Trivia

Q. If I win a foreign lottery, do I have to pay U.S. taxes on it?

A. If you bring it here, you do. If you bank it abroad and bring in only what you need each year, you have to pay taxes on that. So research reveals.

Vermont outlaws billboards.

If you could be a dog, what breed of dog would you be? Many a therapist has been known to spring this query on a guileless treatment seeker. To get a glimpse of that worthy’s self-image. If the patient says, “Rottweiler,” the therapist’s tone tends to temper some, I’ve read. The Rottweiler can be fierce. It comes from Germany’s southern city of Rottweil. Still, not all Rottweilers eat people.

The fewer the women in a department store, the more likely they’ll buy something.

A “mooch” is defined in the big book at hand as “one who begs, borrows or pilfers to get something for nothing.” But that’s not what seasoned door-to-door sales people mean by the word. To them, a mooch is any unchallenging soul without sales resistance who’ll buy whatever the seller is selling. Cold canvassers like mooches.