Trivia

Q. What was the difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans?

A. Where they settled. Pilgrims, at Plymouth. Puritans, at Massachusetts Bay. The Puritans were supposed to have been stricter, but that’s still being debated.

Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar. Her entire role in “Midnight Cowboy” lasted only six minutes.

Politically correct city officials in California’s Sacramento chose to change the nomenclature of “manhole” to “maintenance hole” so they didn’t have to redo the initials “MH” embossed on the covers.

Supermarket research indicates cereal arranged on the shelves by category doesn’t sell quite as well as cereal arranged by brand.

The female name “Amy” translates from the Latin as “beloved.”

In that sub-Sahara area of Africa called the Sahel, people water their goats by feeding them watermelons. Those herders themselves don’t much care for watermelons.