Trivia

That word “dopey” first turned up in print in 1896. Opiates sold over the counter. Drug trade anesthetized a chunk of China and numerous Westerners. If Walt Disney’s seven dwarfs had been around back then, would any have been called Dopey? Don’t believe so. It was not quite but almost the equivalent of junkie.

Not all bowlers know that “frame” is also what you call a game of pool.

“The brain is a wonderful organ,” said the poet Robert Frost. “It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and doesn’t stop until you get into the office.” Post this.

Q. Where does the U.S. Army rank now on the list of the world’s largest armies?

A. No. 8, according to military sources.

A deaf immigrant showed up at Martha’s Vineyard in 1692 and therefrom descended numerous genetically deaf offspring. They developed their own dialect of sign language. For 300 years, almost all who lived there - those who could hear and those who couldn’t — were bilingual in sign and English.