Weekend Open Thread
Remember when the Hummer came out after the Gulf War? It was based on the HMMWV (Humvee). This vehicle looks like a variation of the MRAP… Or it may just be coincidence… Enjoy your weekend.
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First.
Congrats! I present you the crown and scepter; lord it over us as only a Marine Master Sergeant can!
Rats of the Cong to you MSgt.
What color crayolas are you serving?
Enjoy your FIRST-ness
WOW look at this shit. KoB NOT WoT First for ANOTHER weekend in a row.
SPREADIN’ The LOVE!!!
Checking in. I’m a day or so behind in reading but I’ll catch up.
I actually went in to work for the first time in 14 months for 1 day for a small emergency. Made the Bosses happy and then we’ll look at more in person stuff in a month or so.
It was weird. Some mice had invaded my cubicle overhead where I’d left a couple of packages of cheese and peanut butter crackers, but, that’s to be expected. Who can blame them. Cleaned that up with tons of Lysol and then went on my way.
I was shocked that I kinda forgot we’d emptied the refrigerators for the most part when we thought we may be out for a while so we didn’t have any biological entities there.
OK Bitches (current ladies excluded, of course)
Carry on!!
I’ll be in the area all weekend.
XD-S, P-10C and 97BD coming to live with me Sunday. YAY!!!!!!
KoB, how long have you been bird dogging this one? 😉
Laying low My Brother. Just waiting til a crowd gathered and the Fire Mission would do the most good! Don’t want to waste too many rounds without a good target(s).
Congrats to USMCMSgt(Ret) on his 1st FIRSTNESS! Snacky stuff? Top Shelf Whiskeys? Seegars?
He’s a marine, so it’s crayons all around, KoB
And cheap beer.
Trust me, if I could get everyone together, I’d host a brisket cookout and have on hand anything folks prefer. It would takes some planning, though.
And yes, certainly cigars for those who like them.
And crayons for the Marines of course!
That was sheer luck. I saw the comments at “0” and thought “What the hell, see if you get it.” I usually miss my a few milliseconds, so this was a miracle. Having been lurking here since around 2014, that is certainly the first.
To celebrate, I spent time with my eldest daughter, and did Mother’s Day shopping… followed with a small portion of Obama yesterday evening.
Hope everyone has had a good weekend!
Missed first by thismuch
This clip was below the Missed It By That Much video.
Sum bitch. If Hack stone didn’t take a few minutes to shower after signing off for the week selling software for a proud but humble woman owned business, he would have laid claim to first post for the Weekend Open Thread.
Congrats MSgt.
Y’all, good weekend, have one.
If you’re brushing your teeth with whiskey you may have a problem.
A SHARING problem!
No SIRs this weekend, If any of you monkeys hold a bus hostage the CO and I are going to bury you up to your neck, cover you in honey n’ let the ants have their way with you!
Honorary First yet again.
((((OVER))))
Izzat SUV a Chinese knock-off of the Hummer?
Since it’s now 9 days on, and starting to fall down the list…
UPDATE – Confirmed and approved.
It’s on.
STOLEN VALOR
2 PHONY PURPLE HEARTS & FAKE MARINE GySGT
BURN PILE EVENT
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 @ 7:00pm
Members of our local AmVets Post will be attending.
Members of our county detachment of the
Marine Corps League will be attending.
Also, I just completed .jpg and printed FLYERS.
Looking forward to an enjoyable and memorable evening.
🙂
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Private “Chipp” Reid – Bassackwards Phony Marine
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https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=113026
Have a solid Air Force weekend.
Leftists like guns and violence when they do it! (Portland… posted today.)
Seems to me that’s a very good way to die for the cause.
I saw this. Old dude shoulda filled some REEfers downtown, imvho.
I guess the AnQueef team ain’t familiar with The Man in Black and his mother’s warning to Billy Joe.
