friday 5

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?

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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!

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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!)

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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.

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Holy moly. I’m suuuuper late this time. I schedule these things to post at 12:01 Friday GMT, which is Thursday 2:00 in the afternoon Hawaii time. It’s now creeping up on Friday 11:30 in the morning Hawaii time! Twenty-two and a half hours late!

1. What’s a snack item you have difficulty eating in moderation?
2. What’s a verbal habit you’d like to break?
3. What have you removed from your life after some struggle to do so?
4. Where do you go just because you’ve always gone there?
5. What’s something you hope continue forever?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekend!

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1. What’s a movie that makes you feel patriotic?
2. When you first started driving, what’s something you did mostly because you could?
3. What’s a good song whose title contains some form of the word “free?”
4. When did you last unexpectedly receive something for free?
5. What’s something you’ve given freely in recent weeks?

Thanks for participating, and have a gorgeous weekend!

The #5 question was originally about a favorite Ace Frehley song, but I decided I might be the only person who could readily answer it. “Cold Gin,” of course! Gene Simmons did the vocal on the Kiss release, but Ace wrote it, and he recorded his own vocals on it when he rereleased it on his most recent album. Feel free to add it as a bonus question if you have an answer. 🙂

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1. For the rest of your life, you get to dispense one condiment out of each fingertip of your right hand, defining “condiment” liberally. Which five do you commit to?
2. What is the best way to spiffy-up french fries?
3. The restaurant is out of your favorite salad dressing. What do you order instead?
4. How do you like to modify your favorite heat-and-eat food?
5. In what way do you play with your food?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekend!

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I’m tapping this in on my phone, from bed, and it’s a bit past bedtime so please forgive weirdness in formatting or mechanics. I’ll edit, if necessary, when I get up and in front of a computer.

1. What do you need to be free of?
2. What’s the highest thing you’ve leaped from?
3. What are you bouncing back from?
4. When were you last in, on, or near a body of fresh water?
5. What kind of bed are you sleeping on?

Thanks for participating, and may today be the beginning of a wonderful summer for us all!

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1. Are you more of a Ross, Chandler, Joey, Monica, Phoebe, or Rachel?
2. Which Muppet would you most like to date?
3. Which Wizard of Oz character do you most identify with?
4. You’re in one of those heist movies with a whole mess o’ expert specialists. Which are you?
5. Which member of the Brady Bunch would you most likely be good friends with?

Thanks for participating, and have a C’mon Get Happy weekend!

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This week’s questions are each inspired by the top five best-selling hardcover books in fiction, according to the New York Times, for the week of June 16. I don’t think this is a permalink, so it’s possible that by the time you read this, the link points to an entirely different set of titles, FYI.

1. What is your experience with crayfish (or crawfish or crawdads, depending on where you’re from)?
2. When have you been stung by a stinging critter?
3. What was the last previously-owned item you purchased for yourself?
4. Where are you on the whole Game of Thrones thing?
5. How did you celebrate your 18th birthday?

Thanks for participating, and have a splendid weekend!