Fibbing Friday — Melissa’s Nonsense Words

Di (aka Pensitivity101) hosts 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, and be inventive, silly, or even outrageous, in our responses. For this week’s Fibbing Friday, Di has handed the gavel over to Melissa Lemay to give us some nonsense words and wants to know what we think they mean.

1. Biscotza — An Italian almond biscuit, as in, “would you like a biscotza to dunk in your coffee?”
2. Blabbermaul — What a boxer does to the face of a loud-mouthed opponent, as in, “I’m gonna blabbermaul that guy.”
3. Brutz — an extra bubbly champagne from Brussels, Belgium, as in, “Can I get a bottle of Brutz?”
4. Buss — a pushy boss, as in, “That manager is a real buss.”
5. Doplich — Harvey Doplich, the name of the scientist who discovered the Doppler Effect.
6. Schnickelfritz — It’s what happens if you leave a Snickers bar on your laptop’s keyboard and it melts and shorts out your computer.
7. Strubbly — When ingrown stubble on a man’s neck gets infected and full of pus.
8. Glickleck — a type of handgun.
9. Grex — a grape flavored breakfast cereal.
10. Schnitz — a brand of beer.

JusJoJan — Tenacious Tina

For today’s JusJoJan prompt, Linda has given us the word “tenacious,” as suggested by Cheryl, who resides here.

Tina was an investigative reporter for the local newspaper. Her job was to ask probing questions and to get answers from local officials in her dogged pursuit of corruption.

Together with her assigned photographer, she would conduct interviews with council members and was known to occasionally tear one apart with her relentless questioning.

It wasn’t log before Tina’s reputation for rooting out corruption in her home town earned her the nickname, “Tenacious Tina.”


This is a repost of something I posted on January 16, 2021 for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt.

MLMM Friday Faithfuls — TV Commercials

For this week’s Mindlovemysery Menagerie Friday Faithfuls challenge, Jim is asking us to write anything about a TV commercial.

I wish I could write about specific TV commercials, but I can’t because I don’t watch them. Almost everything I watch on TV is on an ad-free streaming service. Or, if it’s a show on a channel that is not ad-free, like the commercial networks, I use my DVR to record the show and then zip through the commercials.

I take that back. There is one show I have watched, “Bosch: Legacy,” that is on Amazon’s FreeVee, which is a free streaming service with commercials. But when the commercials come on, I pick up my iPhone and go to the WordPress reader to catch up on posts from other bloggers until the show resumes. So, I don’t watch or pay attention to commercials.

Jim mentioned the NFL Super Bowl coming up on February 11th. If my hometown boys, the San Francisco 49ers make it to the Super Bowl by beating the Green Bay Packers Saturday night and their next opponent next weekend, I’ll watch the game and the commercials, because given how much money these advertisers are spending to produce these Super Bowl commercials, some are bound to be entertaining. But if the 49ers don’t make it to the Super Bowl, I’ll record the game and I’ll fast-forward through the gameplay, but I will watch the commercials.

MLMM Photo Challenge — Get Me Outta Here

“Camelmaster, Camelmaster!” Rufus squealed, “You’ve got to move me out from behind Idris here. I don’t know what you’re feeding him lately or what he is picking up along the trail, but oh my god, Camelmaster, all day long and all night long, for that matter, he’s letting go with the smelliest farts ever.

“Camelmaster, I’ve always been cooperative, you know that, right? Well, I’m sorry, but I really can’t take it anymore. Put him at the end, or at least put me in front of him. Otherwise, you’re going to have to move on without me. I’m not going anywhere where I need to walk being him. I’d rather be left out here in the hot desert sun to die. Do you hear me Camelmaster?”


Written for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge. Photo credit: Sarah Whiley.

Fandango’s Flashback Friday — January 19th

Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term followers of posts that they might not remember? Each Friday I will publish a post I wrote on this exact date in a previous year.

How about it? Why don’t you reach back into your own archives and highlight a post that you wrote on this very date in a previous year? You can repost your Flashback Friday post on your blog and pingback to this post. Or you can just write a comment below with a link to the post you selected.

If you’ve been blogging for less than a year, go ahead and choose a post that you previously published on any day this past year and link to that post in a comment.


This was originally posted on January 19, 2018.

Bathroom Humor

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I found out a few hours ago that my fellow blogger, Suze, from over at Obsolete Childhood, has bestowed upon me the prestigious Triple P Award. Apparently I had written a post that caused her to have to quickly run to the bathroom. I hope she’s okay.

To be honest, I’ve never heard of the Triple P Award. And I have been racking my brain since receiving this award to figure out what the three P’s in the award stand for.

Had it been the Triple S Award, having something to do with what happens in a bathroom, I would have immediately related the three S’s to shitshower, and shave.

But Triple P? What could that be? Peepoop, and pandemonium? And then there’s the image of an orange slice. What’s up with that? Maybe it should’ve been called the Vitamin C Award.

All that said, I want to thank Suze for honoring my post, which caused her to have to rush to the bathroom (and I sincerely hope she made it in time), by awarding me this coveted prize.

And the good news is that, unlike most other blog awards, I don’t have to do anything. I don’t have to answer any questions, select a bunch of other bloggers to “pay it forward,” or make up questions to pose to other bloggers.

So thank you, Suze, for this award. And I do hope that everything came out okay on your run to the bathroom.