Trivia

Q. If England tried out automatic teller machines back in 1936, how come they didn’t really catch on until so many years later?

A. Early ATMs could take your cash for deposit but couldn’t give you any to pocket. Not widely useful in a year of the Great Depression.

If you’re about to deal with a can of cream soup, shake it well, then open it from the bottom. The soup will slide out easily. So suggests a household hinter.

Word is that players in the 1996 Olympic Games have at their disposal 38,400 tennis balls.

No true moss grows in salt water.

“He who has a thing to sell and goes and whispers in a well is not as apt to get the dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers.” Haven’t found out who wrote that. Haven’t looked too hard, though.

Q. What do you call that empty space between the liquid in the bottle and the bottle cap?

A. The ullage.

Stephen King had a good steady job in a laundry but gave it all up just because he got some notion about writing books.