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Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your website. 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 story you really like from your country’s (or ethnicity’s) folklore?
2. What movie version of a fairy tale do you especially like?
3. Some fables tell the story of how something came to be (for example, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears). What’s a fable you especially like in this vein?
4. Some fables have a moral attached to the end (for example, The Boy Who Cried Wolf). What fable in this vein is especially applicable to your life?
5. If you got together with your high-school friends, what’s a story they might retell about you?

Thanks for participating, and have a beautiful 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’s a good song with a time of day in its title?
2. What’s a good song with a day of the week in its title?
3. What’s a good song with a month in its title?
4. What’s a good song with a year in its title?
5. What’s a good song with the word “time” in its title?

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!

1. What’s a food or drink whose bottom is better than its top?
2. What’s at the top of your weekend agenda?
3. When did you last wear a non-hat covering for your head?
4. What tunes did you spin this week?
5. When were you last on the roof of a building?

Thanks for participating, and may your weekend be tops!

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 came up with this week’s questions by typing the 5 Ws, one at a time, into Google and letting it suggest something interesting (or at least not a yes-no question). I’ve put the incomplete part of each query in bold you so you can see what I had to do to get the question. In four cases I changed the question’s point of view so [you] is the subject and not [I] or [we]. This may be a flop but I thought it was an interesting concept.

1. Who do you look like?
2. What bit you?
3. When are you due?
4. Where have all the flowers gone?
5. Why don’t you?

Thanks for participating, and have a peaceful weekend. Six more days ’til the NFL season begins! Go Raiders!

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 mini version of a popular snack food is better than its original?
2. What mini version of a popular snack food is not as good as its original?
3. What food, not yet miniaturized as far as you know, might make a great hors d’oeuvre for parties?
4. What snack food might be better in a giant size?
5. What five mini-scoops of ice cream flavors would go really well together?

Thanks for participating, and have a gigantic 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’s your hurry?
2. Where’s the fire?
3. You need it when?
4. What’s your ETA?
5. What’s the holdup?

Thanks for participating, and have a glorious weekend! It’s a three-day weekend here in Hawaii as the 50th state celebrates its admission to the union. I’m headed to the beach.

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 F, players might have to name a soft drink, a farm animal, a river, and a U.S. President, all beginning with F. Valid answers might be Fanta, fox hound, Fling (Georgia), and Fillmore.

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

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

1. What beverage do you enjoy but seldom have?
2. What’s better now than when you were a kid?
3. Who makes you happy?
4. Where do you go when you want to indulge?
5. Where’s a comfy place to sit?

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 can all check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

Scattergories have to be next week: sorry! I’m doing this on my phone and I need my computer to do the Scattergories.

I’m posting more than five questions because I think most of these aren’t particularly provocative. And because I think people might shy away from a certain one. Pick any five, and as always, just have fun!

1. What’s down at the end of the Boulevard of Broken Dreams?
2. What’s down at the end of My Way?
3. What’s down at the end of Perfect Circle?
4. What’s down at the end of Asian Avenue?
5. What’s down at the end of Sunday Drive?
6. What’s down at the end of Stay in Your Lane?
7. What’s down at the end of Any Place?

Thanks for participating, and have a yummy 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. In what way do you have great power and great responsibility?
2. When have you recently swung into action on very short notice?
3. What’s the closest you’ve come to being stuck down with great vengeance and furious anger?
4. What’s something memorable in a museum you’ve visited?
5. Who’s the most interesting person you’ve met while traveling?

Thanks for participating, and have an amazing weekend!

(sorry! 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’s a yummy pan-fried dish?
2. What’s a yummy slow-cooked dish?
3. What’s a yummy deep-fried dish?
4. What’s a yummy blanched dish?
5. What’s a yummy smoked dish?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely weekend! If all goes well, next week will be the annual Scattergories week, everyone’s favorite! Or at least mine.