Weekend Open Thread
I tried to create an image of a king who turned everything brown with a touch. This could serve as a symbol of how the Democrats turn things into crap. The image generator initially created depictions of King Midas. The second attempt showed a sort of “fantasy land,” again not exactly what I had envisioned. It serves the purpose from another vantage point though. Enjoy your weekend!
Category: Open thread
Oh wise and all knowing Magic 8- Ball, will Hack Stone’s reign of terror continue for a fifth consecutive First Comment in the Weekend Open Thread, enshrining him In the highly coveted and rarely awarded title of Weekend Open Thread Ace of Aces, or will he be ousted in a mostly violent uprising and exiled to living in an abandoned Jaguar on the River Road off-ramp of I-495 selling outdated and overpriced Red Hat Software? Magic 8-Ball says…
And Hack Stone is now a proud member of the WOT Aces. Red Hat Software on the house. Or in our case, on the 2980’s vintage Jaguar.
Of course that should read “1980’s vintage Jaguar”.
I’d rather have a case of warm Schlitz.
I’d rather have a warm Fresca on a summer day than one of those junkers!
I would definitely love to get my hands on that! And by that I mean taking it apart piece by piece, fixing what’s wrong with it, and giving it back to the owner running better than when he dropped it off, all while recording the entire experience.
Or this:
My youngest is pissed off because I made a meme out of one of his pictures.
He should look at it differently. If his meme gets popular enough, it could reach this level of notoriety “
I would give back the pile of parts I took off it to make it reliable. Then pop the hood to show previous owner what makes it fast and reliable.
Worked for AC Cobra back in the day.
That is one ugly jaguar.
The more door version is much nicer looking.
Flak magnet opinion: It’s the 70s.
Cong-Rats Hack
Hack Stone has been pumping the refresh button on his phone so much over the last 2.5 hours that his thumbprint no longer works properly n his IMac.
Early and WOT ACE….in memory of our own KOB!!! to whom I spoke (one way) this AM.
Present
Cong-Rats Hack.
1st!!!
By one second!!!
Foiled again!
Ooo.. so close.
I know! 😭
damn! second
Actually, you’re third, Toxic.
your comment wasn’t up when I posted
Eh, I’d blame the algorithm.
Blame it on the outdated Red Hat software.
Sorry, but my MAGA hat is white, Hack 😉
You sneaky so-and-so! I’m sitting here waiting to take the throne away from Hack Stone and … aw, heck. I’ll just congratulate Hack and get ready to load up the trivia.
Darn and other comments.
We of the Brotherhood of TAH eagerly await your random musings with fishhook (baited =>bated) breath.
Well, now that Hack Stone is a WOT Ace (how the hell did that happen?), it falls to me to be obsequious and give him his due tribute. So, tribute. And for all, some trivia!
God, it’s good to be back.
DID YOU KNOW…?
Who is the Baby Ruth™ candy bar named after?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Copyright © 2025
Ah, the approach of Thanksgiving makes me remember.
The holiday itself just makes me fat.
But memories … they still don’t have any calories, so I enjoy them a lot.
Like the one where my ex-wife once said that when we were together, every day was like Thanksgiving.
“That’s what I got for marrying a turkey,” she said.
Anyway, you came here for trivia, not bad jokes. (At least I hope you did.) So as not to disappoint, here’s the trivia. Enjoy!
Did you know …
… the average farm in the United States has 467 acres? In Japan, the average farm has 3 acres. (They certainly do make it work for them, though.)
… the world’s largest bowling alley is in Japan? Inazawa Grand Bowl in Inazawa City has 116 lanes. The alley covers 182,000 square feet, and visitors to the building can see all 116 lanes from the entry escalator. (And if you bowl three strikes in a row, you’ve done what’s called a turkey. See, I can work a reference for Thanksgiving in there too!)
… the creator of the Rubik’s Cube™ had difficulty solving it? Ernõ Rubik (born 1944) invented the popular brain puzzler in 1974. Rubik admits that he needed an entire month to solve the cube once he’d invented it. Today, the record for the fastest solve by a human is 3.13 seconds. A robot, however, solved the cube in 0.38 seconds. (I never could figure that thing out, myself.)
… high heels were originally worn by men? In the 10th Century in Europe, men adopted the heel in order to make it easier to ride their horses. Having a high heel made keeping the foot in the stirrups easier. Persian cavalry members wore inch-high heels, and the trend spread to Europe. It became associated with the upper class because the heels showed that the wearer owned and maintained horses. (So there.)
… all was not well in Star Wars land between two iconic and beloved characters? According to some reports, Kenny Baker (1934-2016), the actor who was inside the robot costume of R2D2, absolutely hated his co-star, Anthony Daniels (born 1946), who wore the gold outfit of C-3PO. Baker called Daniels “the rudest man I ever met.” (Another area where the Force could be applied, I guess.)
