Skeleton Trivia for Tuesday, 2025-06-10
Ypsilanti is, inaptly, a tiny lisp
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
It’s a great day to have a great day! That’s a thing folks like to say, right?
A’ course, it’s also a great day to have an awful day. Most days are good for either. I guess it kinda depends on who ya are, how you’re feelin’, et cetera. Oh, an’ whether there are good things or horrible things happenin’ to ya! That seems like an important component, too.
Basically, it’s a great day to have whatever sorta day you’re havin’. Which probably ain’t a huge consolation if that happens to be a bad day. But, y’know, they can’t ALL be winners.
Anyway, here are some trivias!!
Answers to Last Time
The letter Y in Greek is called upsilon (or ypsilon) (or I guess ύψιλον if ya wanna be kinda pedantic).
The Ye Olde English letter Þ is the thorn, which—fun fact!—you’ll still see gettin’ used in Iceland.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Who spells it ypsilon, is I wanna know! I guess maybe ya might do that if ya come from Ypsilanti, Michigan?
Have any a’ youse guys been to Ypsilanti? (Or Ypsi, as us in-the-know folks like to say.) If ya ever do stop by, make sure to head on over to 301 W. Cross St. (it’s right offa the Eastern Michigan U. campus) an’ stop by Got Burger! Not only do they serve up a real decent halal burger, but you’ll also be visitin’ the first location a’ what fast food restaurant chain?
The company was founded in the ’60s by bros Tom ’n’ Jim Monaghan, who’d gone in together to buy up a local restaurant that was up for sale. But Jim left the partnership pretty early on, tradin’ in his shares a’ the biz in return for the old VW bug they’d been usin’ to make deliveries.
Another fun li’l bit a’ corporate lore: Mr. Monaghan said his original plan with the logo was to add an extra dot to it every time he opened up a new location—but he kinda bailed on that idea after store number three.1
Trivia 2
In 1964, a social psychiatrist named Milton Rokeach published a book titled The Three WHATS of Ypsilanti? It was based on a case study / experiment on three fellas he was treating at the Ypsilanti State Hospital.
In a afterward to the 1984 edition, Mr. Rokeach expressed some regret for the research, sayin’ (perhaps with a li’l irony?):
“I really had no right, even in the name of science, to play God and interfere round the clock with their daily lives.”
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
If I’m bein’ honest, I dunno how much I really believe this story; in my opinion it sounds like one a’ those corporate just-so stories that’s nothin’ more ’n a bunch a’ marketin’ fluff. But it also seems like the sorta thing ya might hear at a trivia night, so I figured I’d relay the info to ya here.