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Weekend Open Thread

Weekend Open Thread

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    2. Ha! I have retaken my rightful place on the TAH Tavern Throne of Firsts! Bow before me, Dickweeds!

      Now, repeat after me: “Let’s go Brandon!”

    3. Oh sure, I decided to type FRIST.
      I’d have probably been FIRST, had I not had the urge to be a smartass.
      Well, Happy BLACK FRIDAY to all. I hope you’re raping and looting and pillaging properly and being polite about it.
      NO TRAMPLING!!
      There’s enough high priced handbags and jeans and perfumes to go around.
      If not, you can always go to the NEW and IMPROVED $1.25 STORE and LOOT THERE!!!!
      YEAH!!! And don’t forget to politely burn it down after you’re done emptying it out. No need for it, cause of the supply chain shortage.
      No new taxes products to refill it up so, ARSON AWAY!!!

      Make San Francisco GREAT BURN again!!

      Oh and Congrats on the Friday after Thanksgiving *BURP* 😀 WoT First NDHoosier

      1. I heard that San Francisco stores now have signs saying “PLEASE limit your theft to less than 10 items and PLEASE, no window breaking”.

    4. And before I bug-out for ceremonies – Cong-rats to you, ND!! Well played, mon ami. Well played…

      1. That or Mason or this here thread host himself thebesig.
        Someone had FRIST in the headline a few weeks ago and I’ve been abusing it ever since.
        😀 😀 😀

  6. Holy smokes!!! ND Hoosier wins AGAIN! The coveted, never given, always earned FIRST goes to NDHoosier once again. Congrats, congrats!

    I plead slowness from yesterday’s Thanksgiving feast.

    In response, I offer another week of trivia! May you all enjoy.

    DID YOU KNOW…?
    What real incident led to the “Police Academy” series of movies?
    By Commissioner Wretched
    didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com

    Thursday is (or was) Thanksgiving. I have to put it that way because I don’t know if you receive your newspaper before or after the holiday.

    It is my sincere hope that you have (or had) a wonderful holiday, filled with the sights, sounds, smells and tastes you wanted. I hope you get (or got) to experience your Thanksgiving with the people you love the most.

    Thanksgiving is a special time of year, and a perfect time to give thanks. I shall give thanks to the one truly outstanding person as far as this column is concerned … you.

    My deepest thanks to you for reading this silly stuff and for sharing it with others. You’ll never know how much that means to me.

    So for your Thanksgiving, or for the day after, here is this week’s helping of a trivial dessert!

    Did you know …

    … Americans eat roughly 535 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving? (I’ll let you guess how the turkeys feel about that.)

    … a rap artist once tried to rent an entire country to shoot a video? In 2010, rap artist Snoop Dogg (born Calvin Broadus, Jr., 1971) attempted to rent the entire European nation of Liechtenstein to shoot a video. The attempt failed – not because of any rules or laws, but because the government said Snoop didn’t give them enough notice. (Proof, if you ever needed it, that money talks and that timing is everything!)

    … a mail-order company created one of the most successful advertising slogans ever? In 1874, the mail-order house Montgomery Ward offered its patrons the slogan, “Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.” The slogan was added to the third catalog from the firm, founded by Aaron Montgomery Ward (1844-1913) in Chicago. While other entrepreneurs offered refunds to unsatisfied customers, Ward’s firm was the first to aggressively market the idea as a slogan. (I can’t make the same offer for the column, of course.)

    … a middle school in Waukegan, Illinois, is named after a comedian? Jack Benny Middle School was built in 1959 and named for the comedian (1894-1974), who was one of the most popular radio and television performers of his day and was a native of Waukegan. In addition to the school, the city also has a statue of Benny holding his trademark violin near his childhood home on Genesee Street. Additional trivia note: The sports teams from Jack Benny Middle School are known as “the 39ers.” One of the longest-running jokes on the Benny program was his character’s supposed perpetual age of 39. (What really saddens me is the number of younger readers who have no idea of who Jack Benny was.)

