#trivia

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#horror #trivia #humor

Trivia monologue. You are so the man for me. ↗

— Molly Harper

#librarian #trivia #useless-information #vampire-romance #librarians

It was like the baseball gods were showing off just for him, in honor of his first day of big league baseball. And surely the baseball gods were smiling that day, because the next batter was Larry Brown, and he was a scrawny, scrappy 23-year-old kid who’d never hit a big league home run. And yet he stepped to the plate and became just the second player in baseball history to connect and give his team four consecutive home runs. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#cleveland #cleveland-indians-iq #major-league-baseball #home

Joe DiMaggio batted safely in 56 consecutive games in 1941, the same season Ted Williams batted .406—but did you know that also in 1941, Jeff Heath, an outfielder who spent a decade playing for the Indians, became the first player in AL history to hit 20 doubles, 20 triples, and 20 home runs in the same season? It’s true. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#baseball-quotes #baseball-stats #baseball-trivia #boston-red-sox #cleveland-indians

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#better #good #good sense #matter #nonsense

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#because #complex #different #distinctive #each

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. ↗

— Dee Hock

#free #lead #our people #peers #people

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way. ↗

— Steven Chu

#details #efficient #efficient way #focus #i

Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#because #call #embarrassed #know #nothing

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#blog #comments #communication #fragmentary #harmless