5 fun (Irish) facts for Friday

Here are a few trivia facts related to the Irish. Make your best guess then scroll down to the bottom of the page and see how you did.

1. What is the major difference between Irish Whiskey and Scotch Whiskey?

2. What state has a higher proportion of residents of Irish descent than any other state?

3. How many cities/towns are named Shamrock in the US?

4.In what year did Irish Government allow it's first-ever divorce?

5. What is the claim to fame of Montgomery Street in Dublin?

Five fun facts for Friday

Test your knowledge of the color blue

Give it your best shot then scroll down to the bottom of the page for the answers.

1. In Australia someone with this color hair is often called blue. What color hair is it?

2. What does blue funk mean?

3. What country do Blue Mountain coffee beans come from?

4. Who composed the classical piece Blue Danube?

5. What makes blue cheese blue?

Five Fun Facts for Friday

all about the color yellow

give it your best shot then scroll down to the bottom of the page and see the answers.

1.What college has sports teams nicknamed "The Yellow Jackets"?

2. According to the 1967 Beatles hit, "Yellow Submarine", what was the color of the sea that it sailed into?

3. In what country would you find the Yellow River?

4. In the Navy and as a part of International maritime law, colored flags are used to send messages to and from the ships. Each flag represents a letter of the alphabet as well as a specific message. What message is represented by a yellow flag?

5. What does the color yellow mean in Egypt?

5 fun facts for Friday

all about the color Red

give it your best shot then scroll down to the bottom of the page and see the answers.

1. Where would you find The Great Red Spot?

2. What is a Red Admiral?

3. What was Little Red Riding Hood carrying in her basket to give to her Grandmother?

4. What is a Redshank?

5. Who was voice of Clifford in the animated series "Clifford the Big Red Dog"?

5 Fun (Snowy) Facts for Friday

Make your best guess!

1. How many cars would equal the weight of one loaded snowplow?

2. What was the coldest temperature ever recorded in North America?

3. What's a snowblink?

4. What's a musher?

5. What do these three things have in common? Champagne Powder, Mashed Potatoes, and Corduroy.


Scroll down to the bottom of the page for answers.

5 fun facts for friday

1. if you combine wintergreen, vanilla, and cassia (a form of cinnamon) what well known flavor will you come up with?

2. which U.S. president stood only 5' 4" tall and weighed less than 100 pounds?

3. what story has been made into a movie more times than any other?

4. Director Alan Smithee has a claim to fame, what is it?

5. Can you tell the temperature by listening to the chirping of a cricket?

scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the answers.
how'd you do?

5 fun facts for friday

1. Ben & Jerry's send the leftover waste from making icecream to local pig farmers. What is the only flavor the pigs won't eat?

2. What is samhainophobia?

3. Speaking of phobias. What did Sigmund Freud have a morbid fear of?

4. Who is the most recognized figure around the world? And who is the second most recognized?

5. Clint Eastwood and I are allergic to the same thing. What it is!?

make your guesses then scroll down to the bottom of the blog to see the answers. how many did you get right?

No five fun facts for friday

more anagrams instead!

GEORGE BUSH becomes HE BUGS GORE
THE EYES becomes THEY SEE
PRESBYTERIAN becomes BEST IN PRAYER
ELECTION RESULTS becomes LIES - LET'S RECOUNT
DESPERATION becomes A ROPE ENDS IT

want to see what anagrams you can make of your name? click here

(original "no five fun facts for friday" post here)

5 fun facts for friday

Posed as questions, with answers at the end of the page.
How many did you get right?


1. Is Kermit the frog right or left handed?

2. Who shoplifts more, men or women?

3. What color was coca cola originally?

4. What animal can go upstairs but not downstairs?

5. There are just 3 major fruits native to North America. Can you name them?

5 fun facts for friday

Did you know.......??

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

2. Porcupines float in water.

3. Clinophobia is the fear of going to bed.

4. President George Washington owned foxhounds named DRUNKARD, TIPLER and TIPSY

5. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines

5 fun facts for friday with a spin

I'll provide the facts, after you try to guess the answers!

Let's talk toys.....

1. The game of Twister didn't start out named "Twister". Can you guess it's original name?

2. This toy was created in ancient Greece more than 3000 years ago.

3.Every second, 3 (three) of this toy is sold around the world. What is it?

