Month: July 2023

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. What shortcuts do you frequently take?
2. How do you make up for one of your shortcomings?
3. What does your favorite pair of shorts look like?
4. What was meant to be short-term but lasted much longer than planned?
5. Which short films do you especially like?

Tx 4 prtcptng, & hv a wndrfl, SAAAAAAFFFE wknd!

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!

This week’s 5 is inspired by the party game Scattergories, in which players have to think of items, all beginning with the same letter, in several categories. For example, if the die is rolled and shows the letter O, players might have to name a fruit, a bird, a river, and a movie star, all beginning with O. Valid answers might be orange, ostrich, Ohio, and Omar Epps.

First, go to this nifty online random-letter generator. Set the “number of random letter sequences to generate” to 1. Set the “length of each random letter sequence” to 1. Leave the “letters to choose from” how it is and click the button. You’ll get a rather non-dramatic one letter. Use this letter to begin all your answers to the 5 questions below. If you’d like to avoid difficult letters, feel free to change the “letters to choose from” list. I’ll only judge you a little bit.  🙂

Alternately, if you find this boring, you could set the “length of each random letter sequence” to 5, thereby giving you five letters, a different one for each question.

Wow! This is our thirteenth year doing this! If you find this particularly fun (I do!) and haven’t done this before, here are the questions for parts 10, 11, and 12. Go crazy and do those too.

Please answer these questions with an answer whose initial is the letter you rolled!

1. What should you always be careful with?
2. With whom would you like to have dinner?
3. What would you like to learn how to do?
4. Where will you find what you’ve been looking all over for?
5. What do you dream about?

Thanks for participating, and have a hggif* weekend!

* (generated by the random letter generator)

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. If you could dispense one condiment from each finger on your left hand without its ever running out (and without losing any normal use of your fingers), which condiments would they be?
2. Which you is the realer you: real-world in-person you, or online you?
3. Who’s a better actor: Leonardo DiCaprio or Matt Damon?
4. If you had to watch (and stay awake during) the same movie repeated for 24 hours, which movie would you choose and why?
5. Who are the five most visually recognizable people in the world?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful, safe weekend! If I have my act together (never a good bet these days!), we’ll do our annual Scattergories next week!

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. What has been a nice surprise in this first half of the year?
2. What’s the best new (new-to-you or brand-new) music, TV, or reading you consumed this year?
3. What have you learned so far in 2023?
4. What is the outlook for the rest of your 2023?
5. What can you do this week to make someone else’s 2023 better?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful, comfortable, healthy, safe weekend!