Trivia

When asked to list his 10 favorite words, Winston Churchill said: “Never, use, a, long, word, when, (a), short, one, will, do.”

If you play the car radio, you sing along with it, most likely. At least, four out of five drivers do, a survey shows. That’s believable. Same survey concludes one out of 20 people changes clothes while driving. Not so sure about that one.

A society of vegetarians in Great Britain has declared chicken an honorary vegetable.

Q. What happened to the Celts from Ireland that settled in northern Britain?

A. They’re Scots.

Minnesota locals in winter have been heard to say: “Forty degrees below zero keeps out the riffraff.”

A stream near Connecticut’s South Windsor was called the Podunk. As were the Indians who once thrived thereby. But they moved. Far away maybe. Or joined another tribe. Vanished. Therefore, anyplace so remote nobody could find it came to be called Podunk.

New Hampshire prison inmates are quoted as saying they find more humor than sorrow in the phrase they stamp on license plates: “Live free or die.”