Trivia

Tue., July 30, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Q. Did ancient Greek athletes pole-vault?

A. No, that was the vehicular trick of northerly natives mostly - to get across water without getting wet.

What’s also known is the people who button a shirt from the top down outnumber the people who button a shirt from the bottom up by 3-to-1.

Median age of U.S. houses is now reported to be 24 years.

What I said was the only mammals that cannot jump are elephants. Not white elephants. All elephants.

Q. How many U.S. houses had bathtubs a century ago?

A. One in seven. Showers were rarer. This doesn’t mean so many went unbathed. What they had were washtubs, and what they did, they said, was “wash up all over.”

If the French were not pioneers in the auto industry - they were, they were - would we so often use such French words as garage, coupe, sedan, limousine, carburetor and chassis?

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