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Weekend Open Thread

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This is the final Weekend Open Thread for 2021! If you plan on partying later, get plenty of water and rest. Make sure you alternate between your alcoholic beverage and an equal volume of water. Adding Gatorade into the mix also helps. Do this right and there may be a chance that you wake up without the hangover. Enjoy your New Year’s Weekend!

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    2. Hey, not that I’d be available at 3 today (flying) but 8:17 in the a. of the m. Yeah, morning WOT is yours my man 👨 .
      Happy New Year my people.

  3. Well, well, well, would you just lookie heah. Another Time on Target FIRE MISSION FIRE MISSION FIRE MISSION All Targets Negated FIRST on the TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread for the King of Battle, THE King of FIRST. Weren’t even trying had just logged on when BAM/WHUMP…there it was! Even gave a 30 count before hitting the post button. Had been out FIRST thing this morning getting ready to smoke a ham. Played hell rolling it into the paper and then the damn thing wouldn’t stay lit. Do believe that, with the trifecta of the last week’s ROT, (Random Open Thread), the WOT (Weekend Open Thread), the HOT (Holiday Open Thread), today’s FIRST would be a quad forty, four (4) in a row FIRST. There can be only ONE!

    A most Safe, Prosperous, Healthy, and Happy New Year is wished upon all of the Mistercreanted and Adorable Deplorables of the TAH Family. The buffet bar will include smoked ham, country style BBQed Ribs, Blackeyed Peas with Rice, Devilish Eggs, Cornbread (sans sugar), Dressing (NOT Stuffing), Turnip Greens, with assorted cookies, ice cream, and the House Wine…Sweet Iced Tea. And, naturally, the Class VI Supplies cabinet and humidor is wide open.

    Come Party with Arty!

    1. “There can be only ONE!”, well Gunguy that’s not *entirely* true. Don’t look up diphallic terata!

      Congrats and Happiest of New Years!!!

        1. Obscene? It’s a medical term and I warned you!!
          Bonus tip, it’s a OG Trivial Pursuit Genus Edition question.

          Insert: ‘The more you know!” Meme

  6. “Adding Gatorade into the mix also helps”

    One does not add adulterants to good Bourbon.
    You can piss in Jack Daniels or Wild Turkey for all I care
    but tonight it’s time to break out the:
    Barrel Finish Select Double Oaked
    WOODFORD RESERVE

    Yeah, congrats to ya KoB on the last first of this wretched year.
    I’ll toss one back for ya tonight.

    1. Well, I’m probably going to try a dram of Flor de Caña 12 rum this evening. I’ll report on my findings next year. Got a brisket and a pork shoulder going in my crockpots and I’m going to make some au gratin potatoes as a side. Happy New Year to all!🍺🎉🍷🥃

  7. A blessed and happy New Year to all you fellow miscreants of TAH.

    Cold front scheduled to come through tomorrow dropping temps from the 80s to the high 20’s

    God bless Texas!

  8. Reporters say the damnedest things. This just in from Gunga Dan.

    Disgraced CBS anchor Dan Rather ripped for ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ take: ‘Sit down’
    ‘You got fired for lying. Sit down.’

    By Lindsay Kornick
    After attempting to dunk on the “Let’s Go Brandon” fans, disgraced CBS anchor Dan Rather faced a dunking of his own.

    Late Wednesday night, Rather tweeted out his take on the popular “Let’s Go Brandon” phrase that has been used as a rebuff against President Biden.

    “#LetsGoBrandonReallyMeans ‘You can’t handle the truth,” Rather wrote.

    Fox News

    Dan would certainly be familiar with truthful transgressions- Rathergate “fake but accurate” reporting on W’s Texas National Guard service cost him his prestigious gig at CBS, as well as any credibility he may have enjoyed.

    One doubts he used a 1970s typewriter to pen his screed.

    Let’s Go Gunga Dan! If your of a mind to, read the entire sordid story here:

    Washington Examiner

    1. Gunga Dan is a disgrace to our old high school, and ought to be to our university savin’ that they proudly named the journalism building after him.

      Idiot. (Having been in the building on occasion to tutor a professor’s daughter, and listening to the students therein, it appears aptly named.)

    2. Gunga Dan’s fraudulent story about Bush’s Texas Air Guard service was proven a fabrication, typed on a computer, by internet bloggers within a couple of hours after CBS posted the documents on-line. God only knows how many other fake news stories he has presented in his career. He has made “fake but accurate” his watchwords instead of his nightly mouthing of “courage,” a character trait he obviously lacks.

