Mikey wanted to impress his new girlfriend after getting divorced because his first wife thought he was “dumb.” So he said to her, “Honey, lets play some Trivial Pursuit.”  She readily agrees and sets up the board.  Being the gentleman that he is, Mikey rolls the dice first and lands on “Science and Nature.”   His girlfriend selects the card and reads the question to him, “If you are in a vacuum and someone calls your name, can you hear it?”  Mikey scrunches his face and thinks about it and finally asks . . .”is the vacuum on or off?”

What did Andrew Mellon, J. P. Morgan and Henry Clay Frick all have in common?  They all purchased art from renowned art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen.  According to a biography, “Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time,” by S. N. Behrman and Glenn Lowry, Lord Duveen dominated the world art market during in the early 1900’s.  Now fast forward to 2004, what does Sir Joseph and Thomas Doyle have in common?  Absolutely nothing, although the latter claimed he was a direct descendant of the former as he played out his con.