Posted on Jul 17, 2007 by E. Phil Haley in Trivia One comment so far
This week I actually put a theme to the weekly trivia post; but I didn’t come up with my usual ten. Sorry. I’ve been unusually busy over the last ten days and it’s only going to get worse over the next two weeks. As a matter of fact, I probably won’t be able to write anything at all for the next couple of weeks; I’m going to be far above the Arctic Circle putting in some long days in Barrow, Alaska. I guess that’s fitting ’cause Barrow’s one of those places where the sun comes up on May 10th and doesn’t set again until August 2nd. Anyway, enough of my whining. Let’s get on with the trivia… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on Jul 10, 2007 by E. Phil Haley in Trivia One comment so far
I have always been extremely interested in the origination of words and phrases but, if you’ve read the previous Tuesday Trivia posts; that’s something you might have already noticed. In a post last week I mentioned that I’d include the derivation of the phrase “cut the mustard” in this weeks edition of Tuesday Trivia; and so I will - kind of. But I’ve included 9 other bits of useless information that are a little more cut and dried (yeah, I’ll get around to digging up the story behind that phrase one of these days). Here goes! Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on Jul 03, 2007 by E. Phil Haley in General, Trivia No comments yet
Actually, there’s nothing trivial about the Declaration of Independence which is, arguably, one of the most important and influential documents ever produced; but, since tomorrow’s the day we celebrate Independence day, I thought I’d let you in on a few tidbits of interesting information: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on Jun 26, 2007 by E. Phil Haley in General, Trivia No comments yet
Robert South once stated that “Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.” I seem to prove daily my lack of wisdom and provide further proof with the following installment of Tuesday Trivia: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on Jun 19, 2007 by E. Phil Haley in General, Trivia One comment so far
It’s become abundantly clear to many that there’s some kind of glitch in my brain. Useless facts seem to be stored with priority tags while important information is quarantined like spam. Because of that I have the ability to spout trivia at the drop of a hat - which is all well and good but trivia is…well…trivial. People seem to enjoy it, though, so I thought I’d share a bit of trivia with you on a weekly basis. Some might be remotely related to trucking but most of it’ill just be a bunch of obscure, random, and utterly useless stuff. Here goes!
Okay, that’s enough for this week. I’ll see if I can think of ten more things for next week.