This, That, and the Other

Frank (aka PCGuy) and Di (aka Pensitivity101) alternate as hosts for Fibbing Friday, a silly little exercise where we are to write a post with our answers to the ten questions below. But as the title suggests, truth is not an option. The idea is to fib a little, a lot, tell whoppers, be inventive, silly, or even outrageous, in our responses. Today is Frank’s turn and he has listed 10 body parts and wants to know what they aren’t.

1. appendix – It’s a place where you keep all of your important papers.
2. bladder – It’s a broken ladder that you still keep in your garage despite it’s being unsafe to use.
3. duodenum – It’s the name used to describe a singing or acting two-person group that broke up and where each went his or her own way, like Simon & Garfunkel or Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis.
4. varicose – It’s method that retail stores use to raise prices just before advertising major sales by dropping prices to make buyers thing they’re getting a good deal.
5. vein – It’s the British spelling of “vain,” like the way the British spell the color “gray” as “grey.” It’s all very confusing to us in America.
6. artery – It’s a major thoroughfare.
7. influenza – It’s what happens when you leave your house windows open during a bad storm and all kinds of debris from outside, driven by heavy winds, flies in through those open windows into your previously neat and tidy home.
8. pneumonia – It’s a urinary tract infection that causes excruciating pain when you pee.
9. phalanges – It’s the name of an ancient tribe of nomads who wandered around the deserts of North Africa back in the day. They were often referred to as the “wandering Phalanges.”
10. humerus – It’s a word used to describe something that is mildly funny, as in, “I thought the last comic at open mic night was humerus, but not as funny as I was expecting based upon word-of-mouth.” Also, it can be used to describe my definitions for the words listed in this post.