Trivia

Q. What’s a “nurdle”?

A. That daub of toothpaste you put on your brush. Believe it’s a toothpaste industry expression yet to make it into dictionaries.

Shrimps that live in seaweed look like seaweed.

When given gifts, men sometimes are embarrassed. Women never are. So said that student of human behavior, Theodor Reik.

Q. Birds and reptiles have only one body opening for both elimination and reproduction. Are any mammals like that?

A. Only two - the platypus and the spiny anteater.

The boaters who use their boats the least, it’s said, are the sailboaters.

If you want to save your marriage, go take a bath as soon as you get home from work. So advises a marital counselor. It’s his contention that everybody comes home from work tense and tired. That’s when fights start. As a come-downer, the bath, he claims, is a more effective and less dangerous than the martini.

You see moonlight from here. On the moon you see earthlight. Earthlight is 14 times brighter than moonlight.