Weekend Open Thread
The Democrats like to argue that we should let people in from other countries. They condemn those who disagree as racists, xenophobe, or some other nonsense label. We protested the massive unvetted illegal immigration while the left argued that these illegal aliens were trying to get a better life and that we should accommodate them. Does the left truly believe their nonsense? That enthusiasm does not appear to be as strong when legitimately targeted Whites need to immigrate to the US. Enjoy your weekend!
Category: Open thread
FIRST!
Drats! Foiled again! Missed it by 4 seconds.
Looks like it’s just you and me, cowboy. Did Commissioner Wretched release everyone on Liberty?
I’m here, Hack … just switching between work and TAH.
CW had distracted everyone by promising a kiss from Lois. After her swooning FIRST kiss from The Gun Bunny, she decided to hat up and skate with him over to the Throne Room to help The KoB lay claim to the Coveted EARNED (never awarded) Title of FIRST. Right now she has most of the other also rans cleaning up the mess that was left. Yippie ki yay…This cowboy gonna be taking his hat off for a bit bit. (IYKYK)
So that’s where she’s been!!!!
I told you that I was going to court, charm, and woo her with my ways…and here we are. Full disclosure…I figured if I kept her distracting beauty away from you for awhile, you may find the time to complete Book Three. The sacrifices I make for a good Sci/Fy tome. *sigh*
Just for the record, that mess left on the throne was from the Vice President of the the proud but humble woman owned business formerly located on Lonesome Pine Lane, formerly located on Wilson Lane. Hack Stone has full control of his bodily functions, except when it comes to sneezing.
Don’t look like any residue from a sneeze to me, Mr. Stone…unless it was another orifice that was doing the sneezing. You’d best be glad that Our Beloved OAM isn’t here, just yet, to see the mess that was left. You’d best be telling that VP to go see a gastro doc.
When he held that position at the Reston Branch of All Points Logistics, he was enrolled in a robust healthcare system. During each site visit, Phil Monkress would personally check each male employee for hernias.
I think this is what Hack was trying to say.
Oh wise and all knowing Magic 8- Ball, will the outdated and overpriced Red Hat Software allow Hack Stone to be unburdened and secure the first comment for the third consecutive Weekend Open Thread? Or will KoB’s hired goons finally get their shit in one bag and be successful in their nefarious schemes to impede Hack Stone from scoring the highly coveted and rarely awarded title, depriving the unwashed masses of continuing being deplorable? Magic 8-Ball says…
Mark Hack Stone unsafe from KoB’s hired goons.
DENIED! No soup…or 3 pete for you Mr. Stone. You may, however, avail yourself of these bacon and cheese infused golden yukons, a slab of BBQ’d Ribs, a garden salad, homemade brownies, and all of the refreshing beverages you can hold. I’m sure it will be a welcome change from the stale crayons you’ve been nibbling on.
Oh wise and all knowing Magic 8- Ball: is Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) still a turd?
Third
Having once again lost out on the coveted FIRST, settling for the bronze medal of third, I’ll share some silly trivia with you and sit back and watch the rest of the feeding frenzy. Enjoy!
DID YOU KNOW…?
Did the assassin of a president try to say that the doctors who attended him actually killed him?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Copyright © 2025
It’s fun to realize that in just over a month, summer begins.
I do enjoy summer, and I imagine you do as well. Spring has always been my favorite season, as I find that the farther I get into my dotage, the less I enjoy very hot, humid weather. But summer has much to recommend it as well.
Speaking of recommending, may I suggest some trivial information for you to enjoy? I’ve unearthed some fresh tidbits for this week, and I do hope you enjoy them.
And if you’re of a mind to do so, you can write me at didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com and I always reply, usually quickly.
Did you know …
… a musical instrument called a “fluba” exists? It’s a cross between a flugelhorn and a tuba, and it was invented by a musician named Jim Self (born 1943). (Find one in your friendly neighborhood orchestra.)
