Fortune Weirdness

Ever get a fortune cookie at a chinese restaurant that made no sense? Here's a whole website full of them!
How 'bout you? Have you ever received an odd fortune in a cookie?



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Can't Believe it's Friday! (Puzzle, List)

I didn't post a stitch last Friday so I'll make it up to you today. Here's what Fortune Magazine had to say about Fridays:

"They're great!"

And I agree.
No PicturePuzzle today, No, Sir! Today a Cryptogram Puzzle (because they're fun!)
And if that's too hard, try this one.

LIST:
1) Who are you going to be in a past life?
2) What are you avoiding today (if you are in fact avoiding something or someone)?
3) I'm thinking of a number between one and four. What is it?

Special Friday Bonus LOLCAT!

As a special treat this Friday, I invite you to caption the enclosed kitties. (It doesn't haz 2 B about cheezbergers, k?)

American Aviation Alphabet

How many do you already know?
(COMPLETE LIST HERE)

People Who Famously Did Nothing

I wondered today about how many famous incidents centered around a person doing absolutely nothing. Now, I'm not talking about people who got famous even though they do nothing of artistic merit (Paris, you know who you are), but rather points in time when doing nothing had famous consequences.

Here's what I've got so far:

God: On the seventh day he rested from making the world, thus creating the first weekend. We are all eternally grateful!

Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat cake" was a famous quote that proceeded her beheading, but it was attached to a refusal to feed the starving commoners of France. They killed her for it.

Hitler: This one has always fascinated me. Hitler had the French and British army on the run on the coast of Dunkirk and instead of attacking them and cutting them off, he famously did nothing and let 300,000+ enemy soldiers escape to fight again.

David Blaine: Street magician and all around weirdo decided to sit in a plexiglass box hoisted up in the air over the Thames River in London and starve himself. And he was in the news every single day for it. *rolls eyes*

This is a tiny, tiny list, I realize, of the famous nothings accomplished in history, but I only have so much time to devote to it today. Please add your own... or don't. : )

Friday Fun Day (Word Puzzle & List)

For all you committed loyalists to the picture puzzle phenomenon, I present This Week's Haphazard Puzzle:






































This Week's Question and Answer List:


1) Favorite elementary school field trip?


2) Unicorns: Real or fictitious? Discuss.


3) What is your favorite website these days?

Friday Fun Day (Word Puzzle & List)

Happy Friday, Blog Readers! Hope your weekend is as wonderful as I fully intend mine to be! : )

Puzzle of the Week:



























LIST:
1) Ever had a premonition that came true? What was it?
2) On a gorgeous Spring day such as this, would you rather be laying idly in a boat tied to the shady edge of a gentle brook, picnic on the grass in a large field or laying on a high hill looking at clouds in an endless sky?
3) Favorite number? Why?
4) Finish this joke: A Cow walks into a bar and says, "[fill-in-the-blank]." to which the bartender replies, "[fill-in-another-blank]!"
5) Plans for the weekend?

Tuesday Blues Day

Yeah, I'm sorry I missed Friday Fun Day and even failed to snag Monday Madness and now my readers are all saying to themselves that maybe that forty million wasn't such a good investment, but I implore you to retain your enthusiasm until the dark cloud of actual work has passed over.

For those who failed to cash in on the interview questions I was posting, you may amuse yourselves by answering these three riddles:

1) What is your Name and what does it Mean?

2) What is your quest? (in life)

3) My second is performed by my first, and, it is thought, a thief by the marks of my whole might be caught. What am I?

Words I Don't Know: 'O'

From the pages of my pocket-edition Webster's Dictionary:




obdurate: stubborn, unyielding

obfuscate: confuse, obscure (I know this one, but I think it's such a great word, I had to share)
obloquy: abusively detractive language, discredit, disgrace
obverse: facing observer, side of coin with design
obviate: to prevent by making uneccessary

Friday Fun Day (puzzles 'n' more)

Thanks to Steve, who furnished me with two perfectly wonderful picture puzzles this week!

PUZZLE 1:






























PUZZLE 2:





















And for the rest of you who don't want to play word association games:
Pick a Flower!
Sing a Song!
or just
Find Out Who's Doing All Those Movie Trailers

LIST:
1) Did you ever dream of becoming an athlete? If so, what sport did you want to pursue?
2) Highest honor or award you have ever received?
3) What is your current favorite article of clothing and why?

Friday Fun Day (Puzzle, List & WotD)

No one else sent me a puzzle for this Friday, so this puzzle comes straight from my own little grey cells (as Hercule Poirot would say). It should be easy.





























LIST:
1) Who was your favorite TV character as a child?
2) Name one place/site/region of the world you would most like to float over in a hot air balloon.
3) How many sneezes do you usually sneeze in a row when you sneeze?
4) Have you ever been in life-threatening danger? How did you respond?
5) What myth is currently circulating about you?

Word of the Day which I cannot pronounce: paraskavedekatriaphobia (which means "Fear of Friday the 13th")

Friday Fun Day! (Word Puzzle and List)

Here's a very Happy Friday Word Puzzle that I made up while walking through the snowstorm in April that is so typical of Cleveland weather:

And here's a short Bollywood Film to cheer you up if, like me, you are walking into the bitter winds of disappointment filled with the driving snow of resentment.


LIST:

1) Favorite deli sandwich?
2) Biggest word you know?
3) Why can't anyone solve last week's three puzzles?