    … a popular comedy movie series had its genesis in a real incident? Paul Maslansky (born 1933), a movie writer and producer, was on the set of the motion picture “The Right Stuff” in San Francisco in 1982 when a bus full of people from the local Police Academy came up. The collection of odd-looking people who got off the bus intrigued Maslansky, who asked the police sergeant with them about the group. The sergeant explained that the then-Mayor of San Francisco, Dianne Feinstein (born 1933), had ordered the Police Department to loosen its Academy acceptance standards. Maslansky said he later wondered about the police cadets, “What if they make it through the Academy?” That thought gave rise to the series of seven “Police Academy” comedies, which ran from 1984 to 1994. (Ask anybody in San Francisco what really happened when they made it through the Police Academy.)

    … cows release about 500,000,000 metric tons of methane gas per year? (I’ll let you figure out how they do that.)

    … cabbages are 91 percent water? (What’s the other nine percent, I wonder?)

    … most penguin species breed during the spring and summer? Only the Emperor Penguins breed during winter in the Antarctic. (There’s room for a joke about keeping warm here, but I’m not doing it.)

    … in the state of West Virginia, it is legal to take road kill home for dinner? (It’s not recommended, of course, but it’s legal.)

    … the smallest known vertebrate species in the world is a frog? Found in New Guinea, Paedophryne amauensis averages around 0.3 inches long. For comparison, that’s about the size of a housefly. The species of frog was discovered in 2009. (It was pretty easy to overlook the little fellow up until then.)

    … the German language has a word for the peace offerings you bring to your mate after committing an offense? The word is drachenfütter. It translates literally as “dragon’s food.” (Make of that what you will.)

    … one of the most classic figures in American advertising was created by a school child? “Mr. Peanut,” the iconic figure which represents Planters’ Peanuts, was created in 1916 by Antonio Gentile (1903-1939), a Suffolk, Virginia schoolboy. Antonio won $5 for the design, which originally did not have a top hat or monocle, but did carry a cane. (Five bucks? That’s just peanuts.)

    … you may suffer from atychiphobia? I do. It’s the fear of failure. (I fail to see the humor in that.)

    … items in your home could be gamboge? If any are gamboge, don’t be concerned. It’s just a shade of orange. (Raise your hand if you read “gamboge” as “garbage” at first.)

    … the average 3-year-old child gets about 30 hours of television a week? (Well, he sees it … I rather doubt that he “gets” it.)

    … you could be a campanologist? That’s a person who studies bells. (That word rings a bell …)

    Now … you know!

    1. Yet another excellent collection of fun-filled facts! Thank you Commissioner Wretched!! I always look forward to this post and TAH’s Sunday Funnies…

    2. > (What really saddens me is the number of younger readers who have no idea of who Jack Benny was.)

      About ten years ago, I was at Half-Price Books when I saw something I thought my mother would really enjoy. DVDs of the Jack Benny Program – 39 episodes! I picked it up. She was delighted.

      1. I have 20 Jack Benny on radio CD’s along with a shitload of other Radio programs. Great stuf to listen to, and of course TV killed the radio shows with some remaining into the late 1950’s.with a number of radio shows going over to TV.

        2. Benny was truly “theatre of the mind.” You knew just what his vault looked like, with Carmichael the Polar Bear and Ed, the old, old guard … you didn’t have to have it shown to you. Old radio rocks, and I listen to it daily in my car on XM.

    3. And speaking of Police Academy, a little known Hatchet fact – I worked as an assistant Prop-master on Police Academy 1 and 2. To this day, I can still hear George (GW) Baily bellowing MOVE IT, MOVE IT, MOVE IT!!!! Fun times…

      P.S. that silver-ball-topped drill cane that GW Baily carried throughout the movie? Mine. Still have it.

      1. Fabulous!! I loved the first two “Police Academy” movies, but the quality went downhill beginning with #3, in my opinion.

      2. Hatchet,
        Very cool (prop).
        I always hoped to have an authentic Three Stooges prop,
        but they are impossible to find,
        and most are either gone, or buried in California garages,
        many unknown to the owner, and now lost to history.

        1. And… (a website topical segue)
          Don’t get me started on Three Stooges
          PHONY props and PHONY autographs.

          When folks started shelling out $500 for “Curly”,
          in pencil on a shard of brown tablet paper,
          it opened the floodgates for phony autographs.

          1. Could be worse, Ma James used to sell any old gun she could find as Jesse’s. By all accounts made a good living off it for years. Most “Jesse James Guns” provenance is junk.

    6. “… cabbages are 91 percent water? (What’s the other nine percent, I wonder?)”
      My father, long deceased, once said that the strongest ingredient in any cabbage concoction is “Fart Berries”.

