Trivia

TV’s Jane Pauley was born on Halloween. So was TV’s Dan Rather. But don’t take that to mean they’re soul mates. Lot of people were born on Halloween. Such as Chiang Kai-shek of yesteryear’s China. And Alfred Nobel, the dynamite man. And Christopher Wren, England’s great architect.

Q. How does a tap dancer do the “coffee grinder”?

A. Squats on one leg, with fingertips touching the floor, and rotates with the other leg extended to tap in a complete circle.

A woman, who remarried the husband she’d divorced, explained: “He missed a couple of alimony payments, so I repossessed him.”

Understand the spare body-parts makers do an especially lively business in artificial collar bones.

Villagers in a bygone England congregated to shout yea or nay in voice votes on matters local. Outcome was known by word of mouth in advance, usually, through what you might call the peasant poll. And so brought into the language the cliche: “All over but the shouting.”

The “cibophobic” is one who hates food.