Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?

There is an old Hotel/Pub in Marble Arch, London, which used to have a gallows adjacent to it. Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial of course) to be hung.

The horse-drawn dray, carting the prisoner, was accompanied by an armed guard, who would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like ''ONE LAST DRINK''.

If he said YES, it was referred to as ONE FOR THE ROAD.

If he declined, that prisoner was ON THE WAGON.

So there you go.

A great number of years ago there was a proposed merger between Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers.

Rumor had it that the new company would be called . . . Fairwell Honeychild!

There has long been a rumor that W. R. Grace Company was going to buy the Fuller Brush Company and Mary Kay Cosmetics and then merge with the Hale Business Systems.

This would result in the new mega-corporate entity known as: "Hale Mary Fuller Grace."