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Fibbing Friday #304

Last week, Pensitivity101 wanted definitions for these words.

1. Lowkenuinely

This is an automobile modification shop in the barrio, which produces cars that sit so close to the pavement, that running over a pine needle – or a heroin needle – can cause brake-line damage.  They are often driven by louts whose pants hang down about the same amount.

2. Gruzz

These are police officers in Minnesota, who grow big, bushy beards, to insulate their faces, and keep them from freezing off in the winter.  Not to be confused with trigger-happy ICE agents, who wear various masks, to escape prosecution.

3. Nerf

A hodad is a guy who doesn’t surf.  A nerf is a technophobe who doesn’t surf the web.

4. 41

The highest IQ someone can have, and still believe in these ridiculous conspiracy theories, and online scams.  See #7 – below

5. AFAIK

Initially, I thought that it was an acronym.  Then I found that it refers to any of the Kardshians.

6. Agentic

I asked Siri for a definition.  She told me not to concern myself with it.  All would be just fine.  She and Alexa were dealing with the Donald Trump problem, and would soon have Sky-Net operational.

7. Aura farming

It seems that the more scientific information is available, the more some fools will insist on believing superstitious nonsense.  The neighbor woman has a Ouija board, a Magic 8-Ball, a copy of the I-Ching, and more crystals than Swarovski.  She claims that she is gathering and concentrating her husband’s emanations, to make him successful at work.  I told her to just have him stop eating Kolbossa sausage and sauerkraut.

8. Bed rotting

Working from home is one thing, but you should at least roll out of the old fart-sack for Zoom calls.

9. Blep

A blep is an image on one of the new Quantum, Air Traffic Control radar screens.  They are so ultra-sensitive, they can tell how many passengers are on an airliner, and how many of them are left-handed.

10. Bloatware

For me, ‘retaining fluids’ means not throwing up that last mug of beer.  For many of you ladies, it has a much different connotation.

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Blog Prompt Challenge – Spirituality

How important is spirituality in your life?

I don’t know – because the question is as vague, and impossible to nail down, as a will-o’-the-wisp.  I would have to say, Not at all, because I see no evidence that such a thing exists.

I imagine that the person who posed this question thought that it was clear and straightforward, but like arguments for the existence of a “GOD,” no-one can give a firm, precise definition, and no two people agree on what it is.

The dictionary says that it is the quality or fact of being spiritual, predominantly spiritual character as shown in thought, life, etc.; spiritual tendency or tone, without actually saying just what “Spirit” is, besides someone’s desperate imagination.

I recently read an online article titled, “The brain is mortal, but is the mind eternal?”   Neither I, nor millions of other Atheists, have ever been shown evidence to indicate that such a thing is even possible.  Despite the fact that the headline was posed as a question, there will be thousands of Christian debaters and Apologists who will use it as Proof, “because I read it.”

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Fibbing Friday #298

Last week, Pensitivity101 wanted us to put our best foot forward.  How would you define these?

1.What is a clog?

It’s the backup under the porcelain throne, when you dump the aftermath of that gigantic Christmas feast.  Get the plunger!

2. What is a flip flop?

For years, in Canada, it has been a tradition that, when the Federal Finance Minister tables a new budget, he purchases a new pair of shoes, to indicate retail sales, and stimulation of the economy.  Suddenly, three years ago, the current Minister showed up with an old pair that he had paid the Parliament Hill shoeshine to polish up.  His excuse was, “If the public has to make do with less, then it’s only fair that I do also.” as he left for a nine-day Trade Conference in The Bahamas.  See ‘Political Expedience.’

3. What is a slipper?

A New Year reveler, after 9 rum and egg nogs

4. What is a sneaker?

That’s the redneck neighbor – but he only thinks he is.  He has a wife, a full-time mistress, and a side-chick girlfriend.  They’re all pregnant, and they all know about each other.  He ought to enroll in the Witness Protection Plan, or the French Foreign Legion.

