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“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.

 

Fibbing Friday, Feb. 21, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, Feb 21, 2025 the challenge is to define the following:

1.   What is a quaver? It is an over-the-shoulder receptacle for arrows in Louisiana.
2.   If you didn’t know a door as a door, what would you call it?  An In-or-Outer.
3.   007 has a license to kill, but what would an 010 have a license for? To drive a ten-speed bicycle.
4.   Define Corybantic. One member of a comedy duo known for their ribald humor..
5.   What does Crinkum-crankum mean?  An invitation to come witness Rin and  Ran in an X-rated movie.
6.   What is a Cacodemon ? Satan with dysentery.
7.   What would you do with a collop? Answer it.
8.   What is a curlicue? A cookout for doggies.
9.   Who or what is a cootie? An attractive young pigeon.
10.  What is an erf?  The sound made by a dog with a speech impediment.

Image thanks to z-grills Austalia.

For Getting to Know You, #53 Balderdash Edition, Feb 14, 2025

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For Getting to Know You, #53 Balderdash Edition, the words to define are:

  1. lychnobite: What you should do to a day-long sucker if you really want it to last all day.
  2. scuppermong: The mon standing in line after scuppermonf.
  3. drapetomania: Poisoning caused by sucking on curtains.

For Fibbing Friday, Feb 7, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday this week, the task at hand is to define:

  • Cachinnate: To put something away
  • Cacoethes: A Greek famous for his addiction to chocolate
  • Callipygian: A descriptive word for someone who makes phone calls to swine..
  • Confabulate: Someone in favor of washing garments at the last moment possible.
  • Cankerblossom:  Herpes outbreaks on the lips
  • Chicanery:  The act of flirting with girls
  • Cloff: To jump off a precipice
  • Canorous :Description of a teacher given to not sparing the rod as a disciplinary measure
  • Coxcomb: To straighten the feathers on a rooster
  • Clishmaclaver: Nickname of the youngest daughter of a Scottish laundress

For Fibbing Friday, Jan 17, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday today the prompt words inviting daffynitions are:

1.  Aurora: A sound a lion makes
2. Argument:  What is about to be ruined by Donald Trump.
3. Blessing: What there be when the printer runs out of coloring agent.
4. Smack: What some do in Hollywood when they can’t direct, produce, do stunts, operate cameras or serve as wardrobe and makeup mistresses.
5.  Embarrassment:  Extreme distress over forgetting to wear one’s underwear.
6.  Prickle: What an extremely nasty person deserves to get on his hamblurger.
7.  Bloat: What you are supposed to do to a birthday candle.
8.  Coalition: The act of accustomizing oneself to heat by fossil fuels.
9.  Barrel: A small rotund member of the Ursus species..
10. Zeal:A type of ocean animal with flippers that frequents the Zyder Zee.