… kangaroos are not able to “pass gas”? The Australian marsupials convert the small quantities of intestinal methane they produce into an energy source which their body re-uses. A kind of bacteria in the kangaroo allows this to happen. Some scientists are studying how to transfer the bacteria to cows, to help reduce the cow methane emission problem. (I have a couple of lines I could use here, but I won’t. Yours are probably funnier.)
… one of the biggest philanthropists in Chicago during the Great Depression was also one of its most notorious residents? Gangster Al Capone (1899-1947) opened several soup kitchens in Chicago at the height of the Great Depression. It was one of his sporadic attempts to make himself look better to the public. During the Depression (1929-1933), such soup kitchens provided millions of people the only nutritious food they would have each day. (Even a broken clock is right twice a day, you know.)
… more than 3,000 people auditioned for the program Afghan Model in 2009 in Afghanistan? What is surprising about that fact is, only ten of them were women. (No comment.)
… you probably have a couple of tools in your home that were invented by the ancient Romans? The level and the claw hammer were created by the Romans and have passed along, almost unchanged in form or function, since then. (It’s hard to improve on perfection, folks.)
One of my great grandfathers was one of Al Capone’s trusted barbers. My paternal grandmother told us that when she and her sister entered the barber shop at the same time Capone was there, the latter would give them money to get candy.
Hearts & minds. Sad how crimelords like Capone and James/Younger could figure out how to win them while the greatest gang in history (the mediocre, morally-neutral bureaucracy of the DOD) couldn’t even figure out the concept.
… a presidential assassin tried to say the doctors who attended his victim killed him? On July 2, 1881, President James A. Garfield (1831-1881) was shot in the back at a railroad station in Washington, D.C., by a crazed office-seeker named Charles J. Guiteau (1841-1882). Garfield was not mortally wounded by the shooting; in fact, modern medicine would have saved him quite easily. Rather, he died 80 agonizing days later of blood poisoning after doctors tried to remove the bullet from his back with their dirty fingers and dirty instruments, sterilization not being the norm in medicine at the time. At Guiteau’s trial for the crime, though, the defendant tried to say that the doctors – not he – had killed the President. That defense failed spectacularly, and Guiteau was hanged on June 30, 1882. Additional trivia note: Among the people trying to save Garfield’s life was inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), who used a kind of metal detector over Garfield to try and find the bullet. But the detector was thrown off by the metal springs in the bed on which the President was laying. (If we knew then what we know now …)
… the longest freshwater shoreline in the world is found in the state of Michigan? It has shorelines on four of the five Great Lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron and Erie. Michigan’s freshwater shoreline is 3,288 miles long. (Lake Ontario tried to shoehorn a bit of shoreline in but Ohio was having none of it.)
… you may, at one time in your life, have demonstrated pot-valor? For those who don’t know, pot-valor is another term for the boldness one acquires after imbibing alcohol. It’s another name for “liquid courage.” (In other words, “Hold my beer.”)
We prefer the term “Beer Goggles”.
Not sure what Ohio has to do with keeping Lake Ontario off the Michigan coastline.
It’s the state of NY and province of Ontario that separate that lake from the others. Ohio just watches, bored, wishing she were better at sports.
… a famous writer met both John and Robert Kennedy and the men who killed them? Truman Capote (1924-1984), author of In Cold Blood and numerous other stories, said he was probably the only person who met both John (1917-1963) and Robert Kennedy (1925-1968), as well as the men who murdered them – Lee Harvey Oswald (1939-1963) and Sirhan B. Sirhan (born 1944).
… a Major League Baseball player was on the lineups for two different teams in the same game? This is a little convoluted, so bear with me. On June 26, 2024, Danny Jansen (born 1995) was in the lineup for the Toronto Blue Jays when they played against the Boston Red Sox. The game was suspended by rain, and was to resume on August 26, 2024, as part of a doubleheader. During the interim, however, Jansen was traded from the Blue Jays … to the Red Sox. When the game resumed, Jansen was inserted into the Red Sox lineup, putting him on the record as the only player ever having played for both teams in the same game. Jansen was actually at bat for the Blue Jays when the game was suspended. (Bet his baseball card is a winner.)
