Weekend Open Thread
Is this a reasonable request? Those who voted for Biden, and who subsequently dismissed election fraud, should gladly pay the higher gas prices, right? Enjoy your weekend!
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1st
The King of Battle gets the throne! Or, as Maxwell Smart would have said, “Missed it by THAT much.”
Oh sure……Mr. MAN!!!
I was being NICE!!!
Rats of the Cong t’ya brother.
First!
Second…I don’t want to screw up Hack’s FIRSTNESS
Hack Stone is filing an injunction against awarding the highly coveted and rarely awarded First Comment on The Weekend Open Thread.
Maybe the 3 RINOs can come stop blowing each other long enough to come to YOUR confirmation hearing to vote.
Hack Stone remembers his last Confirmation Hearing. Sister Margaret was one tough penguin.
That is Sister Mary Margaret to you.
😉
How about Sister Mary Elephant?
Sister Mary Elephant – YouTube
Yer lawer, Danielle BeNasty, will be flying to your defense as soon as he can figure out how to get above minus 6 ft AGL.
Having just missed the coveted FIRST (h/t to KoB), I now present for all the weekly trivia column. Enjoy!
DID YOU KNOW…?
Did a queen drown because her subjects were afraid to save her?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
So, how did you do?
Last week, of course, was the annual April Fool’s column, with three things that were patently false. Your challenge was to find them. So, to check yourself, here they are:
1. The Pilgrims did not land at Plymouth Rock on November 11, 1620. Their first landfall was on that date, but it was at what is now the town of Provincetown on Cape Cod. Plymouth Rock and their first settlement came five weeks later.
2. Ninjas in Japanese history did not wear black costumes. The “traditional” uniform comes from centuries of folklore and fiction. In reality, ninjas wore regular everyday clothing that would allow them to blend into daily life.
3. The War of the Worlds did not cause a nationwide panic. Newspapers covered the tiny number of people who didn’t catch on that it was a radio show, and played the stories up in a way to discredit radio – which they saw as advertising competition.
If you got all three, give yourself a cookie! If you didn’t, well, there’s always next year.
Now on to this week’s trivia, certified 100% factual, even if it’s not believable!
Did you know …
“…the tiny number of people who didn’t catch on that it was a radio show…”
In other words, the libs of that time…
Indeed!
… the first animated feature film was made in Argentina? Many people believe that 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, from Disney, was the first animated feature-length motion picture. But in 1917, El Apóstol, a silent political satire cartoon, was made in Argentina. It ran 70 minutes and was made up of 58,000 individual drawings. (Political cartoons were popular a hundred years ago … who knew?)
… the tallest mountain peak on Earth is not the closest point on land to outer space? Sure, you’d think that the top of Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet above sea level, would be the closest place to space you could be and still stand on Earth. But that honor actually belongs to Mt. Chimborazo in Ecuador. While Mt. Chimborazo is only 20,548 feet high, it sits very near the Equator, and the equatorial bulge of the Earth means its summit is the closest land to space. (How you get to the top of either one is your business.)
… the Bible has been translated into more than 3,000 languages? Among them are the fictional languages of Elvish, Na’vi, and Klingon. (The mind boggles …)
… earaches have a patron saint? Saint Polycarp of Smyrna (69 AD-155 AD) is recognized as the patron saint of relief from earaches. Polycarp was martyred in 155 AD when Roman leaders ordered he be burned alive, but the flames did not harm him. A centurion had to use a dagger to put the elderly man to death. Why Polycarp is the patron saint of earaches is not easily determined. (Why his name means “many fish” isn’t too easy to figure, either.)
… a queen drowned because her subjects were afraid to save her? On May 31, 1880, the first Queen Consort of Siam, Sunandha Kumariratana (1860-1880), was on her way to the country’s Summer Palace in Bang Pa-In when the royal boat capsized. Many onlookers saw the event, but no one helped the queen, even as she screamed for assistance. Siamese law at the time mandated the death penalty for anyone who so much as touched the queen. As a result, the queen drowned. A guard on another boat ordered people to do nothing under the law, but he was later punished for his strict interpretation. The queen was one of the four wives and 92 consorts of King Chulalongkorn, Rama V of Siam (1853-1910).