… the red and blue in the American flag have specific color names? If you want to be 100% Betsy-Ross-Approved correct, you have to use Old Glory Red and Old Glory Blue in your flag. The Color Association of the United States dictates what the colors on the palette are called, but it doesn’t always work its way down to the market – flag-makers have gotten away with using Pantone Dark Red and Pantone Navy Blue instead of the “approved” colors. (Scandalous, I tell you.)
IIRC, the Inventor of the Rubik’s Cube was an East German Math Teacher who didn’t get even a cent from his invention because yeah, socialist country and all of the “good shit” that comes with it!
The story I read in Anthony Daniels’ bio was that Kenny Baker wanted to hit the comic con circuit hard to make some extra cash, and wanted Daniels to go along with him, but he refused. Baker got pissed at him and refused to ever speak to him again.
… Baby Ruth™ candy bars are not named after a baseball player? The popular candy made by the Curtiss Candy Company was introduced in 1921, and many people – then and now – think it was named after the popular baseball star, Babe Ruth (1895-1948). But company officials say the bar was named after Ruth Cleveland (1891-1904), the daughter of former President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908). Ruth was born in between her father’s two non-consecutive terms as president and was a very popular child. When she died of diphtheria at the age of 12, people were shocked, and she was still fondly remembered 17 years later when the Curtiss Candy Co. produced a new chocolate-covered bar. The theory of it being named for Babe Ruth is less believable when one considers that the Curtiss company was headquartered in Chicago, and would not likely have named a confection after a New York ballplayer. (Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.)
… the largest functioning guitar in the world is located at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh? Modeled after a 1967 Gibson Flying V, the guitar is 43 feet 6 inches long, 16 feet wide, and weighs more than 2,000 pounds. The strings are made of airline cables. (And they’re a real pain to try and play, too.)
… the first aluminum drink can was introduced in 1959? It held beer – Coors™ beer, to be precise. The cans had to be opened with a can opener that made triangular-shaped holes in the top. Coors also introduced aluminum can recycling at that time, paying one cent per returned can. Prior to 1959, drinks such as beer and soda were sold in tin-plated steel cans with an interior liner of plastic or wax. Such cans were developed in the mid-1930s. (Now ask me when the pop-top can was invented. Go ahead. Ask me.)
How big is the pickup on that giant Flying V? It’s gonna need a giant Marshall amp that’ll probably require it’s own power plant. Holy power chord, Batman!
Tuning and playing would be a stone bi**h.
… the word “news” has nothing to do with things that are new? It was supposedly coined from the first letters of “north, east, west, south,” the four directions of the compass – meaning that information was compiled from all directions. (That’s the story, anyway.)
… the Heaven’s Gate website is still up and running? For those who may not remember, Heaven’s Gate was a UFO cult headed by Marshall Applewhite (1931-1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927-1985). The forty or so members of the cult firmly believed that when the Comet Hale-Bopp passed near Earth in 1997, it would be followed by an extraterrestrial spacecraft, and they intended to be aboard it, one way or another. Applewhite convinced 38 of his followers to join him in a ritualistic suicide. Two members of the group, however, were instructed to remain behind to maintain the Heaven’s Gate website, answer e-mail, and sell books and tapes to spread the message. The website is still accessible at heavensgate.com but it hasn’t been updated in quite some time. (Hard to get updates from a comet.)
Now … you know!
Anyone here ever actually watch the film Heaven’s Gate, the 1980 film starring Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken? Hack Stone never did, but he did vividly recall it being trashed by critics when it was released, even being the lead story on a Philadelphia news broadcast.
Hack does recall Ishtar getting the same treatment, and he eventually saw it on home video, and he did not think that Ishtar deserved the scorn heaped upon it.
I knew several folks from Idaho (where I believe Heaven’s Gate was filmed) who excited to see the movie. None of them said a word about it after they’d seen it and I’m too much of a gentleman to have asked them about it.
Sounds like a Marine Hack Stone served with during his first Oki tour. He was an extra in the Receiving Barracks scene of The Boys In Company C. He was one of the Marines yelling at the recruits to empty their pockets. He said that Stan Shaw (Washington was a dick.
My platoon guide at PI was an extra on the movie “Tank”. He played a state trooper at the end.
WTF…and here I am at work too…all kinds of nice dial up (whut?!?) and watching the thread and doing banking…Oh well….
HERE FUCKHEADS!!!
Just completed a second round of C&P yesterday as my DAV folks without my knowlege or incorrectly, something) blew the fuck up out of my VA file and I had 4 C&P in the last week or so and yestyerday was re-opening my PTSD that hasn’t been revisited in at least 2 years, so there’s that. Not the most fun I’ve had in a while and I had to go sit in the bathtub for a while afterwards and chill…..but I’m back to work in the “orafice”, so there’s that, so some assemblence of normalicy I guess. At least it’s all over for now and I sit and see what the powers that be at the VA say…..
OK, well carry on bitches and I’ll be doing a lilttle light reading of this last weeke’s threads to try to carch up fully.
