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!

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 N, players might have to name a soft drink, a farm animal, a river, and a U.S. President, all beginning with N. Valid answers might be Nehi, nanny goat, Nile, and Nixon.

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 twelfth year doing this! If you find this particularly fun (I do!) and haven’t done this before, here are the questions for parts 9, 10, and 11. Go crazy and do those too.

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

1. What geographical feature should be renamed in your honor?
2. Who should play you in a movie about your life?
3. What are you chasing?
4. What’s getting in your way?
5. What are you especially grateful for this week?

Thanks for participating, and have a cnajd* 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. What was your greatest Triumph this week?
2. When did you last interact with the Police?
3. What’s recently caused your Heart to leap?
4. What are you in no Rush to deal with?
5. How liberally do you use Salt-n-Pepa?

Next week, if I haven’t run out of ideas for it yet, we’ll do our annual Scattergories. My favorite and yours.

Thank you for participating! Have a wonderful, safe weekend. Your friend the question-writer tested positive Sunday night. It’s been a weird week, and I’m nearing okayness, but I hope this thing will stay away from you! It’s FLYING around out there.

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 strengths as a writer?
2. What are your challenges as a writer?
3. When did you last write creatively?
4. Which writers did you especially enjoy when you were a student?
5. What is your handwriting like?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, wonderful, safe weekend! I have had three social events affected by positive tests in the past week. At one event, one person couldn’t come because of a positive COVID test while the other had to bring her kids along for similar reasons. My other two events were canceled entirely because participants tested positive. This thing is flying around out there. Please be careful and 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!

1. What did you once dislike but now find pleasurable?
2. When did you last prove to be adaptable?
3. Who’s especially adorable?
4. Among your possessions, what’s especially durable?
5. Among stuff you ate this week, what was the most delectable?

Thanks for participating, and have a non-objectionable, safe weekend!

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1. How do you cool down on warm summer evenings?
2. What are some good songs for keeping the summer vibe flowing?
3. What’s a good summer movie or a good summer book?
4. How is this summer better than last summer?
5. What special something are you doing this summer?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, long (for you Americans), safe weekend!

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I think I ask a lot of questions like this. I guess American capitalism is just in my veins or something.

1. When did you last eat or drink something purchased from a truck or other wheeled vehicle?
2. When did you last purchase something previously owned?
3. When did a purchase most recently exceed your expectations?
4. When did you last overpay for something because you needed it right away?
5. Among recent purchases, what was the best bargain?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, wonderful, delicious, safe weekend!

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Yes, we’ve done this theme before but there’s so much good material I knew we’d revisit it some day.

1. Among stuff people have told you recently, what’s been most difficult to swallow?
2. What swan thing from last week you’ll spend time reflecting on this week?
3. What are you waiting your tern for?
4. Who do you suspect is robin you blind?
5. To what cause or effort are you planning to pigeon sometime soon?

Thanks for participating, and if you haven’t heard dove some of these phrases, just wing it — you are talonted enough! Have a lovely, safe weekend, you loony old coot!

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Today is a state holiday where I live, and although we just had the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S., I really need this day off! Maybe I’ll have time to actually answer my own questions this week!

1. How’s your sense of hearing?
2. When did you most memorably swear to do (or not do) something?
3. What trouble have you caused without anyone important ever finding out?
4. How gracefully do you handle losing?
5. What would you like to get to the bottom of, sometime this weekend?

Thank you 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!

This week’s questions are inspired without spoilers by Downton Abbey: A New Era.

1. Who has a great voice for acting in movies?
2. When have you recently resisted temptation?
3. When did you last cry in front of someone?
4. When did you receive encouragement from an unexpected person?
5. How old are some personal letters you’ve kept, and how easily do you throw personal letters away?

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 do you have two of because while you knew you had one, you couldn’t find it so you bought a new one?
2. What do you own none of because it’s convenient to borrow it from someone else?
3. What do you own an old version of because it still works fine even though it’s very old?
4. What do you own identical versions of because you like to have one in different places?
5. What are you most likely to upgrade when an upgrade is available, even if you’re happy with the one you’ve got?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, safe weekend.