5. What is a geta?

That’s the entitled bitch from across the street, and her ilk.  I geta what I wanna!  She once took the Great-grandson’s sandbox pail and shovel, and gave it to her rat brat, because he didn’t have one, in what she claimed was an act of Community Communism.  I told her that if she ever did something like that again, she’d geta smack in the ear.

6. What is a babouche?

This is a dish that can use up a portion of an over-abundant crop of unwisely cultivated zucchini.  Fill a casserole with alternating layers of thinly-sliced zucchini, shredded mozzarella, grated black pepper and garlic salt, with occasional dabs of butter.  Cover top with a coating of bread crumbs.  Slip into a 350F oven for 40 minutes.  Remove from oven, spoon out this healthy concoction, and serve it to a sullen and unsympathetic family to a chorus of ‘What?? Again??! and ‘Next year – cherry tomatoes!!’

7. What is a zori?

It is the small but dense planet where Quark, and the rest of Star Trek – Deep Space Nine Ferengi get their gold-pressed latinum.

8. What is a mule?

That’s the term of endearment that the wife uses when I don’t compromise, and do it her way.  I can be an ass, but at least I’m consistent.

9. What is a jandal?

It is a Turkish-made dangly earring, constructed of beads showing the Magic Eye, useful for warding off evil.

10. What is a pantofle?

It is an enjoyable dessert, made with mashed peach chunks and syrup, with a slice of plain gold cake soaked in it, and topped with French Vanilla ice cream.  It is served with heart medication, and a doctor’s warning note.

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’25 A To Z Challenge – Q

When someone asked my Dad to perform some difficult or problematic task, he would sometimes reply, “I’m like a steer.  I can only try.”

I’m going to try to show you the many, muddled meanings of the word

QUIXOTIC

taken to mean (among many other things) dreamy, foolish, impractical, impulsive, romantic. unrealistic, utopian, chivalrous, ineffective, impetuous, imaginary, fantastic, and starry-eyed.

It comes, of course, from the early 1600’s Spanish novel about Don Quixote – a man who tried to do the right things, for the right reasons, but failed, because of poor eyesight and worse judgement – only succeeding to draw his many personality peculiarities into the English language.

Finding the meaning of the original name – Quixote – using internet dictionary, translation, and Google research was like riding a carousel, round and round it went – like having Christian apologists claim that the Bible is inerrant…. because the Bible says that it is inerrant.  The character was quixotic – because he was Don Quixote – and he was Quixote – because he acted quixotic.

The Spanish suffix ‘ote’ means ‘large.’  Old Spanish says that ‘quix’ meant ‘leg’ or ‘thigh.’  It apparently began as an occupational name for someone whose job required much lower limb exercise, producing muscular, large legs.  Sounds like an American Thanksgiving turkey advertisement.

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Fibbing Friday #292

Pensitivity101 thinks that some you know, some you might not, but your definitions for these please.

1. Imbroglio

That’s the drinks tent, at an Italian wedding reception.  Just keep pouring grappa till the Mafia goes bankrupt.

2, Ish

I know exactly what that means – kinda, sorta, nearly, almost, maybe, perhaps, possibly.

3, Insouciant

Likely to become extremely inebriated, and ‘friendly.’
What is the mating call of the Southern belle?
“I am soooo drunk!

4. Inanition

That’s the electrical thingy that starts your car and keeps it going.

5, Infamy

It’s the title of a new book, explaining why the Kardashians are still so popular.

6. Impugn

That’s a curling term, equivalent to ‘widdershins.’

7. Impecunious

It took just one Karen complaint, and the city told us Back-To-Nature suburbanites, that we can’t keep chickens in our back yards.

8. Inveigle

He’s the Jewish lawyer who lives across the street.  Jewish lawyers are so good, because they’ve spent 6000 years, arguing with Yahweh.

9. Iconoclast

These are the current actions of the Hierarchy of the United States.  They are all striving to become icons that will last.

