Trivia

Q. Seldom do traditional Koreans get divorced. Why?

A. They’re strong on family, long on male domination, short on women’s rights. Divorce is considered a deep disgrace.

On your list of new names for old places, jot in “Irian Jaya,” formerly New Guinea. In pencil.

Smuggler hunters say enough plutonium to build a nuclear weapon can be packed in two soft-drink cans.

Can you come up with any words that contain three consecutive letters in alphabetical order? Such as “crabcake,” i.e. “cr’abc’ake”? Or “deft”? Or “first”? Or “hijack”? Your turn.

So much dust swirls westerly off the Sahara Desert that some scientific observers put forth the incredible claim that “the dustiest place in the United States” is the Virgin Islands.

To the sage Noelie Altito, credit this: “The shortest distance between two points is under construction.”