Weekend Open Thread
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First!
Well played CW.
Many thanks!
Was this a 5-peat?!
Indeed it was … I am now an ACE.
Welcome to the WOT:FoF Aces Club®!
(I believe I aced, if not I’m stealing that valour!)
Roh-Dog: Confirmed WOT Ace status. Your five in a row WOT “Firsts” occurred during the period 21 Apr 23 to 19 May 23.
So let it be written.
Thank you very much!
I’m screen shoting this and framing it.
Nice, CW!
Thanks, Ed! Check out the trivia column … I finally got to use the Stonehenge tip you gave me.
I’ll just sit in as a Joker (or a Knave, whatev’)
Cong Rats at’cha.
I was going for it, but my internet crapped out at the worst possible moment! 😡
You too, eh?
I smell a skunk…
Welcome to the Club of ACE, Five (5) in a Row FIRSTs on the Vauntted EARNED NEVER AWARDED TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread, CW. It is a very small and Elite Group of The King of Battle, THE King of FIRST, The Queen of Battle, our very own Roh-Dog, and now His Majesty, Commissioner Wretched. We can form a Triumviate and Rule Despotically.
Well Played, Good Sir.
Damn a glick in the refresh mode!
Fuuuuuuuudddgggggggg….(Insert Ralphie in Christmas Story here 😀 )
Isn’t this 5 and an ACE?!?!?!
Well dip me in chocolate and have Kristi Noem & Lauren Boebert give me a tongue bath.
Have a fabuloous fucking FRIDAY, you bunch of paste eating , butt scratching toddlers.
1st
The WOT free fire zone is open.
Commence MEME!
Turd err 3rd
You MF’ers! Last week you had the sidewalk crew cut Hacks Verizon line, today you you sent the Verizon crew to lay he new line, and Hack’s Internet access was jammed up for the last five minutes.
AT LEAST you didn’t have any possible IED Coconuts appearing in your yard, count your blessings!
His mailbox probably has a door, too!
Happy Friday! Hope everyone had a good week. So today I will be sharing a video about the Japanese Ichi-Go Offensive. This is an operation most people don’t know about, but it still has a big impact on our world today: without 1944 Japan launching this operation, it would’ve been impossible for the communists to successfully occupy China (yeah, thanks Japan (sarcasm)). Not really a whole lot needs to be said about this (other than the government of Taiwan being the only legitimate government of China and not the communists occupying the country), so I’ll let Potential History take it from here:
I feel like I could’ve put more effort into this one. But work recently got crazy again. They’re also trying to to kill me with overwork this weekend (I only get Sunday off and I have to work two 12 hour shifts). But my vacation is coming up(I’ll be in Houston celebrating St. Paddy’s Day at my Uncle’s Irish Pub (I will be getting trashed)) and it’ll all be worth it, especially with the overtime. I will still be posting the final Potential History video about the Pacific Campaign (vacation or not) and it’ll be the final one. More effort will be put into the header for that one than the Ichi-Go topic. Have a great weekend!
“I will still be posting the final Potential History video about the Pacific Campaign (vacation or not) and it’ll be the final one.”
Redundant info is redundant. 🤦
YES! I made it! I’m an ACE! Knowing that the King of Battle holds the all-time acehood (aceness?) with being a double – or is it triple – ace, I think I’m in rarified company regardless. How many aces do we have in the WOT, anyway?
Regardless, my beloved subjects are now stuck with me on the WOT throne for yet another week. Five in a row, guys and gals. For that, you deserve some special treats, and the shops are all ordered open. And the trivia, of course!
DID YOU KNOW…?
Was Stonehenge once bought at an auction?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Copyright © 2024
The countdown to spring continues!
Though, to be perfectly honest, I hope this spring isn’t like the last couple we’ve had. In this particular area of the country (I can’t speak to where you are if you’re outside Georgia reading this), the last couple of years it seemed we went straight from winter to summer, with only a couple of hours of spring.
I hope it isn’t that way this year. We need spring. We need gradually warming days and gradually shortening nights. Not dumped on us all at once.
Let’s hope.
We need trivia, too, and here’s this week’s installment!
Did you know …
… your weight varies depending upon which planet you’re standing on? Let us say, for the sake of argument, that you weigh 100 pounds here on Earth. (For which, I envy you big time.) On Jupiter, the largest planet, you would weigh 236.4 pounds, because Jupiter’s gravity is the strongest of all planets in the Solar System. For the opposite end of the spectrum, you’d have to travel all the way to Pluto. On that frosty dwarf planet, your weight would be a measly 6.7 pounds. (That settles it. I’m moving to Pluto. Easier than dieting.)
… the patron saint of Ireland, famous for driving the snakes out of the country, never actually did so? The story goes that St. Patrick (408 AD-493 AD), after arriving in Ireland in 432, “drove all the snakes out of the island” and into the sea. The only problem with the story is, there were never any indigenous snakes on the island. Ireland is too far from any other land mass for snakes to swim to it. Modern scholars use the “snakes” story as an analogy of Patrick’s driving paganism out of the island and bringing in Christianity. Additional trivia note: The popular picture of St. Patrick with a shamrock is also a sham. Though Patrick may indeed have utilized the three-leaf clover to teach religious concepts, the first writing about his doing so did not appear until 1726. The story goes that Patrick used the shamrock for his lessons because it was sacred to the pagan Irish, but there is no documentation that the pagans ever considered it sacred. (You know why they use a shamrock, right? It’s too weird to use a real rock. The same applies for shampoo.)
… history has shown us some pretty silly ways of treating illnesses? Take this example: in the Middle Ages, it was believed by some people in Germany that kissing a donkey would relieve a toothache. (The lines I could do here are limitless, but I will restrain myself. I don’t want to make a … well, you know.)
… a famous chef cooked up a special “recipe” during World War II? Known for her long-running program The French Chef, Julia Child (1912-2004) worked for the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, during World War II. Her duties saw her working in the Emergency Sea Rescue Equipment Section, and in that role she helped develop a recipe for a shark repellent. (Oooh la la!)
… Stonehenge was once bought at an auction? In 1915, Cecil Chubb (1876-1934), a British millionaire, purchased the prehistoric monument known as Stonehenge at an auction and gave it to his wife Mary. She had reportedly sent him out that day to purchase chairs for the family dining room, and was not thrilled with his £6,600 ($199,378 in today’s dollars) purchase of the monument instead of the chairs – he slept in the guest room for months. Three years after the auction, Chubb donated Stonehenge to the British government, on the condition that the entrance fee would never be more than a shilling, and locals would always have free access. For the donation, Chubb was given the hereditary rank of baronet by British Prime Minister David Lloyd-George (1863-1945). (Thanks to Ed for the tip!)
… skating rinks go counter-clockwise for a reason? Most roller skating and ice skating rinks have people circling counter-clockwise because the majority of people are right-handed, and that direction allows them to hang on to the rail if they need to keep their balance. (I’m kind of glad they do it that way, myself.)
… no such bird as a “seagull” exists? There are 45 different species of gull; none of them are properly called seagulls, and many don’t live anywhere near the sea. (Hear that, Jonathan Livingston?)
… potatoes are grown in all 50 U.S. states? (Not coincidentally, potatoes are also eaten in all 50 U.S. states.)
… astronauts can be designated as such without actually being in space? NASA policy defines an astronaut as someone who has flown 50 miles above sea level. However, international agreements state that space actually begins 62 miles above sea level at a point called the Kármán line, named for physicist Dr. Theodore von Kármán (1881-1963). Dr. von Kármán determined that space actually begins at that height. (How’d he figure that?)
… the Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean? (A salty comment at best.)
… the closest U.S. airport to the North Pole is named for a pilot and a humorist? On August 15, 1935, an airplane took off from a lagoon near Barrow, Alaska, with humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935) and pilot Wiley Post (1898-1935). The airplane crashed on takeoff, killing both men. When an airport was constructed in the town, it was named after both, and is called Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport. Additional trivia note: the town of Barrow is no longer officially called that. It now goes by its Inuit name, Utqiagvik. The airport is about nine miles from the point where Rogers and Post went down. (And no, I have no idea how to pronounce Utqiagvik.)
Now … you know!
You really ACED the Trivia this week, CW. Draw ye self an extry ration of Lois Loins.
However, international agreements state that space actually begins 62 miles above sea level at a point called the Kármán line, named for physicist Dr. Theodore von Kármán (1881-1963). Dr. von Kármán determined that space actually begins at that height. (How’d he figure that?)
Pretty easy to figure out. At 62 miles, you can’t hear the astronauts screaming.
Laziness; it’s 100 km.
“Knowing that the King of Battle holds the all-time acehood (aceness?)…”
I believe the proper phrase is holding the ace-hole.
This vast chicken wing conspiracy now includes corporate America. How much did Commissioner Wretched pay Verizon to take down Hack’s access just as the Weekend Open Thread was posted?
This isn’t over. Hack Stone was his loyal followers to peacefully and patriotically destroy everything near and dear to Commissioner Wretched. And if they are not willing to show that level of commitment, how about giving him a wedgie and some noogies?
I’ll parade around CW’s statuary hall with his speaker podium while wearing a funny hat.
Let’s see if I can have a court date in this decade.
Restraining orders and public disturbance arrests are resume enhancers at All Points Logistics. They still have an open req for their Reston Virginia office.
No one can order me to restrain from being disturbed by the public!
To include charges of fraud, theft and shitbaggery.
You’re looking at 16 months solitary confinement while you wait.
Hack Stone, ARE YOU SURE your computer wasn’t slowed down by some outdated Red Hat Software?
Well blame the Y3K software.
Y’know, FUNNY HOW I saw a number of “Y2K Stores” in 1998-99 selling people things for the upcoming predicted Y2K apocalypse which never happened, and by the first week of January 2000, they were empty storefronts!
Open Thread! Some of you may remember.
The Vietnam Interview: A Date With Chris Noel:
https://cherrieswriter.com/2024/03/02/the-vietnam-interview-a-date-with-chris-noel/
23RD!
Well, if Hack Stone was not virtually cock blocked, he would have posted the following:
Oh, all knowing and wise Magic 8-Ball, it has been so long since Hack Stone was bestowed the highly coveted and rarely awarded First Comment for The Weekend Open Thread, will his fortune change for the March 1, 2024 Weekend Open Thread? Magic 8-Ball says…
Oh, all knowing and wise Magic 8-Ball: is Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) still a turd?
YES
DEFINITELY
I thought so.
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) will always be a turd.
Does the reveal of a FAKE TRADEMARK interest anyone here?
Green +1 is better than red -3, so here it is.
Notice the circle TM?
And here?
I don’t even know where to begin. Your misunderstanding of the law is head-scratching epic though.
5JC,
How so?
I have yet to reveal the 2023 process.
5JC,
Do you see it all now?
He not only uses the trademark claim to raise donations,
he uses the trademark claim to sell merch and bling licensing.
I promise y’all I AM A REAL A Proud Infidel®™!
A Proud Infidel*^*,
I see what you did there.
lol 🙂
Hold your Alt key while typing 0174 for ®, do the same with 0153 for ™! 😀
A Proud Infidel«Ö,
My PC comes up with these…. « and Ö.
I only ever memorized Alt 171 and 172 –> ½ and ¼.
Must be something like outdated Red Hat Software or some other junk like that in your computer!
Option (which is the ‘alt’ key) and r for ® and option 2 for ™ on Mac.
Dunno if they’ve changed it as the Cookification of Apple seems to be: change what works and spend billions on things that won’t.
None of them work on this Chromie! Probably the short (open) between the operator’s brain and his fingers.
r2d2 is just a motorized trashcan with video/audio option.
A Proud Infidel½¼,
Your promise is the ONLY comment in this thread
drawing any thumbs.
lol 🙂
Here is the trademark claim, as seen TODAY 3/8/24
on the website page that asks for donations.
https://veteransfortrump.us/donate/
Trouble is,
the United States Patent and Trademark Office says differently.
According to the USPTO on 11/17/23,
application ABANDONED.
Meaning, not approved.
Based on the above,
someone else out there on the interwebby
went on a little digging expedition…. and found this.
According to the USPTO 4 days ago, on 3/4/24,
application ABANDONED.
Meaning, not approved.
Verified. No change.
————————————————
That’s pretty bad,
for someone (anyone) out there to slap the circle TM
all over their website(s), signage, merch, and bling.
Especially a civilian CEO (never served a day),
claiming to own the “Veterans for Trump” trademark for years,
and conning OTHER veterans (and donors!) into believing it.
2024 is about to get a whole lot more interesting
for these green sign unofficial Veterans for Trump folks.
Anyone here can go verify all this for yourself / yourselves.
Happy hunting….
https://www.uspto.gov/
I am sure Phil Monkress has stolen it already…
Green Thumb,
We may know who claims the trademark
for the phrase “Veterans for Trump”
in as little as 1-2 weeks.
And the likely new claimant
is not that far away from Monkress.
Here’s a hint,
that should make many commenters here happy.
Now everyone can scroll up,
and re read this trademark thread again,
from the beginning.
And enjoy it.
https://veterans.donaldjtrump.com/
Conclusion –
MarineDad61 played a small but important
quiet background role online
in sharing “Veterans for Trump” trademark status and questions
with several others around the USA,
and encouraged the double verification by others
(cellphone screenshots above)
that occurred this past week.
MarineDad61 stepped up, and played the primary key role
in contacting officials in 3 states,
ensuring the actual status of the abandoned trademark
reached Trump 2024 campaign HQ in Florida.
MarineDad61 has already been thanked by a lawyer
and campaign director for the Trump 2024 campaign.
———-
TRUTH IN IRONY –
All this came about in late 2023,
and the participation of MarineDad61 became key in 2024,
due to all the lies and bullshit by Stan and Teddy.
Specifically,
the lies and bullshit under the banner of “Veterans for Trump”,
phony vouching for JR Majewski and his false “vindication”,
and VFAF/VFT throwing around their green sign “endorsements”
for Fall 2023, and now again in a large way in 2024.
———-
What Trump 2024 campaign HQ chooses to do with all this,
in coordination with a consortium of senior retired veterans
(there are 2 groups of senior veterans already in contact
with Trump 2024 campaign HQ over this),
we may all likely see in the next 1-2 weeks.
It might make the news.
Or at least,
result in a new wave of campaign emails directed at veterans.
For those of you who are veterans,
and support Trump for President in 2024…….
You’re welcome. 🙂
Remember to set your clocks ahead one hour this weekend. Failure to do so will make you late for Church Sunday morning, and that can lead to Mass Confusion.
What is a clock? My phone and computer tell me the time and never need adjustment.
AZ says fuck daylight saving time and fuck Joe Biden.
Damn skippy!
Parts of Indiana says the same thing, mostly east of Indianapolis.
I run on Zulu time. It saves time (see what I did there?) trying to
reset everything.
Does not matter.
“Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) will steal from the American taxpayer in any time zone or any time set.
Finding all of the manuals to reset the various time pieces at Stately Stone Manor is too much effort. Hack Stone finds it easier to just relocate to a Central Time Zone until next fall.
THIRTY-sump’n and I award myself Honorary First once again, I blame that outdated software someone sold my Wife from the trunk of a worn-out jag.
*Rustle-rustle*
((((OVER))))
Epstein did not kill himself.
Today’s FBI is the DNC’s Political Gestapo (MONITOR THAT!)
Any reference or mention of Paul (of the ballsack) makes me laugh. Once every year or so I go back and read the longer discussion threads where this group shred his ass in the comments.
(rustle rustle)
the *Rustle-rustle* comes from whatshisface, some sue-aholic who filed junk lawsuits against anyone he thought was calling him out on his SV and then somehow turned himself into a Rorschach ink blot in a Florida forest.
The glory days of IEC’s (Improvised Explosive Coconuts) and Flaming Squirrels. The posers these days are weak sauce. None of them could hold a candle to Dallas Wittgenfeld, mostly because all of those alcohol fumes emanating from him are highly combustible.
The competition is fierce.
That is interesting.
A nice, big CROCK of Giduck! Part of me wonders where he is now, and the rest doesn’t GAF.
And a huge, steaming pile of Phil Monkress.
Are you referring to our beloved Lawn Dart Danny, putative leader of the Dutch Rudder Gang?
He actually changed his name to Palmer.
Hence Paul-mer (of the ballsack).
Several years past after his failure to intimidate.
Regardless, different name, same loser.
Perused the interwebs for components of CPT Miller’s “Sticky Bomb”. Will publish the NSN’s if anybody is interested. /s
Presented for your consideration. Joe was not a very good Airman and his Sergeant rode him hard. Everyone tried to help Joe but he just wasn’t getting it, he was behind in his training and his work was not improving. One day the other Airmen thought the Sgt had gone too far, they spoke to Joe and asked what was he going to do about it. Joe said not to worry, it would be taken care of soon; the Airmen noted a smile on Joe’s face.
What, the Airmen wondered, did that mean? Was Joe going to do something stupid? Some thought maybe a local slot was found for him, a job for which he would be a better fit. Maybe he found a course or book that would help him catch up. Others thought maybe the unit commander had talked to him about an entry level discharge. Maybe, or perhaps remotely, the Sgt was going to be charged with maltreatment of a subordinate under Art 93. All hoped he wasn’t going to try to take the Sgt or himself out.
Soon arrived the next day. Joe proudly marched into the shop decked out in his blue service uniform; but wait, he wasn’t wearing a stripe on his sleeve. No indeed, Joe had placed a gold bar on his epaulets. He announced he was in charge now and where is the Sgt, the one who’d made his life a living hell?
If Joe was looking for a discharge, he got it; however, not the type he was expecting.
I often wonder how many stolen valor cases have the same back story as Joe.
Surprise, surprise…
https://tomklingenstein.com/leaked-air-force-memo-reveals-racial-quota-system/
Expectations not quotas. We learned this when the USAF went from Airman Performance Reports to Enlisted Performance Reports. “We expect to see 95% of the Airmen serving at this rank will get 5 EPRs”. The reality was if your EPR was the 96th one filed that year; you were getting a 4; but it wasn’t a quota.
Had some black friends that were promoted meritoriously and some Hispanic buddies too. They told me to look at the promotions real close. It seemed every black or non white guy always made it the first time. Could not prove it but grumblings among the company commenced. And just like that Caucasian guys started making it too. No lie they called their selves Quota Corporals.
Everybody gets a TS?
Present & unaccountable.
Trying to get some crops in the ground when not at work has proved difficult this spring. Still hope to get some corn, okra, tomatoes, jalapenos, and butternut squash in.
Y’all have a great weekend.
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) works balls in the hall at All-Points logistics HQ (Merritt Island, Florida) with a man named Paul-mer (of the ballsack) while avoiding calls seeking clarification of his highly dubious and potentially felonious Native American, Navy SEAL and Law Enforcement Officer claims that he uses to secure government-based, minority-set aside taxpayer-funded contracts to line his pockets and those of his new batch of “Phildo Supporters”.
