Trivia

A client quotes University of California Professor Robert Silensky: “We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.”

Some bras can give women headaches. So says a University of Texas medical specialist. She offers complex details about cervical nerves, but the crux of her counsel: “Get wider straps.”

A “chevy” is a sort of “chase.” The man’s name is redundant.

It was the poet Robert Frost who said, “I hold it as an inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”

In no nation is a government spy ever identified in the official paperwork as a spy.

Consider the woman who believes almost every man wants to make love to her. Consider the man who thinks almost every woman finds him desirable. Among these imaginative stereotypes, the women far outnumber the men. Such was the conclusion of that complete student of human behavior, Theodor Reik.

“The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization,” said Sigmund Freud.

“Mousse” is French for “foam.”