Weekend Open Thread
Can a single woman perform the task that takes multiple men, carrying a log? Without digging into the details and back story behind the above meme, one could spot some differences that help explain why the men appear to be struggling to carry a single log, while the woman is carrying a single log without breaking a sweat. Enjoy your weekend.
Category: Open thread
Let today remind us of unwavering love and selfless sacrifice. A lesson for all, irrespective of our individual belief. Enjoy the holiday weekend!
I cheated on Good Friday… forgive me. 😉
A part of how I started Good Friday this morning…
A good reminder, Dave.
Thank you.
LMAO!! Present…..but without a pink robe and fuzzy slippers.
You GO Dave…you deserve the glory on occasion.
Have a great weekend.
Absolutus, absolutus, absolutus..
This reeks of Russian collusion. Where’s Bob Mueller when we need him?
First!
A CongRats to my Man CW….Well played, Good Sir! Nice to have some spirited competition back. I’ll adjoin to the Ladies Room to pick up my second place Trophy. The Crown, Trappings, and Key to the Throne Room.
Shouldn’t have delayed my entry gaping at Dave’s Cheater Post. What more FIRST would Dave want than to be FIRST to shower his affections upon the Soviet?
Congratulations CW!
1st
2nd by 2 seconds…what’ll know!
Magic 8-Ball, can the hardest working Director of Media Relations for a proud but humble woman owned business that sells software to the Federal Government catch nab the title to the highly coveted and rarely awarded First Comment for This Ain’t Hell Weekend Open Thread? Magic 8-Ball says…
Missed it by “ that much”.
2nd
Not too far behind.
Wow … looks like I made the coveted, always earned, never given FIRST for the WOT! If I’m confirmed as FIRST, I hereby order the larders be opened wide and the best of everything – food, drink and cigars – distributed far and wide to all.
Me? I’m just gonna drop the trivia column here, let you all check your answers from last week’s April Fool’s quiz, and sit back and enjoy the weekend. So, sit back and enjoy! And to all who celebrate, Happy Easter from the ol’ Commish!
DID YOU KNOW…?
Were the 1904 Olympic Games held in the city which successfully bid for them?
By Jack Bagley
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
So, how did you do?
Last week was the annual April Fool’s Day edition of my silly column, with three patently false items tossed in for you to uncover.
Check your work with the correct answers:
1. Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch were not in any way related to each other. Yes, there was a throwaway line in A Very Brady Sequel which seemed to link the two, but that movie was a reboot with a totally different cast, and not considered as series canon. There’s no original-series connection.
2. Scorpions do not go mad and sting themselves to death if you put alcohol of any kind on them. Those little boogers can survive intense radiation; they don’t go bonkers about a drop of booze.
3. The Willamette River isn’t the only one on Earth that flows northward. About 250 rivers worldwide do, including the largest, the Nile.
Now on to this week’s trivia, which is as close to 100% accurate as fallible me can make it!
Did you know …
… the first political cartoon in America was drawn by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)? His drawing of a snake divided into eight parts, representing the American colonies, was first published in Philadelphia in 1754. (And we’ve been going downhill ever since, it seems.)
… the two stone lions outside the New York Public Library have names? They are called Patience and Fortitude. The names were given in the 1930s by the city’s then-mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia (1882-1947). He called them that saying those traits were what New Yorkers would need to get through the Great Depression. (Well, it was nice of the mayor to name them. After all, he could’ve called them Abbott and Costello.)
… a structure built in the early years of the Roman Empire is still being used today? The ancient Aqueduct of Segovia in Spain was built in the first century AD, and it still supplies water to the city today. (With surprisingly little maintenance required, at that. Clever, those Romans.)
… it is illegal in Nicholas County, West Virginia, for a minister to tell jokes or humorous stories from the pulpit during a church service? (Talk about taking things seriously!)
