Trivia

If you sue for medical expenses, your lawyer may tell you to go for three times the amount of said expenses. That’s reportedly seen as reasonable in many, maybe most, courts.

That bird called the roadrunner, as fleet of foot as feather, enticed the horse-and-buggy speedsters of old to race it down back byways. Whence, it’s name. It’s a cuckoo, you know. It eats rattlesnakes.

The 1932 New York State Supreme Court decreed: “Of all the expensive hobbies, the collection of wives is among the most expensive.”

When Hernando de Soto in his search for gold rode into East Texas, he found little to his liking there. Too many filthy smelly oil seeps. That’s No. 1 on the list of events that prompted phrasemakers to come up with the term “liquid gold.”

You won’t find even so much as one muskrat in the Eastern Hemisphere, no matter how hard you look.

Catchers of lobsters have a specialized vernacular. A lobster with only one claw is called a “cull.” One with no claws is a “pistol.”