Skeleton Trivia for Friday, 2024-04-26
Oysters, the pearls of the sea! Or, wait, no, those are pearls
Hi Skeleton Crew,
It’s the last trivias for April! Let’s say a fond farewell to these spring showers before gettin’ ready to take a gander at some real nice May flowers.
Incidentally, I’m takin’ next week off. Maybe some a’ youse guys will be, too? Ya might wanna think about it, anyway! Take a break, go somewhere—or maybe do a staycation, whatever works for ya! Ya work hard, I’m sure ya do, everyone deserves a vacay now ’n’ again.
Answers to Last Time
Mr. Kokichi Mikimoto had a real pearl of an idea when he figure out how to culture pearls. Nowadays the pearls ya see in jewelry are overwhelmin’ly likely to be cultured, not natural.
Tonka was named after Lake Minnetonka, one a’ the 11,842 lakes in Minnesota. “Land a’ 10,000 Lakes”? Nosiree-bob, that’s undersellin’ it!
Today’s Questions
Question 1
The way oysters reproduce is that boy ’n’ girl oysters release sperm ’n’ eggs into the water, an’ the eggs get fertilized just swimmin’ out there in the great big sea. Eventually, though, those larvae settle down, permanently latchin’ onto some kinda surface.
Well, once one a’ those larva finally attaches to a surface, what’s it called?
This word’s also unrelatedly used for the particular piece a’ formalwear pictured here:
Question 2
The lifecycle a’ the oyster is, well, considered in the classic essay “Consider the Oyster” by M.F.K. Fisher, the great American writer who wrote primarily ’bout topics culinary.1 Ms. Fisher’s also known for a book titled How to Cook a WHAT? The title doesn’t refer to an actual literal animal, but instead it’s a fairy-tail-inspired metaphor for bad ’n’ scary stuff more generally.
Wikipedia delightfully describes it as a “cookery book and/or disaster survival guide and/or prose poem”—which I’m not sure if that provides much of a hint, I just thought was a super great way to describe a book, 100% A+ job there Wikipedia, no notes from Mr. S!
OK then
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An’ in case yer wonderin’: yep, that famous David Foster Wallace essay “Consider the Lobster” got its name as a I kinda guess a reference to the M.F.K. Fisher essay.