… Abraham Lincoln fed his pet cat with a gold fork? The sixteenth President (1809-1865) was a lover of animals, but cats were his favorite. While in the White House, the Lincoln family often had their cat Tabby at the table with them. Once, during a formal dinner, Lincoln fed Tabby with a gold fork. His wife Mary (1818-1882) commented on how “shameful” it was to see Lincoln feed the cat at the table, to which the President replied, “If the gold fork was good enough for (former President James) Buchanan, I think it’s good enough for Tabby.” Buchanan (1791-1868) was known to have used a golden fork at White House dinners. (Lincoln didn’t much like Buchanan, so there’s that.)
Now … you know!
See, cats didn’t listen to Lincoln! And you think you have a chance?
The very best thing about summer is a bushel full of fresh, tree ripe, Georgia Peaches. Prove me wrong…If you can. Full disclosure? You can’t!
Sooo…them ‘Roos are Crystal Methodists? Are you gassing us, CW?…or tooting your horn of knowledge? I help save Planet Earth by eating mo’ beef.
Al got busted for stealing from the grubermint. Too bad we can’t bust the grubermint for stealing from us.
Probably be less women than that to apply now.
Having a nice assortment of Estwing’s helps keep me level.
Make hanging murderers great again.
Michigan used to be as great as the lakes it borders. These days?…not so much.
One drink…I can dance
two drinks…I can sing
three drinks…I can fight
four drinks…I can fight these cops
five drinks…I’m too drunk to got to jail
Ol’ Truman prolly was hot for all four of them.
So, who won the game? And did Jansen bat better when he played for “the other team”?
Abe was a real pussy when it came to Mary pushing him around. Read up on it.
Another fine job on the trivia, CW. You da man! Lois said she may and/or may not be at work come Monday.
You ain’t wrong about the sorry state of Michigan over the last 8 years or so.
Sad, ain’t it! I served with some damn good troops from there back yonder. Also served with some of the dregs of society from there. The political climate seems to favor the dregs instead of the good folks.
Why McD’s retired Ronald in 2016– he got rowdy after a few:
Some what here.
Present!
Have a great weekend yall!
On month two of searching for fulltime employment and rolling a goose egg. Good thing my decades of paying for unemployment “insurance” nets me {checks statement} $0.00!
Good thing hay needs to go in and farmers pay cash day-of.
Hang in Roh… took me 9 months, but finally found a good one.. it’ll happen for ya!
Welcome South, Brother. Plenty of work down heah…and BBQ. And if baling hay is your thing, the farmers get about 3-4 cuttings a year. Jus’ sayin’.
I’ve bucked bales both ways. From the baler, and off the ground. Can’t say I preferred one over the other as both were back breaking work. But the farmers wife fed us well at lunch, we worked until we could hardly see to stack in the barn and he paid us cash daily. Lather, rinse, repeat every hay cutting.
I always preferred tossing bales during a full moon. Not near as hot.
And those farm women can cook!
Thanks to you and Fyrfighter.
Ain’t worried but dang is it frustrating!
BTDT! And it is indeed, frustrating. The way I always handled it is when I left the interview, still unemployed, for a job I knew I was the most qualified applicant was to think to myself “Welp, your loss, Mr/Ms HR Person. Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.” (ht 2 a Former Jewish Carpenter)
There was a time or twelve when I would get a call back, after finding gainful employment, that a position would be offered when their other choices didn’t work out for them. I would then gain some satisfaction by Thanking them politely (yes I can do that) and then inviting them to go urinate up a rope…with all due respect, of course.
A little Tom Petty seems appropriate:
https://youtu.be/fFnOfpIJL0M?t=3
Tom Petty always appropriate.