4. What toy originally entered the market as a wallpaper cleaner?

5. What game is found in one out of three American homes?

bonus question: Kites in Hawaii originally had a specific purpose. What were they used for?

Play by leaving your guesses in the comments section or scroll down and look at the answers at the end of the page.

5 fun facts for friday with a twist

1. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
2. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
3. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
4. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
5. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?

Thanks to all who played!
answers are below:
1. Obsession
2. One thousand
3. Their birthplace
4. All invented by women
5. Honey

congrats to Julie who had the most correct answers at 3. :-)

5 fun facts for friday

1. One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.

2. On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.

3. Mosquitos dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.

4. The chemical n-acetyl-cysteine found in raw eggs is proven to help hangovers.

5. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.

5 fun (gardening) facts for friday

1. Ladybugs are the most commonly used form of biological pest control because one adult ladybug can eat as many as 50 aphids (tiny soft bodied bugs that eat garden plants) a day!

2. The onion is a lily, botanically. Asparagus is also a member of the lily family. The name "asparagus" comes from a Greek word meaning "sprout".

3. Cool as a cucumber? It's true ... the inside of a cucumber on the vine measures as much as 20 degrees cooler than the outside air on a warm day.

4. The Daisy got its name because the yellow center resembled the sun. It was commonly known as the "day's eye" and over time, was eventually called daisy.

5. A hummingbird will feed at over 1,500 flowers in an average day.

and p.s. If a spider dismantles her web, that means a bad storm is near.

5 Fun (law) Facts for Friday

In Texas it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.

In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll booth.

You're subject to fines and/or imprisonment for making ugly faces at dogs in Oklahoma.

While it is legal to shoot bears, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited in Alaska.

In Alabama, it is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.

5 Fun Facts for Friday

Did you know.....

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (now use them all in one sentence)

Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.

Slugs have 4 noses.

Five Fun Irish Facts for Friday

(Blarney Castle 2004)

The wolfhound is the official dog of Ireland. It is the largest of all dogs and can be up to six foot four when standing on its hind legs.

Famous wit Oscar Wilde was born Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde in Dublin in 1854.

A single day of good weather that pops up in a long stretch of bad days is known in Ireland as a "pet day."

The longest named place in Ireland is Muckanaghederdauhaulia, in County Galway.

One of the most popular radio shows in rural Ireland is still the weekly broadcast of local obituaries.

and for those of you who would like to be a little more Irish tomorrow, you can learn to say:

Kiss me, I'm Irish!
Is Éireannach mé, ‘dom póg!
[Is Air- an- ack may, do pogue]

Five Fun Facts for Friday

The bumblebee bat weighs less than a penny and full grown is about 11 mm in length.

Fresca, the soft drink, had problems when it was sold in Mexico.
There, Fresca is slang for lesbian.





On average, 80 people shoot at the Goodyear blimp each year.

No one knows why, but 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.



You can now buy a coffin which can be used as a bookcase before you are buried in it.

five fun facts for friday

1. In almost every episode of Seinfeld there is a superman reference, be it visual or verbal.







2. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.





3. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.







4. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

5.It's impossible to lick your elbow. Not even with a super duper extra long tongue like this one. (c'mon try it, just try it)

Five Fine Wines for Halloween

Ok, so today I got thinking about Halloween. There are decorations around town, decorations are in all the stores now (as well as Christmas decorations, geesh) and it is just about a month away.

Halloween, to me, involves some kind of party and costume. This year there will be no Halloween party here. Instead, there is going to be a big birthday party for a good friend.
The weekend before Halloween.
But no costumes.
Unless everyone wants to come dressed as Karen!

But that party got me thinking about wine. and it IS Friday, and that sometimes makes me think about wine, and I WAS just talking to Vanessa, who enjoys a glass of wine as I do, and well, you get the picture, I am thinking about wines.
and halloween.
and parties.

SO here is a nice little selection of Halloween wines to serve at your halloween party or bring to a halloween party or just drink, damn it, on Halloween. Cheers!













P.S. I have had the Vampire merlot, it's good! The Red Newt merlot, that's good! The Toad Hollow, I'm not a fan of rose so I wouldn't know. Bull's Blood and Black Cat, I'm looking for this year.