Skeleton Trivia for Tuesday, 2026-09-29
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Hiya Skeleton Crew,
Y’know, I said how I went to my pal Vermes’s weddin last week, but I never actually told ya how that went. Well, it went pretty good … ’cept for one thing: my ARCH-NEMESIS was the OFFICIANT!!!
Maybe yer askin, “Arch-nemesis, Mr. S? How could a guy like you have somethin so nasty as an arch-nemesis? That’s pretty serious business.” To which I’d say: yeah!!! It IS serious business!!! REAL SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!
Just who IS this arch-nemesis, maybe ya wanna know? Well, it ain’t none other than the hideous,
insidious,
perfidious,
& altogether just plain UNPLEASANT
CAPTAIN NEMO TOAD (bleeeeagh 🤢 auuugh 🤮 yeeeugh)
Ah jeez, I don’t even wanna THINK ’bout that guy any more.
Answers to Last Time
- It’s reverse osmosis that most big desalination plants use these days.
- In golf, gettin four under par is called a condor, & it’s a rare enough thing that it ain’t ever happened in a pro tournament.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
If ya wanna make somethin instantly cooler, ya just reverse it. Like osmosis! Regular osmosis? Pretty good. REVERSE osmosis? Now yer cookin!
Or, like, engineerin: it’s cool, it’s fine, maybe a li’l borin. But REVERSE engineerin? That’s where all the cool kids are at!
And boustrophedon? That’s fine … for ANCIENT GREEK. But if ya wanna carve somethin real special – like, say, a rongorongo tablet – then ya better up yer game to REVERSE boustrophedon.
What’s rongorongo & reverse boustrophedon, maybe ya wanna know? Well, I’ll tell ya! Rongorongo’s a system of glyphs that some folks think might be one of the few independent inventions of written language in human history! It looks like this:
Reverse boustrophedon just describes the way the glyphs are written. Regular boustrophedon means that ya do a mirror flip of the text for every other line, like this:
Whereas REVERSE boustrophedon means ya do a 180° flip of every other line, not a mirror flip:
Anyways, rongorongo inscriptions come from what island? Although this place was first settled probably sometime ’round 1200 CE, the first European fella to peep it was a Dutch guy named Jacob Roggeveen on April 5, 1722.
Trivia 2
Another fun reversal ya mighta run into if ya ever used an old Hewlett-Packard calculator is postfix notation, a.k.a. “Reverse WHAT” notation? The name ultimately comes from the logician Jan Łukasiewicz, who invented the non-reversed version of this notation back in 1924.
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee