Month: August 2024

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!

Someone has been so sleep-deprived all week he fell asleep while typing these questions last night. Sorry if you came here and didn’t get the questions when you were ready to deal with them.

Some people really dislike questions like these, but I am not one. One of the greatest pastimes of all time is ranking things important and trivial, and I would ask them every day if I thought people would be as into it as I am. 🙂 Just don’t stress over it, but get the dang answers right, wouldja?

1. If you are forced to choose only one, what is the greatest single episode of a television series, ever?
2. If you are forced to choose only one, what is the greatest opening line of a song, ever?
3. If you are forced to choose only one, what is the greatest movie kiss of all time?
4. If you are forced to choose only one, what is the greatest building of all time?
5. If you are forced to choose only one, what is the greatest candy — not a candy bar — of all time?

Thanks for participating, and have the greatest, safest, happiest, most relaxing weekend of all time!

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’s a perfectly satisfying libation?
2. For taking to work or school, what’s in your favorite personal sack lunch?
3. Do you know a pretty silly limerick?
4. What’s a pleasingly scented lotion?
5. What are some peppy song lyrics?

Thanks for participating, and have a pillow-soft landing into the 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!

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 P, players might have to name a fruit, a bird, a river, and a movie star, all beginning with P. Valid answers might be plum, puffin, Potomac, and Piper Perabo.

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.  

Wow. When I copied and pasted this from last year’s Scattergories post, somehow the smiley got its own paragraph, and WordPress is displaying it at full size. I’m leaving it — it’s so weird!

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 fourteenth year doing this! If you find this particularly fun (I do!) and haven’t done this before, here are the questions for parts 11, 12, and 13. Go crazy and do those too.

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

1. If you can schedule it, what would you like for your last meal?
2. Where would you like to be buried?
3. What will they place in your coffin to be buried with you?
4. Who will sing at your funeral?
5. Who will deliver your eulogy?

Thanks for participating and have an OEOXO weekend!

(that word 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. Wrong answers only: what is the secret of your success?
2. Wrong answers only: how would you like to spend this weekend?
3. Wrong answers only: what’s next?
4. Wrong answers only: when will you finally get that thing done?
5. Wrong answers only: what do you have to say for yourself?

Thanks for participating. Sorry if this one’s a little bizarre, but I thought it might be fun to try. 🙂 Have a 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!

It’s been a while since our last gripe session!

1. What’s your biggest complaint about in-store shopping?
2. What’s your biggest complaint about seeing movies in a theater?
3. What’s your biggest complaint about personal hygiene?
4. What’s your biggest complaint about preparing a meal?
5. What’s your biggest complaint about your neighborhood?

Thanks for participating, and have an excessively positive, safe weekend!