Weekend Open Thread

| December 31, 2021

This is the final Weekend Open Thread for 2021! If you plan on partying later, get plenty of water and rest. Make sure you alternate between your alcoholic beverage and an equal volume of water. Adding Gatorade into the mix also helps. Do this right and there may be a chance that you wake up without the hangover. Enjoy your New Year’s Weekend!

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KoB

1st

Graybeard

Dang

Well Rats… of the Cong t’ya brother.

ChipNASA

Hey, not that I’d be available at 3 today (flying) but 8:17 in the a. of the m. Yeah, morning WOT is yours my man 👨 .
Happy New Year my people.

Slow Joe

Bullshit.

You always win.

Tallywhagger

Second!

KoB

Well, well, well, would you just lookie heah. Another Time on Target FIRE MISSION FIRE MISSION FIRE MISSION All Targets Negated FIRST on the TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread for the King of Battle, THE King of FIRST. Weren’t even trying had just logged on when BAM/WHUMP…there it was! Even gave a 30 count before hitting the post button. Had been out FIRST thing this morning getting ready to smoke a ham. Played hell rolling it into the paper and then the damn thing wouldn’t stay lit. Do believe that, with the trifecta of the last week’s ROT, (Random Open Thread), the WOT (Weekend Open Thread), the HOT (Holiday Open Thread), today’s FIRST would be a quad forty, four (4) in a row FIRST. There can be only ONE!

A most Safe, Prosperous, Healthy, and Happy New Year is wished upon all of the Mistercreanted and Adorable Deplorables of the TAH Family. The buffet bar will include smoked ham, country style BBQed Ribs, Blackeyed Peas with Rice, Devilish Eggs, Cornbread (sans sugar), Dressing (NOT Stuffing), Turnip Greens, with assorted cookies, ice cream, and the House Wine…Sweet Iced Tea. And, naturally, the Class VI Supplies cabinet and humidor is wide open.

Come Party with Arty!

Roh-Dog

“There can be only ONE!”, well Gunguy that’s not *entirely* true. Don’t look up diphallic terata!

Congrats and Happiest of New Years!!!

KoB

Nope…The “One” (1) I have has gotten me in enough trouble over the decades. “…two can be as bad as one and it’s the loneliest number since the number one…”

“ONE” Fine Orchester back up to this version. Enjoy!

ChipNASA

Roh-Dog
Bro, really? REALLY?!?!?
You’re going to post some obscure words and then say “Don’t Google this!” And then NOT expect one to do that exact thing???
I’ll leave you with this …
Nicely played.

Roh-Dog

Obscene? It’s a medical term and I warned you!!
Bonus tip, it’s a OG Trivial Pursuit Genus Edition question.

Insert: ‘The more you know!” Meme

Sapper3307

Extra FIRST! V1.5

Andy11M

Me : nothing could be worse than 2021
2022: Hold my beer boys

AW1Ed

It’s 2022, not 2020, too. It may not start a lot better, but it will be different.

26Limabeans

“Adding Gatorade into the mix also helps”

One does not add adulterants to good Bourbon.
You can piss in Jack Daniels or Wild Turkey for all I care
but tonight it’s time to break out the:
Barrel Finish Select Double Oaked
WOODFORD RESERVE

Yeah, congrats to ya KoB on the last first of this wretched year.
I’ll toss one back for ya tonight.

The Stranger

Well, I’m probably going to try a dram of Flor de Caña 12 rum this evening. I’ll report on my findings next year. Got a brisket and a pork shoulder going in my crockpots and I’m going to make some au gratin potatoes as a side. Happy New Year to all!🍺🎉🍷🥃

Graybeard

A blessed and happy New Year to all you fellow miscreants of TAH.

Cold front scheduled to come through tomorrow dropping temps from the 80s to the high 20’s

God bless Texas!

AW1Ed

Reporters say the damnedest things. This just in from Gunga Dan.

Disgraced CBS anchor Dan Rather ripped for ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ take: ‘Sit down’
‘You got fired for lying. Sit down.’

By Lindsay Kornick
After attempting to dunk on the “Let’s Go Brandon” fans, disgraced CBS anchor Dan Rather faced a dunking of his own.

Late Wednesday night, Rather tweeted out his take on the popular “Let’s Go Brandon” phrase that has been used as a rebuff against President Biden.

“#LetsGoBrandonReallyMeans ‘You can’t handle the truth,” Rather wrote.