… one of the most well-known groupings of stars in the night sky is not actually a constellation? Just about everybody can pick out the Big Dipper, one of two star groupings that are immediately obvious (the other being Orion, the Hunter). But the Big Dipper is not itself a constellation; it’s actually part of a larger constellation called Ursa Major, or the Great Bear. The Little Dipper, of which the pole star Polaris is part, is itself a constellation, though … Ursa Minor, or the Little Bear. (Can you bear that?)
… the 1904 Olympics were not held in the city selected for them? The International Olympic Committee awarded the games to Chicago, Illinois for 1904, but another exposition taking place in St. Louis, Missouri – the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, recognizing the 100th anniversary of the event – had been planned first. Its organizers would not permit another international event in the same time frame, and even began to organize their own sports exhibitions. They promised events that would eclipse the Olympics unless those games were moved to St. Louis. The International Olympic Committee caved to the pressure, ostensibly to prevent the collapse of the nascent Olympic movement. Additional trivia note: Perhaps because of the conflicting expositions, or just because of general stubbornness, the 1904 games were so poorly run that the International Olympic Committee seriously considered ending the movement anyway.
… the world’s most famous tabloid newspaper was started by an ex-CIA employee? Just about everybody knows of The National Enquirer, the weekly tabloid which set the stage for gossip, rumor, and flat-out wrong reporting, usually about celebrities. The Enquirer that we know today was started in 1953 by Generoso Pope, Jr. (1927-1988), who at one time worked in the psychological warfare unit of the Central Intelligence Agency. The newspaper itself dates back to 1926, as The New York Evening Enquirer. (You know, it all suddenly makes sense …)
… it is impossible to burp in space? The reason is a lack of gravity. The air in your stomach can’t separate from the food you’ve eaten. (Drink a soda. You’ll burp.)
… Sweden’s King Charles VII was not the seventh king of that nation with that name? Charles (1130-1167) was actually the first king of Sweden to bear that name. No one knows why he chose to call himself Charles VII. Additional trivia note: Charles must not have been a popular name for Swedish kings; it would be another three centuries before Charles VIII (1408-1470) would rule, and he used “the eighth” even though he was actually only the second. (Sounds like a practical joke to me.)
… a personalized license plate caused real problems for its owner? In 1979, an unidentified Los Angeles man received thousands of parking tickets, none of which were actually his. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles computers matched tickets for cars without plates to the man’s personalized license. His custom plate read “No Plate.” (What do you want to bet he changed it soon afterward?)
… you may suffer from ombrophobia? It’s the fear of rain. (I don’t mind rain, but thunder and lightning are a different thing entirely.)
… only three national capital cities in the world begin with the letter “O”? They are: Ottawa, Canada; Oslo, Norway; and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. (One of those facts you just couldn’t live without knowing, right?)
Now … you know!
My state capital’s nickname starts with an “O”, as in “Oh, wtF did they do now?!”, Connecticut.
But my state isn’t a nation, and one could argue they don’t even appreciate being a state!
As always, thanks for the info!!
Too small to be a Country…too large to be an insane asylum.
“[T]oo large to be an insane asylum”?!?
Have you met these fking people?! They sure as shit are trying their damnedest.
And the sekreet skuirrull weapon is CW’s books…
Well, Hell! I wuz right. The river and spider thing I hit on right quickly, and I did scratch my watch and wind my azz over the Brady thing. Had convinced myself that was an error til I read ninja’s post on it. Having never watched the Brady Bunch, figured someone that had was a leg up on me. My TAD pushed the quest off the stove and it fell out of the radar cone. Keep gazing longingly at my Spaceman Books, but I’ve got to finish two deep technical tomes on The War for a program that I’m way behind on getting done. Glancing thru the synopsis tells me I will not be able to put yours down until I finish them. I get like that on occasions with a page burner. Weather is supposed to be really stormy this weekend in my AO, might get a chance to play catch up.
Dang it! I was busy trying to review the idiot getting punched and arrested!!
Oh well. Good on ya, Dave. Agreed with the sentiments.
Have a GREAT weekend y’all, work them preps and love one another!
On station near the appointed time.
A FIRST (h/t CW) in a long time.
