Trivia

Mon., Feb. 19, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

In the mid-1600s, much British money flowed out of the Empire to buy coffee. Its price rose to the equivalent of $48 a pound. Enough! cried The Powers. They replaced coffee with colony-grown tea and ordered a change in national taste. Profit precedes preference, does it not?

That household seasoning called coriander was once prescribed by British physicians as a sexual stimulant when mixed with wine. Debunkers said, Nonsense, everything is a sexual stimulant when mixed with wine.

One burglar in five may try to pick a lock to enter, but most just break windows, police say.

Patrician Proposal: To avoid leftovers when you order food in a Chinese restaurant, request one entree less than the count of people at the table. Practical Plan: Ask for one entree more than the count, and take home something to look forward to. Peasant Ploy: Say it’s for your pet pug.

Pierce Brosnan once worked as a fire eater in a circus.

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