Weekend Open Thread
Speak the truth, no matter how much the leftists get triggered. Enjoy your weekend.
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First
Yay!!! Happy ChipNASA DAY!!
OK Everyone, Belly up to the bar on me and with the coming Spring and the calendar winding around next week…
Laissez les bons temps rouler!!!
https://www.liquor.com/mardi-gras-cocktails-5101745
ANNNNNNDDD for a snack, may you ALL find a King Cake Baby!!!
https://www.bhg.com/holidays/mardi-gras/baby-in-king-cake-tradition/
Damn. Pushed out by more of ChipNASA’s Brandonish electoral fraud….
Congratulations on wearing the TAH WOT crown for another week!
P.S. Let’s go Brandon!
P.P.S. Let’s go Brenda! (“Brave Sir Justin ran away, bravely ran away – away….”)
NDHoosier: “Clop Clop, Clop Clop!!! “Look, it’s my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can. ChipNASA : No, we’ve got to post First in the WoT!! Come on. NDHoosier : Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
“Let’s go Live to the Daytona 500…(“for those of you that missed it this last week)
The Crown and all of the Trappings Good Sir. Been out on escort duty most of the day and had just walked in to check the dispatches. WOT musta just dropped, didn’t think I could EARN the coveted Title of FIRST, but had to let everyone know I was back. Lots to catch up on.
Now break out some mid-rats, iced down some refreshing beverages, light my seegar, and may your Rats be Cong! 😘
Congrats to you, Mr. Chipster!
You deserved it!
Enjoy your Kingdom for the week (from February to March!)
First!
1st
ok. Fourth (or thereabouts)
Missed it again! How about some trivia?
DID YOU KNOW…?
Was a Royal Navy officer nominated for a high honor by a German ship captain during World War II?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
There is something about this particular part of February that makes me long for spring.
Is it the chill that permeates the air? Is it the fact that my electric bill is higher because of the cold? Is it the fact that baseball season seems light-years away?
Or is it just the fact that, being a kid from Chicago, I’ve about had enough of cool weather? Spring can’t get here fast enough to make me happy.
The nice thing is … spring is just a month away. Things thaw and warm up. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and the sap flows.
So do the saps.
And whilst we wait, how about some trivia to make the next week a little more bearable?
Did you know …
… you may be a sufferer of hippophobia? Hippophobia is not what you think – it does not mean a fear of hippopotamuses. Hippophobia is the fear of horses. (And before you ask, there isn’t a specific word for the fear of hippopotamuses, though there ought to be.)
… the motto of Hogwarts School for Wizards has a real meaning? The central location for action in the Harry Potter series of novels by J.K. Rowling (born 1965), Hogwarts’ motto is Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus. That’s Latin for “Never tickle a sleeping dragon.” (Which, if you ask me, is very good advice.)
… an Australian man once tried to sell New Zealand on eBay? The bidding jumped to $3,000 before eBay caught on to what was happening and shut the auction down.
… table knives have rounded ends for a reason? When the rounded table knives we know and use today were created by Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), in France, they were devised to put a stop to some really disgusting practices at the dinner table. The Cardinal noted that people were stabbing their sharp-pointed knives into the food, into the table, and occasionally into each other. Also, some unsavory characters would use the point of their knife to pick their teeth at the table. Richelieu devised the rounded knives in the 1630s to enable people to be more “civilized” while dining. In 1669, King Louis XIV (1638-1715) banned all pointed knives in France, and the rounded dinner knife gained even more popularity. (Shortly afterward, table manners were invented.)
… a British brewer supported its employees who chose to fight during World War I? The Guinness brewery paid each employee who enlisted half of his wages while he was away serving in the war, and each man’s job was guaranteed to him upon his return. In addition, the brewery sent regular “care” packages of chocolate and condensed milk. (But, sadly, no beer.)
“A British Brewer”? A technicality. Guinness is distinctly Irish even when under the English boot.
… a Royal Navy officer received his country’s highest decoration, the Victoria Cross, on the recommendation of a German captain during World War II? On April 7, 1940, the HMS Glowworm, a Royal Navy destroyer under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Gerard Roope (1905-1940), encountered the German heavy cruiser Admiral von Hipper. The Hipper was captained by Kapitän zur See Hellmuth Heye (1895-1970). The two ships began to fight each other, and the Glowworm was hopelessly crippled – but not after giving the Hipper a tremendous fight. After Roope gave the command to “abandon ship,” the Glowworm sank. Roope was one of 111 members of the ship’s crew who died in the sinking, the survivors being picked up by Heye’s ship.
Amazingly, after Heye had put his own ship in for repairs, he sent a recommendation via the Red Cross to the British War Office for Roope to receive the Victoria Cross for his courage in fighting against the Hipper … and Roope was posthumously awarded the medal in 1946, based on the German captain’s recommendation.
