Timothy T. Fullerton

The back cover promises that "Each item is certain to produce a chuckle" and that the information "is intriguing and entertaining". The sub-title for this tome reads "A Compendium of Useless Information". It did not include uninteresting or incorrect though it should have. For years newspapers around the country ran a column either under the byline L. M. Boyd or Mike Mailway. The daily listing of anecdotal trivia was targeted at the Paul Harvey listening crowd. As a new reader and inquisitive child, I avidly read the postings. Only years later did I figure out that, like Paul Harvey, a lot of the so-called information was just urban legend and rumor. Triviata could easily be a compilation of bits from that column. Boring, incorrect, and not one item made me chuckle. But then, I thought Paul Harvey was a boring, blustering, right-wing idiot.

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