  9. Congrats to the King of Battle for claiming the final FIRST of 2021! In his honor and to elicit smiles from all, here’s the final trivia column of 2021. No, I’m not giving it up; it will continue into 2022. Enjoy, and all of you have a safe and Happy New Year!

    DID YOU KNOW…?
    Did a prisoner of war get a “furlough” from his camp, and then voluntarily come back to it?
    By Commissioner Wretched
    didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com

    And at last we come to the end of another year.

    For better or for worse, 2021 is about to go into the history books. Did the year live up to your expectations? Or was it another in a long line of disappointments?

    In my world, the year fell somewhere in between. We got out of “lockdowns” and started resuming so-called “normal” lives, but this stupid virus is still with us, still making things miserable.

    Oh, well … there’s always next week, and the start of yet another new year.

    I hope your New Year’s Eve celebrations are fun and safe, and I want to wish you and yours a very Happy New Year!

    Now, on to this week’s last trivia supply for 2021 …

    Did you know …

    … every year, over 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced? (Replaced with what?)

    … electric cars are required by law to make noise? Normally silent in operation, since no internal combustion is used, electric cars became a source of danger for pedestrians who couldn’t hear them coming. In response, the United States and the European Union passed laws requiring electric cars to produce some kind of sound when traveling under 12 miles per hour. (A sound idea, if you ask me.)

    … only one South American nation sent ground troops to fight in World War II? Brazil sent 25,000 soldiers into battle. The other twelve nations on the continent did not send ground forces at all. (They didn’t want to take sides, I suppose.)

    … tennis was originally played with bare hands? The game was originally developed in the 12th Century in France. It was called Jeau de Paumme, or Game of the Palm. The first actual tennis rackets were made in 1874. (How the original game was different from modern handball, I can’t figure.)

    … you might have a hautboy in your house? If you do, I hope you can play it. It’s an archaic term for the oboe. In William Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) MacBeth and Antony and Cleopatra, the hautboy is mentioned. (One of my dearest friends is an oboe player; I wonder if she knows about this?)

    … a prisoner of war voluntarily returned to his camp after getting an emergency furlough? During World War I, British army Captain Robert Campbell (1885-1966) was captured by the German army and sent to a POW camp. While interred at the camp, Campbell learned that his mother was dying of cancer back home. Campbell wrote an impassioned letter to the emperor of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), begging to be allowed to go home and see her before she passed away. Amazingly, the emperor agreed – provided Campbell gave his word that he would return. Freed for the moment, Campbell was able to get to his home and see his mother before she died in February of 1917, and – true to his word of honor – he returned to the prison camp, where he sat out the rest of the war.

    … you or someone you know may suffer from dysania? If it sounds exotic, it is. Dysania is a condition in which the sufferer is simply unable to get out of bed. And even if the person does rise from bed, all they want to do is go back to sleep. (I have that condition, but I call it “Monday.”)

    … an Italian artist sold an invisible sculpture? Salvatore Garau (born 1954) auctioned off a piece of art in 2021 that is literally made of nothing. Calling it an “immaterial sculpture,” the big pile of absolutely nothing at all went for $18,300. Garau said his “immaterial sculptures” are designed to concentrate thought in the otherwise-empty space. (At least the buyer won’t have to worry about where to put it.)

    … Adolf Hitler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize? The German Führer (1889-1945) was nominated by Swedish politician E.G.C. Brandt (1884-1955) in 1939, the year World War II began in Europe. Brandt later said he meant the nomination as a sarcastic joke, and withdrew it not long after submitting it. Had Hitler won, it would have been ironic: he had banned Germans from accepting Nobel awards in 1935. (Well, to be fair, Hitler was named “Time” magazine’s Man of the Year for 1938, so there’s that.)

    … cows don’t actually have four stomachs? They have only one, but it has four “compartments.” (Talk about nitpicking …)

    … it’s not unusual for a state to claim that their elementary school test scores are above the national average? In fact, if you want to know the exact number of states claiming their kids are above average, it’s fifty. (How that equates to any kind of “average” is beyond me, but then again, so is most math.)

    … the United States tried to buy Greenland? In 1946, the government offered Denmark $100 million for the world’s largest island, but the Danish government turned the offer down. (Not the first time or the last that we tried to buy Greenland, you know. I guess having a reliable source of ice is important.)

    … a legendary college football coach had a wicked sense of humor? While he was head coach at the University of Alabama, Paul “Bear” Bryant (1913-1983) was asked to contribute ten dollars to help pay for a sportswriter’s funeral. According to the story, Bryant pulled out a bill and said, “Here’s twenty. Bury two.”

