Trivia

A waitress says you can carry full coffee cups without spilling them just by never looking at them.

The great male elk gathers his harem. A young male drops by to steal a cow or two. He’s run off by the great male, but he’ll be back. For now, he goes it alone. To win in this primal carnal contest, he must build up his body. So he eats a lot. Works out. Jogs. Lifts weights, I suppose. I don’t know much about elk.

Some environmental scientists say the earth’s most polluted country is Poland.

Q. I’m still trying to find out why more divorces are granted on Tuesdays than on any other weekday.

A. “Monday’s when we go back to the office to put it together,” says one attorney queried in this matter, “and Tuesday’s when we take it into court.”

Collective nouners say you can call a group of eels a “swarm.”

Listers who try to pin down the nation’s windiest city print various placenames, but few others show up on their lists as often as Cheyenne, Wyo., average wind speed 12.9 mph.