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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 owned a new professional sports team (pick any sport!), what would you name it, and what would be its team colors?
2. If you owned a new restaurant, what would you name it, and what kind of cuisine would it serve?
3. If you owned a little independent retail shop, what would you name it, and what would it sell?
4. If you launched a charity, what would be its cause?
5. What kind of recreation is sorely lacking in your town?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, 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 recently do something on the sly?
2. Which of your plans for the coming week is still up in the air?
3. What’s happening across the street?
4. What have you heard recently through the grapevine?
5. What kinds of videos on YouTube are likeliest to send you down the rabbit hole?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, 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. What are your primary considerations as you decide what to wear on a typical day?
2. When did you have to select one person over others, much to others’ disappointment?
3. When have you recently chosen the least unpleasant of unpleasant options?
4. In a bookstore, in a restaurant, in a gift shop, or wherever, how do you feel about having lots and lots and lots of choices?*
5. What are some things you wish you didn’t have to make choices regularly about?

* I’m looking at you, Cheesecake Factory menu!

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, 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. What musical instruments have you played?
2. When do you play with your food?
3. What’s your favorite stage play?
4. What games do you play on your phone?
5. When did you recently play it by ear?

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. How have you recently kept yourself in check?
2. What’s the closest thing to a castle you’ve been in?
3. What were the circumstances the last time you were hoarse?
4. What’s your favorite song by Queen?
5. For what will you likely pay a king’s ransom in the near future?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, wonderful, 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!

I haven’t been commenting these days because I’m a doofus but I promise I’ve read every word. I appreciate the laughs, smiles, and headscratchers you offer every week, and I know I’m not the only one!

1. What’s your favorite thing about Mondays?
2. What song is most likely to make you shake your booty?
3. When did you feel eclipsed by someone else?
4. When were you most recently over the moon?
5. What are some great songs with moon in the title or lyrics?

Thanks for participating, and have a full weekend! And please be safe.

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!

National months and national days get a bit silly, but they’re fun to play around with, and what would we post on IG without them, when we’re out of photos of our cats and breakfasts? With apologies to our friends participating outside the U.S., here are a few things some of us unofficially celebrate nationwide this month.

1. November is National Peanut Butter Lovers Month. Are you a peanut butter lover? What are some ways you enjoy consuming it?
2. November is National Roasting Month. What did you most recently roast, and how did it come out?
3. November is National Gratitude Month, which of course leads to the American Thanksgiving holiday. What are you particularly grateful for this month?
4. November is National Inspirational Role Models month. Who are some of your inspirational role models?
5. November is National Family Stories Month. What’s an oft-told story in your family?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, 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. What unique behavior, attire, or ceremony element have you seen at a wedding?
2. Who’s your favorite piano player?
   (alternate question: Among people you know, who’s the best piano player?)
3. When did rain notably ruin your plans?
4. What is your going-to-bed ritual like?
5. When did you last give roses to someone or receive them from someone?

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

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This week’s questions (and their explanatory introductions) are inspired by this Mental Floss article about words in other languages without English equivalents.

1. Iktsuarpok is Inuit for that feeling of anticipation when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they’re there yet. Who last invoked iktsuarpok in you?
2. Georgians call it shemomedjamo when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it. When did you memorably shemomedjamo?
3. Zhaghzhagh is Persian for the chattering of teeth from the cold or from rage. When were you last so cold (or so enraged) you experienced zhaghzhagh?
4. A bilita mpash in Bantu is the opposite of a nightmare: an amazing dream. Whenever a dream question shows up in memes, half the respondents say they don’t remember their dreams, but here we go anyway. What is one bilita mpash you remember?
5. In Thailand, the feeling you get when you don’t want someone to do something for you because it would be a pain for them is greng-jai. When did you recently resist greng-jai and ask someone anyway?

Thanks for participating, and may your weekend be safe and LAGOM!

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 recently made you proudest of yourself?
2. Whom do you envy?
3. When did you most recently express wrath?
4. What do you eat when you are too slothful to prepare something or to get takeout?
5. What or whom do you lust for?

Shout-out to my undergrad Medieval literature professor, the late David Miller, for the title acronym. Thanks for participating, and have a naughty-but-safe weekend!