cover her eyes and face.
  6. How long was Nefertiti’s neck? Long enough to reach from her shoulders to her head.
  7. Why did the Egyptians walk so strangely? Their skirts were too tight. (See illustration above.)
  8. .How many pyramids did they build? Too many.
  9. What was Ramses II known for? Butting heads with the Nubians.
  10. What did the Egyptians do in Karnak? Watched the Johnny Carson show.

“Life of Syn” for Fibbing Friday, Apr. 18, 2025

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The word puzzles for Fibbing Friday are:

1. Synergy: The amount of vigor/vitality we possess that is delegated to the pursuit of evil .
2. Synonym: The false name we use when embarking on naughty endeavors
3. Synchronicity: When we chance upon someone equally larcenous as ourselves
4. Syncopate: When change our hairdo to follow a fad.
5. Synopsis: What the naughty sister often says to her perfect sister when trying to persuade her to participate in one of her “adventures.”
6. Synaesthesia: When you wake up not remembering the wild night before.
7. Synaptosome: A naughty website availabe to some but not all.
8. Synanthropes: Naughty sinners
9. Synagogal: A lady of dubious morals who is up for nearly everything.
10 Synaptid: The fake name you use to go onto naughty internet sites.

For Fibbing Friday, Apr. 11, 2025

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The words to define for Fibbing Friday this week are:

1. Embiggen: What you seek to do by peering through a microscope or magnifying glass.
2. Eargasm: What you often hear through the walls of cheap hotels.
3. Erumpent: A description of middle age spread.
4. Eldritch:  A title for moneyed senior citizens.
5. Epizootic:  A category of TV episodes that depict animals in confinement.
6. Frabjous: Fragile joyfulness
7. Floo-fla: A misdiagnosis for Swine Flu.
8. Fipple: A small unintentional untruth.
9. Floop:  A urine specimen provided to test for influenza
10. Fizgig: A job in a mineral water bottling company.

Silly Answers for Fibbing Friday, Apr 4, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday  this week’s questions are:

1. Who made the first manned hot air balloon? Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (Donald’s mother)

2.  Which is the more widely used around the world, cow’s milk or goat’s milk?  It depends on what you are using it for.

3.  What does the word “Canada” mean? It means “can be done.” They chose it over the statement of the first French explorer who, when asked to cross a river, said, “No cana do.”  

4.  True or False, an adult male baboon can kill an adult leopard? It can, but just because it can doesn’t mean it will.

5.  Which U.S. State has the nickname “Hawkeye”? Maine, in honor of Hawkeye Pierce, whose birthplace was Crabapple Cove, Maine. (Check it out.)

6.  In which decade of the 19th Century did Christmas Day become a national U.S. holiday? the “Decade of the boughs of Holly”

7.  Which strong cheese, made from ewe’s milk and stored in caves, is named after a village in France?  Cheez-its

8.  Who painted “Whistler’s Mother”? A 4-year-old Whistler, when he got into her makeup while she was sleeping and tried to make up her face, somewhat excessively, I might add. It took her hours to scrub off the makeup.  She was not pleased and spanked him soundly.  Years later he tried to compensate by painting her portrait. She forgave him.

9.  In Denmark they are known as “laks” what are they known as in English? Something to put on bagels.

10.  Approximately what percentage of humans are left-handed? The remaining percentage that isn’t right-handed.

 

 

For Fibbing Friday, Mar 28, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday the challenge is:

1. Verisimilitude: The tendency of adolescents to indulge in fads.
2. Grikes: Threatening squeals of astonishment.
3. Clints: What they will call cloned Eastwoods.
4. Kamenitza: What Russians call someone shooting a movie. 
5. Rillenkaren: An annoying female mountain climber.
6. Cockalorum: How a rooster keeps track of when to crow.
7. Dongle: The future tense of dingle.
8. Fartlek: A Hungarian who has just released gas from his/her body.
9. Folderol: What a female contortionist is able to do.
10. Furphy: A dog rental fee.

 

 

Some Poultry Answers, for Fibbing Friday, Mar 21, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand is: Have some fun with dreaming up who these ‘familiar people’ were or what they could be remembered for (or whatever your mind comes up with).

1.  Perseus. A handbag designer
2.  Ares  Where they stashed the Native Americans (Naughty, naughty)
3.  Achilles  A Mexican restaurant
4.  Poseidon  King of flowers
5.  Medusa An American-based Health coverage organization.
6.  Athena Where you can usually find the best eggs. If not available, try at hen b.
7.  Hades  What Lucille Ball’s  response to her husband was when he told a good joke.
8.  Apollo  A poultry hero
9.  Cronos  A petition to make raising poultry in urban areas illegal
1o. Hermes His response when she asks him to clean up the kitchen after she has finished cooking.

Weird Answers for Fibbing Friday, Mar 14, 2025

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Distracting the Masseur

For Fibbing Friday, the words to define are:

1. Doohickey  What one does when carried away by passion as a teenager.
2. Donnybrook What you call a river as the sun first comes up.
3. Dingleberry A berry that grows in a small wooded valley.
4. Dingus What be Gus’s intestines.
5. Drub What I look forward to when my masseur comes.
6. Dreck What happen after d’ car crash.
7. Diggity  What goes best inside a hot dog.
8. Dook How I usually do when I take a test.
9. Dibbly  Another name for champagne.
10. Dinkum What happen before d outgo.