… the current Emperor of Japan can trace his ancestry back more than 100 generations? Naruhito (born 1960), who ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne in 2019, is the 126th direct descendant of the first Japanese emperor, Jimmu Tenno (660 BC-585 BC), though some scholars say Jimmu was more legend than man. (That’s a long, long, long line!)
… it is possible to see a rainbow at night? You just need two things – water droplets in the air and the Moon. Why the Moon? Because the Moon shines with light reflected from the Sun – which you need to see the rainbow in daylight. A rainbow seen at night is called a “moonbow.” (Wonder if there’s a pot of something at the end of the moonbow?)
… polar bears are one of the two largest bear species in the world? The other are the Kodiak bears. Both of them are denizens of the far frozen north. (And they like it there.)
… despite a popular belief, pregnant goldfish are not really called “twits”? That’s because a goldfish cannot be pregnant. Goldfish lay eggs.
… the electric automobile self-starter was invented for women? The device was created so women could drive a car without a companion – usually a man who was needed to hand-crank the engine. (I guess having to crank the engine by hand would make someone cranky, but what do I know?)
… the last U.S. state to declare Christmas a legal holiday was Oklahoma? The decision was made in 1907. (Bah, humbug, to you, too.)
… that blob of toothpaste sitting on your toothbrush has a name? It’s called a nurdle. (And your dentist loves it when you use your nurdle, too.)
Now … you know!
Hey, we finally got some REAL snow last night – 4++ inches of it and the ice fishers are back on the ice taking in perch and lake trout and whatever else they can get. Who’se complaining, Commish?
Not me!
We got our second snow/sleet/ice event in as many weeks. Thankfully they happened during the week and did not require me to work through my weekend.
The older I get, the less I like being in the cold.
Thank You again, CW…for another great round of Trivia!
Like the Knife story!
“Speak the truth, no matter how much the leftists get triggered.”
Gov Youngkin has done just that. And see what a shitstorm the Dildocrats have made about it.
Hack Stone apologizes for being late to the party, but he has been working like a dog all day selling Red Hat Software door to to door in Bethesda Maryland, then he had to take a huge Phil Monkress. So big, Hack had to wipe twice.
And use an entire roll of TP for each wipe.
The snow has melted a bit here revealing numerous piles of Phil Monkress deposited by my dogs. CINCHOUSE 6 and myself went out a picked up about 30 lbs of Phil Monkress.
That is one large sack of Phil Monkress.
Instead of flushing Phil Monkress down the toilet (as we all do), I tossed the 30 lb sack of Phil Monkress into the trash can which is quite a fitting way to dispose of large amounts of Phil Monkress.
As I began my range exercise yesterday, my mind was on the World Events, Russia/Ukraine, China/Taiwan, and the idiocy of so many Americans. Just as I began shooting I heard the Infantryman’s Angels overhead as 2 pair of A-10s flew over.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
I’m surprised FC you kept your grouping. With A-10s overhead, I’d have run a zip line right up the target…
On station.
Some easy listening from the 1st Cold War.
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Think Lars will show up, chew toy?
The Meme War never ended. They committed sundry war crimes upon us and held us hostage since PDJT came down the escalator.
To hell with them.
They can take our lives but they will never take our memes! Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Hopin’ he will. He’s entertaining.
I stopped by the Post Office to pick up mail and as I pulled up I saw that the POW-MIA flag was only fastened by one grommet, and was flapping like a rag under the Stars n Stripes. The Postmistress said she would fix it right soon.
Top thirty and I award myself Honorary First once again.
((((OVER))))
Damn. I’ve been working myself lately to the point where I forget what day of the week it is!
I is tired of snow. It’s cleaned up to a sufficient standard that I feel comfortable drinking beers.
F*ck J*e B*d*n and his empty skull.
Speaking the truth is cathartic too!
Present, by the grace of God
Tuesday evening got a raging reaction to something (I think a sudden onset UTI but possibly a sensitivity to a DPT-type vaccination I had that day)
Symptoms began when I was at the hardware store (12 miles from the GB Compound) and I barely made it home to the sofa.
Went into shivering convulsions, fever to 101.8, unable to get warm…
Scared everyone in the GB Compound (evidently all the daughters were over at one time or another) Mrs. GB called our PCP and he had her stuff me with benadryl and Tylenol.
My arms felt like lead, I had no fine motor skills, could not get myself up from the sofa to eat – Mrs. GB had to help me stand.
Boys, that was one bad trip.
I do have a UTI, I am doing better. Wednesday I was able to finish up a computer install job I was doing for a local homeless shelter.
Y’all take care and, Lord willing, we’ll see you at the top of the next WOT.
Glad you are better!
Graybeard:
Yes, by the Grace of God!!!
We are so happy to hear you are feeling better!
What a scare for you, Mrs. GB and the GB Compound!
FIRST THIRTY SEVENTH
Anyone here remember the 1978 song from REO SPEEDWAGON “It’s Time For Me To Fly”?