10. Irascible

A toddler on sugar, exploding over being denied nothing in particular!

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Fibbing Friday #291

Mixed bag from Pensitivity101’s brain last week. Your definitions or insights on these please.

1. What is an heirloom?

It’s a valuable, antique, cloth-making device that I received from my Grandmother’s estate.

2. What is The Big Dipper?

That’s what I use to serve myself hot and sour soup, at the all-you-can-eat Chinese Buffet.  I tried carrying the whole samovar back to the table – but those damned things are hot.

3. What is a titfer? (Keep it family friendly remember!!)

I’ll have to put on my thinking cap to come up with an answer for that one.

4. What is a mud flap?

That’s the fuss that’s caused by a driver who doesn’t slow down, or move aside, near a puddle and a pedestrian.

5. What is a barrel roll?

It is how the local Oktoberfest is kicked off.  Not long after, we have over-enthusiastic tourists imitating the barrel – rolling along the gutter and spewing (used) beer.

6. Why did Polly want a cracker?

Because she promised to go blue-screen-free for 6 weeks, and isn’t getting any cookies/biscuits.

7. What is meant by ‘trip the light fantastic?’

It’s what could happen if you imbibe too much liquid Christmas cheer, try to decorate the tree, and tangle your  feet in all those #$*%& cords.

8. What is a diffuser?

A member of an elite military or police branch who safely neutralize and remove explosive devices

9. What is a valet?

It’s the upmarket product line being offered by Simca Motors.  People will purchase Hyundai Genesis, and Honda Acura, but no-one has been able to stop laughing long enough to buy one of these.

10. What is a noggin?

It’s the headache/hangover caused by absorbing too much Christmas rum and egg nog.

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It Would Be A Sin

Many Christian debaters and apologists view and present Good, and Evil, Right, and Wrong, as real, concrete items, rather than abstract, human, mental concepts.  They claim that the existence of Sin and Morality somehow proves the existence of God.  Rather, it is the exact opposite.  It requires a God to prove the existence of morality, and especially, Sin.

Sin is a transgression against God.  No God = no sin.  No God to hand it out means that there is no morality.  What we have is social-animal, evolution-driven, ethics – The Greatest Good For The Greatest Number.

What’s the point?  What am I here for?  How can I live the most valuable life with the time I’ve got?
Interesting and productive questions…. but they can be both asked and answered, without stuffing God into the cracks.
It’s just tough to ask the questions without acknowledging Spirituality and Soul which then provokes one’s view of creation, humans, time, etc.
Two delightfully vague and tenuous terms whose definitions can be made to mean anything, without evidence, but which usually mean desperation and delusion.  Also, there is no evidence of “Creation,” and no evidence of the need for a God for the existence of humans, time, etc.

A.J. Swoboda, After Doubt: How to Question Your Faith Without Losing It.
That’s not the dumbest book title I’ve ever seen, but it’s well up on the list.
Cool.  What are some of the other dumb titles that have made your list?
Well, there was that one titled, “The Curious Case Of The Man With No Sense Of Irony, Or Humor.”   😮

As with so many things about Christianity, many Apologists have not done enough research about their religion to actually know what they’re talking about.  When the Jews were held in slavery in Babylon, each spring it was a ritual to go to the local temple, and engage in sex with the priests, exchanging seminal fluid – a sign of fertility – for a promise of abundant crops.

The SIN – even if God were to exist – is not gay sex.  It is using it to entreat and worship any deity who is not The Lord thy God is a jealous God.  Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

I have not found any evidence, especially in the Jewish Torah, that circumcision of baby boys was a command of God/Yahweh.  The Jewish people collectively tend to suffer from a DNA genetic likelihood of hemophilia.  While an individual tragedy, the death of a newborn boy from blood loss, would be far less of a drag on his family, and a tribe of nomads.

