Weekend Open Thread
Even though Cinco de Mayo is associated with Mexico, it is celebrated more in the United States. Mexicans and Americans have a different perception of this day. The Mexicans celebrate this day as the day the Mexicans defeated the French in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Enjoy Your Weekend!
Category: Open thread
FIRST!
That’s a three-peat moth’r flowers!
Have a great weekend y’all!
Per usual I’m busy this weekend so I expect y’all to misbehave and grovel at your own pace.
Fuck that. I’m gonna drink beer 🍺 and eat tacos 🌮!
Uno mas cerveza, por favor.
There you go…hechale! A little Texas Tornados featuring my main man, Doug Sahm, aka Doug Saldaña, aka Wayne Douglas! I see that and raise you this…
https://youtu.be/0Q6j1Fx6EQA
Figured someone would catch the reference.
😀
> I’m gonna drink beer
Bud Light? *runs and hides*
Really? You know I’m a Yuengling man, with a soft spot in my heart for Shiner Bock.
Poe heard a rumor they’re gonna open a Yuengling brewery in Monterey and call their product Yuenlingo… 😉
Would that it be true. There actually is a pretty big brewery down in Monterrey, Cervecería Cuauhotemoc Moctezuma. Their brands include XX, XXX, Carta Blanca, Superior, and my personal favorite among Mexican beers, Indio. Indio actually reminds me a bit of Yuengling with a similar Amber color. It’s not bad out of a bottle, but it REALLY shines on tap. The company is NOT owned by AB-InBev. I think it’s owned by Heineken. On the other hand, Modelo IS owned by InBev.
Didn’t Bill Gates just buy Heineken? Might be better to home brew.
Really? I’ll need to look into that. I can’t imagine why Gates would buy an international brewing conglomerate but anything’s possible, I guess. He definitely has the money for it.
He said BEER
Lars’ tranny gal-pal commenting on your monopoly, Dog:
Unhinged Trans Activist Shrieks for Almost a Minute at San Francisco Board of Supervisors Meeting “I Hate You!” | The Gateway Pundit | by Margaret Flavin
That discourse was…. enlightening. Rarely does prose like that captivate, scintillate and educate at-the-same-time to such degree!
A thousand thousand ‘thank you’s for leading me to the one person that can finally explain to the ends what their movement is truly about.
May they live their ‘best lives’ and accomplish every goal they have set forth: no star too far!
(and when they’re done destroying SF I call dibs as warlord of the Russian Hill area)
You can have it. I’ll be sitting on a barstool eating a Denver omelette with a pitcher of Sierra Nevada at Spanky’s over the hills in Pacifica.
I’d appreciate an invite! Grossman’s pale ale is in my top 5 favorite beers. I’ll grab a bomber bottle once or twice a week.
I’ll bring a bottle Tapatio just in case they’re deficient.
Done and done. Now, I don’t know if Spanky’s is still around but it used to open at 7:00 am on Saturday so I’d come in, get breakfast and an eye-opener. Nothing like beer and eggs to start your day! Honestly, I’d probably just avoid California altogether, but Pacifica was a nice little town on the PCH, right by the ocean, hence the name.
It’s “progressive,” yo!
Early drop for the WOT and congrats to Roh-Dog … isn’t this three in a row?
Another week, another WOT, another trivia drop! May all your days be wonderful ones, and here’s the first for the month of May in the trivia world. Enjoy, friends!
DID YOU KNOW…?
Did one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1960s start out to be a war drama?
By Commissioner Wretched
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And we now arrive in May!
The fifth month of the year, no less. Spring is in full bloom and the baseball season is well underway.
All seems right with the world.
I have to mention that this week, my baby sister up in Wisconsin is celebrating a birthday. I would tell you how old she is, but the fact that she’s in Wisconsin and I’m in Georgia will not save me from her wrath should that turn out to be the wrong decision.
So, without mentioning any numbers, Happy Birthday, dear sister!
For her … and for all the rest of you who came to the little party in the paper … how about some trivia?
Did you know …
… the last words of a famed philosopher and economist were, in their own way, appropriate? Just before dying, famed economist Karl Marx (1818-1883), co-founder of Communism, was asked by his housekeeper what his last words were. Marx replied with a shout, “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.” (There are a lot of ways I can define “appropriate” regarding Marx’s words. You pick the one that makes you happy.)