    … you may suffer from allodoxophobia? It’s the fear of opinions.

    … if you add up all the numbers on a standard roulette wheel, you get 666? (Knowing this, if you play roulette, you deserve what you get, too.)

    Now … you know!

    1. This may or may not be “trivia” (and I may or may not have mentioned this on TAH before) but…

      If you come on duty and the coffee has been in the pot for 12-24 hours, adding a dash of Tabasco sauce in the cup will cut the bitter taste and make it palatable again.

      My LEO brother discovered this. I wish I’d known it years before when the coffee left in the pot was what I’d made the day before…

  11. As the New Year is upon us, we find the False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) putting in the extra effort to secure a few of next year’s taxpayer-funded, government set-aside contracts based upon his highly questionable and potentially felonious Native American, Navy SEAL and Law Enforcement claims.

    All the while his new batch of Phildo Supporters drink it up on the taxpayer dime and look the other way.

    1. The below comments came up as an anniversary post on Hack Stone’s Facebook page this week. Always loved the classics, and Hack Stone thanks God for Phil Monkress, otherwise he never would have conned an employee in Reston to do his dirty work, fire that patsy, who in turn started his own business selling software to the federal government, bringing Elaine Ricci on board, who hired Hack to a lifetime contract as Director Of Media Relations.

      Just cleaning out my old emails, and came across this classic from November 2013.

      In reference to the on-going questions regarding senior management of All Points Logistics being misattributed as a member of SEAL Team 4, and any claims as a Native American owned small business, Phil Monkress, CEO and President of All Points Logistics has released the following statement:

      Phil Monkress: Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our government contracts – we did. But you can’t hold a whole company responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole government small business set-aside contracting system? And if the whole government small business set-aside contracting system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our federal contract awards in general? I put it to you, Jonn Lilyea – isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!

      1. Awesome stuff. Gotta re-post:

        “Just cleaning out my old emails, and came across this classic from November 2013.

        In reference to the on-going questions regarding senior management of All Points Logistics being misattributed as a member of SEAL Team 4, and any claims as a Native American owned small business, Phil Monkress, CEO and President of All Points Logistics has released the following statement:

        Phil Monkress: Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our government contracts – we did. But you can’t hold a whole company responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole government small business set-aside contracting system? And if the whole government small business set-aside contracting system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our federal contract awards in general? I put it to you, Jonn Lilyea – isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!

        Happy New Year, Phildo!

  13. I may be down on the list for the open thread, but since I’m in Yokosuka, let me be the first to wish you all a Happy New Year!!. May good fortune come to you and Let’s Go Brandon!

  15. Hack Stone was hoping to lay claim to the first post of the final This Ain’t Hell Weekend Open Thread for 2021, but alas, the vast right wing conspiracy has yet again denied him the title. Hack Stone will have to take solace knowing that he is ranked among the top two employees of a proud but humble woman owned business that sells software to the federal government formerly located in Bethesda Maryland. Speaking of which, with 2021 all but over at this point, we move one year closer to the next millennium, so be sure to pre-order your Y3K Software now, and we can guarantee delivery by January 1, 3001.

  19. Anybody catch The Righteous Gemstones on HBO? Funny stuff. Season two starts on 9 Jan.

    Happy New Year, everyone!

  22. TIL that Marmite dissolved in water makes a kickass broth. I made beef and vegetable soup with it. The umami flavor goes real good with the meat and veg.

    Ping Ex-PH2…ever used Marmite?

  23. Welp, another year gone. Glad to have spent bits and pieces of it here with my favorite curmudgeonly, deplorable, reprehensible, degenerates at TAH. All my best to all of you for the New Year…even though it is pronounced twenty twenty too. God willing, that is not prophetic.

    May this be the year your wildest dreams come true, including those you didn’t dare to dream.

    2. Proud to have enjoyed your company, OAM, and hoping to be similarly blessed in the years ahead.

    3. In the words of Bud Abbott (of Abbott and Costello) – “May you live for as long as you want, and never want for as long as you live”. Happy New Year, OAM.

  24. Nope…turning in early for 0600 flight back to Casa de Sparky Western Annex.

    At least I’m not going to Seattle or Denver. Hotel is full of people who will likely be stuck here until Monday.

  25. Just a thought while downing a cold one at American Legion Post 138:

    Claiming First on the WOT is part luck and skill. To paraphrase the Ballad of the Green Beret, five men were tested today, but only one selected.

    Claiming second is a truer test of skill if it’s the second post after first is claimed, but before the remainder of false first claims.

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