… bats give birth while hanging upside-down? They catch the newborn bats in their wings as they drop. (And may Heaven help the bat who drops the baby in that instance!)
Drop the bat and trot to first base.
Hack, you’re totally batty…
CW bats 1000 every.damn.week!
Thats batter than nothing
Many thanks for the kind words, sir!
… a NASA astronaut’s space suit costs about $12 million to manufacture? (Gee, at that price, you’d think they’d at least be fashionable.)
… a famous blonde actress would not allow other blondes on the set of a film with her? Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) was notorious for refusing to allow other blonde actresses to be on a movie set at the same time she was there. Ironically, Monroe’s hair was not naturally blonde – she was a brunette. (Sometimes the jokes are too easy.)
… the world’s largest padlock weighs 916 pounds? Created at the Pavlovo Arts College in Russia, the lock is 56.8 inches tall, 41.3 inches wide, and 10.2 inches deep. (Imagine the size of the door that lock is on!)
Must have made How to Marry a Millionaire (Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable) Monkey Business (Ginger Rogers) and a few others a bitch to film…in those movies they were ALL blondes.
Further information holds that Monroe would not allow other blondes on the set unless they were in the scene with her. If they were just waiting around, they had to scram.
Hard to believe that in a battle of wills between Bacall and her, she’d win. I suspect someone did one of those “look, to keep the peace…” speeches. Just like we’d hear in the Army, following which mentally we’d say “okay,I’ll play your silly-ass games…”
… ducks were once as large as horses? Between 40,000 and 25 million years ago, horse-sized ducks lived in Australia. (To be honest, the dromoris – that’s what the bird is actually called – looked more like an ostrich, but it technically was in the duck family.) For the flip side, you’d have to go back a lot farther in time, to 55 million years ago, to find the eohippus, an early ancestor of the modern horse. The eohippus was about the size of a large modern duck. (Well, isn’t that just ducky?)
… paper money was invented by the Chinese? They developed it in the ninth century AD, calling it “flying money” because of the ease with which it could be carried away by the wind. The Chinese found it impractical at the time, however, and only used it for a short period. It would not be until the 18th Century in France when paper currency would be more consistently used. (I call it “flying money” too, because of how easily it flies out of my wallet.)
… the most widely cultivated fruit in the world is the apple? If you’re interested, the second most widely cultivated is the pear. (That applies if you aren’t interested, as well.)
… women mature at a faster rate than men? (Yeah!!!!)
Now … you know!
Heeeeee’s BAAAAAACK! Back in gthe Saddle again! In celebration for the King of Battle, THE King of FIRST maintaining his loneiness at the Top as THE ONLY 5 in a Row ACE of FIRST, he hereby bequeaths multiple bowls of homemade chili and cornbread with multiple flagons of refreshing beverages to all hands. Brandy and seegars on the Verandah following.
Hack Stone, gimme back my Crown and Trappings and clean up this mess you left in my Throne.
Back In The Saddle, Sixbar Cowboys 1938, Gene Autry 1939,1946 and 1952
Also Aerosmith, 1976 (album, Rocks; it was released as a single the following year). (smile)
That is not chocolate pudding under the throne no matter what he says. Marines don’t get pudding.
Neither do vegans.
Rather than passing the Crown and Trappings to whoever is First every week, I think that it would be hilarious if we swapped out the Crown and Trappings for a leather vest covered in bling instead.
Ha!
This ain’t encouraging. Two men posed as feds and duped several Secret Service agents, and one apparently claims ties to Pakistan’s ISI:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/us/impersonators-secret-service.html
Here’s hoping those Secret Service agents aren’t just on probation, but double secret probation.
But it was free?
Poe saw that, too, and immediately thought if our Secret Service is putting agents on the White House detail who possess that level of naivete and stupidity, we need a thorough revision of the entire organization.
Geez, look who they are guarding!
Wait for tomorrow’s stupid people article.
More info: Stash of rifles, passports, visas and sham uniforms found in ‘fake’ DHS agents’ DC apartment | Daily Mail Online
Some Stolen Valor involved too. Taherzadeh falsely identified himself as a former Army Ranger.