… in the town of Kalispell, Montana, children must have a note from a doctor in order to purchase a lollipop? (Good thing I didn’t grow up in Kalispell, Montana!)
… a gray wolf is able to distinguish whether or not a human being is armed? (Usually by noting the firearm in the human’s hand, I would presume.)
… some fish have very long life spans? Take, for instance, the koi. The fish you’ll find kept as decorative parts of outdoor water gardens can actually live more than 200 years. (Which is longer than the garden will live, to put it mildly.)
… we depend on a very thin layer of air for survival? If you’ve ever wondered how thin the Earth’s atmosphere really is, look at it from the scale of an apple. If the Earth was the size of an apple, the atmosphere would be proportionally thinner than the apple’s skin. (That’s food for thought right there.)
… monkeys have a holiday? Okay, it’s an unofficial one, and they do have to share it with other non-human primates like apes and lemurs. If you’re looking for a new holiday to celebrate, pencil in December 14 on your calendar and have a Happy Monkey Day. (Enjoy a banana on me.)
… a popular situation comedy of the 1960s began as a drama? From 1962 to 1966, the antics of the crew of McHale’s Navy delighted viewers. The show, set during World War II in the South Pacific (and the last season in Italy), featured the antics of Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale, played by Ernest Borgnine (1917-2012), and the crew of the PT-73. McHale and his crew were misfits, to the fury of their commander Capt. Wally Binghamton, played by Joe Flynn (1924-1974). But before it was a comedy, it was a one-hour drama, in an episode of Alcoa Premiere in 1962. That drama, titled Seven Against the Sea, only features Borgnine’s McHale character following a devastating attack on his base by the Japanese Navy. The show was re-tooled into a comedy before being bought by ABC. Additional trivia note: McHale’s Navy spawned a spin-off series, Broadside, in 1964. That comedy followed female Navy members, known as WAVES, on a World War II Pacific supply base. Not quite a distaff copy of McHale’s Navy, Broadside featured Kathleen Nolan (born 1933) as Lt. Anne Morgan, head of a mostly-female motor pool on the base run by Cmdr. Roger Adrian, played by Edward Andrews (1914-1985).
… fresh breath is the most important thing noticed on a date? A survey of 5,000 single people conducted by the dating website Match.com showed that 43% of respondents said fresh breath mattered most on a date. Stylish clothes came in second, with 17%; a “sexy” fragrance third, at 15%; good skin was fourth, with 14%; while only ten percent said great hair was important. (Yes, I know it adds up to 103%. Either some answers overlapped or some people weren’t too sure.)
… the multiple-language capital of the world has to be Papua New Guinea? The island nation, which uses English as its main language for government and commerce, has a total of about 840 different languages spoken amongst its 9.4 million people. (Bet they have a hard time talking to each other.)
… an oracle’s prediction about an empire came true in an unexpected way? When Croesus, King of Lydia (died 546 BC), consulted the Delphic Oracle about his plans to invade Persia, he was told he would “destroy a great empire.” Emboldened, Croesus attacked, but he was captured by the Persians under King Cyrus II (died 530 BC) as his army was defeated. The great empire he destroyed was his own. (Be careful what you ask for. You just might get it.)
… a fast-food giant is also one of the largest owners of real estate in the world? McDonald’s™, known world-wide for its hamburgers and French fries, earns the majority of its profits from collection of rent, not from the sale of food. (Obviously.)
… one of the most popular cartoons of the 1960s was never intended for children? The Flintstones, which ran from 1960 to 1966, was the first prime-time network animated program, and was sponsored in its first years by Winston cigarettes. The show even included a commercial showing Fred and Wilma Flintstone lighting and smoking cigarettes. Creators William Hanna (1910-2001) and Joseph Barbera (1911-2006) always maintained that the show was aimed at adults, not children. (Yabba dabba doo, I guess.)
Now … you know!
I remember finding the Flintstones Winston cigarette commercials on You Tube. But I also found this:
https://youtu.be/fEZGaLlLfcY
Wonder what Fred and Barney would think of the ongoing brew-haha involving Bud Light?🤣
Fred would say about Bud Light …
“Yabba dabba DON’T.”
