Weekend Open Thread
J.K. Rowling made comments that the woke brigade did not find appealing. They complained about her commentary. Did it impact the Harry Potter based video game, Hogwarts Legacy? Nope. Hogwarts Legacy broke records before release. Enjoy your weekend.
Category: Open thread
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Beat me by 2 seconds.
Draw your self two (2) Second Place Trophies from the Ladies Room, have a second helping of chili, and wait a coupla seconds, I’ll draw you another Frosty Cold Two (2) from my Class VI Supplies. RLTW ( to 2nd place) (ducks)
Damn, well done KoB!
Tanks, Mate. Better to be lucky than good, eh?
FIRE MISSION FIRE MISSION FIRE MISSION All guns unmasked to bear on Aerial Target. Shot OUT!!!!BAM!!!ON TARGET FIRE FOR EFFECT!!!!!!!!!!!
The King of Battle….THE King of FIRST has once, again, reclaimed his rightful place on the Throne as FIRST on The Coveted EARNED NEVER AWARDED, TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread. Was not even looking at being a contender, laying low to give our Beloved OAM (pant pant pant, go away Chippy) a shot. Made a comment on the missile thread and popped back over and WHUMP, there it was. Even gave a 10 count, as I’m prone to do just to make it sporting, before hitting the Post Button.
Homemade Chili, Real Southern Cornbread, and frosty refreshing beverages for all hands.
Just as the UGA Bull Dawgs are National Champions, thus is KoB a Nationwide Champion.
*sigh*
KABOOM!!!
Congrats To Our Very Own Beloved KoB On Being FIRST!!!!
😉😎🫡👌👍👏🤙
gabn/gabaf/hbtd/rtr
Kirby grins!
gabn/gabaf/rtr/hbt#1d
AH Like the good old days…KOB in the HOT SEAT!!
WTF is with all the air traffic over my house. TV helicopters state police helicopters…well it IS Baltimore.
You shoot down ONE UFO and all hell breaks loose.
They’re checking to see if your boat is actually missing. Saw you lurking around earlier like a little lost pup at OAM’s porch. Almost didn’t give my 10 count.
Speaking of lost pups…dahell is Hack Stone? He made mention of posting from WR’s wifi the other day. Might have to get admin to give the boy a ping or send up a SAR. Maybe he finally found Elaine Ricci in their nutjob wing and is having a joyous re-union with her?
Rats of the Cong to you, maybe time to celebrate with a can of Ham & MF’ers washed down with a nice warm can of Fresca!
DAAAYYUUUM, Bro…DaHell I do to piss you off? I wouldn’t even launch those over the North Wall from my Coehorn Mortar…might make the possums and racoons sick.
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Still FIRST in our hearts though, OAM
NO MATTER WHAT, we love you, OAM!
Will you be my Valentine?
GB, API, You certainly know how to warm my heart.
KoB? What will I do, I don’t know if my heart can sustain being wooed by a Southern Gentleman.
I’ll bring chocolates, wine, and nitro tablets…and a few rocks to throw at Chip. I ain’t skeered.
What do you know? The King of Battle is back on the throne of the coveted FIRST! In his honor, then, I offer a humble trivia column for all to enjoy!
DID YOU KNOW…?
Was a planned English invasion of Spain called off because the soldiers all got drunk?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Having offered my thoughts on Groundhog Day last week, I now take aim at the second February event … Valentine’s Day, celebrated next week.
I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with Valentine’s Day. In school, when we all gave Valentines to each other, I would receive nice ones, funny ones, morbid ones … but I always received them. Now, however, I don’t receive any Valentines. But it’s okay, because now I don’t give them, either.
Seems kind of silly, if you ask me. Why use just one day of the year to tell people you love them? Do it every day, and you – and they – will be much happier.
That’s my opinion, of course; free, and worth what it costs. What’s much more valuable is the trivia, which follows herein! Enjoy.
Did you know …
… one of the most iconic roles in television history almost went to a different actor? Today, one can’t imagine the original Hawaii Five-O without actor Jack Lord (1920-1998) in the lead role of Steve McGarrett. But the role didn’t belong to him at first – it was originally cast with actor Robert Brown (1926-2022). Brown was a lock on the lead role until creator-producer Leonard Freeman (1920-1974) decided he was not quite right for the McGarrett character, and Lord was cast instead. (Robert Brown? Wasn’t he that guy in Here Come the Brides?)
… the Earth gets heavier every year? Astronomers estimate that about twelve tons of material is added to our little speck of dust in a sunbeam through meteorites landing annually. (Maybe the Earth needs a diet?)
TWELVE TONS OF METAL? DUDE, that’s like, an AC/DC – Motley Crue-KISS-Ozzy concert festival!!!
… the president of the Confederate States of America had his U.S. citizenship restored? In 1978, the citizenship of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) – which had been stripped from him following the Civil War – was restored by an act signed by President Jimmy Carter (born 1924).
… some nations now impose a tax on livestock in an effort to cut greenhouse gases? Denmark, Ireland, and other nations in the European Union now tax cattle in regard to methane production. In Ireland, it’s the equivalent of $18 per animal; in Denmark, it’s $110. The idea is to curb greenhouse gases, but how taxing the farmers cuts the gases is best left to the imagination. (So is figuring out where on the cow the methane is coming from.)
I LAUGH at the Livestock Tax. The Plains of the United States were once freely roamed by herds of Bison, their numbers totaling in the likely hundreds of thousands and according to the soy-slurping over-educated “experts” there was NO glowbull wormening or “climate change” at that time.
API, some numbers on the Bison herds use a total of 60 MILLIONS, almost equally divided between the Northern and Southern Herds. The slaughter of the herds, ordered by “Cump” Sherman and “Little Phil” Sheridan is the primary reason the Plains Natives were subdued. Some of the same hunters that destroyed the herds for the hides, made a living gathering up the bones to use for fertilizer, $2-5 for hides, and $10 a ton for the bones rings a bell.
Actually, the bison numbered in the tens of millions before they were hunted to near extinction.
… a single word in the Georgian language covers overeating quite nicely? If you ever hear the term shemomedjamo, you’re hearing a Georgian word which literally means “overeating past the point of fullness because the food tastes so good.” A rough translation would be, “I accidentally ate the whole thing.” (That sounds eerily like an old Alka-Seltzer™ commercial, you know.)
… a planned invasion of Spain by England was called off because of drunkenness? In 1625, two English officers – George Villiers (1592-1628), first Duke of Buckingham, and Sir Edward Cecil (1572-1638), first Viscount Wimbledon – sought royal approval for an invasion of Spain. King Charles I (1600-1649) gave his approval, but the raid was not funded by Parliament. Undaunted, the two men raised an army on their own and set sail for Cadiz, Spain in October of 1625. After landing and marching along on the way to the fortified city, the soldiers passed through the region of Andalusia, famous then and now for its wines. There was a lot of wine to be had, and the soldiers had it – and then some. They were eventually too drunk to continue the march to Cadiz, and Cecil and Villiers had no choice but to bring them back to their ships and sail back home. (Nursing massive hangovers all the way, I don’t doubt.)
… the first movie about “flying saucers” was made in 1950? The Flying Saucer (what an original title) was the first feature film about the UFO phenomenon. Its rather silly plot involves Soviet spies in Alaska Territory looking for clues about flying saucers, and the American intelligence officers who battled them. Yes, there is a UFO/flying saucer/whatever involved, but it’s just incidental to the Cold War/1950s love story plot line. (Throw in aliens and you have a classic piece of garbage cinema.)
… according to a study, 53% of women leave home without makeup? (I am not touching this one. You can’t pay me enough to comment here.)
CW wrote:
“Its rather silly plot involves Soviet spies in Alaska Territory looking for clues about flying saucers, and the American intelligence officers who battled them….”
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction….
“US Military Shoots Down ‘Object’ Flying In Territorial Waters Over Alaska”
“The Pentagon said an F-22 using an A9X missile shot down the ‘object'”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/u-s-military-shoots-down-object-flying-territorial-waters-over-alaska
Women and makeup? My cousin Jim-Bob was at home with his Wife last week when he hollered at her about the amount of money she spends on makeup while she yakked at him about what he spends on beer. She said the makeup was to make her look pretty to him and he said that’s what the Beer does better!
The Doctors expect him to be out of the ICU by Monday.
… an episode of a children’s television program was banned in Australia because it taught children not to be afraid of spiders? The show Peppa Pig aired an episode in which the characters taught children that spiders are not scary. But in Australia, some spiders really are frightening, much more dangerous than ones found in Europe or North America. Parents complained that the episode gave their children misinformation and a false sense of security around the dangerous arachnids, and the episode was pulled from the series and never aired in Australia again. (Well, there are some pretty nasty spiders in Australia.)
… a woman won a lawsuit against New York City over going topless? Jill Coccaro (born 1980) sued the city after she was repeatedly arrested by New York police for going topless in public. Amazingly, Coccaro was awarded more than $29,000 from the city in damages – because it is perfectly legal for both men and women to go around topless in the state of New York and in New York City. (Make of that what you will.)
… the signing of the Declaration of Independence went unnoticed in one important place? In his diary for July 4, 1776, King George III of England (1738-1820) noted: “Nothing of importance happened today.” (Yes, but in His Majesty’s defense, he didn’t know about it until quite some time later.)
… more than 400 ghost towns exist in the state of Texas? (Boo!)
Now … you know!
Another fine job on the Trivia presentation, CW. Had perused them on yesterday past and “…in addition to your regular duties…” called me away.
We love you and your Trivia, everyday.
The playing for fun part…
🙄🤔
“U S. Military shoots Down ‘Object’ Flying In Territorial Waters Over Alaska”
“President Biden Ordered The ‘Object’ To Be Shot Down”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/u-s-military-shoots-down-object-flying-territorial-waters-over-alaska
“The U.S. military shot down an “object” that was flying in territorial waters over Alaska, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on Friday afternoon during a White House press briefing.”
“I can confirm that the Department of Defense was tracking a high altitude object over Alaska airspace in the last 24 hours out. The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. Out of an abundance of caution and the recommendation of the Pentagon, President Biden ordered the military to down the object. And they did. And it came in inside our territorial waters,” Kirby said.”
Good Gawd. I’m wading hip deep in balloon cartoons for Boomer’s as it is.
😆🤭😂🤣😉😎🫡
Mabe you should run a second “re-fueling” with a separate thread with nothing but balloon toons. 😉
PINO doesn’t order anything other than warm milk, cookies, and maybe ice cream.
Correct. His handlers make the decisions, with input from Valerie, Susan, and a fellow on Martha’s Vinyard.
Drone.
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“The True Origin of the US Marine Corps’ ‘Oorah’ Call”
https://www.military.com/history/true-origin-of-us-marine-corps-oorah-call.html
“Each branch of the military has its own distinctive lingo.”
“Nothing says “I’m in the Air Force” more than an airman calling their supervisor by their first name. “Hooah” is the Army’s answer to literally everything, while the Navy has an entirely different second language. For the Marine Corps, one of the first words new enlisted Marines learn in boot camp is “oorah.”
“Despite what you might have heard about its origin, “oorah” has nothing to do with the U.S. Army. “Hooah” just happens to sound like “oorah.” Some Marines mistakenly think it’s the old Ottoman word for “kill,” which is actually “Öldürmek” in Turkish. “Oorah” in fact dates back to post-Korean War Recon Marines in the Pacific.”
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“Reconnaissance battalions disappeared after World War II but were reformed in platoon size during the Korean War. In 1953, company-size recon units were reactivated in Korea. One of these, the 1st Amphibious Reconnaissance Company, traveled to its landing areas via submarine. It was aboard these submarines that “oorah” was born.”
“When the submarines went below the waterline, Marines would hear a voice over the intercom system shout “dive, dive,” along with a unique klaxon alarm. The klaxon sound itself was a distinctive noise: “Aarugha.”
“Watching how submarine sailors responded to the klaxon alarm no doubt had an effect on the Recon Marines aboard the boat, because they began using the sound to motivate one another during physical training and their own exercises. Shouting “Aarugha,” however, became unwieldy after a while, so the Marines simplified it into the much smoother, cooler-sounding “oorah.”
The Military Services even tell time differently!
When Civilians say “3:00 PM”, the US Army says “1500 Hours” while in the US Navy, some bell rings an amount of times after some Sailor polishes it, paints part of the Ship and mops the deck. In the US Air Force, some O6 looks at an E3 in a chair and asks him “Bill, do you know what time it is?” to which the E3 replies, “Yeah Tom, Mickey’s big hand is on the twelve and his little hand is on the six!” and in the USMC the answer is “GRUNT-GRUNT-GRUNT, FUCK, KILL, OORAH!”
Song Of The Week.
How many remember THIS One from 1972?
Shhh…Please don’t share with the Woke Crowd…Believe it or not, this song is banned in Germany!
3 Minutes Of Pure Gold. Enjoy. We Did!
“Troglodyte (Cave Man)”
“Bertha Butt….One of the Butt Sisters…I’ll Sock It To Ya, Daddy!:
😉 😎
WHY did Cavemen drag their Women by the hair?
BECAUSE IF they dragged them by the feet they’d fill up with rocks and dirt!
Boy does this sound familiar…History Repeating Itself…Anyone remember Germany during the regime of Adolf?
“DOJ, FBI Targeting Catholics As ‘Violent Extremists’ Under Scrutiny By State AGs: ‘Bigotry’ Is ‘Festering'”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-fbi-targeting-catholics-violent-extremists-under-scrutiny-state-ags-bigotry-festering
“Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and 19 GOP state attorneys general are demanding answers from the FBI and Justice Department and threatening legal action after a leaked internal FBI memo revealed that the agency had efforts underway to identify and treat Catholics as “potential terrorists.”
“Anti-Catholic bigotry appears to be festering in the FBI, and the Bureau is treating Catholics as potential terrorists because of their beliefs,” the AGs wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.”
Adolph Hitler even sent Freemasons to his death camps.
Not FIRST (h/t KoB) again.
Trying hard to whup this little headcold the grands gave me before Mrs. GB’s knee replacement surgery Monday.
Gonna be a interesting two-three weeks helping her recover.
On the upside, in the workup the PCP had a look at her aortas & declared them as healthy as a teenager’s. So Mrs. GB is not only young at heart, she’s young at circulatory system as well. The techs kept commenting on how beautiful her insides were. Well, I coulda told them she’s purdy inside and out.
Y’all have a great week.
My g’son bought the game BECAUSE OF the comments against JKR. He ain’t no woke fool
*chuckle* And you guys thought you were done with the balloon threads:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/10/pentagon-shoots-down-unidentified-object-alaska/
Mav is back!
WELL THEN, since I was too busy for the running, I shall once again award myself Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
Get some! (We shot down another “high altitude object” intruding upon our aitspace.)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/breaking-u-military-shoots-down-200700959.html
Well, that didn’t last long. Lots of the migrants aka illegals shipped to Canada are coming back to NYC. Seems they don’t like the cold (cold in Canada – what?). Also, the Canuck politicians are raising an uproar for stronger border control. (NIMBY, hey I understand). C’mon, who doesn’t want a bunch of whiney ungrateful useless fux having their hand out demanding free stuff?
Florida is taking stronger measures against illegals. The legislature is putting a bill on Gov DeSantis’s desk to approve relocating illegals to sanctuary cities or States. Dropping them off at the south end of the Darién Gap would be a better idea, and it doesn’t get too cold there.
Florida lawmakers approve relocating migrants to sanctuary states | Fox News
IMO THE ONLY THING we owe illegal aliens is deportation. In the meantime, I’m all for shipping them to deep blue “Sanctuary Cities” and States.
Free airplane ride back to Guatemala, El Salvador or so forth.
For anyone who wants to watch a Stolen Valor Mayor
(of an affluent city)
Bonus – Lying UNDER OATH, only days after becoming Mayor.
******** PHONY ALERT ********
Just to let everyone know, we have a couple of stolen valor cases in the batter’s box. We have it on reliable rumor that they will be appearing here sometime next week. One is a phony SEAL and the other is… [queue drum roll] a phony Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.
In the case of the SEAL, the FOIA results came back after a request from over 18 months ago, so the NPRC is getting to them and shows us that the wheels of justice turn slowly in the age of COVID.
In the case of the CMoH “recipient”… well, he’s just run o’ the mill crazy.
Stay tuned.
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sbalm,
Bravo.
Thanks for the update.
I was hoping our local “Phony 5 Medals” podcasting bullshitter nut
reaches the level of being VG article worthy.
But hey, that’s (plural) your call.
sbalm (and Mason!),
Check your email.
It’s big. And it needs prompt attention.
San Clemente’s Phony Legion of Merit Gene James,
covered by VG twice, summer 2020,
and again December 2021,
when Gene James was appointed MAYOR.
Gene James is now doubling down with Stolen Valor tactics and bullshit.
Threat emails (not to me).
And now, Cease & Desist letters (also not to me).
WORSE, it appears the same San Clemente Times
is going to run a story on Thursday, November 16,
about the same lawsuit covered by VG being recently dropped.
And quite possibly taking the side of sitting City Councilman Gene James.
Not Stolen Valor behavior.
Not lying under oath about Stolen Valor.
The young cubby reporter on this at the San Clemente Times
may need your help on this NOW.
Good luck.
Thanks.
In the least surprising news to anyone not drinking the Kool-Aid, a research firm hired by Trump team to prove the 2020 election was stolen couldn’t find any evidence:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/research-firm-hired-trump-prove-233154305.html
*YAWN*
Total BS. Anyone who has looked at those videos showing the D-rat antics and “2000 Mules” knows otherwise. Who runs Berkeley Research, the cuttlefish and some of his crypto-commie pals?
So, in your version, Trump and his fellow geniuses intentionally hired a bunch of ‘crypto-commies’ to investigate their claims? Brilliant.
Or were they merely incompetent and didn’t investigate that the firm was filled with these crypto-commies, and didn’t find another once it came out? Again, brilliant.
With leadership like that, how could they possibly lose an election, right?!