friday 5

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!

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.

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. 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!

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 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!

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 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!

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 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)

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1. If you could dispense one condiment from each finger on your left hand without its ever running out (and without losing any normal use of your fingers), which condiments would they be?
2. Which you is the realer you: real-world in-person you, or online you?
3. Who’s a better actor: Leonardo DiCaprio or Matt Damon?
4. If you had to watch (and stay awake during) the same movie repeated for 24 hours, which movie would you choose and why?
5. Who are the five most visually recognizable people in the world?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful, safe weekend! If I have my act together (never a good bet these days!), we’ll do our annual Scattergories next week!

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 has been a nice surprise in this first half of the year?
2. What’s the best new (new-to-you or brand-new) music, TV, or reading you consumed this year?
3. What have you learned so far in 2023?
4. What is the outlook for the rest of your 2023?
5. What can you do this week to make someone else’s 2023 better?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful, comfortable, 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 lies somewhere Beyond the Sea?
2. When and where did you last have a Splish Splash?
3. What do you do Early in the Morning?
4. Who is your Dream Lover?
5. What proves You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby?

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!

Questions inspired by a favorite show you don’t have to have seen. 🙂

1. How do you feel about (or what do you think of) soccer, the sport known everywhere but in the U.S. as football?
2. What have you been forgiven for?
3. Who is the most joyful person you know?
4. When were you most recently a fish out of water?
5. Under which circumstances are you the best version of yourself?

I haven’t commented yet on everyone’s posts from last week, but I plan to. I found your responses interesting, engaging, and somehow touching. Thanks for participating last week, this week, and every week. Have a wonderful, safe, weekend, and believe — in yourself and in the people you count on. <3

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!

Sorry these questions are posting a little late — it’s nearly five in the morning Friday in the middle of the Pacific, which makes it well into Friday on the U.S. East Coast. It’s been a week!

1. What do you eat when you need something hot and heavy?
2. When did you last go to bed with something edible?
3. What’s an enjoyable meal that requires you to get busy?
4. With which dining establishment do you think you could go steady, at least until the end of the year?
5. With which snack would you like to have a summer fling?

Thanks for participating, and may you knock boots with something yummy this weekend!