Thirty-three percent of the U.S. population downs 95 percent of the U.S. alcoholic drinks.

Q. What’s the difference in seamen’s talk between “ahoy” and “avast”?

A. Ahoy means hail. Avast means stop.

When Lord Byron went to Cambridge University, no student was allowed to keep a dog in his room. So Byron kept a bear. The establishment longs for control. The dissident longs for attention.

To your collection of Chinese proverbs, add: “Great souls have wills, feeble souls only wishes.”

Why Serbian tradition prohibits pregnant women from eating fish is not clear, but so the correspondents report.

Those who lived on England’s Isle of Ely honored St. Audry with an annual festival. Cheap lace necklets sold there were so poorly made they gave a new common meaning to a St. Audry’s nickname: “tawdry.”

Q. It’s called “deja vu” when you feel you recognize something you’ve not really experienced. What’s it called when you don’t recognize something you really have experienced?

A. That’s “jamais vu.”