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Weekend Open Thread

Weekend Open Thread

Weekend Open Thread

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    1. Shit! You dethroned Hack by 6 seconds. Hack hit paste, but his copy did not post. Probably due to outdated Red Hat Software.

    2. Hack has been pounding that refresh button nonstop since 11:45. Need to put in for Workman’s Comp for a sore thumb.

      2. Exclamation point follows the declaration of FIRST. The question mark was a fat finger when posted. These laptops don’t have a mouse, just a pad.

        1. The exclamation point and the question mark could
          not be further apart on a keyboard. Not buying the
          fat finger excuse.

        2. If the White House can rewrite Joe Biden’s garbage statement by inserting a comma where there wasn’t one, the Keeper of The Book can change punctuation at will.

          1. Going to the complaint department @ Hellen Waite is not very appealing Lil’ Bro. Haters just gonna hate.

    1. DENIED!!!! Better lucky than good! The Gun Bunny has hereby stolen the EARNED NEVER AWARDED Title of FIRST on the Vaunted TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread!

      Tacos, chili cheese dogs, and refreshing beverages for all hands!

        1. The K Roger Store had some 1# packs of Grounded Sir Loin of Beef Beast (96/4%) on a deal for $3.99 each…Oscar Meyer Beef Beef dawgs 2fer $5, and extry sharp grated cheddar cheese @ $1.99. I played “Load ’em up Larry” on all of those. Oh…and scored some large bags of assorted Hell-O-Ween candy for 1/2 price. Got 10 of them. Should tide me and Baby Sister over till Christmas candy sale.

          I take my Rolaids in fermented form. Can’t get heartburn if you wash tacos and chili cheese dawgs down with some Golden Yuenglings.

      1. Oh wise and all-knowing Magic 8 Ball…..is Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) still a turd?

  3. Wow … I wait all afternoon for the drop of the WOT and while my back is turned, *poof.* Congrats to King and I’ll take third.

    1. Just clean living and a burst of luck, CW. Had just returned from escort duty/provision run, put the cold stuff from the cooler into the fridge, sat down, opened up Mr. Chromie, and WHUMP!…there it was…an Orphaned TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread, pleading for someone to “Be The First To Comment”. I could smell the smoke from Hack Stone’s F5 Key.

  4. Since yesterday was Halloween, we have a Halloween comment to start the trivia column this week. Beyond that, it’s the same old stuff, only it’s new stuff. (Figure that one out.)

    DID YOU KNOW…?
    What was the smallest and lightest automobile ever made?
    By Commissioner Wretched
    didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
    Copyright © 2024

    Happy Halloween!

    In the column’s home newspapers, it hits the streets on Thursday, so it’s the actual day of trick-or-treating. If it comes out ahead or behind where you read this, then just consider me the marksman who missed the bull’s-eye this time.

    What did I decide to do for Halloween? To be honest, I chose to do exactly as I always do … stay home, keep the porch light off, and hope the little ghouls and hobgoblins trying to extort candy pass me by. I’m a cheap old so-and-so.

    I’m turning into a curmudgeon in my old age. But I do share the weekly trivia … so here you go! Happy trick-or-treating!

    Did you know …
    
    … the sudden relocation of a Major League Baseball team caused the All-Star Game to be relocated as well? On March 14, 1953, the owner of the Boston Braves, Lou Perini (1903-1972), announced that his team was moving to Milwaukee that season, with Opening Day less than three weeks away. Perini cited years of declining attendance as the reason for the move, and other National League owners approved the rapid move provided Perini did not try to sell the team. But the Braves’ move put MLB in a pickle – the 1953 All-Star Game had been scheduled for Braves Field in Boston. Following a few emergency meetings, the game was relocated to Cincinnati’s Crosley Field. The Braves would later move to Atlanta in 1966. Additional trivia note: Only one player was on the Braves’ roster in Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta – Eddie Mathews (1931-2001), star third baseman. (Tomahawk chop that one!)

