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For Fibbing Friday, July 26, 2024

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Spider

For Fibbing Friday, July 26, 2024, the prompt reads:

Something a little different this week courtesy of Jim Adams who has been inventive in making up words and asks us to describe what these, if they existed, are or could be used for.

1) Antiplixen One opposed to the eighth  (before Rudolph) of Santa’s reindeer.

2) Mortangru  A dead kangaroo

3) Clydearum  What Clyde’s wife said to him just before she presented him with the bill to her last shopping trip. “Clyde, dear, um . . . .!”

4) Monogrifrt An antisocial vagabond con man.

.5) Ulangabop An African dance of the 40s and 50s.

6) Krixashobie. Overheard response of one southern boy to another southern boy’s admiring comment of “That new girl Kirixa? She sure fine!” 

7) Xgreapey  A ranking of wine.

8) Knobweg The home of a spider with a cold.

9) Betalafil  What they called the winning falafel in the falafel cookoff.

10) Dvpslyaran  One addicted to the collecting of DVDs.

For Fibbing Friday, July 19, 2024

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It’s a Wonderful Life

For Fibbing Friday, the challenge is:

Who do you think could have recorded these (your answers do not have to be singers)

1.   Penny Lane: Laverne DeFazio (A song about the street where she lived.)
2.   I want to break free: Harry Houdini
3.   Summer the First Time: Elizabeth Taylor
4.   Waterloo: Nurf (Describing what he treated the lake as in Camp Camp.)
5.   Only the Lonely: J.D. Salinger
6.   Laughter in the Rain: Stormy Daniels (Getting the last laugh.)
7.   True Blue: The Smurfs
8.   These boots were made for walkin’: Puss in Boots
9.   Angel Eyes:Clarence Odbody
10. If you don’t know me by now:Taylor Swift

If you are a young thang you may have to Google some of these to understand the answers.

Fibbing Friday for July 12, 2024

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Here ’tis. We are asked for a brief description of what the following films/books could be about.

1.   Gray Lady Down. Movie about Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s funeral.
2.   Ladyhawke. Alan Alda’s love interest in MASH.
3.   Black Hawk Down.  The underfeathers of an ebony colored predatory bird.
4.   All The President’s Men. Movie based on the January 6th attack on the Capital.
5.   The Green Mile. What Billy Ray Cyrus’s daughter was called before she reached pubescence.
6.   The Colour Purple. What you get when you cross a spelling error with a royal hue.
7.    50 First Dates. Half a hundred initial samplings of the fruit of a palm tree.
8.   Geronimo. Along with Geronilarry & Geronicurly, one of The Three Geronistooges–a comedy trio from the late 1930s.” (Many thanks to Forgottenman who came up with this one when I’d given up on it!!)
9.   The Sum of All Fears. What we hope November 5 won’t add up to be.
10.  Stagecoach. What they call a director on Broadway.

 

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For Fibbing Friday, July 5, 2024

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Here are the words we were given to decode for this Fibbing Friday:

  1.   Betrump: Who be the biggest asshole in the world?
  2.   Cony-catch: What my dog accomplished when my little sister dropped her ice cream.
  3.   Crapulous: My descriptive word for every bazaar or second-hand shop I pass.
  4.   Dowsabel: The label on an item of clothing that does not have to be dry cleaned.
  5.   Ear-rent: What you pay your psychologist .
  6.   Flexanimous:  The unconscious weight-lifting masculine side of a woman’s psyche, 
  7.   Gazophylacium: The largest gas station in the world.
  8.   Grum: How an angry but sad bear feels.
  9.   Hugger–mugger: Like a kissing bandit, but this one is afraid of catching Covid. 
  10.   Lucubrate: What Mrs. Malaprop does to her face each night to ward off wrinkles.

Daffynitions for Fibbing Friday, June 28, 2024

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How would you define these words?

1. Milieu:The fifth and sixth and  words of the lyrics that begin , “Skip, skip, skip to ….

2. Inviolable: Music impossible to play on a viola.

3. Dulcimer: What surfers call an exceptionally flat and unexciting ocean surface as flat as the surface of a looking glass.