      1. Which would only prove how silly the left can be. Rochester always came out on top in any dealings with Mr. Benny … Benny was the butt of all of the jokes on the show. He was way, way ahead of his time.

    8. I lost count of the rimshot/Zildjian* crash on that trivia, history, reading exercise of a type of amusement known only to the great WOT audience.

      Zildjian, the only serious choice for cymbals, since 1623, it is the second oldest existing company on Earth. Baretta, was founded in 1526, and began their firearms business making cannon barrels throughout the various wars that were rather commonplace during the founding of the new world of the America’s.
      So, that’s my 2 cents worth.
      Merry Christmas everybody !!!

  7. Wasn’t for lack of trying… Still, makes it a very Happy B-day for me.
    Cheers to all here!!!

    1. Happy Hatchet Day, Hatchet. We’re glad you’re here to share it with you. You share this day with my Baby Sister.

      Draw you some from my Jameson Stores, and have one of these Tampa’s Finests. The Zippo is fueled.

      1. Bruv, your DA BEST!!! Tampa’s finest? Cool. It’s been quite a while since I’ve enjoyed one of those.. And I’m honoured to share this calender day with your Baby Sister. Thanks again.

      1. Thanks Ed. Looking back on this year(to include my involvement with TAH) – in spite of recent ‘accidental’ events, it’s been an absolutely GREAT year!! Cheers and thanks again, Ed.

      1. Cheers Greybeard. Am presently in transit but! I have my iPad with me,(insane laughter) I’m able to launch multiple salvos of ICB… No. I’d…really..better keep that one to myself. Suffice it to say I can communicate with the world with one of these and they’re kinda cool. Like Tony the Tiger used to say “They’re GREAT”!! Off I git.

  8. Heading out tonight for tomorrow’s ceremonies-no worries KoB, haven’t forgotten. Catch up with e’body on Sunday! Doksa!!

    1. Hey there, Hatchet Thanks for commenting at my blog. Starting a new one, like this, takes time to build a reader following. You and a couple others are making it happen.
      For those who haven’t seen it, check it out. I am sure it will never top TAH in interest or readership, but I will try to offer interesting posts for y’all.
      https://frankieceecanseetheseasi.blogspot.com/

  9. I feel like the unicorn watching Noah’s ark float away: “Oh, yeah, that was today!”

    Was able to get my nursing-home bound brother out to our house to celebrate Thanksgiving a day late with him, and his birthday a day early.

    Well, still FIRST in the hearts of our children (in-law, out-law, and by-law) and grandchildren.

    FWIW, butternut squash cooked like sweet potatoes with brown sugar, nutmeg, and pecans on top is absolutely delicious.
    10-y-o Granddaughter makes a great pumpkin pie, too.
    Favorite Son-in-law did a superb job with the turkey and with his gumbo as well.
    Ate so much I went comatose for a while afterwards.

    Y’all have a great weekend.

  10. 6 days in on my most recent FAKEbook jail sentence, I really think that I will rid myself of that Liberal, Leftist, Control Freak site. Piece of shit, sorry leftists think they have the right to limit what I say.
    All because I said that I feel safer around Kyle Rittenhouse than around Alec Baldwin. AND, that was after he was found “NOT GUILTY” by a Jury of His Peers.
    Read about it here:
    https://frankieceecanseetheseasi.blogspot.com/2021/11/fakebook-is-biased-big-time-this-is.html

    1. Frankie Cee,
      It appears FakeBook has now lifted the pro KR posting ban.
      You might (now) have APPEAL rights in your favor.
      Give it a try, and let us know.
      Call it “early release”.

          1. More FAKEbook run around. Not enough reviewers to look at complaints. Blaming it on the C0V1D is just a ploy to suppress dissenting opinions.
            FUGGEM
            F.U.M.Z.
            LGBFJB

  13. Got the latest Agent Orange Newsletter this morning.
    Some new presumptive diseases for compensation.

    Bladder Cancer, Hypothyroidism and Parkinsonism.
    Also some new locations outside RVN such as
    Thailand,Korea and Alabama. A testing site in Gulfport
    Mississippi was mentioned.

    It’s like Covid…it’s everywhere!

  14. In my pre-Catholic days, I put the tree up the Saturday before Christmas and took it down Christmas night.

    Now it is up from the first day of Advent through January 6.

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