I wonder what they were up to and whatever it was and if they had succeded to whatever it was, who knows.
Disregard my last. You’re ahead of me once again. 😄
If you don’t want to give The New York Times any of your money to read their propaganda, WTOP has a story on it.
https://wtop.com/dc/2022/04/prosecutors-seek-to-hold-2-charged-with-impersonating-federal-agents-without-bail/
That was the perfect chance to disappear the president. Opportunities like that don’t come along very often.
Meanwhile, in Grand Rapids, Mi, 2 of the four morons who “plotted” to kidnap Wretched Whitmer were acquitted by a jury. The jury deadlocked on the other 2.
The FBI’s credibility took another hit over this.
Not to fear, our fearless AG will push on with state charges.
Most accurate move portrayal on officer promotions, EVER!
Now that’s funny. Can’t forget Forrest though;
Hack Stone would like to explain to all of his mostly peaceful adoring sycophants how he was the victim of a vast chicken wing conspiracy to usurp him from his throne.
It seems that some of you, who shall remain anonymous, (KoB, cough cough) engaged in nefarious activities to cause Hack Stone to not be available at the time the polling stations were open.
They distracted Hack Stone by arranging for a bus load of Albino Chinese midgets to descend upon the world corporate headquarters of a proud but humble woman owned business and did a flash mob invasion of the Company Gift Shop, demanding “Make Phil Monkress A US Navy SEAL Again” t-shirts; die cast collectible 1980’s vintage Jaguars with missing wheels, crushed roofs, and rust spots; Y3K software; and spandex face masks with the corporate logo on them.
Needless to say, Hack Stone was busier than Daniel Bernath deciding who to sue because he is too stupid to read a fuel gauge.
Rest assured, America and the world will not stand idly by while this naked grab for power is foisted among. Even as types, millions around the globe are gathering in their churches and public squares to sing off key versions of Imagine in support of what is right.
I can hear them now, off in the distance… by the freeway overpass… is it We are the World? No…
Some Randy Newman!
8bfyS-S-IJs
Geez – can’t people on Youtube manage to get the song titles right?
The correct title to that song is “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35”. It’s the opening track from his 1966 double LP Blonde on Blonde.
Edited to add: a bit of background on the song’s recording can be found here. Allegedly, Dylan and most of the musicians recording that song actually were high as kites. (smile)
Present-ish.
Got to care for #5 granddaughter (age 5 months) for a while this week. She’s starting to coo and sit up (with help), and certainly displays her grandfather’s temper when she doesn’t want her nose wiped.
Low humidity and high wends have the fire danger up pretty good in the AO.
Praying all you Delta Wiskeys and Wiskeyettes have a great weekend.
Mandolins came up in Ex’s cooking post yesterday. Here’s Heart’s Nancy Wilson playing hers on their cover of Led Zep’s Battle of Evermore.
Sorry, AW1Ed, Sierra Hull is queen of the mandolin now:
https://youtu.be/BojXCyS-bNY
Fortysomething and I award myself Honorary First once again.
((((OVER))))
48’Th !!!!!
Don’t I get a trophy or something ???
WAAAAHHHHH !!!!!
Top 5 John M Browning guns that changed History
Any disagreements
Let us all turn to Revelations 19:11, biblical proof that Saint John Moses Browning was divinely inspired. Testify!
According to the book “The Guns of John Moses Browning” by Nathan Gorenstein, it all began when JMB was a kid when he built his first Gun which was a crude affair having a hand-hewn stock and firing was done via poking a smoking ember into a hole at the back end of its barrel. JMB’s Father found it and smashed it up in front of him after saying John Moses, you’re going on eleven, can’t you make a better gun than that?” not knowing the Legend he had spawned.
Busy. Busted dirt in the garden today, ducks had a time rooting around in the loose soil, bean poles in… Miller Lites had.
Thanks to all y’all for being awesome!
Congrats Redleg!
Bedtime, perhaps.
Have a GREAT weekend! (Buy food)
A bit late, but now on station.
They should be bragging to their friends about what they helped foist off on us, but expecting any sort of rational behavior from liberals and socialist democrats is kinda irrational. They no doubt expected to be riding the gravy train while everyone else paid more and had less and all that.