Trivia

Q. What does “sight and sound” mean in Hollywood contracts?

A. It’s a standard clause that allows parents of child performers to stay within “sight and sound” of their offspring at all times.

Rabbits suffer heat stroke, too.

Some humorist again has reported that a shipload of yo-yos sank in Manila Bay but came back up 38 times.

Once the male sea turtle escapes the shell to scramble down the beach to swim away, he never comes back to land. Only the female comes back.

Retirement age in China now is reported to be 55 for women, 60 for men.

Q. The bald eagle is larger at age 2 than at age 4? Why?

A. Its body is programmed to give it enough “baby fat” for survival’s sake until it becomes ever more adept at hunting for food. Such is the explanation of the experts.

Q. What’s the “Daffy Duck Syndrome”?

A. A tag for somebody who appears to love punishment. Taken from the memorable cartoon line: “Go on! Shoot me again! I love the smell of burnt feathers and gunpowder and cordite!”

A retired police detective, who long worked burglary, always hangs up his clothes on hangers hooked over the pole in alternate directions. Habit, he says. To prevent a thief, if any such turns up, from stripping his closet in one grab. Note, firefighters advise against it.

Q. How many cities called Tripoli have there been, anyway?

A. Three in the Mediterranean area. In Libya, Lebanon and Greece. Phoenicians founded all three in the 700s B.C. Libya’s is the one to which the Marines allude in “From the Halls of Montezuma. …” Tripoli means “three cities,” incidentally.