Skeleton Trivia for Monday, 2026-04-20
“You May Now Choose The Manner Of Your Death” is quite the ice-breaker
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
Y’know that blocked-up ICEE machine I found last week? Well, I unblocked it … & wouldn’tcha know, but there was a friggin DJINN in there! Here’s basically how it went:
THE DJINN: THANK YOU FOR RELEASING ME. YOU MAY NOW CHOOSE THE MANNER OF YOUR DEATH.
ME (i.e., Mr. Skeleton): Ah jeez, ah jeez!
THE DJINN: FOR LO, I HAVE BEEN TRAPPED IN THAT MACHINE FOR NIGH THREE THOUSAND LONG YEARS. IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM, I RESOLVED I WOULD BRING VAST RICHES TO WHOMSOEVER MIGHT FREE ME, WEALTH THAT WOULD REDOUND TO MY BENEFACTOR’S HEIRS AND THEIR HEIRS FOR TEN GENERATIONS
ME: Oh, hey there, mind if I just jump in for a sec—
THE DJINN: IN THE SECOND THOUSAND YEARS, I THEN RESOLVED I WOULD ENDOW MY BENEFACTOR WITH THREE WISHES, BOONS TO PROVIDE HIM WITH WHATSOEVER HE MIGHT CHOOSE, BE IT MAGIC OR POWER OR FAME OR FORTUNE OR UNLIMITED POT STICKERS
ME: Sounds nice, but buddy, don’tcha recognize—
THE DJINN: BY THE THIRD LONG MILLENNIUM OF WAITING, I GREW SORE WROTH AND THEREUPON RESOLVED TO REWARD MY LIBERATOR WITH DEATH— Wait, Mister S? Is that you?
ME: Hiya Gene, I was TRYNA get your attention!
So anyways, point is that me & Gene go way back! What a crazy coincidence, right??
Well, I could keep goin on with the story, but I can save that for later this week; meantime, we’ve got some trivias to attend to!
Answers to Last Time
- Here’s a li’l rhyme to help ya remember: If ya render pork fat, lard’s what ya get; but if tallow’s your goal, ya gotta render suet!
- Vincent Gallo is the, ah, interesting fella who got into a tiff with Roger Ebert over his movie The Brown Bunny.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
All this talk of djinn has got me thinkin ’bout one of my longtime faves, the One Thousand and One Nights. Can ya tell me what’s the name of the narrator of the 1001 Nights, who’s tellin the stories in the book to Shah Shahryar in a gambit to avoid gettin executed by the cruel & cranky king?
Trivia 2
One of Roger Ebert’s more famous movie reviews included this li’l passage:
I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.
Do ya happen to know what Elijah Wood–starrin, Rob Reiner–directed movie was the subject of that pan?
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee