Trivia

Q. Where’d we get that term “male bonding”?

A. From Lionel Tiger’s scholarly volume, “Men in Groups,” published in 1969.

Flies, too, get athlete’s foot.

Forty-nine percent of the professionally ranked women tennis players credit their mothers as their inspiration.

Q. What’s the life expectancy of a pet cat now?

A. Indoor cat, 15 years plus. Outdoor cat, two, maybe three years.

Most common physical ailment of moose is arthritis.

If it has anything, anything at all, to do with a goat, it’s “caprine.” Even the class goat, I suppose, could say he won the Caprine Award.

Q. When did the Pennsylvania “Dutch” gunsmiths develop their famous rifle with the spiral bore for accuracy?

A. During the decade that started in 1710. Yale had 36 students that year.

When your umbrella is out of whack, you can take it to a mushfaker - if you can find one. Aren’t too many mushfakers around anymore. They repair umbrellas.