Fox News

Dan would certainly be familiar with truthful transgressions- Rathergate “fake but accurate” reporting on W’s Texas National Guard service cost him his prestigious gig at CBS, as well as any credibility he may have enjoyed.

One doubts he used a 1970s typewriter to pen his screed.

Let’s Go Gunga Dan! If your of a mind to, read the entire sordid story here:

Washington Examiner

Graybeard

Gunga Dan is a disgrace to our old high school, and ought to be to our university savin’ that they proudly named the journalism building after him.

Idiot. (Having been in the building on occasion to tutor a professor’s daughter, and listening to the students therein, it appears aptly named.)

rgr769

Gunga Dan’s fraudulent story about Bush’s Texas Air Guard service was proven a fabrication, typed on a computer, by internet bloggers within a couple of hours after CBS posted the documents on-line. God only knows how many other fake news stories he has presented in his career. He has made “fake but accurate” his watchwords instead of his nightly mouthing of “courage,” a character trait he obviously lacks.

Commissioner Wretched

Congrats to the King of Battle for claiming the final FIRST of 2021! In his honor and to elicit smiles from all, here’s the final trivia column of 2021. No, I’m not giving it up; it will continue into 2022. Enjoy, and all of you have a safe and Happy New Year! DID YOU KNOW…? Did a prisoner of war get a “furlough” from his camp, and then voluntarily come back to it? By Commissioner Wretched didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com And at last we come to the end of another year. For better or for worse, 2021 is about to go into the history books. Did the year live up to your expectations? Or was it another in a long line of disappointments? In my world, the year fell somewhere in between. We got out of “lockdowns” and started resuming so-called “normal” lives, but this stupid virus is still with us, still making things miserable. Oh, well … there’s always next week, and the start of yet another new year. I hope your New Year’s Eve celebrations are fun and safe, and I want to wish you and yours a very Happy New Year! Now, on to this week’s last trivia supply for 2021 … Did you know … … every year, over 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced? (Replaced with what?) … electric cars are required by law to make noise? Normally silent in operation, since no internal combustion is used, electric cars became a source of danger for pedestrians who couldn’t hear them coming. In response, the United States and the European Union passed laws requiring electric cars to produce some kind of sound when traveling under 12 miles per hour. (A sound idea, if you ask me.) … only one South American nation sent ground troops to fight in World War II? Brazil sent 25,000 soldiers into battle. The other twelve nations on the continent did not send ground forces at all. (They didn’t want to take sides, I suppose.) … tennis was originally played with bare hands? The game was originally developed in the 12th Century… Read more »

Graybeard

This may or may not be “trivia” (and I may or may not have mentioned this on TAH before) but…

If you come on duty and the coffee has been in the pot for 12-24 hours, adding a dash of Tabasco sauce in the cup will cut the bitter taste and make it palatable again.

My LEO brother discovered this. I wish I’d known it years before when the coffee left in the pot was what I’d made the day before…

UpNorth

Eleventy 10. Happy New Year to the TAH gang.

Green Thumb

As the New Year is upon us, we find the False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) putting in the extra effort to secure a few of next year’s taxpayer-funded, government set-aside contracts based upon his highly questionable and potentially felonious Native American, Navy SEAL and Law Enforcement claims.

All the while his new batch of Phildo Supporters drink it up on the taxpayer dime and look the other way.

Hack Stone

The below comments came up as an anniversary post on Hack Stone’s Facebook page this week. Always loved the classics, and Hack Stone thanks God for Phil Monkress, otherwise he never would have conned an employee in Reston to do his dirty work, fire that patsy, who in turn started his own business selling software to the federal government, bringing Elaine Ricci on board, who hired Hack to a lifetime contract as Director Of Media Relations.

Just cleaning out my old emails, and came across this classic from November 2013.

In reference to the on-going questions regarding senior management of All Points Logistics being misattributed as a member of SEAL Team 4, and any claims as a Native American owned small business, Phil Monkress, CEO and President of All Points Logistics has released the following statement:

Phil Monkress: Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our government contracts – we did. But you can’t hold a whole company responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole government small business set-aside contracting system? And if the whole government small business set-aside contracting system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our federal contract awards in general? I put it to you, Jonn Lilyea – isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!

Green Thumb

Awesome stuff. Gotta re-post:

“Just cleaning out my old emails, and came across this classic from November 2013.