Plus, watch police do nothing while BLM# blocks traffic in Plano, TX:
https://twitter.com/NewGranada1979/status/1390795784539414528
Since I missed a repeat of last week’s FIRST, I’ll console myself with a trivia column. You’re welcome to enjoy it as well! DID YOU KNOW…? Was a sequel planned to the popular 1988 comedy movie “Beetlejuice”? By Commissioner Wretched I must be slipping. For the second week in a row, I have to amend an item from a previous column because one of you wonderful readers “fact-checked” me (I’m delighted to see how many of you do that) and discovered I was mistaken. Two weeks ago, I said that the shortest on-screen performance that was nominated for an Academy Award™ was by Sylvia Miles in “Midnight Cowboy,” in which she was on screen a total of almost six minutes. It turns out that there were six nominations for times even shorter than that. What was the shortest? Hermione Baddeley (1906-1986) received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her two minutes and 19 seconds in “Room at the Top” in 1959. Which trumps Ms. Miles by more than half. Mea culpa. Thank you, David at valorguardians.com for keeping me straight! (Someone has to.) Did you know … … you or someone you know may have a condition called troposmia? It’s a condition in which your nose perceives very pleasant aromas as terrible stenches. A fresh flower, for instance, could smell like a musty clothes hamper, or freshly-baked bread can smell like a portable toilet. That’s bad enough, but sometimes troposmia can affect the way food tastes, too. (The flip side is, the kitty box probably smells nice.) … your scarf could get you killed? It’s statistically unlikely, of course, but it can happen. Dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) had it happen to her. Duncan was a passenger in an open-top roadster automobile, and she was wearing a long, flowing scarf – which, caught by the wind, became wrapped around the rear tire of the car, strangling her and pulling her from the vehicle. (And ruining a nice ride in the country in the process.) … the albatross can sleep while it flies? Scientists have noted that the huge birds sometimes appear… Read more »
Betelgeuse, they even changed the name on the DVD to the proper one. I bought one and sure enough !!!
Betelgeuse is a star about 640 light years away from Earth and is a red giant star. It is clearly visible as the shoulder of Orion and is one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
It’s gone through some recent machinations with some dimming which has led to all kinds of speculation of what is happening to that star.
Supposedly, it is about to go Super Nova and expel all the innards of what makes up a star to be scooped up by other stars and planetary systems as the living and dying continues unabated in this wonderful, magical place we inhabit on our little bitty corner of the Milky Way.
I love astronomy and I continue to be amazed as I walk out of my wonderful house in Central Texas and gaze at the dry air and the clarity of the scene God gave us to entice us.
YouTube has a lot of good things on there, I don’t watch any TV anymore, and do not miss it in the least…
However, I am always watching documentaries on there and stumbled across a video editor who goes by the name of “Homemade Documentaries”.
I watched all of the Space Program that I could throughout my entire childhood and have never seen any documentaries as good as this kid’s are.
This is his video on Apollo 13, watch it, you will not be disappointed in the least. You will learn things that you had no idea actually happened, like the real story on Apollo 12.
Taylor is a bright young man and is a firefighter in a mountainous area, I don’t know where, but I know that he is very, very good at making the documentaries.
Please watch them, you will want to continue, they are that good !!!
Reminds me of a bit of research I did on why there’s no “J” Company in US military formations.
https://valortales.blogspot.com/2019/06/why-does-us-military-not-have-company-j.html
Gotta thank you guys for turning me onto Sabaton last week. Been rocking to their stuff all week.
82nd All the Way is particularly good.
As is No Bullets Fly. Dusty in here for this one.
“The Last Stand” makes me swell with Catholic pride.
https://youtu.be/i9BupglHdtM
Still FIRST in the Hearts and Minds of my grandkids.
Wuz pushing a lawnmower when the WOT fell. After the rain, the weeds were waist-high in places and thick all over.
Now have harvested 14 yellow squash in 8 days, corn is tasseling, cowhorn peppers coming on, tomatoes and green beans blossoming…
Things are looking favorable – if I can keep the #%^&$*!! grass hoed back enough.
Y’all enjoy your weekend.
For those interested:
https://www.deviantart.com/yt45
Lots of intricate detail on that interior shot TOW.
And yes, there are a number of us interested in following the progress. Thanks for sharing. Not seeing your updates is as bad as missing CW’s Trivia. We not only look forward to them, we expect them…both!
Now for a little from the serious side of life.
A few weeks ago, I had a lesion removed from my right ear. The dermatologist told me it was basal cell carcinoma, and it was growing downward toward the cartilage. The edges of the lesion were clear, so it wasn’t spreading that way.
