Trivia

Q. Where was the Garden of Eden?

A. On the east coast of Saudi Arabia in the area of the island of Bahrain. Or so many archeologists now believe.

North American doctors imported from Japan an ancient surgical technique to cure snoring. It’s called uvulopalatopharyngoplasty. Ask for it.

That refined, sensitive British poet Lord Byron chewed tobacco.

On file here is this typewritten note from a client: “I am a blind composer. That we are great musicians just because we are blind is false. But something about us is worthy. I believe what Christopher Morley wrote: ‘It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl.”’

Montana’s Helena carries a law that prohibits any woman there from dancing on a table in a drinking establishment unless she’s wearing at least 3 pounds, 2 ounces of clothing.

Grandma Moses didn’t take up painting until her arthritic fingers became too stiff for embroidering.

In Portugal, according to a world traveler, a household message usually is left not next to the phone, not on the refrigerator door, but on the bathroom mirror.

Vets still insist horses don’t breathe through their mouths.