Hi Skeleton Crew,
It’s Wednesday already! We’re really cruisin’ through the week, eh?
Oh, while we’re chattin’ up here at the toppa the email, I might as well give youse guys a heads up that I’ll be takin’ next week—i.e., that funny li’l week that kinda stretches between April ’n’ May—well, I’ll be takin’ it off. Just a li’l break for these ol’ Skeleton bones, y’know.
Answers to Last Time
If ya run a restaurant ya want a Michelin Star, but if ya write books ya want one a’ those sweet Kirkus Stars.1
John White an’ Wally Raleigh were associated with that infamous “Lost Colony” on Roanoke Island.
Today’s Questions
Question 1
What Toni Basil song, which some folks have guessed maybe is about the lead dummer a’ the Monkees,2 was parodied by none other than the Parody King himself, i.e. “Weird Al” Yankovic, into a I Love Lucy-based spoof?
Question 2
In Mr. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem The Song of Hiawatha, who’s Hiawatha in love with? This character’s lent her name to slew a’ locales in the Twin Cities, includin’ a ’ponymous waterfall—which leads to a funny sort a’ redundancy, seein’ as how this character’s name actually means “waterfall” in the Dakota language, so the waterfall’s name literally translates to “Waterfall Falls”, ha!
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
A few a’ ya answered Publishers Weekly, which I totally forgot did starred reviews! So I’m sorry, this one ended up playin’ harder than I expected ’cause a’ that.
(Ms. Basil’s on the record as sayin’ no, it ain’t)