Skeleton Trivia for Thursday, 2024-09-26
If you shoot for the moon and miss, you’ll probably asphyxiate to death. Also true if you DON’T miss
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
Yesterday’s theme was pointing ’n’ shooting. Simple enough, eh??
Answers to Last Time
Fixin’ up the visible mortar on a masonry buildin’ is called pointing, or more accurately repointing. A buncha youse answered tuckpointing, which I guess is used interchangeably with “pointing” in some places, so I gave credit for that too.1
Collectin’ all the penalty cards in Hearts is called shooting the moon.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Shootin’ had a bit of a moment at the Olympics this year, with not one but TWO shootin’ athletes gettin’ the memeification treatment:
Can ya tell me BOTH a’ the countries that these Olympians hailed from?
Trivia 2
“You Press the Button, We Do the Rest” was an ad slogan made famous by Mr. George Eastman, an’ it kinda encapsulated the whole point-’n’-shoot ethos a’ his KODAK camera. What was the camera model that Kodak released at the turn a’ the 20th century, which they sold for a buck ’n’ geared it at pretty much everyone—kiddos included!2
The product’s name I guess came from a bunch a’ popular cartoony characters that a Canadian fella named Palmer Cox invented. (Well he didn’t exactly invent ’em, he kinda cribbed ’em from Scottish folk tales.)
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Wikipedia says tuckpointing is specifically “a way of using two contrasting colours of mortar in the mortar joints of brickwork, with one colour [sic] matching the bricks themselves to give an artificial impression that very fine joints have been made.” Pretty clever if ya ask me!!
(“OPERATED BY ANY SCHOOL BOY OR GIRL” says an ad I just dug outta my basement.)