Skeleton Trivia for Thursday, 2026-07-30
What I really want to know is, will success spoil Rock Hunter?
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
Ah jeez, ah jeez, I missed yesterday’s issue!!! SORRY SORRY SORRY
I dunno what the heck’s goin on with this internet stuff. The cable company’s basically dug a moat all ’round the Skeleplex, no one can get in to see any movies, & still my internet’s completely not workin at all! (I’m actually stealin wifi from Cap’n Nemo Toad’s – shhh! don’t tell anyone.)
& I’ve still got no idea where the heck my new armor/sword has gotten off to!!
Honestly, I’d be willin to do ANYTHIN to get this whole nonsense sorted. Somethin drastic, even! At this rate … heck, I’d even be willin to sell my soul to the Devil, if he decided he wanted to come ’round & help me out!
Answers to Last Time
- It’s 8-1-1 ya wanna call (if yer in the U.S.) before diggin into the ground, to make sure ya don’t hit any gas lines or whatever.
- “Funeral March of a Marionette” is that song they played at the beginnin of Alfred Hitchcock’s teevee show.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
In the 1970s, Mr. Ron Popeil (of Ronco & Veg-O-Matic fame) went into business with a fella named Herman Brickman – who’d earlier on helped develop Ronco’s Bottle and Jar Cutter – to make somethin they called the Ronco Rhinestone and Stud Setter. It sold … fine? I dunno, let’s go with “fine, but not great” – though I’ll be honest with ya, that’s just me makin assumptions.
Then a li’l bit later, in 1981, a company called the Brickmar Manufacturing Corp starts sellin the same sorta device, just with a snazzier brand name. The research trail on this ain’t exactly blisterin hot, but my ASSUMPTION’s that Mr. Brickman was the fella behind Brickmar Manufacturing, ’cause that just makes good sense, right? Brickmar, Brickman, it’s basically the same thing.
Anyways, the question I’m tryna ask ya here is: what’s the adjective I’d use to describe somethin I’d decorated usin one of those Brickmar Corp gizmos?
I know, I know, it’s a li’l bit of a weird way to phrase the question, but I gotta do it this way for today’s mini-theme. If ya wanna just give me the name of the Brickmar device itself, ya can do that & I’ll still give ya full credit.
Trivia 2
What rock supergroup featured Tommy Shaw of Styx on guitar, Jack Blades of Night Ranger on bass, Ted Nugent of … well, of bein Ted Nugent, basically, but I guess also the Amboy Dukes – but so anyway, Mr. Nugent was on guitar, too. The drummer was Michael Cartellone, who eventually joined Lynyrd Skynyrd although he wasn’t playin for ’em at the time this band was founded.
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee