Weekend Open Thread
One of the meanings of this picture? If the government gives you everything, then they can control you based on what they could take away. You’re not truly free. The key is symbolic to self-sufficiency and willingness to succeed. Being able to provide for oneself helps ensure one’s continued freedom. This can be interpreted to mean other things as well. Enjoy your weekend!
Category: Open thread
First?
YES!!! FIRST!!!
ALL the while of ALSO managing the <b> The As(s)teroid of Insults®™ </b> deployment. YEAH BUBBA!!!!
(Speaking of Bubbas…Old William Joe Westfall is about to become one.
A Kongolese Rat be upon you for your FIRSTNESS, Chippy…Good J.O.B. dethroning the Hack of Stone. And I as discovered, that is NOT chocolate he leaves on the Throne. Nor is it crayon marks. You may be FIRST on the coveted EARNED NEVER AWARDED FIRST for the TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread Throne, but I was the FIRST to place that most Adorable of Deploreables, Only Army Mom, upon the Throne of Adoration, making ME (in my mind) FIRST in her heart for being a Miscreanted D’weeded Deplorable.
Now, be a lamb, and run down to the Chesapeake Bay Seafood House and get us a basket of steamed King Crab Legs.
Man you OLD and I can barely remember this from the 1980s? (70s?) I had to google this. It’s long gone the way of the dodo.
Sheeett…lookie at those prices!!!
Naw, they ain’t gone totally, tho them prices shorely are. Don’t remember the exact location a group of us hit on a senic ride to Gettysburg in ’88 (we did a Jubal Early and stayed out of DC). They were running an “all you can eat” shrimps and crablegs deal for $7.95. Manager finally came out and told us that we had had “all we can eat.” We debated going all Stonewall Jackson at 2nd Manassess on his damyankey ass, ie, what we couldn’t eat or tote off, burn. Good Times!
That wouldn’t be Dave and Janes, near Emmitsburg would it KOB? and yeah, them listed prices would just cover the tax on a meal today
Thinking closer to Fredricsburg, saw and did a lot on that ride. 6 grownups and 2 young’uns. I picked up the check and left Little Ms Thang Waitress a tip that was almost as much as the bill. Not only did she work hard serving us, she was cuter than all hell. Kept peppering me with questions so she could hear that panty dropping Georgia drawl, y’all. Had left the interstate @ Richmond and took the old roads all the way up and back down thru The Valley to Harper’s Ferry. We did do all of G’burg, E’burg. Cashtown, and up toward Harrison. Tried to duplicate the routes that Lee (and Stuart) took. Didn’t get custody of the Journal, maps, and pics I made.
CONGRATS To The Chipster!!!!
Salute! :saluting:
Congrats Chip on being number numero today. I wonder why the time isn’t on the screen anymore.
Magic 8 Ball, will Hack Stone maintain his rightful position as First Comment for This Ain’t Hell Weekend Open Thread for Friday April 22,2022 by scoring two consecutive titles? Magic 8 Ball says…
Denied!
Oh well, better to be a First Commenter on Weekend Open Thread and lose the title than to have never been a First Commenter on Weekend Open Thread. There is always next week.
Hack can take solace in securing a new part time job to supplement his income as Director of Media Relations for a proud but humble woman owned business that sells software to the federal government formerly located in Bethesda Maryland.
Magic 8-Ball: Is Phildo a Turd?
All Signs Point To Yes.
YES
DEFINITELY
Primero!
Con una chingada!
Tercero!
1st
Not even close.
ChipNASA is FIRST on the WOT? Amazing! How about some trivia to celebrate?
DID YOU KNOW…?
Where can you find the largest signature ever made by a human?
By Jack Bagley
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Sunday was Easter, and if the Easter Bunny visited you, I hope he left all sorts of nice goodies.
I have always wondered why bunnies and eggs were associated with Easter. My research into the topic (sporadic as it may be) tells me that the bunny and the egg are symbols of fertility, whereas spring is a symbol of re-birth. They originated as pagan symbols for the beginning of spring, and were sort of co-opted into the overall celebration of the resurrection of Jesus when Christianity began to take hold. Symbols of new life, we are told.
Besides, rabbits don’t lay eggs. Those things they leave behind are most certainly not eggs.
See? I can even use the introduction to the column to share information. I don’t always confine myself to silly stuff.
I do the silly stuff better after the introduction, anyway. So on to the silly stuff!
Did you know …
… you or someone you know may suffer from kakorrhaphiophobia? If you (or they) do, you should know that it’s the fear of failure. (You experience it every time you’re asked to spell or pronounce kakorrhaphiophobia.)
And that led to the Cadbury Bunny we all know:
… the theme song from a beloved television series was the second choice? When the producers of The Golden Girls were bringing the series together in 1985, they wanted to use “Friends” as performed by singer Bette Midler (born 1945) as the theme. However, the performance rights to that version of the song were deemed too expensive, so the producers went with their second choice, the now iconic “Thank You For Being a Friend,” composed by Andrew Gold (1951-2011) and performed by singer Cynthia Fee (born 1964). (I don’t think the show would have worked with any other theme song.)
Andrew Gold.
Saw him perform in concert in the 1970s with Linda Ronstadt AND James Taylor…(bet AW1Ed is gonna cringe when he reads this.. 😉 ).
It WAS a GREAT concert.
😎
… the popular board game Clue™ goes by another name in the United Kingdom? In Britain, the beloved who-done-it game is called Cluedo. The name is a combination of clue and ludo, the Latin word for “I play.” There are almost no differences between the U.S. and U.K. versions of the game, except for one – in the U.S. game, the victim of the murder is Mr. Boddy; in the U.K., it’s Dr. Black. (In either case, he’s still dead. And it was Colonel Mustard in the study with the lead pipe. That’s my guess.)
… the first coin minted in the United States was a silver dollar? It was issued October 15, 1794. (And it wasn’t worth a dollar back then, either.)
Clue…
How many of us still think Colonel Mustard did it with an Candlestick in the Conservatory?
And was he a REAL Colonel?
😉 😎
Colonel Mustard did it in the library… with the maid…
I do. I believe that Colonel Mustard did it with a Candlestick in Phil Monkress’ ass when Phil fucked him on the payment as he did to Paul-mer (of the ballsack) Wickre.
… baseball icon Babe Ruth (1895-1948) struck out more than 1,300 times? Sure, he set a record for home runs – 714 – that stood until 1974, but the Bambino was also quite the whiffer, striking out almost twice as many times as he clobbered a ball out of the park. (Well, we know Ruth did not suffer from kakorrhaphiophobia, right?)
… a tarantula can live without food for up to two years? (The tarantula does not necessarily want to do that, but he can.)
Tarantula?
Now you did it, CW.
Bringing back a memory of watching this movie that starred Shirley Temple’s first husband (John Agar) and Leo G. Carroll of the TV show “The Man From U.N.C.L.E”.
2 minute trailer well worth watching:
… the largest signature ever made by a human being is in Texas? The huge autograph of John Hancock (1737-1793) on the Declaration of Independence is nothing compared to the signature left by Jimmie Luecke (born 1947) in Smithville, Texas. Luecke was clearing new grazing land on his ranch and, in a truly Texas-sized display of ego, decided to leave his name on the land. He did so, in letters nearly a kilometer long, made of trees he did not bulldoze. Overall, the name made out in trees is three miles in length. The name is so big it can be seen from low-Earth orbit (if you know where to look), and is actually used by NASA to calibrate instruments on the International Space Station. (A “sign” of distinction, no?)
Well, everything is bigger in Texas, God bless her!
And there you go!! 😉 😎
Thanks for finding and posting.
… Peachtree Street is a very popular name in Atlanta, Georgia? The city has more than 70 streets with some variation of “Peachtree” in the name. And while you will find many Peachtree Streets in Atlanta, you won’t find any peach trees. (Not any more, anyway.)