    1. … three-quarters of all people who eat chocolate Easter bunnies eat the ears first? (Huh?)

      … you may have eaten a réchauffé? In fact, chances are almost 100% that at one time or another in your life, you have done so. A réchauffé is a dish of warmed-up food from a previous meal. In other words, leftovers. (They sound so much better when you call them réchauffé, though, don’t they?)

      … a movie studio filed a lawsuit against a video game producer? In 1981, Universal Studios filed a lawsuit against Nintendo over the Donkey Kong video game. The studio felt that the ape in the video game was “too similar” to the ape in King Kong, and Nintendo was infringing on their trademark. Nintendo won the suit. (They weren’t monkeying around.)

      … only one planet in the Solar System cannot be seen by the naked eye? Neptune, the farthest planet from the Sun, is too dim to be seen without the aid of a telescope. Ah, you ask, but what of planet seven, Uranus? It can be seen with the naked eye but only under certain circumstances – a dark sky with minimal light pollution, and only if one knows exactly where to look. It would appear as a greenish-blue speck of light, giving you a great place to aim your binoculars or telescope. (Finding the dark sky with minimal light pollution is your job.)

      1. Hack read somewhere that Donkey Kong was called Monkey Kong in Japan, which would make sense, as there are no donkeys that appear in the game, but somewhere along the line of translating from Japanese to English it ended up being named Donkey Kong.

        And the inspiration for Pac Man was someone looking at an open pizza box with one slice removed, and from that point forward Atari removed thousands of quarters from Hack Stone’s pockets.

        1. I’ve always liked the idea of Monkey Kong as the original title, certain it was meant to be a play-on-words with Mongke Khan (4th Khagan of the Mongol Empire and arguably the greatest besides Genghis).

          Sadly, when I went to school for video game artwork (history of video games was ironically, the least-fun history class I’ve ever taken), I learned that this wasn’t true and Shigeru Miyamoto chose the name Donkey Kong from the start simply to convey the idea of a stubborn ape.

          Pac-Man was indeed inspired by a pizza missing a slice. The idea that Pac-Man was originally named Puck Man and only changed for fear of vandalism is happily true as well. Of course, Ms. Pac-Man remains the best game in the series.

          1. Once PAC Man heads out into the field for an exercise, Mrs PAC Man invites Mario and Luigi to come over and clean her pipes. Mrs. PAC Man is a skank.

      2. I have had many a leftover meal since I tend to cook plenty of everything when I cook. The trick to really enjoying a leftover meal is knowing how to properly use a microwave’s power setting to warm the food up without drying it out. Sadly, most folks don’t know how to do that. I’m not sure about a leftover meal of chocolate Easter Bunny Rabbits. Never had any leftover. Is that in the same category as “leftover bacon”? Never had that dish either.

        I remember that lawsuit quite well. We were a Prime Distributor for Nintendo. All of the free publicity really helped our bottom line.

        Do the women on Venus get embarrassed when we look at them with our naked eyes?

      3. Whenever Hack goes about the National Capital Region dressed in the Goodwill hand me downs from Psul of The Ballsack, Rosetta says “Everyone can see Uranus.” Even in the middle of the day.

    2. … the smallest and lightest automobile ever made was produced from 1962 to 1965? The Peel P50 was created on the Isle of Man by the Peel Engineering Company. This tiny “city” microcar, able to only hold a driver, was 54 inches long, 39 inches wide, and weighed 130 pounds. The car was so small it could enter standard doorways. The P50 had no reverse gear, but was so light an exterior handle allowed operators to basically push it wherever they needed to. The tiny vehicle, street-legal in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom, had a top speed of 37 miles per hour and a three-speed manual transmission. It had a top fuel economy of about 100 miles per gallon of gasoline, and sold at its height for £299 ($2,275 in 1965) each. Additional trivia note: The car is back in limited production in both gas and electric varieties. They cost a bit more today, though – £14,879 ($18,858) for the gasoline version, and £13,679 ($17,337) for the electric. (I need me one of those!)

