Trivia

The headache is subject to the power of suggestion, most certainly. Exhaustive tests indicate 40 percent of the people with headaches will get immediate relief when given sugar pills if they’re told those pills are painkillers.

Q. Did you ever find out where we got the term “high mucky muck” to mean “very important person”?

A. Chinook Indians had a special term for a tribesman with a big stomach. “Hieu,” meaning “plenty,” and “macamuc,” meaning “to eat.” It got twisted a little on its way into the vernacular.

If the ink in Rudyard Kipling’s pen wasn’t black, he wouldn’t write with it.