Trivia

Q. How much money did John Travolta receive for “Pulp Fiction”?

A. Not much in that league - $140,000. The producers’ first choice was Daniel Day-Lewis, but director Quentin Tarantino wanted Travolta.

Most popular off-duty job of firefighters is house painter. Of off-duty police officers, security officer, as you might expect, and sometimes bar bouncer.

Why people tend to drive counterclockwise around shopping malls is no mystery, I find. That way, drivers have less obstructed vision to spot the close-in parking places.

Both Campbell’s Soup and Coca-Cola long ago bought the notion that things packaged in red sell better. Can you refute that? What good is the word “albescent”? It’s supposed to be used to describe anything that “turns white.” But who’d know that? Nobody.

An Italian proverb goes: “Bed is the poor man’s opera.”