Smooches assfaces.
Thanks
Top twenty again, present and unaccountable as I award myself yet another Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
I hear that Phildo still works balls.
OH, and:
(*rustle-rustle*)
Happy Friday, you Gents!!! Hope everyone had a great week! So, last week was rather hectic, what with my mom’s health episode and the first week of my last term being busy. Didn’t have much in the way of share-able content them. But, now I do! Though, it would seem my mom is dead set on moving to Indiana, which leaves my living situation in a little limbo (I do live with her for various reasons and while I use the term limbo, there is a plan in the works that has been enacted on yet).
Anyway, hope all of you have a great weekend and congratulations on Hack becoming the Red Baron!
Freedomtoons with Sydney Sweeney (Seriously, vocal fry of this caliber oughta be a Capital Offence):
Because I missed Halloween:
Dude, I laughed WAY too hard at that!
Yay!!!
Because I missed Halloween Part 2:
It’s Friday? Ho Lee Chit, it’s Friday! After returning to work yesterday sorting stuff out from all this furlough bullshit, I forgot what day it is! PRESENT!
Make it through the Shutdown OK, SFC?
Yup! Had a bit of a financial safety net, so no worries. Wasn’t much fun, either. A metric shit-ton of people had it really bad.
Well, hope they are doing alright now that the shutdown is over.
They weren’t too concerned about the 41 days things weren’t getting done, I wouldn’t stress much if it took me 41 days to get caught up. Tell them you are one person, and ask which of this backlog is most important to them, and begin there. I would also stop in the middle of what I was doing to take (I’m assuming) all breaks and lunch at contract negotiated times. Anything after 4, they pay me more.
Star Wars Funnies:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Fire Department Chronicles:
Part 2:
Yup.. diesel therapy
Part 3:
Where are they now?:
Good stuff!
I’m now gonna be sharing these weekly based off if they have a “where are they now?” Video. I can’t remember what I’ve shared before, so just remembering the number of the followup video will prevent me from repeat sharing.
Yes, indeed!
That looks familair
So, the other day, I was surfing YouTube when I thought to mysel, “I wonder if there is such a thing as a Pro-Police Ad” and I decided to search for some. Here is what I found (the first one is rather upsetting at first , but trust me, it is pro-police:
And here is one I found from Grunt Style:
As a recovering cop, I prefer this guy. He reminds us to “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Well, here’s Obama:
Yeah…..that’s not chocolate.
Certainly not
The king that turns everything to crap is the legendary King Mierdas, an inspiration for many socialists
We always called it the Sadim tough. Everything gold turns to – well, you know
Commissar is an insufferable, indoctrinated communist fuckwit domestic terrorist.
That is all.
As well as a very brainwashed shit-for-brains useful idiot.
Present & Unaccountable.
Still on the right side of the dirt – but then I don’t pretend to be a lawyer-pilot, so my chances are much improved to continue on that side.
God bless you all.
Gender Studies degree holders go on strike, and the Mayor Elect of New York City is calling on his followers to show solidarity with them by boycotting Starbucks. Since Hack Stone has not set foot in a Starbucks for decades because he cannot justify spending $8.95 plus tip for a product that costs $0.13 to produce and sold by a woke corporation that hates Hacks voting choices, it’s hard to pick a side in this dispute. All we need now is for the “Reverend” Al Sharpton by rile up some demonstrators to burn down a few coffee shops.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/zohran-mamdani-tells-1m-social-media-followers-boycott-starbucks-ongoing-worker-strike
One of these days I’ll just have to walk into a Starbucks wearing my MAGA hat just to enjoy the reactions of the liberal doo-doo-heads in there.
Hack Stone has received some exciting news from Alex at Senior Health Care Solutions. It seems that thanks to recent legislation passed in his state, he now qualifies for full coverage of his funeral, burial and cremation expenses, and even have some money that he can leave to his loved ones.
In the words of Nelson Muntz, “Hah-hah!”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15265065/portland-councilwoman-arson-arrest-homeless.html
Well, a college degree from UCSD is now worthless.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/13/university-california-san-diego-standardized-testing-sat-act-math-skills-diversity-hispanic-minority-income/?utm_campaign=dcfb&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook#jjzq75s3j7dfkz2gavnp86cri95lrd2a
If she is looking for companionship, why doesn’t she just go down to the local military installation Enlisted Club and pick up a 20 year old GI like all the other elderly ladies looking for some action?
https://nypost.com/2025/11/15/lifestyle/uk-woman-lorraine-forbes-gets-angry-letter-after-sending-message-in-a-bottle-out-to-sea/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&sr_share=facebook&utm_source=facebook&sr_share=facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQhjYWxsc2l0ZQIyNQABHiTZD9QMymyHeWYR70fcguBHwJZ61YAEpEjEzGJD6cGTG8le_kXIN1ehFsOR_aem_fL85DghzFs4XEaAI2VbeGg