Trivia

Q. How soon after a boa constrictor eats a goat does a boa constructor want to eat again?

A. About a year.

Q. Who do the teachers mean when they refer to the “Old Americans”?

A. The “Paleo-Americans,” who lived here during the Pleistocene or Old Stone Age. That was long before the ancestors of the American Indians arrived from Asia. Scholars say the Paleos disappeared when the Pleistocene animals on which they fed died out.

Q. How do you justify the claim of some brewers that the best beer is selected solely by touch?

A. Solely by touch is how the best hops are selected.

Those vertical penguins cannot fold up their wings the way all the horizontal birds can.

Q. Is “tonsil hockey” a kind of sport?

A. Some so regard it. The phrase made the young rounds a while back to mean passionate kissing.

Am advised the Flight Simulator Building at Continental Airlines in Houston complies to some degree with the Americans With Disabilities Act. It has Braille strips on each door to the briefing rooms for student pilots.