Fucking loser.
FJB!
My blood is boiling:
Is this part of his “job creation” that he touts?
I’ll see your Lieutenant with a compass and raise with an Ensign and a sextant.
Reminds Hack of that film classic “Weekend At Bernath’s”.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/weekend-ohio-bernie-759023
Not seen in 45 years, between 1976 and 2022.
Pulled from reruns after airing.
Margaret Hamilton (at age 73) scared the crap out of kids
as the Wicked Witch….
who showed up on Sesame Street.
11:20 is a fake Indian, she got busted and blames everybody else.
Buffy Saint-Marie
That (like this) is now “too scary” for kids:
Of course, this (though a parody) was about our speed as kids:
National Guard helicopter crashes near Texas border, killing two: sources (msn.com)
Note there are four more badly injured. They were assigned to work with the BP but they are not a part of the Texas effort.
Prayers for all of them and their families
Bisbee Arizona
I shot this 3 weeks ago
That looks like the town they filmed the movie Evolution. Beauty movie.
They filmed parts of it in page Arizona, the Mall shots are the old Metro center mall off of I-17 in north phoenix… the university shots are ASU and I think GCU if memory serves me right
Tombstone, the town too tough to die. Bisbee, the town too stupid to die.
And nearly every nut there is or could be a drug trafficker…. I swear I get the oddest feeling every time I’m there
It’s like Mayberry on acid.
Word ^^^^^^^^
I can just see Otis shooting up with his brown bag nearby.
Otis
He’s probably occupying a stool at St. Elmo’s.
PHONY ALERT – PHONY ALERT
This guy Craig Ennis is running for Congress,
in a crowded primary field, for VA-07,
the I-95 corridor between DC and Richmond, to replace Spanberger.
GOP primary on June 18.
From teenage VANG 11B,
to hand picked for “Delta Force”,
to claiming credit for coming up with plans for multiple “Operations”.
It gets worse.
(paste) I was Special Advisor for Covert Operations for President George W Bush a self-appointed position to verify Just ask Former President George W. Bush he probably can’t talk about it now that he is not President anymore.
All of my work for 3 US Presidents is classified it’s a unique situation where all of anything I was writing was Eyes Only to The President of the United States.
(end paste)
Link to his campaign webpage.
https://www.va7th.com/
Sweet baby Jesus, what did I just read? This guy’s crazier than a rat in a tin shithouse!
SFC,
It’s looney tunes.
This guy is delusional. I guess I could claim to be a Delta operator, as I once had a cocktail with Charlie Beckwith at an O club bar at Ft. Bragg. This POSer should have read the book by a former SMAJ of Delta. He would have learned about how Delta recruits and selects soldiers for “the unit.” It doesn’t even look at 18 year-olds, let alone one who is a trainee in an ANG unit. His Delta story is completely laughable. Delta only recruits experienced active duty soldiers from the Ranger battalions and the Special Forces groups. I would speculate that the youngest of them are in their mid twenties, with at least four to six years of AD.
I read Charlie’s book, now I, too, can claim Delta! I occasionally eat at the Trident Grille, so SEAL is covered… now I gotta tie in Ranger and SF.
It’s nice to to know that spelling and punctuation are not a prerequisite for seeking elected office, much like being Vice President of a proud but humble woman owned business that sells outdated and overpriced Red Hat Software to the federal government.
Facepalm
ADMINS – Since this primary election is over 3 months away,
is that enough time to ship off a request for his FOIA military service records, and get them back before mid June?
Not going to need it. He is a complete narcissist nutter.
So I’m watching Ben-Hur on AMC and I’m very disappointed. Not a single mention of Biggus Dickus. Or his wife.
What are Ben Hur’s personal pronouns?
Prince, Slave, Christian, Chosen one of the Lord.