Category: this week’s friday five

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!

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 our your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. When did you most recently have all your ducks in a row?
2. What is the elephant in the room?
3. Where would you like to be a fly on the wall?
4. What is the bee in your bonnet?
5. When did you most recently have butterflies in your stomach?

Thanks for participating, and may you be happy as a (safe!) clam 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 all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. If we renamed all the vitamins so their names were the initials of essential components of mentally healthy living, what would the A in Vitamin A stand for, what should you consume in order to get it, and what’s the recommended daily (or weekly, or whatever) allowance?
2. What would the B in Vitamin B stand for, what should you consume in order to get it, and what’s the recommended daily (or weekly, or whatever) allowance?
3. What would the C in Vitamin C stand for, what should you consume in order to get it, and what’s the recommended daily (or weekly, or whatever) allowance?
4. What would the D in Vitamin D stand for, what should you consume in order to get it, and what’s the recommended daily (or weekly, or whatever) allowance?
5. What would the E in Vitamin E stand for, what should you consume in order to get it, and what’s the recommended daily (or weekly, or whatever) allowance?

Thanks for participating, and have a mentally healthy, 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’s your favorite animal-shaped food?
2. What’s your favorite cylinder- or tube-shaped food?
3. What’s your favorite disc-shaped food?
4. What’s your favorite sphere-shaped food?
5. What’s your favorite triangle-shaped food?

Thanks for participating, and have a 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!

1. When did you most recently follow a recipe?
2. When did you most recently give or receive directions to some location?
3. When did you most recently follow instructions for assembling something?
4. When did you most recently complete a form?
5. When did you most recently have your routine disrupted?

Thanks for participating, and have a cozy, comfy, 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. Who in your life is a real joker?
2. When did you take the money and run?
3. Whose music is rock’n you this week?
4. When do you next expect to be on a jet airliner, and where do you expect it will take you?
5. Which movies set in jungles do you love?

Thanks for participating, and have a safe, swingtown kinda 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. Which book made you cry?
2. Which book would you like to see adapted for a television series?
3. Among books you’ve read, which was most recently published?
4. If your personal January 2025 were a novel, what would be its title?
5. When reading a physical book, how do you mark your place when you set it down?

Thank you for participating! Have a safe weekend, and may all our Februaries be better than our Januaries!

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 bad title?
2. Who is named strangely, among musicians or bands you like?
3. What are some album titles you like?
4. Often, greatest hits compilations are simply called Greatest Hits or The Best of, but sometimes they’re titled more creatively and appropriately for the artist, as with Bob Marley & the Wailers’ Legend, Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection, or 1 by the Beatles (a collection of number one hits). If you were to collect all your favorite songs by one of your favorite artists, how would you title the compilation?
5. Among bands you like, who has a great name?

Thanks for participating, and have a safe, Godspeed You! Black Emperor 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 almost never ask yes-no questions here, but they seem appropriate this week for some reason.

1. Has the death of a famous person (not connected to you personally) ever made you cry?
2. Have you ever sent money as relief aid after a disaster?
3. How will the recent declaration affirming alcoholic beverages as cancer-causing affect your consumption?
4. What is the most bizarre (or difficult to understand) movie you’ve seen?
5. How willing and able are you to separate art from artist when a musican, actor, writer, or other creator is discovered to have behaved very badly?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful, safe weekend. I am a sucker for a new year (doubly, because my birthday is in the first week of the month), and cannot help but feel this is going to be a great year for us all, filled with joy, kindness, and peace, which I wish for you in abundance.