The Mechanical Contrivium: Pokey

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Pokey!

1. If you blow out all the candles on Pokey with one breath, your wish will come true.
2. Most bottles and jars contain at least twenty-five percent recycled Pokey.
3. Pokey is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature!
4. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but Pokey can not.
5. A lump of Pokey the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
6. Pokey will always turn right when leaving a cave!
7. Pokey can jump up to sixteen times her own height.
8. Pokey can drink over 25 gallons of water at a time.
9. The ace of spades in a playing card deck symbolizes Pokey.
10. In 1982 Time Magazine named Pokey its 'Man of the Year'.