      … medieval castles in Europe did not employ alligators or crocodiles in their moats? Despite cartoon portrayals over the decades, there is no archaeological evidence that any European castle ever used such reptiles to defend them. (Not that it wasn’t a bad idea, they just didn’t have any.)

      … pine cones can predict the weather? They sure can. Look at a pine cone and observe the scales. If they’re close together, dry weather is expected, but if they spread apart, rain is on the way. (And if they’re wet, it’s already raining.)

      1. And if a pine cone has peanut butter and bird seed on it, you’ve got a homemade bird feeder.

        1. The 1965 rate was before decimalization, which seriously adjusted the value of the pound compared to other world currencies. (That made my eyebrows go up too, when I researched the car.)

        2. When your 1980’s vintage gets towed away for expired registration by the Montgomery County ode Enforcement, this is your next option for transportation.

          1. Montgomery County Ode Enforcement; when they cite you for a violation, it is written as a haiku. 🥴

    3. … a move was underway during the War of 1812 for at least part of the United States to return to British rule? Some federalists in New England held a meeting called the Hartford Convention to discuss the idea of seceding from the United States and rejoining Britain, while the state of Massachusetts sent an emissary to discuss a separate peace with Britain. (Glad it didn’t work!)

      … two actors from the movie Titanic helped the last survivor of the actual shipwreck? After the success of the 1997 movie, stars Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974) and Kate Winslet (born 1975) learned that the then-only living survivor of the actual Titanic, Millvina Dean (1912-2009), was having to sell mementos of the ship which she had acquired in order to raise money to live. DiCaprio and Winslet each contributed more than $20,000 to a fund established to pay her nursing home fees. (A titanic thing to do!)

      … it’s estimated that some ten decillion snowflakes have fallen on Earth since the planet was formed? The number, written out, is 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. (Who gets paid to figure this stuff out, anyway?)

      … you may be a sufferer of oenophobia? If you are, then you are deathly afraid of wine. (So don’t whine about it.)

      Now … you know!

      1. WOW, DiCraprio gave a whopping $20K? that’s stingy compared to what Dolly Parton has given to those in need!

        1. True, but in his defense DiCaprio was giving it to one person, rather than to many in need, and he (and Winslet) were giving it to the sole remaining survivor of the Titanic. So there’s that.

      2. Those that get paid to figure this stuff out are a very obscure government agency raking in grant money for a very obscure study.

      3. New England tried to pull out several times. And tho Abe might argue the point, the original wording in the Constitution gave the various states the right to.

        $20K out of a $40 million profit is chump change.

        Seems as if we see 10 decillion snowflakes now…screeching about the Bad Orange Man.

        “Virgil, hand me that corkscrew and watch this! I ain’t skeered!”

        And now we do know, again, CW. We Thank Ye, Good Sir!

    4. Not many Trick R Treaters show up a Fire Base Magnolia, CW. Could be ’cause the FIRST (heh heh) coupla years I was here I skeered the bezeebus out of them. Could also be there are more lucrative ‘hoods where the houses are close together. Or maybe, a big local “Fall Festival and programs at the schools/churches.

      Far as I’m concerned the Braves coulda stayed up North. Washed my hands of pro baseball during the strike back in the 90s, tho if I were going to be buried in the conventional way, I’d want the Braves and the Falcons to be pall bearers so they could let me down just one more time.

    5. I don’t often do this with items in the trivia column, but for those who haven’t seen the Peel P-50, here ’tis.

  5. Now that Hack Stone long and distinguished term as a kind but benevolent dictator of the Deplorable Garbage has come to an end, Hack now instructs his faithful followers to make their voices heard and peacefully egg KoB’s domicile.

    Hack will use this respite to help right the ship for the proud but humble woman owned business as it navigates the rough seas of financial restructuring. You will be happy to know that the Vice President of the company had the foresight to draft a COOP Plan, which we will be executing this weekend. That would be relocating the corporate headquarters to an abandoned chicken coop on the outskirts of Frederick Maryland.

    And the Vice President asked Hack to extend a thank you to all the Deplorable Garbage who contributed to his Go Fuck Me Fund. We managed to raise $0.00, but on the plus side, he did win that battle with the squeegee guy for the prime spot on the River Road exit of I-495.

    1. Tell ’em to throw hard boiled extry large, Hack. I’ll make us some deviled egg and olive salad to go with these Triscuits and sharp cheddar cheese. I have original, with sea salt, fire orasted ‘mater, and garlic with black pepper flavors in the pantry.

  6. Be sure to set your clocks back this Saturday evening, otherwise when you head off to church Sunday morning, you may experience Mass Confusion.

      1. That little ditty has been running through my head every time I hear don’t forget to turn your clocks back.

    1. Psul of The Ballsack does not adjust his watch. It’s not as if he has to keep the time straight in order to meet with clients.

  9. I was gearing up to be first today, but I got distracted at the wrong moment. Anyway, I voted today. Go Trump!!!

  10. KoB WHAT!??!?! YEAH BABY!!!

    Late but not forgotten.

    Top TWENTY!!! Forging FIRST!!!!

    Well fucktards, I’ll just leave this here as an omen….I am praying and we all hope it looks like this next week.

    Cheers and Beers (for all of you on KoB)

    I’m AUDI 5000

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    2. ANNNNNNNDDDD fuck you….at least my ex is dropping off my step ex fur childrens for me this evening to have fow many days in a row. YAYYYYYY!!!!

  13. There is a place in France where Phil Monkress likes to dance;

    There is a hole in the wall where Phildo works the balls….

      1. With the ongoing lawsuits from Bank of America, the property leasing company and his latest bankruptcy (second or third, Hack lost track), Psul of The Ballsack has his own parking space at the Montgomery County Courthouse. And please RSVP if you plan on attending the tail gate party for the lawsuit from Tragero Properties Vs Psulnand Karen of The Ballsack on February 21, 2025. If you have any dietary restrictions, please mention that when you respond to the invite.

    1. Problem is, it takes two weeks to count every vote in Arizona. I know our schools suck, but holy shit!

  15. October 31 story, but NOT a Halloween story.

    Steven Seagal,
    who played a Navy SEAL in the movie Under Siege,
    is now loaded up with black hair dye, black beard dye,
    and (but caught here in photos also wearing gray and camo)
    mostly wears black clothing to hide his weight, now up to 320 lbs.

    Also, he’s not only a big fat fake…
    He’s living this way in RUSSIA, and getting himself wrapped up in UKRAINE.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14011109/Steven-Seagal-large-balloons-weight-Russia-documentary.html

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/10/28/15/91374277-14011109-image-m-35_1730128546325.jpg

    3. Saw a video on YouTube where the hosts were giving him the business. Some no budget action film where Segal plays a SEAL sniper. He spends a majority of the film sitting in a chair behind a rifle poking out the window. They had a stunt man for the difficult scenes, such as going up a flight of stairs. Not a joke.

        2. Hack Stone,
          Here’s the www youtube dot com link (it will expand here).

          These are 2 separate movies, both from 2016.
          Seagal is looking all but immobile immobile in both (8 years ago).
          Running, no chance.
          Walking and standing, yes, but at a minimum.

          He must be a real joy in Russia in the 2020s,
          especially with thinking he has anything to contribute against Ukraine.
          Ugh.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JcLBjWnn3TU

    5. There’s a YouTube channel called Space Ice, where a guy narrates reviews of Segals movies and utterly roasts the fat actor. They’re hilarious!

    1. Screw that scrunt. Why does it seem that those most in favor for war seem to advocate for it from the safety of their offices, behind security personnel paid to protect them for the stupid stuff they say.

      Perhaps a front line tour in Gaza or Ukraine is in order. Same meals, lodging and hygiene considerations as everybody else.

      Maybe somebody here has a better idea of where she can spend a year, and at the last minute have her tour extended for the convenience of the government.

    2. Yes. Riddle me this, Batman: In a firing squad execution scenario, does the leader of the firing squad give a loaded rifle to the person to be executed?

  18. PRESENT AND UNACCOUNTABLE as I award myself yet another Honorary First.

    ((((OVER))))

    Epstein did not kill himself.
    It’s obvious that those ON Epstein’s list are panicking right now.
    How many names on Epstein’s list are also on Diddy’s List, He really needs a good 24-hour Suicide Watch!
    FUCK ALL THOSE watching and monitoring US while ignoring real crime taking place.

    1. 4 days to go, they’re pulling out ALL the stops. I only hope somebody makes a yuge mistake that can be settled monetarily in a court of law.

      Let’s see how well they handle the scrutiny and near 24/7 news coverage and character assassination.

      I’m going to the kitchen for snacks. Anybody need anything?

    3. This is another lawfare stunt. Just more absurd than the others. Jonathan Turley agrees with my legal assessment.

  22. FIRST (h/t KoB) in the hearts of our grandkids.

    Had a high compliment paid to me today, when the mother of one of my guitar students (who has only been with me since September) spoke of how much more self-confident her daughter has become and how much our time means to her. So much so that, although she is having problems in her middle school, she refuses to change schools if it means she cannot come to our lessons.

    Honored, humbled, and a tad bit frightened by that degree of influence I’m having on that young lady.

    Be careful, y’all. You don’t know who you may be encouraging.

    God bless you all.

  23. And, left/libtard gov’t bureaucrats in action… Social media star Peanut the squirrel seized and euthanized by NY state authorities despite being at an animal sanctuary and paperwork in-progress to get him legal:
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/social-media-star-peanut-squirrel-182927676.html
    Bureaucrats “only doing their jobs” (just following orders, you know) who took responsibility only to seize/kill him and not to meet the law’s intent better. (These are the ‘tards running single-payer healthcare as y’all know from the VA.)
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Em_7KCaVoAECGs-.jpg

    2. Babylon Bee,

      Radicalized Squirrels In MAGA Hats Begin Uprising (linked)—

      The uprising began in New York, where government commandos busted into Peanut’s humble abode and killed the kindly squirrel. “Within hours, there were tens of thousands of squirrels gathered in Central Park, each wearing a MAGA hat,” said police officer Darryl Smith. “The squirrels were prepared, organized, and unbelievably disciplined. We’re in real trouble.”

      At publishing time, a squirrel army had been seen heading for the Capitol with a contingent of buffalos.

      See meme (below) for where I stand.

  28. And in other news — Biden says he’d love to smack Republicans on their big ole’ sweet asses.

    Guy just can’t stop fucking things up.

      1. Hey, since no judgment of conviction has been entered on the verdict yet, he is legally not a felon yet.

    1. Imma gonna go out on a limb and say that there is fuckery afoot. Despite “Rainbow Warriors” getting the attention in the military, I somehow feel that the majority of the military would “vote” for The Deplorable Garbage Truck driving Bad Orange Man Felon.

    2. If there was only some way for the US Military to learn how many active duty members are serving, how many are not residing at their home of record, and extrapolate that data to make a guess on how many absentee ballots would be needed if there was an election coming up.

      But on the plus side, the Pentagon is ecstatic to report that they are 100% on meeting DEI training goals.

  30. Since it’s still technically the weekend, here is a PSA I came across while researching another winter project I have my sights on.

    Now would be the time to get your home HVAC system upgraded before 1.1.25. Replacement costs due to rise by 30%. As if a new system wasn’t expensive enough already.

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiw0LPhpsGJAxWPtokEHcr-NpIQFnoECEMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hvac.com%2Fexpert-advice%2F2025-refrigerant-change%2F&usg=AOvVaw1isthgfFpLSRg-sFUHQxhp&opi=89978449

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