… a house in Rockport, Massachusetts is made of newspapers? The house was built in 1922 by Elis F. Stenman (1873-1942), a mechanical engineer who designed the machines that make paper clips. The use of rolled-up newspapers was meant to be for insulation, but Stenman decided to just build the house out of the newspapers after varnishing and gluing them. Most of the furniture inside the house is also made of newspapers, including the piano – which actually plays music. (Sheet music, of course.)
If we are not mistaken, there is also a Peachtree City, Georgia… 😉 😎
Don’t forget Peach City!
https://www.thepeachcity.com/
… one out of every three divorce filings in the United States involves the word “Facebook”? (No comment.)
… electrical stimulation in certain areas of the brain can revive long-lost memories? (One might find the memories recovered to be … shocking.)
… ants can commit suicide? If their colony is under attack, ants are able to actually make their bodies explode, taking as many of the attackers as they can with them. (There’s room here for a line about “going out with a bang” but I’m not going to do it.)
… a person is 6.7% more likely to die on his or her birthday than on any other day of the year? (People really sit around and figure this stuff out?)
That increase in the chance of dying on your birthday may be attributed to people celebrating a bit too much on the anniversary of their death.
As to (see what Hack did there?) congratulating someone on their birthday, why congratulate them? Their Mother did all of the work.
… the average person walks past sixteen murderers in their lifetime, and does not even know it? (Nor do they want to.)
… chameleons can move their eyes in different directions at the same time? (All the better to see you with, my dear!)
… peanuts are not nuts? They’re legumes, like the various kinds of beans one can find – lima beans, kidney beans, soybeans, etc. Come to think of it, other popular “nuts” such as cashews, walnuts, almonds, and pistachios, are not nuts either. They’re seeds. (That’s nuts.)
Now … you know!
Working as I did in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for 20+ years, I can guaran-darn-tee you that I walked by more than 16 murderers. Child molesters, drug dealers, rapists…
And most of them looked like nice folks.
Now the girls in the women’s prison were… scary. We’ll leave it at that. But there is cray-cray in there that I’d advise IDC-Sarc to never, ever hit.
And where the hell is IDC-Sarc? He’s been AWOL for a looooong time. Are you going to DFR him?
GB, did you ever work the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville? A former workplace acquaintance of Poe’s is serving a life sentence there.
She also happens to be the person who killed the Tejano singer, Selena.
I’ve been in there, but only to do some training for staff.
Honestly, working in a women’s unit is creepy for a guy. They are all hoping you’ll “notice” them… and while the guys will shank you in a heartbeat, the gals will seriously twist the shank in your ‘nads – and laugh.
Well, my acquaintance is probably in her element. I knew her as a hospice nurse and judging from her masculine attire and hairstyle she was fairly obviously a dyke.
I never could figure out what a homely little mutt like her was doing in such a close relationship with a Tejano beauty like Selena.
By the way, congrats on the 45 years. If the docs can keep ol’ Poe vertical until October, the Poe’s will chalk up 55 good years together.
Early congrats to y’all as well.
And Selena was a beauty. A lot of those Tejano gals are knock-dead gorgeous!
Unfortunately and sadly, we have ALOT of Nuts running our Country right now…
Of course he’s not going nuts… He’s already there!
Here’s one way to make an Easter Egg;
How to Make Easter Eggs – YouTube
Okay, that is just wrong on so many levels!
Hilarious, but wrong!
Top 15, 20 commentators.
8 more radiation treatments (if all goes according to plan)
Mrs. GB and I celebrated 48 years of marriage Wednesday, and decided we’d do it all again – even with the rough parts.
3rd granddaughter turned 5 yesterday.
Mrs. GB has surgery next Thursday. She is supposed to avoid pets beforehand, which will be hard as the cats have claimed her as “theirs” and are always on her lap.
Corn is 18″ and growing, Kentucky Wonders coming up, tomatoes & zucchini growing well, as is the grass.
Y’all have a great weekend!
Congrats GB, may you both have that many more!
Best wishes and prayers to you and the missus
Thanks, Fyr!
Congratulations GB on your anniversary! Here’s to many more to come!
My best to you and the Mrs.
Thank you TXNorsky
GB:
A big CONGRATS to you and Mrs. GB on your 48th!!!
Prayers for both you and her for your continued treatment and her upcoming surgery…God Is In Control!
Happy Belated 5th to your precious Granddaughter. They grown fast, yes?
Mouth is already watering on your crop report. Nothing taste better than what is grown or cooked on one’s own property!
Right, KoB?
Thank You for the Update, GB!
“Right, KoB?” Spot on ninja. Testify. The racoon in me is plotting the best way to raid that cornfield. The gourmet cook in me is laying out how I want to present those pole beans and zookeenies to go along with this Heavy Western Grain Fed Nebraska Beef Beast I gots in the freezerator. The Good Ol’ Boy in me is fantizising about a ‘mater sammich on fresh bread with Duke’s Mayo. Shorely be am missing The Lioness of TAH’s Thursdays are for Cooking Thread. Hope that our Mi’Lady is doing well.
You da Man, Graybeard. You hang tuff, cherish that Bride AND them Grands. Doing some Home Health Care Assistance for a Lady Friend that just had knee replacement surgery. Get you some help on that. The FIRST (ht 2 Chip) few days are rough and then it starts to get a little more better. We here for you, Brother.
I agree on all points ninja.
God is in control. We are extraordinarily blessed in our marriage.
First Granddaughter is in college – celebrated her 20th b-day 3 days before 5th granddaughter was born. And we are still astounded at how fast they all grow. ‘Spect we never get used to that.
I suppose I ought to mention that an upstairs window overlooks the garden and makes a great sniper hide for watching for varmints….
‘preciate the intel on the sniper hide, Graybeard. That tidbit will help for the in/ex filtrate when I go all Trash Panda. Do lubs me some buttered up corn on or off the cob. Now, for the important part. Which window sill do you put the apple cake on for it to cool?
Congrats on 48 years. May you and missus have many more. And yeah, grandkids are the best. Load them up on sugar and send them home.
Ours all live within walking distance. A sugar loaded grandchild would come back to haunt us as soon as their mother figured out what we’d done!
Speaking of sugar-loaded kids, an Atomic Sphincter Weasel of an ex-Brother-in-law once decided to barge in on my time with the Nephews which we both loved time with each other, Uncle A Proud Infidel®™ ‘accidentally” let each of them have two mountain Dews apiece before he came to pick them up, the younger one bouncing off the walls and ceiling with lightning bolts flying out of his ass, ex-Brother-in-law NEVER AGIN interfered with our time together!
The champagne is flowing at the world corporate headquarters of a proud but humble woman owned business that sells software to the federal government. As Director of Media Relations, it is Hack Stone’s duty to proudly announce the Vice President has secured a contract for the exclusive sale of software to CNN+ for the next ten years. Things are finally breaking Psaul’s way.
This is for AW1Ed and Mick and anyone else who watched THAT MOVIE with Part 2 coming up in May 2022:
“79 Cringeworthy Errors in ‘Top Gun'”
https://www.military.com/off-duty/2019/07/22/79-cringeworthy-errors-top-gun.html
gabn 😉 😎
giggle…Good to see that you are keeping up with the Duty Roster, ninja, and saw that it was your day to be “that guy”. heh heh
I have yet to see “THAT MOVIE” myself, and since both Mick and our Beloved AW1Ed seem to have lost that loving feeling for me, I guess I”ll have to put any thoughts of seeing Part Dos with them on ice, man.
gabn/rtr/hbtd
KoB:
And here I thought I was the ONLY person on Earth who NEVER saw THAT MOVIE…
😆😅🤣😂
Well, I take that back…Does watching “Hot Shots” count?
gabn/hbtd/rtr
— GROAN —
That entire movie was cringeworthy.
But cruise controls pflyin phallus of pfate video that chip NASA posted the other day is eternally pfunny. 😀
Oh funni huh?? Welll then…..
HA!!!!
😏
Damn Chip, that’s enough to put me on ice, man.
Yep, you are correct…What The Chipster posted yesterday was HILARIOUS!!
😆😅🤣😂
Mick:
We always felt sorrow for you and AW1Ed with THAT MOVIE…But not in December!
😉😎
gabn
The German Language Compared To Other Languages:
Tell me if this is not true….(2 minute video well worth watching.. 😆 😉 😎
I’m sending this to a “Boarische” (Bavarian) coworker of mine!!!
He’ll probably say, “It’s nice to be a Preiss, but it’s higher to be a Boaier.”
Ja, naturlich.
NEIN SCHEISS, JA?
Ja, und?
This will be a great weekend for myself being that the Comcast remote button went DOA on me yesterday and I had a brand spanking new still in cellephane wrap with the battery protector sticking out so I tried to program myself without calling Comcast and it was so easy to do because I could turn the TV off but not turn it on so I did it over and realized another audio devise was actually the TV and I clicked it on and it works. Cable box was already so the rest was easy.
Today In History 77 years ago:
“German Swastika emblem is demolished at Zeppelinfeld in Nurnberg,Germany.”
One minute video. No sound:
Cool.
I can think of some other things that need an application of that technique….
This is so sad, heartbreaking and it TICKS ME OFF. You can thank Brandon and Harris and the rest of those Libs for this incident…
Please pray for the Soldier’s family:
“Guard soldier missing after trying to save migrant in Rio Grande”
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/04/22/guard-soldier-on-texas-border-operation-missing-along-the-rio-grande/
“A Texas Army National Guard soldier assigned to Gov. Greg Abbott’s highly touted border operation went missing after trying to save a drowning migrant in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass on Friday.”
“The soldier jumped into the river just after 9:45 a.m. Despite removing his body armor before entering the Rio Grande, the soldier did not resurface.”
“Shortly after the incident, rescue efforts began with search parties in boats and helicopters. Dive teams arrived on site later in the morning, but the Guard member has not yet been found. The report did not say whether the migrant survived.”
Don’t even kid yourself that the “migrant” pendejo is even appreciative.
Call me cranky, but a decade of hearing about fatal drunk driving hit-and-runs without a license by “undocumented Democrats” on I-10 in Hell Paso ever day makes for cynicism.
IMHO THE ONLY THING we owe illegal aliens is deportation!
The Texas authorities are saying the women the soldier tried to rescue made it out of the river and they were smuggling drugs. So, he died to save a couple of drug mules.
Folks, we had to do a double take when we found this article:
“New Benefit Pays for Troops, Civilian Employees to Ship Breast Milk While on Official Travel”
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/21/new-benefit-pays-troops-civilian-employees-ship-breast-milk-while-official-travel.html
“Active-duty military women and civilian Defense Department employees now can be reimbursed for shipping breast milk while on official travel, according to a recent change to the Joint Travel Regulations.”
“DoD officials announced April 14 that nursing mothers may be reimbursed up to $1,000 as a travel accommodation during temporary duty of more than three days.”
“As of April 7 — the date the policy was approved — covered expenses will include commercial shipping fees, excess baggage, storage bags or containers, cold shipping packages, refrigeration and transport, according to a memo from Joel Ridenour, chief of the Pentagon’s Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Committee.”
Obviously, that DoD announcement needs to be corrected to be “Newspeak Dictionary” compliant. “Nursing mothers” needs to be changed to “nursing birthing persons.” Progdom mandates that the word “mother” needs to be disappeared. Some nursing X”man” will have xher feelings hurt.
Sorry, I meant xhim. Although, we don’t know its preferred pronouns.
No wonder some “Republicans ” invited cawthorn to orgies.
https://yoursbulletin.com/photos-show-madison-cawthorn-partying-in-womens-lingerie
Sorry for being the buzz kill to an otherwise fine Friday evening.
That’s all bullshit, Odie. Those pics were from a cruise ship game…
Yes, also look at the source, a total Progda piece of anti-conservative propaganda.
It’s also on daily wire. No matter really, cause as mom and dad always said… nothing good happens after midnight. Cawthorn says the event took place after 11p.
Kind of hard to take him seriously when he plays the role we give the left a hard time about.
I wonder if the False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) attended that party?
No one asked, but I’m here. Too bad, so sad!
Busy day; first haircut in 2.5 years and beardectomy (almost 670-1 compliant), ducks and garden things, range day with the missus (did good, .75 inch groups at 50 yds, 12.5” ARs, red dots and cans. Shhhhhh), maintenance on body and equipment, good dinner of cauliflower bake with chicken sausage and a whole lotta beers.
Tomorrow the beans go in and more seed potatoes get cut up. Might even go to the woods to check the turkey hunting spot. Season opens Wednesday!!
One of these days I’ll get everything done, might even fire the guns I haven’t yet uncorked! It’s a hard knock life.
Have yourselves a FANTASTIC weekend, make sure you got what y’all need to live well in these days!
PRESENT and I award myself Honorary First once again.
((((OVER))))
Second the motion!
(sorry Chip, I have terminal contrarianitis)
Way to go Chip!
I would have been first but got stuck in a traffic jam on the
George Washington Bridge trying to get back home from
New Jersey. Safely back Maine, I am never leaving again.
The hijackers should have taken out that bridge along with
the entire New Jersey Turnpike.
$16 toll on the bridge!
Happy weekend everyone..unless you have to drive to NJ.
I remember seeing a sign on the NJ Turnpike that said, “Jimmy Hoffa Freeway, Jimmy Hoffa next 3 miles”!
Hack Stone would like to conduct an unscientific survey, please indulge him.
Which do you find more satisfying, sucking a job one week after being fired that pays you 25% more than your last job; or hearing through the grapevine that the guy who your former manager was relying on to take over all of your responsibilities quit as soon as he was told he had to do your job?
Looks like the manager bad a decision. Sux being him.
I would take the extra 25% and continue to have a sucky job.
Everything sucks lately so why not get paid more for it?
You misunderstood Hack. The new job pays 25% more. New job with more pay, and the old manager gets his ass reamed for firing the only contractor with an account to order IT equipment. Guess he didn’t consider that.
I was assuming the new job sucked as well as the old
But then again I’m retired and work is a foriegn word..
More like a 4-letter word…literally!🤣
Sweet.
Finding out that the guy one’s former manager was depending on decided to leave him hoisted on his own petard would be sweet.
And I work for the money anyway – and learn to enjoy what I’m doing despite lousy managers. (Though there is a point where I’ve been known to just let them have their job.)
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) works balls.
Prior to President Brandon visiting Seattle two homeless camps were temporarily relocated away from the downtown hotel where he stayed. The “sidewalk residents” were given a choice between a motel room or $500 cash. Drug dealers gave “thumbs up”.
I’m fairly certain the motel owners were happy to hear the offer of 500 cash was taken up by some.
I am betting that sales of cheap wine, “40’s” and lottery tickets spiked as well!
Welp, there is another anniversary to celebrate today, since NASCAR is at Talladega this weekend. Just a year ago we had the faux race crime hoax of Bubba Wallace. It only took the 13 Fan Belt Inspectors with their CSI crew a week of TDY to Alabama to figure out that all the garage doors at Talladega have pull down ropes and some of them have a loop tied in their ends so they don’t slip out of greasy hands. The revered G-men accomplished this despite the internet wonks finding pics of the subject garage door pull-down rope & loop clearly visible over a year before Bubba was randomly assigned that garage for his race car. The same day the fake news media was all over the story, I saw those pics, yet it took our valiant DOJ about ten days to admit there was no “hate” crime.
IMHO Bubba Wallace is the Colin Kaepernick of NASCAR!
Well, the guy who set himself on fire on the steps of the Supreme Court has been identified. He is a 50-year old “climate activist” and proud Buddhist from Boulder, Colorado. Guess he didn’t care about all those combustion gases he put into the air with his immolation. Sort of a small scale hypocrite like Juan Fraud Kerry.
“He is a 50-year old “climate activist” and proud Buddhist from Boulder, Colorado.”
I bet he likely never worked anywhere other than say, Starbucks or McGunk!