Weekend Open Thread
Plenty happened since the last weekend open thread. Nicolás Maduro was captured and brought to the U.S., two tankers were boarded, the Somali fraud in Minnesota continued to receive coverage with Somali fraud elsewhere in the U.S. mentioned, the list goes on. The Russians didn’t want us to board one of those tankers, but we did it anyway. Minnesota added another event that caught national attention with the ICE related shooting. Sheriff Grady Judd had choice words to say about that event. After a busy week, another weekend has arrived. Enjoy your weekend!
Category: Open thread
Oh wise and all knowing Magic 8-Ball, will good fortune shine down on Hack Stone by bestowing him a First Comment in the Weekend Open Thread, or will he be tossed in the gutter alongside Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris complaining that he was most qualified to post the first comment? Magic 8-Ball says…
Hack Stone is going to ride you Deplorable Garbage like Fin Walz going Brokeback Mountain on ICE.
So you will be the bottom then?
Sorry, could not resist.
When Tim Walz wants to get in the mood with his lovely bride, he pops in the soundtrack to Deliverance on the 8-Track Player.
opens the windows and lights some tires in the back yard… to get her in the mood
She probably has “burning tire, riot” scented candles for those special moments.
It covers the smell of her hoo haa.
Cong of the rats hack, grabbing some nooners on the old recliner and missed the sign in again.
Well, darn … Hack Stone takes first, so I will be content with second.
Hack Stone takes the throne, so I will leave my trivia here and slink off into the shadows. Enjoy!
DID YOU KNOW…?
How many different shows named “College Bowl” have aired in the U.S.?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Copyright © 2026
The New Year is more than a week old at this point, so the time has come to ask – how are your resolutions holding up?
Are you still keeping them? Or did you (as I do) just say “the heck with it” and give up on them?
Whichever you do, I am certain it’s the right thing for you, and you’re going to be fantastic at keeping them – or not keeping them, as the case may be.
I did keep one resolution – to bring you the finest in trivial stuff every week, and I’m going to keep doing it. So here’s this week’s selection of trivial stuff! Enjoy.
Did you know …
… the nastiest place in your office may not be where you think it is? The average office keyboard harbors 3,295 germs per square inch. By comparison, the average office toilet seat has just 48 germs per square inch. (I have a line here, but it would close the show.)
… the Great Fire of 1666 in London began in a bakery? Thomas Farriner (1620-1670) was a baker to the household of King Charles II (1630-1685) and supplied the bread for the Royal Navy during the Anglo-Dutch War. The blaze, which ended up destroying most of London, started in Farriner’s bakery on Pudding Lane on September 2, 1666, and was not extinguished until September 6. Almost 70,000 of the city’s 80,000 homes were destroyed. Surprisingly, Farriner was not blamed for the fire, though it started in his bakery shop. A French watchman named Robert Hubert (1640-1666) gave a false confession to throwing a fire grenade into Farriner’s bakery starting the blaze, which Farriner agreed to. Hubert was executed in October of that year, almost certainly an innocent man, as he was not even in London when the fire broke out. Historians now believe that the Great Fire was started accidentally. (That’s a pretty hot story there.)
… you may have heard a scroop? If you’re wondering, a scroop is the sound that silk makes when it moves. Most likely, you’ve heard one if you were at a dance where formal ball gowns were being worn. That’s the sound the ball gown makes. (Silky, isn’t it?)
… a Major League pitcher had the same number of career wins as he had career hits? Warren Spahn (1921-2003) played 21 seasons in the Majors, for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets, and San Francisco Giants. During his career, Spahn chalked up 363 career wins – and 363 career hits. It gets even more precise: Spahn won 356 games for the Braves, four for the Mets, and three for the Giants. He had 356 hits for the Braves, four for the Mets, and three for the Giants. (You have to admire the synchronicity of all that.)
… actor Michael J. Fox’s middle name doesn’t begin with a J? Fox (born 1981), who starred in the Back to the Future movies as well as some classic television, was born Michael Andrew Fox. He chose “J” as his professional middle initial as an homage to character actor Michael J. Pollard (1939-2019).
… more than one program called College Bowl existed on American television? Most readers would be somewhat familiar with the G.E. College Bowl, a weekly game show pitting teams of students from colleges and universities against each other in some rather difficult quizzes. The show ran intermittently from 1953 to 1970 on CBS and NBC, hosted by Allen Ludden (1917-1981) and later by Robert Earle (1926-2019). But before that, College Bowl was a one-season musical program from 1950 to 1951, starring Chico Marx (1887-1961), one of the Marx Brothers. This show was set in a soda fountain, supposedly owned by Marx, next to a college campus and featured singers who came in, sat around, told jokes, and belted out tunes. The breakout star from the show was Andy Williams (1927-2012). (I get the musical aspects and all, but … Chico Marx? Sure, he was great at the piano, but I just don’t see it.)
… the symbol for the planet Pluto has a double meaning? Made up of the interlocking letters “P” and “L,” the symbol is not only the first two letters of the planet, but also the initials of astronomer Percival Lowell (1855-1916). Lowell initiated the search for a planet beyond the orbit of Neptune and created an observatory in Arizona that is named for him. While working at the Lowell Observatory in 1930, Dr. Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997) took the photographs that confirmed the existence – and official discovery – of Pluto. (And I still think Pluto should be re-classified as a planet.)
… minnows have teeth in their throats? (Well, they have to have them somewhere, don’t they?)
… the first movie ever created solely with computer-generated imagery (CGI) was released in 1995? Toy Story had more than 800,000 hours of mathematical equations used in the creation of the computer film. That equates to more than a week of computer time for every second of the film on screen. (And you thought it was easy.)
