Trivia

When it’s time to quit smoking, you prepare your head, make the decision, and just do it - without a lot of conversational commitments to others. Everybody knows this, right? Not right, evidently. Those students of the mind reputed to know whereof they speak insist your resolution is best kept after you tell somebody else about it.

Romance writers of the past equated the maiden’s blush with innocence. But the psychologists have ruined all that. The blush, they now say, is not a sign of innocence but of guilt.

The Calvin Coolidge Law of High Office - it addressed many things, including gift-giving to public officials - stated simply: “Anytime you don’t want anything, you get it.”

Our chief prognosticator expects the marketing of stainless clothing made of Teflon-coated fiber.

Q. In which of the United States is the average person mostly heavily taxed?

A. New York State - 33 percent above the national average.

That warm glow the drinker feels after knocking back a slug of whiskey is caused by warmth leaving, not entering, the body.

Kittiwake gulls usually mate for life, but if they don’t hatch eggs the first season, they split up.