Trivia

Q. Why don’t the muscles in the fingers of keyboarders bulk up with all that exercise?

A. No muscles in fingers, only tendons. Control muscles above the wrists can get sore, true. But keyboarding evidently is not the kind of exercise that gives you forearms like Popeye’s.

If the man has a protruding midsection, you can describe him as “abdominous.” No, better not.

Q. What’s an “ax-handle party”?

A. A brawl in timberland talk. An exceedingly dangerous affair.

Q. When did the world first realize that rocks do indeed sometimes fall out of the sky?

A. On June 16, 1794. At least, that was when a shower of meteorites hit Sienna, Italy. Most who heard the reports thought they were bunk. Also that year: In England, Joseph Bramah and his helper Henry Maudslay devised the first slide-rest. It let the cutting tool move horizontally on a lathe. Pretty significant. It was to machinery about what the stirrup was to the horse.

In the Los Angeles area between 1985 and 1992, bullets fired skyward fell back to kill at least 118 people, according to medical the records.

Lot of recycling going on out there. Some spiders build new webs daily after they tear down yesterday’s webs and eat same.