friday 5

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. How do you feel about bowling? (May 9: Billy Hardwick wins the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America all-star bowling tournament)
2. How do you feel about the comedy of Monty Python, and do you have a favorite bit? (May 11: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin form Monty Python)
3. How many Cate Blanchett films have you seen, and do you have a favorite? (May 14: Cate Blanchett is born)
4. What would you like to get back? (May 14: “Get Back” by the Beatles is the number one song in America)
5. Who’s your favorite Joni, and who’s your favorite Mitchell? Alternate spellings and forms of the name are allowed! (May 17: Joni Mitchell is on the cover of Rolling Stone #33)

Thanks for participating, and may you have a historically fantastic, memorably safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome again to this week’s LATE Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

I’m having the worst week! Sorry these questions are late. I’m fine and everyone around me is fine, but getting there made me forget a lot of important stuff like this!

This week’s (LATE) questions are related to my being late posting them. Arrrrrr.

1. What was the nature of your most recent change in diet or eating habits?
2. What do you consider (in order of importance) when finding a new hairstylist or barber?
3. Which of your childhood friends would you like most to hear from this weekend?
4. When have you most recently been asked to drive someone somewhere, and when have you most recently needed someone else to drive you somewhere?
5. How’ve you been sleeping lately?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s (very late but at least still on Friday) Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. When did you last send someone a heart emoji in a message, and what color was it?
2. When were you most recently over the moon?
3. When you draw a five-pointed star, which of the star’s points do you begin and end with?
4. When did you last walk barefoot in clover (or some other grass-like groundcover)?
5. Do you have any lucky charms?

Thanks for participating, and if luck exists, may yours be good this weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5, posted on a Saturday because apparently I’m getting so old I don’t know when it’s Friday anymore. Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. When did you most recently (or most memorably) repair (or temporarily fix) an article of clothing?
2. When were you most recently somewhat annoyed by your own forgetfulness?
3. What are some of your favorite words to use in place of curse words?
4. How was your week?
5. Among items on your to-do list, which could you take care of right now, with minimal effort?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

Your responses to last week’s Charlotte’s Web (inspired) questions were really nice. Thank you. I haven’t commented on anyone’s yet but I want you to know I read and loved them.

1. How much black do you have in your wardrobe?
2. When did your pen prove mightier than the sword?
3. How do you feel about Mexican food?
4. In what situation have you had recently to hold your horses?
5. What are your favorite words beginning with Z?

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your webpage!

1. How do you feel about spiders?
2. When in your life was every day a happy day and every night peaceful?
3. When did you last attend a fair, and how was it, and what did you eat?
4. This weekend, what is likeliest to have you feeling T, double E, double R, double R, double I, double F, double I, double C C C?
5. What are some of your favorite children’s books?

Thanks for participating, and may your weekend be full of happy surprises, encouraging words, good friendships, and good food of questionable nutritional value!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

• After your alarm, what is the first thing you hear, most mornings upon waking?
• What’s the greatest rock and roll love song?
• What is the most impressive river you have seen?
• What are some notable trees in your area or in your life?
• What are you feeling optimistic about, this very moment?

Thank you for participating! Friday snuck up on me once again, and these questions are up a lot later than I planned. To make up for it, I am extending your weekend the appropriate amount of time. Tell your bosses I said it’s cool.

Have a hopeful weekend.

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your workspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. When did you most recently tag-team some activity or task?
2. What has you in a headlock?
3. What was the situation when you last had to tap out of (that is, give up on) a rough situation?
4. If someone handed you a microphone after a recent triumph in some mundane situation, what would have been your victory speech?
5. If your upcoming weekend had a super-hyped title with a suffix like -alooza or -orama or -mania, what would this amazing weekend be called?

Thanks for participating, and may you come out on top — safely — in every donniebrook, battle royal, and royal rumble you encounter this weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. Among the supposedly cool, convenient things your phone can do, which have you so far refused to try?
2. Among the great things your phone can do, which did you unexpectedly really like?
3. Which of the other new electronic gadgets or services have you so far been resistant to trying or reluctant to try?
4. How has some of the new technology changed the way you think about life, the universe, or everything?
5. What percentage of the time is your phone within ten feet of you?

Thanks for participating, and have a restful, rejuvenating, relaxing, safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. When did you memorably have a lightbulb moment?
2. When did you recently have a moment of weakness?
3. When have you ever had a magic moment?
4. When have you recently offered help in someone else’s moment of decision?
5. What has been the defining moment of March 2025 so far?

Thanks for participating, and have a glorious, magical, stupendous, dreamy, safe weekend!