Trivia

Numerous are the elders who still label whatever they like as “peachy,” but even they are not old enough to know precisely why. “Peachy” was what earlier Americans called peach cider, the tasty drink of choice for many.

Swiss newspapers traditionally don’t print names of local first offenders.

A trainer of athletes contends it’s not what you eat that gets you ready, but the regularity of when you eat it.

That renowned romancer called Casanova probably wasn’t the world’s greatest lover, not really, but he kept records. It has been said the easiest way to distort the whole truth is to keep records.

Client writes: “The First Myth of Management is that it exists.”

In old Scotland, seaport women of the night wore what the Scots called a “cutty sark.” Dictionaries now define it as “short shirt.” But back then, it had special meaning: fast. Such was what inspired the captain to name the world’s fastest clipper ship, with its figurehead of a woman in scanty wrap, the Cutty Sark.

Four miles an hour is the sprint speed of a house mouse.

A “set” in the poultry business is two roosters and five hens.