Trivia

“Slim chance” and “fat chance” mean the same. They’re contradictory idioms. Such as: “Burn down” and “burn up.” “Couldn’t care less” and “could care less.” Any others?

It’s the blood of the moray eel that’s poisonous.

If a brick weighs 7 pounds plus half a brick, how much will a brick and a half weigh? That’s what I asked. Those who know their algebra say 21 pounds. Maybe so.

More than half of the pronghorn antelope nationwide aren’t nationwide; they live in Wyoming.

Some people seem to think they’re better than they are. Some appear to feel they’re worse. Conceit versus the inferiority fancy. What’s curious about these two, according to the experts, is the person who shows one such attitude will also at different times show the other.

Wounded soldiers always had been left on the battlefield until the fighting stopped at dusk. Then under Napoleon III, French fighters equipped a litter with bandages and tourniquets and called it a “walking hospital.” Their term, “hopital ambulant.” That’s where we got the word “ambulance.”