4. Condominium: What inmates call a prison block.

5. Sycophant: An insane pachyderm.

6. Elegiacal: A delectable food only rumored to be fattening.

7. Zhuzh: Kitten on the keys.

8. Obstreperous: Description of a difficult pregnant woman with a throat malady.

9. Symposium: Empathy for someone in agony over the length of a Jane Fonda exercise video pose. 

10. Neophyte: The first stages of an altercation.

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For Fibbing Friday, June 21, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday, we were asked to define these terms:

  1.  Narcolepsy: A disease brought on by the excessive consumption of illegal drugs.

  2. Antediluvian: The state of a cucumber before it is subjected to the pickling process.

  3.  Serrefine: What a drunk covers his leftover food with before refrigerating it.

  4.  Guetapens: I like Scripto, Pilot or Uni Ball.

  5.  Promiscuous: Naughty behavior at a high school dance.

  6.  Tendentious:  The state of a dental patient before surgery.

  7.  Kismet: What one dinosaur said to another during foreplay.

  8.  Autochthonous: Having the natural ability to pronounce digraphs correctly.

  9.  Macerate: Describing food cut up for you by your mother.

  10. Gladiolus: The attribution of human emotions to flowers.

For Fibbing Friday. (Thanks, Forgottenman, for furnishing the link and the prod.) T-Rex Image by NBC News.

For Fibbing Friday, June 14, 2024

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This week’s  Fibbing Friday puzzlers are:

1. What is a nincompoop? A bathroom pass for a Ninja.
2. What is a Tory?  What your mommy tells you at bedtime.
3. What is a gonk?  A cross between a geek, a dork and a nerd.
4. What is a pom-pom? A rhymed poem that consists of two stanzas with no “e”s in them.
5. What is a hanging basket? The basket they carry the rope in on the way to a lynching.
6. What is micropore? One of the tiny holes in the mouthpiece of a microphone.
7. What is a posy? A barely audible release of the breath.
8. What is a barometer? Police slang for a  breathalyzer.
9. What is a cable?  A mini taxi.
10. What is a fib? A misspelled federal crime detection agency.

Fibbing Friday, June 7, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday the challenge this week is:

1. What is a codpiece?  A fish’s six-shooter
2. What is a doublet? A very small set of twins.
3. Who wears the hose?  The head fireman.
4. What is a gauntlet? A very skinny head of romaine.
5. What’s kept in the moat? Nothing. There’s no room for any mo at the moat.
6. Where is the portcullis? Portcull is no longer here. It has been culled.
7. Who wields the battle axe?  Batman
8. Where is the draw bridge? At the entrance to the art academy.
9. What is a catapult? The cata pult the mouse out a his hole and eata it.
10. What is a flagon? It’s on a flag pole.

Baaad Puns, For Fibbing Friday May 31, 2024

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The questions this week were provided by Jim Adams. Thanks, Jim!

1. Rumpelstiltskin spun straw into gold in exchange for what? He would exchange for only two things: bitcoin or newly pressed stilt covers. 
2. What did humans do before the bobbin was invented? Called ahead for appointments.
3. What is the difference between knitting and crocheting?  a missing knit and an added croche.
4. What does a drop spindle do? Creates a mist to cool off crowds in a heat wave.
5. What does a painted pony have to do with a spinning wheel? They are both parts of a carousel.
6. If you stick a needle in your eye, does that show sincerity? No. It shows stupidity.
7. What was Barthélemy Thimonnier known for? The invention of a wallet one straps to one’s inner thigh to protect against pickpockets.
8. What happened in the Golden Age of sewing?  Thread price futures soared.
9. What breed of sheep makes the best wool? The ones who bring in the best return financially are Polypay sheep.  (A real breed.)
10. What happens when the cotton field gets rotten? Wool prices soar.

 

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for Fibbing Friday, May 24, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday, today’s week’s questions are:

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