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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Trivia

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

In the Philippines bullfight, two bulls fight each other.

The Hell of the Himalayan faiths is not hot but bitter cold.

What Sigourney Weaver and Brooke Shields have in common with Dan Rather and Denzel Washington is their height: 6 feet each.

Report is only one business traveler in 10 routinely eats in a hotel restaurant.

Svend Foyn was just doing his job, I suppose, but what a catastrophic job it turned out to be! In the 1860s he invented the harpoon cannon. It finally let whalers kill the great blue at a considerable distance even as it attached a line to haul in that prize. The blue whale population thinned tragically thereafter.

“And etc.” is a redundancy.

When you drive to and from work, what else do you do besides drive? A psychiatrist says countless commuters who don’t usually correspond with anyone fill that time by composing imaginary letters.

The aardvark hunts alone.

Q. Has anybody ever named a product or process after the U.S. Patent Office?

A. Only once - Patent Leather. In 1829, that.

“Love is the crocodile on the river of desire.” Credit Bhartrihari.