Trivia

Do you support the notion that dogs are the most unselectively promiscuous mammal? If they’re not, why would they have developed so many different kinds of dogs? Far more than any other mammal?

Q. Ancient Egyptians mummified cats, that I know, but how many cats?

A. More than 300,000 found so far.

Claim is every Irish family of lengthy lineage claims a few poets among their ancestors.

Q. Are the streets of Colorado’s Victor really paved with gold?

A. With a low-grade ore.

Client writes: “Internet e-mail starts out democratic. Everybody’s equal. You can’t tell rich from poor, pretty from plain, decent from dirty. Then e-mailers start to identify themselves by their manners, good or bad. You have to separate courteous friends from hostile fools. There’s road rage on the superhighway.”

Harry S. Truman said, “It’s a lot tougher to be a football coach than a president… A coach doesn’t have anyone to protect him when things go wrong.”