Category: this week’s friday five

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I’m on the Clubhouse app, and while I still haven’t participated the way it’s intended, I do drop in once in a while to eavesdrop. If you remember those 1-900 voice chat numbers in the U.S. in the 90s, it’s like that. People set up rooms, often themed by conversation topic, and you drop in and chat with them, or you just listen while others chat.

Since I kind of hate talking on the phone, I don’t see why I’d want to talk into an app on my phone with strangers around the world, but the app’s popularity is undeniable, so I’m here for the ride just to see where it goes. After all, when Twitter started, most of us asked, “Why would I want to do that?” and look where it is now.

It’s iPhone-only for now, and you need to be invited. So if you’re curious (no obligations, I swear), say so in your comment and I’ll send an invite to the email address attached invisibly to your comment. If you’re already on and want to exchange follows, I’m @scrivener.

1. What is the longest you ever spent on the phone on one call?
2. When you were a teen, how important was the phone in your daily life?
3. How much do you use the actual telephone function of your phone today?
4. How well do you handle phone calls at work?
5. What are some good telephone-themed songs?

Thanks for participating! And have a wonderful, safe weekend!

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1. What will you remembrr about this past week?
2. What’s trying its best to clobbrr you these days?
3. What’s going on in the neighbrrhood?
4. When were you recently required to summon some brravery?
5. Over what will you happily labrr this weekend?

Thanks for participating, and have a safe weekend! Please stay warm!

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1. Which celebrity couple, past or present, do you find particularly interesting?
2. A couplet is a pair of rhyming lines of verse, one after another. Example:
   I think that I shall never see
   A poem lovely as a tree.*
   In the form of a couplet, how would you describe your hopes for the weekend?
3. With what (or whom) have you recently, consciously uncoupled?
4. When did you last purchase something in a two-pack only because it doesn’t come in a one-pack?
5. What were you doing a couple of hours ago, and what will you be doing in a couple of hours?

* Joyce Kilmer, but shout-out to Wayne and Wanda

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With apologies in advance.

1. What item in your house recently ceased (or is likely soon to cease) Operation?
2. If someone were to poker ’round in your refrigerator, what item might he or she have questions about?
3. What’s in your backPac, Man?
4. When did you last run into an old Flame?
5. With what object are you frequently playing Hide-and-Seek?

Thanks for participating, and have a Super, safe weekend!

Prediction: Chiefs 30, Buccaneers 17.

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1. What are you listening to?
2. What are you hearing?
3. What are you turning a deaf ear to?
4. What have you recently overheard?
5. To whom have you recently lent an ear?

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1. Who’s the nastiest flavor in the ice cream parlor?
2. Which item in the produce aisle is most likely to spoil the party?
3. What’s the most embarrassing song by your favorite musician or band?
4. Which part of your body is always in trouble?
5. What’s the worst film in your favorite actor’s* filmography?

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* “actor” as a non-gender-specific term

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1. Which slang term from your youth, no longer in common use, do you remember fondly?
2. What slang do you still use, ‘though it’s no longer in common use?
3. Which current (or sorta recent) slang terms do you particularly like?
4. Which slang terms, past or present, do you especially dislike?
5. What slang terms are specific to your geographical region?

Thanks for participating, and whether your weekend is tubular, stank, def, wack, extra, or grody to the max, may it also be safe!

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1. What are some figurines you own?
2. What are you trying to figure out?
3. Two circles or one continuous motion: how do you write the figure 8?
4. How do you feel about Fig Newtons?
5. What’s a good metaphor to describe your first week of 2021?

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1. What’s better in its middle than in its edges, beginnings, or ends?
2. Why is a sunrise better than a sunset?
3. What’s better in retrospect than when you experienced it?
4. What songs have wonderful endings?
5. What was the first thing you unwrapped in 2021?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful, happy, safe new year!

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1. What did you learn in 2020?
2. What do you regret doing (or not doing) in 2020?
3. What are you proud of doing in 2020?
4. Who did you get to know better in 2020?
5. What do you hope to accomplish in the remaining days of 2020?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, wonderful, safe weekend! And merry Christmas!