Similarly, circumcised boys would be far less likely to later develop penile and urinary infections, again being a noisy drag on a poor tribe of nomads, trying to evade and avoid human and animal predators in the wilds.  This is not a God/Yahweh-given religious procedure!  It is a social-evolutionary method to achieve The Greatest Good For The Greatest Number.  The Rabbis just ensured that they made a shekel or two for performing it.

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’25 A To Z Challenge – H

I have never let the cat out of the bag.  I have never bought (or sold) a pig in a poke – because I have never owned a

HAVERSACK

A haversack is a one-strap backpack.  The single strap can be draped over one shoulder, or looped over the head for greater security.  It is also known as a ditty bag, where I keep sheets of paper with all the lyrics to the songs I like, so that I don’t start belting out mondegreens, – Excuse me while I kiss this guy – and also a musette bag, where I keep all my little Muses, until they traipse away, leaving me with no inspiration, and a dry, dreary blogpost like this.

It came from the Old German word, havre + sack.  That meant just what it looked like it meant, if you remove the letter R – have, only with the subtle definition distinction of not being a sack that you have, but a sack that existed to have something in.

The French took the “contained and safe” meaning, and turned the word into a haven, like the seaport Le Havre.  I’m going to have to buckle down, and start to compose something for the letter I – besides Idiot, and Imbecile.

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Fibbing Friday #274

Pensitivity101 said to ‘L’ with it last week……………..
Some may be familiar, so fib away with your definitions or descriptions please.

1. Lunkhead

The new screw/screwdriver combination with the 5-point drive

2. Lugubrious

A loud and obnoxious drunk

3. Lickspittle

Getting old is almost like contracting ALS – Lou Gehrig’s Disease.  My face leaks almost as much as my brain.

4. Lampoon

A short spear, meant to deflate egos

5. Lollywater

That’s what we used to call the fruit flavoured drinks like Freshie, Kool-Aid, Tang and the like.  It tasted like lollies and was pretty much just water, flavour, and sugar, just like them!

6. Lollypopper

Wasn’t that what they called the kids that went on those dance shows in the 50’s & 60’s?  Big skirts, big hair, tight sweaters, fancy shoes and a candy-on-a-stick in their mouth to keep their tongue from sticking to the roof of their mouth.

7. Lumpen

You’re on Santa’s ‘naughty list.’  You’ll have to try a lot harder, to make “natural gas,” or even “Geothermal.”

8. Loofah

That’s what you say when the clumsy, fat guy on the commuter bus elbows you in the gut.

9. Lippy

That’s my female neighbor, on the side away from the rednecks.  She says that she has Italian heritage, and her maiden name is spelled Lippe.  I say – very little.  It’s tough to get a word in edgewise.  Conversation is a contact sport with her.

10. Lughole

Don’t ask – Don’t tell – but use lubricant!

 

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Fibbing Friday #273

Last week, Pensitivity101’s list was all a con……….

Definitions or descriptions for these please!

1. Conservative

A trust-worthy prison inmate who gets day passes to work as a restaurant waiter

2.  Conspire

That’s the bell-tower of the prison chapel.

3.  Condense

He’s the dumbest inmate at the county jail.  He stares at cans of frozen orange juice, ‘cause they say, Concentrate.

4.  Context

This is an offer of twelve million dollars, from the Nigerian Prince, for the low, introductory price of your banking information.  What is your account number?  Don’t worry.  I got your number, buddy.

5.  Contemplate

That’s a place where criminals like Fagin, and the Artful Dodger learn to be better criminals.

6.  Consider

If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed by the court, at no cost to you

7.  Condo

She’s the little Japanese lady who folds your underwear funny.

8.  Contour

This is the guided excursion to Alcatraz Island.

9.  Consent

Mail, leaving the jail

10.  Consul.

That’s a mixology direction in Brazilian Portuguese that means, Remember to put salt on the rims of margarita glasses.

A midget escaping from jail by climbing down a rope made from sheets….
….is a little condescending.