Rumble grumble

The sound and the furious: Owners of new Ford Mustangs and F-150 trucks say they’re a little perturbed to learn that the throaty rumble they hear under the hoods of their machines is a sham, engine noise faked through special equipment, some of it even digital. “It’s a mind-trick. It’s something it’s not. And no one wants to be deceived,” said one Mustang club member.

We’d be more sympathetic if some of these same guys weren’t stuffing socks down their pants.

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Peace. Out: President Obama’s State of the Union address drew the second-lowest television viewership in 15 years, according to Nielsen data.

For his final State of the Union next year, the White House, taking its lead from another struggling franchise, will replace Joe Biden and John Boehner with past “American Idol” judges Steven Tyler and Nicky Minaj.

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1498, Christopher Columbus, making his third journey west, arrived at the island of St. Vincent.

This led to the lesser-known ditty, “In fourteen hundred ninety-eight, Columbus booked a resort date.”

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