In reference to the on-going questions regarding senior management of All Points Logistics being misattributed as a member of SEAL Team 4, and any claims as a Native American owned small business, Phil Monkress, CEO and President of All Points Logistics has released the following statement:

Phil Monkress: Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our government contracts – we did. But you can’t hold a whole company responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole government small business set-aside contracting system? And if the whole government small business set-aside contracting system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our federal contract awards in general? I put it to you, Jonn Lilyea – isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!

Happy New Year, Phildo!

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

FIRST FOURTEENTH,

Nucsnipe

I may be down on the list for the open thread, but since I’m in Yokosuka, let me be the first to wish you all a Happy New Year!!. May good fortune come to you and Let’s Go Brandon!

Nucsnipe

Drinking a toast from my bottle of JD Sinatra right now

Hack Stone

Hack Stone was hoping to lay claim to the first post of the final This Ain’t Hell Weekend Open Thread for 2021, but alas, the vast right wing conspiracy has yet again denied him the title. Hack Stone will have to take solace knowing that he is ranked among the top two employees of a proud but humble woman owned business that sells software to the federal government formerly located in Bethesda Maryland. Speaking of which, with 2021 all but over at this point, we move one year closer to the next millennium, so be sure to pre-order your Y3K Software now, and we can guarantee delivery by January 1, 3001.

HMCS(FMF) ret

Happy New Year to all…

BTW – FJB

ChipNASA

For you folks in New England, there at least one maybe two open with plans for 8-10 new stores.

MarineDad61

Hooked on Phonies
could be(come) an effective catch phrase for/about Stolen Valor.

Only mention on the Tube of You
is from this small town church guy, Pastor J. from Texas,
and with 23 views in 5 years,
he’s not exactly raking in the attention.

Sapper3307

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4-VUsi4c74
Guiness & Proper Twelve it is.
Stay salty.

Mustang Major

Anybody catch The Righteous Gemstones on HBO? Funny stuff. Season two starts on 9 Jan.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Sparks

Happy New year and Godspeed to all my TAH family.

Sgt K

Had to get in that last kick to the balls, didn’t you. 2021. Godspeed, Betty White, Godspeed!

Sapper3307

RIP.
She was real trooper.

HMCS(FMF) ret

One hell of a run – Radio, TV and movies during here career…

KoB

Buzzkill. A kick in the nutz, gutz, and noze!

Godspeed and Fare Well Betty. You were a True “Golden Girl” and were Hot way before you hit Cleveland. The epitome of Beauty, Charm, and Grace. Rest Easy Dear Lady. Say Hello to Allen for us. You will be missed.

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Hack Stone

Be sure to watch until the end. The money shot is at the 5:00 mark. First thought was that Ted Baxter was channeling Frank Sinatra, then Hack “got it”.

Odie

I’m sure she is making st. Peter laugh his halo off.

You will be missed by many.

xyzzy

TIL that Marmite dissolved in water makes a kickass broth. I made beef and vegetable soup with it. The umami flavor goes real good with the meat and veg.

Ping Ex-PH2…ever used Marmite?

Ex-PH2

No, but I have used dead animals.

Only Army Mom

Welp, another year gone. Glad to have spent bits and pieces of it here with my favorite curmudgeonly, deplorable, reprehensible, degenerates at TAH. All my best to all of you for the New Year…even though it is pronounced twenty twenty too. God willing, that is not prophetic.

May this be the year your wildest dreams come true, including those you didn’t dare to dream.

KoB

OAM, you ARE my wildest dream! (suck it up Chippy! Got here FIRST…again!)

Graybeard

Proud to have enjoyed your company, OAM, and hoping to be similarly blessed in the years ahead.

Hatchet

In the words of Bud Abbott (of Abbott and Costello) – “May you live for as long as you want, and never want for as long as you live”. Happy New Year, OAM.

NHSparky

Nope…turning in early for 0600 flight back to Casa de Sparky Western Annex.

At least I’m not going to Seattle or Denver. Hotel is full of people who will likely be stuck here until Monday.

Mustang Major

Just a thought while downing a cold one at American Legion Post 138:

Claiming First on the WOT is part luck and skill. To paraphrase the Ballad of the Green Beret, five men were tested today, but only one selected.

Claiming second is a truer test of skill if it’s the second post after first is claimed, but before the remainder of false first claims.