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For Fibbing Friday, June 27, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, this week’s assignment is:

1. What is the difference between sun burn and sun stroke? About an hour or two.
2. What is the difference between cycle and bicycle?  One is a single popsicle and the other is a double.
3. What is the difference between pinch and pinchbeck? The second is retribution for the first.
4. What is the difference between sprig and sprog? i and o
5. What is the difference between beacon and beckon? One is fake honey and the other fake pig meat.
6. What is a gooseberry fool?  A large bird that doesn’t know the difference between an edible fruit and a poisonous one.
7. What is a bakewell tart? A promiscuous woman with a great tan.
8. What is a bistro? A small restaurant in an apiary.
9. What is a jamboree? A woman who talks at great length about her marmalade recipe.
10. What is a chancer? Chinese nobility

To Be Perfectly Honest, a Quadrille X 3 for dVerse Poets, June 16, 2025

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Aunt Stella being silly at a family picinic. I was imitating her!
Family Christmas–Grandma, Dad and me.
Mom and sister Edith
Dad’s family at homestead. My sister Betty in front.
Ben Dykstra (My dad) age 13.
Memorial for my dad
Dad duded up
Dad
Mom and Dad in Australia. He finally got to travel–to come visit me.
Dad, Amana Colony
Mom and Dad, 1970
Mother
Mother with her sisters. She’s lower left.
Standing on Mom’s chair to steal a snack. “The” solid bench Patti and I sat on was behind the table in front of the plaid wall. Don’t look behind it!
Mom in Phyllis Diller’s Coat
Fishing with dad and my sisters.
My sisters and dad and I.
Sisters, Tucson

(Really? You want to see these family photos in more detail
and to read captions? Okay–then click on them.)

 

“To Be Perfectly Honest––”
(What I Really Wanted to Say)
3 Quadrilles

*As much as I enjoyed your first hundred family photos,
could we perhaps switch to conversation of a less familial theme?
*No I’m not ill. I’ve spent two years starving and a fortune
on appetite suppressants. Couldn’t you just tell me I look fabulous?

*I believe my husband has seen enough of your cleavage
for one evening. Could you cage them?
*Your poem’s triteness is equaled only by its misspellings.
*I am curious. Have you ever wondered why only beautiful women
want you to ask them to dance?   

*Be honest now. Would you ever have thought
to eat raw fish if it weren’t all the rage?
*Sorry, but Walmart art doesn’t count as a collection.
*When people back away from you, it’s likely
they don’t want you to advance on them again.

 

The dVerse Poets link today is “Honest.” Instead of one quadrille, I did three. Don’t complain. You’re lucky I didn’t do five!

For Fibbing Friday, June 13, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, the Questions are:

1. Who sang “Is This a Kind of Magic?” My mother, the day my sister finally cleaned up her room.
2. Who sang “Somebody’s Watching Me?” Taylor Swift, feigning humility.
3. Why do we blow out birthday candles? To abolish the flame.
4. Why do we associate red and green with Christmas? Because those are the colors most of the decorations come in.
5. What do Little Elves supposedly cause? Little traffic jams.
6. Why do some people hold their breath when passing near a cemetery? Because there are so many within in need of it and they fear having it stolen.
7. Why is finding a penny considered good luck? Because it will soon be a collector’s item.
8. Why should we not rock an empty rocking chair? Because if it is empty, we are not in it to do so.
9. Why do people hang Dreamcatchers? Because it is a capital offense.
10. Why is flipping a loaf of bread unlucky in France? Because the French are known for having poor coordination and too many loaves ended up on the floor. 

Another Friday, Another Flock of Fibs, May 30, 2025

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Photo by Elias Null on Unsplash                  

\for Fibbing Friday, the questions refer to movie quotes, but who could have said this?

1. “Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!” Noah
2. “Shut up – you had me at ‘hello.’” Ms.Parton, the first time she heard Louis Armstrong sing “Hello Dolly”
3. “Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?” Medusa’s hairstylist
4. “I’ll have what she’s having.” Adam
5. “It’s alive! It’s alive!” Eve, after Adam ate the apple.
6. “No man is a failure who has friends”. William Penn
7. “If you build it, he will come.” Hugh Hefner’s architect for the Playboy Mansion, to his carpenter, greatly overstating the matter.
8. “I feel the need, the need for speed.” Andy Warhol
9. “On Wednesdays, we wear pink.” Harvey Milk, in reference to his dress code
10. “Florals? For spring. Groundbreaking.” Johnny Appleseed, referring to his sideline.

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.