Have the young’uns no respect for their elders? I was talking with an USAF SSgt this morning. He did not believe we old timers had to march 10 miles in the snow, up hill each way, to get to and from work.
They ran out of money at my command and painted our feet black and laced our toes till the budget was approved, let us not get into when the toilet paper ran out. that got ugly real quick.
Serious as a heart attack; in 1975 the base to which I was assigned ran out of toilet paper. The BX was out, the commissary was out, supply was out, the store in town was out. The next nearest grocery store was 50 miles away at a time when most dorm rats didn’t have a car. The penalty for wasting was death.
Damn, not even 3 pm…
Well I”m here….
Fuck all’ya’all….
Have a lovely weekend and back to work.
Top ten. How can I be on time if the start time changes every week.
FIRST TWENTY NINTH
We have a Finalist for Dumbass of The Week. Jarred Shaw, a basketball player who wasn’t good enough for the NBA and was playing in Indonesia, got busted for smuggling marijuana now faces the death penalty. He should have just put on a dress and secured a position in the WNBA.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/former-college-basketball-star-jarred-shaw-arrested-for-drug-smuggling-in-indonesia-could-face-death-penalty/ar-AA1EVstA?ocid=BingNewsSerp
When in Rome, don’t act like some hood rat from Dallas.
“Stupid is as stupid does.” – Forrest Gump
Thirty-something, I declare myself present, deplorable and unaccountable as I award myself yet another Honorary First.
((((OVER)))))
I hear Phildo still works balls.
True.
Salute!
Only missed by 41!!! Have a great weekend, my TAH family.
30+- MILLION POC (parasites of color) illegals allowed to swarm in but the demonrats lose their sh*t over these whyte folks coming in?
Prepare
Present & unaccountable.
FIRST (h/t KoB) in the hearts and minds of our grandkids.
Grandchild #1 & #2 complete their college semester, #1 should graduate this fall.
Grandchild #9 turns 6 tomorrow. With her mother’s permission, she’ll be getting a ukulele and lessons from Grandpa.
Cardiologist confirmed that I did have a bout of a-fib last Friday night. Being referred to an electrocardiologist next. Hadn’t stopped me from exercising, though. 30 minutes of doing laps in the pool and/or hikes help keep the ticker tocking. I hope.
Hope you all have a great weekend. Keep off the injured list, don’t be the motivation for any safety briefings, don’t let the CO find out about your nefarious activities, and send plenty of flowers to the wonderful ladies of TAH.
The Ladies ARE The Flowers of TAH, Graybeard!
Point.
Prepare…
STRAIGHT out of the gates of Heck!
To those that have, and continue to maintain “Eternal Vigilance”…
SALUTE!
https://thevillagehemorrhoid.blogspot.com/2025/05/armed-forced-day.html
My dog just dropped a huge steaming pile of Phil Monkress in the dude across the streets yard.
Did you send him an invoice for services rendered? Phil Monkress shits all over the American taxpayers, and he rakes in the cash.
OK, gotta brag on my self control (aka venting just a wee bit),
Leaving work today, saw some protestors (no idea who is paying them, or if they are just idiots for free) gathering on the courthouse square at the corner of the two major streets in town.
One of them (at least) holding an “8647” sign.
I knew if I went over and got in their face, I’d be having to hit y’all up for bail money, so I called the non-emergency line for our local LEO and let them know that they were calling for the assassination of the President, which bothered me some (BP went up a wee bit). They said they’d send an officer out to see about it.
I still want to go get in their faces, very belligerently in their faces. But trying to be a good boy here.
>sigh<
Being the adult in the AO is rough.
If there’s no body, then there’s no crime…right?
I gots bail $, Graybeard, but I thought that removing pests was not against the law in Texas.
On a busy street corner too many witnesses. The Three (or Four) S’s should also include a Fourth or Fifth – Secrecy.
Plausible deniability is a plus.