Trivia

Sun., June 2, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Claim is you won’t gag when your doctor puts pressure on the tongue depressor if you sing “ah” in falsetto. Don’t know about your doctor.

To be a perfect specimen, a man should be 3.84 times as tall as his thighbone, according to those who propound the fancy that any man could be a perfect specimen.

Wait, don’t go on your vacation yet. Put one end of a cotton rope deep into a jugful of water. Bury the other end in the soil of your preferred potted plant and set it higher than the water jug. Now you can go. Your pet plant will survive your absence.

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