Video is about 3 minutes long. Have this feeling the majority of the Gentlemen on TAH will enjoy the video more than the song… 😉 😎
Check It Out…If You Dare…. 😉
Someone needs a sandwich…..
Extra mayo.
I’ll see myself out.
Just wondering if that song was on Daniel Bernath’s mix tape.
Anyone here remember the 1978 song from REO SPEEDWAGON “It’s Time For Me To Fly”?
Video is about 3 minutes long. Have this feeling the majority of the Gentlemen on TAH will enjoy the video more than the song… 😉 😎
Check It Out…If You Dare…. 😉
Am trying again for the 3rd time…hope this goes thru!!
Anyone here remember the 1978 song from REO SPEEDWAGON “It’s Time For Me To Fly”?
Video is about 3 minutes long. Have this feeling the majority of the Gentlemen on TAH will enjoy the video more than the song… 😉 😎
Check It Out…If You Dare…. 😉
Is this a cry for help or something?
Blink twice if you want me to call KoB and ‘is 1911boatanchor
Hi, Roh-Dog!
Sorry! For some reason, my comment with the You Tube video did not post on my end..and now I see it did…3 times!
Don’t know how to edit to remove the other repeats.
Nothing at all wrong with re-petes, ninja. Just a trifecta of God’s Beautiful Creations. Wonder if those Ladies know that I cook? 😜 Ya has to do yore editing within the FIRST few minutes of the comment post. Ewe toob vids don’t show the vid, just the linky for the FIRST (ht 2 Chippy) little bit. Endeavor…you WILL persevere! gabn/rtr/hbtd 🤗
Boatanchor? ‘Tis heresy you speak! Blasphemer!
Jealousy is the sincerest form of flattery, right SFC D? Draw yore self a double ration of Jameson and Guinness from my personal stores. 😸
Jealousy? Naw, I’ve stepped into the New Era. Every single one of my unknown-count of handguns are plastic. (10? 11? now I’ve gotta count)
Wood grips are for dinosaurs! (runs, ducks, hides)
My NIB Kimber 1911 Custom LW weighs in at a very svelte 2.3lbs with fully loaded mag. 2.8lbs w real leather holster. The name’s Rex…T Rex. :wpds_cool:
Tupperware. You can say it.
I may or may not be in possession of a polymer .357. I can neither confirm nor deny knowledge of such a firearm, nor would I be at liberty to discuss the aforementioned weapon were I to have knowledge of it. Call my lawer.
Swapping tales with a friend the other day, he told me the story of a little pocket .357Mag he had once, and the first time he fired it.
This is one of those new-fangled things that doesn’t give the pinkey finger anywhere to grip. And this man’s normal crush-grip is 450# – for reference.
He fire that thing at the range, then immediately had to catch it in the air above his head. It had flown right out of his grip.
He hit the center of the target, though.
Long as you don’t think they’re (shudder) English.
1911. It’s like a Glock. But for men.
Shots fired! Draw yore self another ration from my Class VI Stores, SFC D.
:saluting:
On this day in 1971
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/24540
I met retired CMSgt McKinney while I was living in Vegas in the 1990s, I remember when he told me that “Rounds coming up through the helicopter floor sound like popcorn!”.
Chief McKinney passed away in 2015. RIP, I enjoyed the talks we had.
Under “I wouldn’t blame them”.
Ukrainians ‘teams’ to sabotage Russian pipelines in retaliation for being abandoned by the West…when Kiev falls.
Europe watched, dithered, tried diplomacy, strongly worded speeches, and did nothing of substance, out of fear of disruption to their lives in 1939. In 2022, the whole world is watching in real time with a different aggressor.
Our President needs to tell the American people – Gas is going to $5 a gallon for the interim while we are immediately suspending all purchases of oil from Russia. Also, we are immediately re-opening completion of the Keystone Pipeline, and aggressively restarting oil production here, to return the US to energy independence and to help supply Europe so they too can cancel dependence on Russian oil.
‘Course, we have the wrong President, so none of that will happen. Except the $5 a gallon gas…
Testify Sister…Spot on! OAM for President!
How many times can I vote?
Sorry SFC D, despite living in the land of Honest Abe, only one vote per person. And you must be living, a US citizen and over 18. Oh, and I’ll be instituting Voter ID, too. 😇
One vote per person in the land of Lincoln? Maybe in Southern Illinois where I be, but doubtful Chicago plays by those rules.
That’s what happens when an impotent, incompetent quiche-eating Eunuch of a lifelong politician gets installed in the White House.
Haven’t seen this one yet, but maybe I missed it – Ukrainian marine blows up bridge, while on it, to halt a Russian advance:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10554439/Marine-blew-bridge-halt-Russian-troops-hero-Ukraine.html
Bet he said something like, “Go fuck yourselves”, too.