Trivia

The humor of stand-up comic Steven Wright is so distinctive it’s quoted or imitated all over the Net. But most Wright-like lines appear uncredited. Such as: “If ‘con’ is the opposite of ‘pro,’ then what is the opposite of progress?” “If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?” “If it’s tourist season, why can’t we shoot them?”

Typically, it takes seven calls to close a sale to a new customer, three calls to an existing customer. So contends a marketing expert. Many new businesses fail, says this authority, because the seller gives up on a potential customer after the second call.

Quote Jerry Seinfeld: “You open the box - no grapes, no nuts - what’s going on?”

No restrictions prevent the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from signing up older recruits - 50-year-olds, or 60-year-olds, or even 70-year-olds.

That galaxy called the Milky Way is just one of the 25 in its group. When astronomers discovered another galaxy near it, they called it Snickers.

Word is the count of American billionaires has more than doubled in the past 10 years.

Claim is one householder in five opens all the junk mail.