Friday 5 for September 22: Don’t tip the boat over

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  1. When did you most recently feel you should be dancing?
  2. What hot stuff have you recently consumed?
  3. What kind of side-hustle would be fun to try?
  4. What were some of this summer’s good times?
  5. What are your plans for Saturday night?

Thanks for participating, and have a boogie oogie oogie of a safe weekend!

Friday 5 for September 15: Happy hour

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  1. During which specific hour of the day are you likeliest to be happy?
  2. Which food-beverage pairings do you feel strongest about?
  3. Do you enjoy (or have you enjoyed) socializing with coworkers?
  4. When did you last try something different (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) to drink?
  5. What’s your favorite way to unwind after a long day of doing whatever you do during the day?

Thanks for participating, and have a safe weekend! Things are getting a little spooky out there (again)!

Friday 5 for September 8: Kickoff

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  1. What is your system or routine for paying bills?
  2. Forced to choose from a lion, bear, and panther, which would you keep as a pet, which would you put on your family crest, and which would you be reincarnated as?
  3. Who in your life is (metaphorically!) a saint?
  4. Assuming no negative impact on the environment and all expenses covered by someone else, where would you go (and what would you do) right now if someone offered you use of a private jet?
  5. Brown gets a lot of hate, but what are some lovely brown things?

Thanks for participating, and may this weekend be a total rush — but with safety first!

Friday 5 for September 1: More questions about our favorite topic

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  1. What’s your favorite dehydrated or freeze-dried food?
  2. What’s your favorite among foods requiring peeling or shelling?
  3. What’s something you could probably cook to impress if you were in someone else’s kitchen?
  4. What food do you look forward to getting in a town you visit only once in a while?
  5. What foods specific to autumn do you especially enjoy?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, comfortable, relaxing, fun, safe weekend!

Friday 5 for August 25: Until it hurts

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  1. Which charitable organizations do you think do especially meaningful work?
  2. When has someone recently appreciated your giving them your time?
  3. When have you asked someone to give you a little space?
  4. What do you simply not give a darn* about, despite its mattering to your friends or relatives?
  5. What are you close to giving up on?

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

* insert your word of choice here

Friday 5 for August 18: Career day

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Please feel free to answer the questions about jobs present or past. 🙂

  1. What is an ideal career for someone who’s your exact opposite?
  2. What do most people not know about your job?
  3. Which stereotypes about people in your job are pretty close to accurate?
  4. Which movie or TV series has a pretty good portrayal of your job?
  5. Which wild animal would be best suited to doing your job?

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

Friday 5 for August 11: For argument’s sake

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  1. How argumentative are you?
  2. With whom do you have a friendly, long-running argument, and what is it about?
  3. What was your most recent argument about?
  4. When did you most recently overhear an argument between people you don’t know?
  5. What’s an unpopular opinion you have about food?

Thanks for participating, and have a peaceful, argument-free, safe weekend!

Friday 5 for August 4: The Bard says

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This week’s questions were generated by Google Bard in response to the prompt, “Please list five good getting-to-know-you questions.” As you might expect, they are not very creative. In fact, Google Bard gave me a second “here are some other…” list, and these questions all came from that. Don’t worry; I don’t plan to do this again. It was just to see what would happen. 🙂

  1. What is your favorite thing to learn about?
  2. What is your favorite thing to do with your friends?
  3. What is your favorite place you’ve ever been?
  4. What is your favorite way to relax?
  5. What is your favorite thing to cook?

The Bard adds: “These are just a few examples, and there are many other great getting-to-know-you questions out there. The best questions are the ones that are open-ended and allow for conversation. So, get creative and ask questions that will help you get to know the people you meet in a deeper way.”

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, educational, friendly, relaxing, safe weekend!

Friday 5 for July 28: (abbr.)

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  1. What shortcuts do you frequently take?
  2. How do you make up for one of your shortcomings?
  3. What does your favorite pair of shorts look like?
  4. What was meant to be short-term but lasted much longer than planned?
  5. Which short films do you especially like?

Tx 4 prtcptng, & hv a wndrfl, SAAAAAAFFFE wknd!

Friday 5 for July 21: Scattergories Part 13 (what?)

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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 O, players might have to name a fruit, a bird, a river, and a movie star, all beginning with O. Valid answers might be orange, ostrich, Ohio, and Omar Epps.

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 thirteenth year doing this! If you find this particularly fun (I do!) and haven’t done this before, here are the questions for parts 10, 11, and 12. Go crazy and do those too.

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

  1. What should you always be careful with?
  2. With whom would you like to have dinner?
  3. What would you like to learn how to do?
  4. Where will you find what you’ve been looking all over for?
  5. What do you dream about?

Thanks for participating, and have a hggif* weekend!

* (generated by the random letter generator)