Trivia

Young men tend to have more friends than young women do. Old women tend to have more friends than old men do. That’s the claim of the social scientists.

Q. How long did Tom Cruise study for the priesthood?

A. He enrolled in a seminary at age 14 but left after one year.

Mexicans send flowers, indeed they do, but not yellow flowers, except to funerals.

Sex stimulates the adrenal gland. The gland secretes cortisone. The cortisone relieves pain and swelling in inflamed joints. So explains a medical specialist when he tells certain of his patients what they ought to do for their arthritis.

One cynic says the shortest oxymoron is “mankind.”

Q. What’s the warmest fur?

A. Sheepskin, according to the U.S. military’s testers.