Gwenda With A Twist
SILLY FACTS...  | "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand
"Lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our noseand ears never stop growing.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. | There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men. |
Now You Know More Than You Did Before!
Now, Here's Your May Libations... Maggie May
2/3 oz raspberry liqueur
1 oz dry vermouth
3 oz Lambrusco® red wine
Pour into a frosted champagne flute. |
| Mom's Apple Pie
2 1/2 oz apple schnapps
1 tbsp DeKuyper® Hot Damn cinnamon schnapps
Pour apple schnapps over ice in a brandy snifter and float hot damn on top. |
| Derby Cocktail
2 oz gin
1 tsp peach bitters
Stir gin and peach bitters (or peach brandy) in a cordial glass. Add an olive and a mint leaf, and serve. |
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Cape May
1 1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz cherry brandy
2 oz ginger ale
2 oz orange juice
Measure a collins glass full of ice into a cocktail shaker. Add brandy, gin and orange juice to the shaker and shake well. Pour back into glass and add ginger ale. Garnish with an orange wedge. |
| Mom's Punch
1 liter ginger ale
1 liter Hawaiian Punch®
1 can frozen orange juice concentrate
Southern Comfort® peach liqueur
Pour ginger ale and Hawaiian Punch into punch bowl, add the southern comfort to taste and add the frozen orange juice. When ready to serve, mix well, and garnish with fresh pineapple and orange slices. |
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Mom's Breakfast
1 oz amaretto almond liqueur
5 oz orange juice
4 ice cubes
Put ice into glass. Pour in amaretto. Pour in orange juice. Stir. Garnish with orange slice or wedge. |
| Peach May Cocktail
1 oz banana liqueur
2 oz peach schnapps
2 tbsp apple juice
pineapple juice
7-Up® soda
Mix together in a hurricane glass |
| Jerry's Mom's
3 oz Everclear® alcohol
1 scoop Ben & Jerry's® ice cream
Pour everclear into an old-fashioned glass, top with ice cream, and serve |
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May Blossom Fizz
2 oz Swedish punsch
1 tsp grenadine syrup
juice of 1/2 lemons
carbonated water | 
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Shake all ingredients (except carbonated water) with ice and strain into a highball glass over two ice cubes. Fill with carbonated water, stir, and serve. |
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| Derby Daiquiri
1 1/2 oz light rum
1 oz orange juice
1 tbsp lime juice
1 tsp sugar | .
Blend all ingredients with 1/2 cup shaved ice in an electric blender at a low speed. Pour into a champagne flute and serve. |
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Non-Alcoholic | Black & Blue Berries 1 cup berries
1 cup soda water
2 tbsp honey
1 tsp lemon juice
Place all ingredients into a blender jar. Cover, and whiz on medium speed until well blended. Pour into a collins glass, and serve. |
| | Horse's Ass 1/2 part ginger ale
1/2 part soda water
Mix with ice. |
| | Banana Strawberry Shake 1/2 lb frozen strawberries
1 frozen banana
2 cups fresh apple juice
Blend all together in a blender until smooth. |
| | Pac Man 2 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp grenadine syrup
1 dash bitters
7 - 8 oz ginger ale
Add grenadine, lemon juice and bitters to an ice-filled collins glass. Top with ginger ale, and slide an orange slice down the side of the glass. |
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