… the umpire at a baseball game has the power to eject anyone from the game? Not just players or managers, but anyone. On June 26, 1985, at a minor league baseball game in Clearwater, Florida, the stadium organist played “Three Blind Mice” following a call by umpire Kevin O’Connor (born 1964). O’Connor was not amused, and ejected the organist, Wilbur Snapp (1920-2003), from the press box. Snapp spent the rest of the game in the stands making balloon mice for kids. Additional trivia note: O’Connor would go on to have a ten-year career as a Major League umpire and then became umpire evaluator for MLB. Snapp’s was the only ejection in O’Connor’s entire career. (Yer outta here!)
Now … you know!
I was a member of the Utah State University pep band in 1981. The entire band got ejected from a game following a really bad call by the ref. Why, you may ask? He wasn’t a fan of Three Blind Mice. We got a standing ovation on our way out the arena.
Well played!
Unfortunately, Spahn is better know for the Spahn Movie Ranch….
Resolutions? New Year Resolutions? What are these New Year Resolutions that you speak so blithely of?
Don’t make ’em, can’t break ’em.
No self-control?
*grin*
Present and accounted for
All bow to Hack.
Top 10ish?
This is for Das Queef-issar: some video footage of the incident. The 2 wives are clearly and purposely engaging ICE, the driver is refusing lawful commands, and she strikes the officer as she attempts to flee the scene. ALL the narratives of…
-she was minding her own business
-didn’t’ know they were ICE
-he wasn’t front of the vehicle
-she didn’t hit him
OBLITERATED!!!
She moved from Missouri (tags on the vehicle) to Canada to Minneapolis to be activists are confirmed. Hell, she even has some poor old black lab (feel sorry for that dog) in the backseat. The loudmouth of the pair is videoing and stating “See you later” indicating further attempts to commit the felony of interfering with Federal Officers. The Left’s entire narrative is blown out of the water in a 45 second clip. Suck Queef-issar, SUCK IT!!!
https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/2009687043950162294
” Das Queef-issar”
Still funny!!!!
You’re presenting facts, which Major Moonbat ALWAYS ignores, only accepting whatever liberal propaganda he gets fed by his herders and handlers. Y’know, he once said that the ONLY experience he has in the private sector was a brief stint working at a McGunk franchise, and I wonder if he didn’t get fired from that!
A meme is worth a thousand crying liberals…
Next, we’ll hear that they’re suffering “oppression” from being held accountable for what they did!
Well suffer away…. way over there someplace else.
‘remember that dream most of us had when we were in grade school; the dream in which you had to go the chalk board and write out an equation or parse a sentence or something and you were only wearing underwear? I no longer have that dream. It has been replaced by me checking to ensure my shoes match each morning before I walk into the office. I must be getting old.
I don’t want to say CNN distorts headlines, but if the network was around in the 1940’s…
Happy Friday, you Gents! Hope you had a great week and even greater Holidays last month! Felt like relaxing over the Holidays, so I took a hiatus from what I normally do on the WOT, but now I’m back to what I normally do, sharing videos. Now, a couple will be about that incident in Minneapolis that happened earlier this week, but the rest will be some of the series I discontinued over the Holidays. Hope you guys enjoy.
As for what’s going on with me: Still trying to get signed on with Tesla, but they’re pretty much ignoring me. Might need to pursue a different company soon. Also, started my college’s general studies to get my degree. I’m right now in American Government and, Oh my God, my college is now trying really hard to turn me into a dipshit, traitorous liberal. Yesterday, almost worked. I briefly identified as Commisar for a moment before Fyrefighter snapped me out of it.
Nah, just kidding. I didn’t flip. Throughout the entire lecture, my inner monologue was screaming, “Let it go! Let it go! Let it go! Let it go! Let it go! Let it go! Let it go! Think about the Degree! Let it go!” Gotta say, Listening to my flaming liberal professor was almost torture for my Common Sense. Not looking forward to next week or the coming 5 months.
Anyway, hope you Gents have a great weekend!
Memology 101: The Media really thinks we’re dumb, huh??
Memology 101: Though Shalt not Bear False Witness.
Vince Dao: Tampon Time Criminally referred to the DOJ:
May God bless you and keep you!
College is hard on purpose and that why a degree is required for many companies. The degree and education doesn’t make you smart.
Luckily for me, I did my undergraduate degree at a Christian college so I didn’t get the liberal BS.
Hang in there and it’ll be over before you know it!
top 25…SHIT, I completely forgot it was Friday….
Oh well….back to catching up on my reading.
Happy Kingdom Hackadoodle.
For the rest of you……suck a fat one……behave…..
and SMOOCHES to OAM from Me AND Angelic KoB
Fire Department Chronicles:
Wait! You put ice cubes where now?!?! (NSFW warning, especially if you decide to watch this when you boss is walking by)
TIME TRAVELING PIRATES!!!!!!
(And, yes, pineapple on pizza is a crime.)
Sorry. Not sorry. For scarring some of you guys for life (NSFW)
Where are they now numbuh 7(NSFW):
Lol the caulking Dead! Also, I can only imagine the sheer shock and blood curdling rage of the furious OR surgeon when he finds out caulking solution was main lined into the patient’s carotid artery by his hospital’s ER doctor.
Anyway, do NOT do this or watch the show New Amsterdam.
THIRTY-something, present and unaccountable as i award myself yet another Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
The left is disintegrating, who else is enjoying the show?
Chrono Prepper:
Present & unaccountable.
Finally got some rain in the AO.
For an old retired dude, I spent way too much time working this week. Tired as all get out.
God bless and keep you all. Remember the message of Psalm 144 (the entire Psalm):
God strengthens our hands for war, but it is He and He alone Who is our protection and source of prosperity and peace.
Another weekend has arrived,,, AND I have drill!!!
So,,, NO!!!
Not too many more though!😉