As of 0800 today the GB Compound AO has receive 8.85″ of rain, 17.32″ lightening, an 0.125″ hail.
More is forecast.
Fortunately the 6 tons of rock on the Compound main road is doing its job – although it is evident I could use another 16 tons. But not in one day – I tried that before and it near-bout killed me. (Since we unload it by hand.)
A very blessed Good Friday to all, and may your Easter Sunday be fully permeated with the joy and the assurance of the Resurrection.
Ya load 16 tons and whaddya get…
another day older and deeper in debt.
St. Peter don’t call me ’cause I can’t go
I used to do that every time the horse/pony shoes resupply shipment came to the farm & ranch store distribution center I worked at as my last civilian job after retirement from my Army job as a scrounger. / s
😄
In our case, Favorite Son-in-Law and I unloaded 12 tons in a day, and spent the next several days recuperating.
And that was a few years ago.
The another day older and deeper in debt keeps happening, though. Tennessee Ernie misled me.
“Big staffs, small victories” I came across this recently in a book I was reading. The author may have been quoting Moltke; but, I can’t find any verification. Wouldn’t it be nice if the Government agreed with that sentiment?
Top 20 for a change.
Just in… SGT Perry convicted for shooting Antifa dude who pointed AK-47 at him in Austin:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-sergeant-guilty-fatal-texas-215604300.html
That’s sad.
SGT Perry is the only victim here.
An appeal will be made – and should be made.
I cannot see a higher court in Texas not overturning this travesty of justice.
SGT Perry is now twice victimized.
Another miscarriage of justice.
I guess the jury did not bother watching the interview that the mostly peaceful armed BLM protester made with a news station shortly before the encounter.
Tucker Carlson invited Gov Greg Abbott on his show, but he has declined. Gov Abbott instead referred Carlson to AG Ken Paxton.
Possible good news. According to Lt Gov Dan Patrick interview with Fox News host Lawrence Jones, Gov Abbott looks to be working on a pardon for SGT Perry.
That fucking turd with a face (most likely his handlers tbh) said this:
Every single modern firearm sold to a citizen (as opposed to government agency, dealer, or company) in These United States, the purchaser MUST pass a “background check”.
Not “some”, not “most”, not “meh, I’ll get you next time”, ALL!!!
Is he retarded?
That kid sniffing, ice-cream-for-brains SoB gotta go. Fuck him and his gross incompetence, and his stupid lying fucking face.
He has been retarded for decades, now with a healthy dose of dementia.
I pray for his and his useless side-kick’s salvation, but I have a strong suspicion that, with his dementia, he has moved beyond the ability to repent, and is out of chances. Damned forever.
There is one exception to the federal background check requirement. That is private party sales in most states are exempt from that requirement.
Understood but that’s a different animal, and in polite company I personally wouldn’t call it an ‘exemption’. Those states (like the one I’m currently held in bondage by, CT) require private sales, from citizen to citizen, to be NICSed by the Department of Public
SafetySomethinging.Let me tell you, those wonderful individuals at this state’s Firearm Licensing Unit are always there, quick, and courteous as can be! It’s hardly an inconvenience to exercise one’s God-given rights ’round here!
Several states require the firearm in a private sale be run through an FFL dealer who runs the background check. It is a function of state law. Federal law does not require states to run checks on private sales of firearms. The only federal restriction is that the private sales be between residents of the same state.
I heard a story about someone who’d bought a gun from a NC resident residing in AL while they were a resident of some unnamed new england state residing in GA.
I’m sure situations like that happen all the time and it’d be a real dang shame for Uncle Sugar to muck that up with superfluous paperwork because of some idiot’s feelings.
I have no doubt that is true. But federal law says otherwise. That is why a gun shop in state A can’t sell and deliver a gun to a resident of another state.
PRESENT once again as I award myself Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
She does it more often.
Your Weekend Open Thread dose of laughs, courtesy of The Beverly Hillbillies.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qqGDZREjpdE
Christ is Risen!