Skeleton Trivia for Wednesday, 2024-09-11
In which we contemplate whether good fences make good neighbors
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
I’ve been pricin’ out puttin’ up some new Fences ’round my house, since these dang local deer keep runnin’ hog-wild (or I guess deer-wild?) in my garden. They’re eatin’ up all my veggies ’n’ roses ’n’ stuff! Ah jeez, it stinks!
I tell ya, I used to think deer were so pretty ’n’ stuff, but these guys are really gettin’ on my nerves.
Answers to Last Time
Mr. Tommy John was a baseball pitcher for the Dodgers when he had his ’ponymous surgery. I bet when li’l Tommy was out there playin’ baseball on the Sandlot as a kid, he never imagined his name’d be immortalized in sports medicine!
The Balm of Gilead gets mentioned in the Bible, with a reputation as kinda a cure-all. That’s I think how it got to be the name a’ the pharma company Gilead Sciences.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
What four-word phrase did Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. use in the rulin’ he wrote for Schenck v. United States back in 1919, which describes the sort a’ circumstances when it might be kosher for the U.S. government to circumscribe First Amendment freedoms?
This doctrine got updated-slash-overtuned a cool half-century later in 1969’s Brandenburg v. Ohio, which replaced Mr. Holmes’s standard with the “imminent lawless action” test.
Trivia 2
Haustorial, proteoid, adventitious, buttress, an’ pneumatophore are all different types a’ what type a’ biological structure?
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee