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Weekend Open Thread

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Perhaps the solution can be found in one of the common core textbooks. (Facebook Only the Hilarious)

A prank intended for the viewer, or an actual fail? The woman in the middle appears to be giving the middle finger to the person taking the photo. The guy in blue looks like he’s chuckling. Maybe there was a debate prior to this, but the one who wanted to fit the item in the car insisted on doing so.

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    1. daaaaaaaaayyyuuuum!!!!!!!! Kicks F5 key in disgust!!!

      No 3 pete sumbitchkissmyazzsh^tfirehellsbells!

      Rats of the Cong to my man CW! My Crown to you Sir!

      1. Graciously accepted, my friend. Your chance in the spotlight comes next week, I’m sure.

    2. Whoop! All hail the new TAH WOT First Commissioner Wretched!

      Enjoy your time on the throne.

    3. I bow in honor to our King of the WOT!!!
      We await our orders oh great one!
      Free beer and wings to all my friends!!
      Have a great weekend all!!
      Willy
      Out

  3. WOW Third or forth or fifth-ish. You quick draw fuckers. AND it’s not even 1 yet LOL
    All hail Commissioner Wretched taking the crown this week and Pissing off 5th/77th FA in themeantime. Well it’s back to square or WOT First square one…

  4. It’s an odd position to be in … First on the WOT for the first time in quite a while. Apologies to my man 5th/77th FA, but I had a moment at work to spare, and one thing led to another, and … well, hell with it. Here’s this week’s trivia, as sorry a substitute as it may be.

    DID YOU KNOW…?
    Did a magician offer a $1 million prize to anyone who could prove paranormal activity?
    By Commissioner Wretched

    So here we are, firmly ensconced in the year 2020, and it’s time to review our New Year’s Resolutions.

    Admit it. You’ve already broken many – if not all – of them by now.

    You should take a page out of my book. Make one resolution, and promptly break it.

    Resolve not to make any resolutions.

    I admit, resolutions for the new year are a great idea. They’re a goal to aim for, a target to see if you can hit.

    What happens with most of us, of course, is that we set our sights way too high, and as soon as we realize that, we just say, “To heck with it,” and give up.

    (That’s what I do, anyway. Your mileage may vary.)

    However, there is one New Year’s Resolution we can all make – and keep – and enjoy. I can resolve to keep bringing you the trivia you love, and you can resolve to keep reading it.

    Anything beyond that, though, and you’re on your own.

    Did you know …

    … the “ZIP” in ZIP code means something? It’s an acronym which stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The U.S. Postal Service intentionally created the acronym to imply that mail travels faster if one uses the zip code on the letter than if one doesn’t. (Of course, if you don’t use the code now, your mail doesn’t go anywhere except the Dead Letter Office.)

    … enemy soldiers once stopped fighting each other to battle a common foe? During World War I, Russian and German soldiers were engaged in battle in the area near Minsk, Belarus. But while they were fighting, a common enemy was savaging them, and the army leaders agreed to temporarily drop their hostility toward each other and face that enemy. What was that enemy? A pack of wolves. Hundreds of them, in fact, and they were starving. The wolves had been stalking the battlefield for weeks, and had in fact tried to eat several dead soldiers from either side, and even took chances at catching a live one or two. The wolves had withstood poison gas, machine gun fire, grenades, and high explosives. Once the wolves had been dealt with, the two armies resumed their conflict with each other. (“Let’s get rid of these animals trying to kill us, Ivan, so we can get back to the job of killing each other.”)

    … a magician once offered a million-dollar prize to anyone who could prove the paranormal? The Amazing Randi (James Randi, born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, 1928) was a well-known stage magician who also exposed paranormal “fakes” in public. From 1996 to 2015, Randi offered a prize of one million dollars to anyone who could provide objective proof of the paranormal. The James Randi Educational Foundation would set forth the conditions for the test, which would be agreed upon in advance by anyone trying to claim the prize. Over the twenty years of the offer, more than 1,000 people tried to claim it. When Randi retired in 2015, the million dollars was still safe.

    … terrorists were once thwarted by daylight savings time? Terrorists in the West Bank of Israel tried to smuggle two time bombs into the Jewish state in September of 1999, intending to plant the bombs on buses and kill a lot of people. What the terrorists did not realize was that, while their part of the world was on standard time, Israel uses daylight savings time. The bombs thus exploded one hour early, killing three terrorists instead of the bus passengers. (Well, nobody ever said being a terrorist was a smart thing to be.)

    … a can of Spam™ may last longer than you do? Spam, a contraction of spiced ham, is so resistant to spoilage that, if it is kept in an unopened can, it will theoretically last for decades. Spam was first promoted as a health food. If you placed all the Spam ever sold end to end, it would circle the Earth more than ten times. (Now there’s a picture to behold – world-encompassing Spam.)

    … there are about 45 billion fat cells in an average adult? (Boy, am I above average!)

    … cockroaches experience anxiety? Scientists studying the little boogers discovered that roaches running through a difficult maze have more problems if other roaches are watching them. (Of course they do. Don’t we all?)

    … dinosaurs are misnamed? The term “dinosaur” was coined in 1842 by a British paleontologist, Richard Owen (1804-1892). Owen coined the term from ancient Greek words that mean, “terrible lizard.” But Owen was not referring to their fierceness; he was referring to their size. (Being that big can be terrible, I guess.)

    … your mind wanders aimlessly? Yeah, so does mine. But are you aware of how much it wanders? Well, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Congnitive and Brain Sciences, located at the University of California Santa Barbara, have figured out that our minds wander about 13% of the time. They determined this by measuring volunteer subjects’ brain activity while they performed routine tasks. The most interesting part of the research shows that while our mind is wandering, we have almost no concept of what’s happening in the world around us. (At last, an explanation of Congress!)

    … apes are not monkeys? While both are primates, along with humans, they are completely different species. The easiest way to tell the difference between the two is, apes do not have tails; monkeys generally do, though not all of them do. (At last! Another explanation of Congress!)

    Now … you know!

    1. Resolve not to make any resolutions. – Commish.

      Haven’t made any in decades, don’t intend to ever.

      1. “…we set our sights way too high…To heck with it and give up.” Never give up! Never Surrender Never Retreat! Lee mighta had to surrender but we didn’t! I won’t even let my horse surrender…I don’t want him to be pulling a wagon up in Kansas somewhere. I have resolved to attain the never earned Holy Grail of ACE, 5 in a row in the coveted TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread FIRST. I will graciously acceed when out F5’d but will continue to march in the pursuit thereof.

        I will not trivialize how much I enjoy your trivia column. You post ’em, I’ll read ’em.

        1. Or, as Mr. Dunkenfeld famously said “If at first you don’t succeed, give up. No sense being a damn fool about it.”

    2. “…A magician once offered a million-dollar prize to anyone who could prove the paranormal?”

      Well…..

      In January 2014, SPIKE TV offered $10 Million Dollars to anyone who could find Bigfoot.

      I remember the ninja household chuckling on this Reality TV show. We made the comment: “Bet SPIKE TV won’t have to fork over that much cash”.

      Wonder how we knew?

      😉😎

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Million_Dollar_Bigfoot_Bounty

      “Nine teams of big-game hunters and Sasquatch hunters are instructed to find proof of Bigfoot, a hominid-esque figure reportedly seen in the wilderness. Each episode the teams are given a specific challenge and one team will be eliminated in each episode. If the teams manage to find evidence to prove the existence of Bigfoot, they will be awarded $10,000,000. However the proof must stand up to scientific testing in order for the team to receive the money. If no conclusive evidence is found, the teams will be eliminated until only one remains – at which point the remaining team will receive $100,000.”

      1. Once they find Bigfoot, maybe they can turn their attention to locating Elaine Ricci.

        #FakeLivesMatter!

    3. “…A can of Spam™ may last longer than you do?”

      SPAM. The Hawaiians LOVE IT.

      Having to eat SPAM One Hundred Zilion Ways growing up, I don’t care for it.

      However, I LOVE SPAM Musabi.

      I know, I know, I’m contadicting myself, but once one tries SPAM Musubi…

      😉😎

        1. Yep, I remember.

          (Schofield Barracks, USAPAC and CINCPAC).

          For AW1Ed: Reference CINCPAC: How did you think I knew about Seabats?

          And for Air Force: I got to sign a Doofer Book during my Deployments in the Pacific. Not bad for this Army ninja.

          And yes, my Handle for that book was “ninja”.

          😉😎

    4. Resolve to not eat liver and onions this year…
      Been the same one since I left the US Army in 1977. Hain’t busted it yet !!!
      We got every cow liver in the CONUS when I was in Alaska…
      All the ketchup in the world won’t hide the fact that it’s liver and onions…..

      1. The only time I ate liver & onions is from the liver of the buck I shot, that night in Wyoming, prepared in camp by our huntmeister. I still didn’t enjoy it like my hunting pals did.

    5. Originally posted by Commissioner Wretched:

      … dinosaurs are misnamed? The term “dinosaur” was coined in 1842 by a British paleontologist, Richard Owen (1804-1892). Owen coined the term from ancient Greek words that mean, “terrible lizard.” But Owen was not referring to their fierceness; he was referring to their size. (Being that big can be terrible, I guess.)

      The main reason that “dinosaur” is used is tradition, habit, etc. “Dinosaurs” is to widen an umbrella of a term to use to describe reptiles that ranged in size from little birds to dinosaurs like Argentinosaurus. New terms include therapods like the Tyrannosaurus rex and the modern bird, and sauropods like the Agentinasours divide them into different groups.

      Here is an animation of human walking by the different prehistoric reptiles:

  7. Hack Stone claims Honorary First Post Of The Weekend Open Thread, as bestowed upon him by The National Association Of Naval Photographers.

    P.S. Epstein did not kill himself, and Phil Monkress works balls.

    1. Having the most Honorary Firsts, I award you Secondary Honorary First.

      ((((OVER))))

      1. It’s not over until the Judge dismisses Daniel Bernath’s lawsuit with prejudice.

        (((Over)))

  8. All hail the Commish!*
    Have a great weekend y’all!
    Work your preps, we ain’t outta no woods by a stretch!

    *for the next 167 hours at least.

    1. Tanks ninja. Appreciate the kindness, tho I should be punished for what thoughts that black haired beauty is causing me to have. And yes, punished by her. 😉 😉 😆 I reckon I wore out several cassette and 8 track tapes of their work, do still have a 33&1/3 rpm poly vinyl carbon and CD of that one. The FIRST time I ever got thru to the radio call in request line way back yonder, I requested to hear a song about “a tall chilly female wearing dark clothes.” The DJ (remember them jobs) knew exactly what I was requesting. Good Times.

      Also be consoling myself with another helping of the ham and beans with the cornbread from yesterday’s Thursday are for cooking segment. Took some more of the edge off with another bowl of caramel vanilla ice cream over the last of my ginger snap cookies…The struggle is real.

      1. 😂😅😆!!!

        KoB: There are SO MANY songs out there that half the time, I have NO Clue what a Band is singing.

        This song was one of them.

        Imagine my surprise when I found the lyrics. Was taken aback cuz I had no idea the Hollies were singing about the Prohibtion.

        Am sure there are other songs out there that are “misworded”.

        Enjoy your Comfort Food!

        *Impeach Ralphie Boy of Virginia*

        1. *Impeach Ralphie Boy of Virginia*

          Amen, may he be removed from Office in disgrace and forever be remembered as one.

          2. With both chambers in Democrat’s hands, we are pretty much stuck with him until he completes his term, with all other things equal.

  11. Wow. Top 20, but here and unaccountable.

    Battening down the hatches for a forecast ‘unusual severe weather event’ in the GB AO tonight. Wind gusts to 75mph & possible tornadoes.

    As long as the trees in the yard stay upright and major limbs intact, we’re golden.

    Got a little range time in yesterday. Sure wish .45ACP wasn’t so dang expensive – but Mrs. GB insists I cannot afford a 9mm at this point. (Being without a steady job’ll do that to ya’.)

    Y’all enjoy your weekend!

    1. Hang Tight to you & Mrs. GB on the upcoming weather.

      The One Who Controls The Weather Will Control Your Safety.

      Please keep us inform.

      🤗

    3. Thanks, y’all.

      And you are right, ninja. The One Who Controls the Weather will control our safety. He does so quite often, and we don’t take that for granted.

      Should be able to post tomorrow with the AAR. (Unless the power is out – but we’re in a Co-op that is tons better than a for-profit about getting our power going.)

    4. Take a look at a GSG 1911-22. Functionally, effectively a 1911… but shoots .22s Sig also sells the same gun (for more.) Last I saw, Cheaper Than Dirt wad the price leader.

      1. I’ve been tempted, David, but spent my paltry firearms budget on something my 10-year-old grandson could learn to shoot with, so I’ll have to make do with that. But I need to practice with the recoil control from time to time – the .22 coddles me.

    5. WW & ninja

      Your prayers were efficacious. The official record shows gusts only got up to 29mph. We did get 1.9″ of much-needed rain.

      A dead pine in the National Forest next to Airborne Son’s house did come down – along the property line and not onto the house or cars. Besides some twigs and small branches that is the only debris I’ve seen.

      Thanks for your prayers!

      1. Graybeard:

        THANK YOU!

        Was about to do a Commo Check on you and your Love Ones and as always, The Man answered our inquiries and Prayers.

        Something good always comes out of something bad. You All got the much needed rain. God knows best for all of us even when we don’t see it.

        Thank You again!

      2. Thanks, ninja!

        Checking with others in the county, we did have some tornadic winds, some folks on the Entergy electric grid will be out of power until tonight, and some houses damaged. AFAIK no injuries in our county.

        Thanks again, y’all.

    6. The weather briefly got sour and violent in and around A Proud Infidel®™ Manor, but we and out neighbors came out just fine, not even a power outage, hope everyone else came out well. As for me right now, I’m enjoying some Weyerbacher Belgian Style Ale aged in Whiskey Barrels according to the label. It is VERY damned delicious as I sip it from a copper mug and the Brand Name? BLASPHEMY, I am sipping “BLASPHEMY” from a copper mug that was made in Scotland and loving every bit of it, Happy Wishes to ALL of the Fine People of TAH!!!

    1. Maybe the cause of that depicted geometry problem is that the schools there do not have textbooks written in Ebonics.

      1. Oh boy, please don’t give them any ideas. I do not want to see that. Not now, not ever.

    2. The first time I took the ASVAB was when I was about to drop out of College, I took it with a cheap Tequilya hangover and STILL scored good and high. Afterward my Con Artist (*OOPS!*, Recruiter) told me that I was qualified for anything the US Army had to offer. After a nine year break in Service, I took it again after a sweaty ballbuster of a workday in a Shipyard and did the same again. My question is HOW DOES anyone who flunks the ASVAB even remember how to breathe?

      1. On the Army sub Reddit, there was a topic about the ASVAB and of how some people had to take it on paper as the system was temporarily not available.

        I chimed in about how the paper version was the standard, and I was among those who were chosen to test run it during its experimental stage. They wanted to compare our paper scores to the computer one.

        The newer soldiers thought it was funny how we did not think that the computer version was going to either catch on or be as reliable.

      1. I think ol’ Nancy might have a short in her headset. I didn’t understand that gibberish, I only understand authentic frontier gibberish.

      2. I personally think that Ole Plastic Woman has had too many Facelifts and Botox that it has affected her brain, thus the reason she communicates with her hands.

        Time for her to head back to San Fran and clean up her own BackYard.

    2. She and her party gracefully fucketh themselves and they do not want to face the consequences thereof!

  14. Well, my assessment that the stinking goat-humping Iranians most likely shot down that airliner is proving true. I also predict the mad mullahs running that “shithole” country will never admit the truth. I predict that for the next ten months we will be hearing the “Orange Man” is really who killed all those people. Cuz TDS is incurable.

    1. Even CNN says they shot it down, with one of those missiles they were launching, and that’s all public knowledge now, anyway.

      They can try to whitewash it, but it won’t go away.

      1. They didn’t shoot the plane down with the fifteen surface to surface missiles shot into Iraq. It was shot down with a Russkie SA-15 surface to air missile. The irrefutable evidence is the photo of the nose cone of a fired SA-15.

      2. As well as pictures of shrapnel holes in the wreckage. That’s why you don’t put fanatics with maybe a third grade education supervised by others who got the position due to family connections in charge of equipment like that. I can already picture future Flight Safety Briefings for departures from Tehran, “…and in case of a missile attack on our Aircraft, please put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.”

    2. rgr769:

      It’s all President Trump’s fault that the DOW reached 29,000 today!

      Oh, The Horrors!

      😉😎

      1. Well color me shocked 😮. The Iranians have admitted they “unintentionally” shot down the airliner. But they agree with MSNDC that it was entirely the fault of Trump and The Great Satan.

        3. Many a leftist TARDO is doing all he/she/it can to blame President Trump for it, how much stupider WILL they get? It’s apparent that the TARDOs in Congress and the Mess Media want a Jimmeh Kahtuh approach taken, aka letting the goat-humping fleabags walk and spit all over us.

      2. I saw comments, by leftists, about how new stock market records under Obama proved that his economic policies “worked”. They are probably singing a different tune with these records.

      1. I like your term but Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is in more common usage. Irrespective of terminology, both appear to be the same incurable mental illness.

        1. I prefer Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder, or TARD as well as referring to those who let it run their lives as Trump Acceptacnce Resistance Disorder Operatives, or TARDOs!

  15. Add this to the Left having no sense of humor:
    CNN- A staff member at a Massachusetts college is out of a job after a controversial Facebook post…”In retalliation, Ayatollah Khomenei should tweet a list of 52 sites of beloved cultural heritage that he would bomb. Um… Mall of America? …Kardashian residence?” [the former employee] wrote. He has deleted the post.-

    FFS…You know its bad when…

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/us/babson-college-staffer-iran-fb-trnd/index.html

    1. See, that’s why I don’t do any of those so-called “social” site things. You just set yourself up for failure, unless you’re using Fakebook to advertise your business.

  16. Lars shouldn’t enforce any rules or laws, up to and including late fees at the beastiality literature library he volunteers at.

    1. I have been listening to Rush for over four decades.

      Peart, their master of percussion, was an amazing talent, and will be missed.

  20. Seem to be missing the news reports about the arrests being made of arsonists setting fires in Australian. Heard one little report last week that 25 or so arrests had been made so far with others expected. It was not clear from that report if any of them were connected or if they were independent criminals.

    Whoever they are, causing so much death and destruction should result in the most severe punishment.

    Anyone got more on this mess?

    1. Just like the fires up around Gatlinburg TN which were set but the mess media blamed global wormening, many of the Australian fires were set by lowlives who need to pay dearly for what they did.

      1. Australians call them “firebugs”. Once news of that became more common, the media enthusiasm for covering the Australia fires seemed to lose steam.

      2. ” A fire captain, and arson investigator of all things.”

        I remember this one, they connected the fires along the interstate coinciding with arson investigation conferences around the state.

    1. If that’s the story in USA Today about the old feller in Somerville, MA. who was in the 26th ID in Europe. he didn’t receive the MOH. Just a standard set of campaign medals, to include a Bronze Star, for his service.

      The idiot journalist from USA Today who wrote up the story as “eight medals of honor/valor” needs to be horse-whipped in the town square./s

      1. A casual reminder that the vast majority of Reporters are babbling idiots, I remember watching a clip of some babbling Blonde News Bimbo talking about “these Tanks” while pointing to a line of Paladin Howitzers!

        1. After reading the story a little closer, I see the verbiage of “eight medals of honor/valor” came from the campaign office of a former Democrat Presidential Candidate, so mea culpa for pinning those words on a “journalist”./s

        2. Many are also engaging in propaganda. I saw an article about President Trump’s tweeting his support for the Iranian demonstrations in Farsi. This article started with a comment about President Trump’s travel ban, with Iran being one fo the countries on the list. Then they talked about the story.

          I went to an Israeli based newspaper and they just focused on the tweets supporting the protests.

      1. Anyone else notice what we have heard from Magical Maggie and her defenders since the TAH gang outed her as a phony? Crickets!

        1. I have called her “Magical Maggie” because she was home making dinner for her husband in New York at the same time she was rappelling out of a Huey to rescue seriously wounded infantrymen in the “bush” in the Viet of the Nam. Now that is magical.

    1. Saudi Military Students caught with Kiddie pr0n? Here’s hoping that they get their heads hacked off when they get home!

      1. But…but…but…Isn’t watching kiddie pr0n nothing but preparing for part of their rewards when they get to paradise? Did not their pedophile prophet promise them that?

        Sick Bastards!

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