Thursday I had the remaining portion of the area removed and cauterized, and I didn’t even need stitches.
This means that I have beaten cancer – twice. Once about six years ago, when I had a bout with prostate cancer (and am now free of it), and this week, when skin cancer went down for the count.
Considering how many members of my family have died from this awful disease, and how many of my family and friends are fighting it, I think it’s pretty cool that my scorecard reads:
The Commish 2, Cancer 0.
All praise goes to God for this one, my friends.
Stay healthy.
Good news ya caught it early, CW.
Thankful for God’s mercies in your life.
We all have to die of something eventually. But always glad to hear of someone getting the chance to stay in the neighborhood a bit longer.
well, woulda been by earlier but… driving south on a semi-backed up four-lane in the right lane, some idiot in the left lane waves an oncoming northbound 4×4 truck to turn left into Dollar General. T-boned him, both vehicles incapacitated, At least he got the ticket but both the wife and I took some soft-tissue damage in the wreck so we ain’t coming out ahead. Just laid the first and second coats of wax onto all the new paint from when the deer jumped in front of me before Christmas! And of course the idiot who waved the other driver on into the accident drove off. Grr…
My two daughters are coming down from the great frozen Old Style beer home of Wisconsin to visit for about a week next Friday.
They will see my house, provided by the VA, thank you very much to all of you that put this together.
I am so Blessed my friends. I am in constant awe at how good things are for me of late.
A lot of the good is a direct result of that place I went when I was young and incredibly naïve and stupid…. AND survived !!!!!
They both want to see the Gulf of Mexico, so we’ll be spending a couple days in Corpus Christy where I’ll go through the USS Lexington CVN 16.
That place is filled with stories of the honor that is bestowed on any of us as our seemingly under appreciated time we all spent together, but apart comes full circle.
I want to thank all of you for the great entertainment I get from you Dickweeds….
Don’t forget, I lorded over you for a week, and what a week that was !!!!!
Never to be repeated !!!!!
You near enough the Naval Air Base to hear the sound of freedom?
Mrs. Graybeard grew up in that general AO. All Hail Santa Getrudis!
Hack Stone is a bit skeptical that this guy really suffered PTSD from a deployment to Syria. Hack also has doubts that the guy was actually in the Army. Plenty of wives have been convinced by their husband of the moment that all of his failures are due to “things that he saw” while killing babies for Uncle Sam. Leaning more towards his actions caused by his elevated alcohol level than any PTSD.
https://popularmilitary.com/man-who-stole-crashed-truck-at-pittsburgh-airport-identified-as-a-veteran-with-ptsd/
This dipshit looks crazier than a shit house rat. He was likely in jail or a nuthouse when his purported wife thought he was in Syria fighting ISIS.
Interesting video.
Dead at 59.
Starred in Bachelor Party with Tom Hanks.
Did an episode of Seinfeld, where the two Jerrys
(Helmet penis head & Scrotum looking brain head)
are torn over tapping or ditching the hot nutjob.
Real life nutjob, too.
Drugs. Booze. Violent.
MLB pitcher Chuck Finley found out, the hard way.
https://pagesix.com/2021/05/08/tawny-kitaen-80s-actress-and-music-video-vixen-dead-at-59/
Classic.
Anyone heard anything about this? The headline says that a major pipeline company has been hit and shut down via a cyberattack:
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/05/cyber-attack-shuts-down-largest-us-gasoline-pipeline-45-of-east-coast-and-southern-regions/?fbclid=IwAR1GvN70f4HEheYmVdJ6K8YCqa9ymNomurjsXxxbsLnlDNQl4sfwXysizrw
Lefty enviro nuts, and the Biteme team probably popped some champagne.
They’re likely giggling and celebrating that their petrochemical stocks will go up while they pimp electric cars and windmills!
hola soy de costa rica saludame porfa
Anyone else seen this in the news?
https://www.wabi.tv/2021/05/08/bomb-kills-at-least-25-people-near-school-in-afghan-capital/
Only place I find it is a local tv station news.\
Seems to be getting a good leaving alone….
Sorry, I’m playing catch up.
*Spew alert*
(sorry thebesig but you lobbed it out there…)
“Remember when the Hummer came out after the Gulf War? ”