For that matter, “Hogan’s Heroes” was supposedly based on “Stalag-17”, a deciddly on-comic POW movie
POW camps weren’t that fun I ever heard about, even if we’re just sticking to WW2 Europe.
Many of the main actors either spent time in concentration camps, or lost family members to them, or both. the guy that played Klink said he would only do so if the nazi’s were made to look like fools..
The actors who played Klink, Schultz, Burkhalter and Hochstetter were all Jewish. They only took the roles because the show made the Nazis look like idiots.
Robert Clary (Cpl. LeBeau) was an actual Auschwitz survivor, with his inmate number tattooed onto his forearm.
Third. I’ll take it.
Not first!
But congrats to the triple play
This would have been my little Brother’s 50th Birthday but sadly we lost him in a car crash a month after he turned 37. Still miss him.
Tough losing a sibling. Hug them while you can.
Coming up on 14 years since I lost my younger brother. I was on a deployment when it happened and the last time I saw him was about a month before I shipped out. The only positive about the whole situation was that we had buried the hatchet on a 3-year feud a few months before I went out so at least my last in-person words were not angry ones.
My brother had divorced his crazy witch of a wife, gotten a great new job and met someone really nice. Things were really looking up.
We had grown a little apart after he had married and we were able to get together and spend some time together after they split. It was kind of a heart breaker for everyone since he was such a nice guy and had gotten his life together.
That’s rough.
Prayers.
I found this on the Tube of You:
https://youtu.be/nvUZf1hb4Yw
Little ditty to commemorate this battle that was done by using the melody from Johnny Horton’s “Battle of New Orleans”, with the lyrics changed accordingly.
This just in.
Navy Somehow Even Gayer
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Against all odds, the U.S. Navy has somehow managed to become even gayer, sources say.
“We’ve always known this particular branch of the military to be the gayest of all of them, but even they have surprised us all with by the lengths to which they will go to make themselves even gayer,” said military journalist Dan Crullers. “They’ve truly outdone themselves here.”
Brand new Navy Recruitment Ambassador and drag queen Joshua Kelley, (they/them) broke the news on a Chinese spy app called TikTok that he would be assisting the military in its efforts to recruit more drag queens to strike fear in the hearts of America’s enemies. The campaign was created to help crew the brand new ship USS Harvey Milk and the nuclear submarine USS Sam Smith.
At publishing time, the Pentagon had also hired an inebriated Kid Rock to recruit new Marines.
Navy Somehow Even Gayer | Babylon Bee
Come on. It’s not as fun when you make fun of yourself.
Folk go Bud Light…
Be safe
That’s just wrong
A movie so great not even Jeremy Piven could ruin it.
My second deployment also.
Easy. Sully.
Man flies disabled.
No?
Is that the title of the much anticipated Daniel A. Bernath biopic?🤣 ✈️
Present & unaccountable.
Brother scheduled to be released from hospital tomorrow, Lord willing.
Y’all have a blessed weekend.
Best of luck and prayers to you and yours GB
Not even close. Not even going to contest the first comment position. Hack was busy driving around the Beltway in his Mobile Red Hat Software Delivery Vehicle. Ready at a moment’s notice to get your outdated and overpriced software to you in 30 years or less.
Is your delivery vehicle an ‘80’s vintage Jaguar with the smoke concealment option?
I once again declare myself PRESENT and award myself Honorary First once again.
((((OVER))))
Epstein did not kill himself.
DIRTY THIRTY (ish) you fucktards.
Way to go ROH you dirty DAWG!!!
Happy Lording over this buch of douchenozzles.
(Ladies of TAH obviously excluded!)
SMooches bitches!!
Americans will come up with any reason to party, to include a foreign holiday.
¡feliz cinco de mayo!
El Phildo works balls.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Who knew that our very own Green Thumb was bilingual!
A cunning linguist at that.
On a totally unrelated topic, meme
Better late than, you know.
Last C-141 flight on this day, 2006:
From Lockheed Martin (link)–
Video of the event:
Thanks.
I always liked to jump the 141, it was a smooth ride.
The pee bucket was also better than C130.
Yup, great paratroop transport aircraft. Loved how they extended those spoilers next to the jump doors.