It’s my 100th Post @ lifeinbetween.me!

Woohoo!  sounds like a reason for cupcakes with sprinkles – eh?!  🙂

What a joy this has been so far to share with all of you, and I am looking forward to another 100 or so if yinz all don’t mind.

Instead of letting the stress of what to say “special” in my 100th post, I just went with what was in my head and heart today – nothing extra special…. just random stuff from me…. at… Life in Between.

I must say, this first 100 posts and days sure flew by in a “jiffy!”

Did you know a “jiffy” is an actual unit of time?

I didn’t…

I did know, however, that a pinch of salt is six shakes – did you?

It was one of the (ahem) very few Trivial Pursuit questions I got right back in the day – and you know how I knew?

When my mother-in-law taught me to make pie crust years and years and years ago – the recipe was:  1 cup of flour, a heaping 1/3 cup of shortening, 6 shakes of salt, and enough water to make dough.

That recipe is ingrained in my head, and I always smile when I make it and shake six times and think of my mother-in-law.  She loved to play games, and I loved that she loved to enjoy life and have fun.

Here are some more amazing (and mostly useless) facts* I thought were so interesting…

• More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
• The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.
• The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language…try it!
• No word in the English language rhymes with month.
• Shakespeare invented the words ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
• “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand, ‘lollipop’ with your right.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The words ‘racecar’ and ‘kayak’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters from only one row of the keyboard.
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
• There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: “indivisibility.”
• The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable.”
• A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

* From a Weekly e-Newsletter I receive from Boyd & Nicholas Now Simione Healthcare Consultants that I always enjoy!  If you would like to receive it, you can sign up here.   Disclaimer:  None of these “factoids” have been verified.
Source:  Welcome to TIPS for Extraordinary Living”
Written & Published by Philip E. Humbert, PhD http://www.philiphumbert.com

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Cheers & Hugs,

Jodi