Weekend Open Thread
Back when I posted about the 102-year-old man and wall graffiti, I tried to get images generated. However, the image generator was operating slowly. I had to settle for another image as it was taking too long to receive the generated images. They eventually came out. Here’s one of the results. Enjoy your weekend!
Category: Open thread
First!
Dang! Missed it by 2 seconds.
A Sloppy SECONDS Place Trophy awaits you in the Lady’s Room, Hack Stone. And no…you won’t find Elaine Ricci in there because…she’s no lady.
A Cong Rat to our Intrepid Reporter of all things Trivial, Commissioner Wretched. An EARNING of The Coveted TAH WOT FIRST and the charms of Lois Lane. Surely is a vast amount of Chicken Wings here.
Damn, I’ve got to be on the ball 5 minutes early/…
WTF!!! IT’S LIKE SOME KIND OF MILITARY CONSPIRACY.
If you’re not 15 minutes early YOU’RE LATE!!
Anyway Big Fuck you to all your dumb cheating asses….!!!
(I was actually at the table on time today.)
And love to OAM and all the other ladies of TAH….
PRESENT!!!
Oh and …..
Oh wise and all knowing Magic Ball, please grant a well deserving Director of Media Relations for a proud but humble woman owned business that sells outdated and overpriced Red Hat Software to the Federal Government a break and bestow upon him the highly regarded and rarely awarded First Comment for This Ain’t Hell’s Weekend Open Thread for Friday April 19,2024. And in your never ending benevolence, please bring Elaine Ricci back to her loved ones.
Hack Stone blames the Commodore 64 in the World Corporate Headquarters of the proud but humble woman owned business that sells outdated overpriced Red Software to the Federal Government.
Stop lying. You guys don’t have a Commodore 64 in your office. Someone on “the inside” told me you guys have a Commodore VIC-20.
https://youtu.be/WcWM_1hBu_c?si=dXbWjIrtj2Ad34sc🤣
Are you (both) sure it’s not a Texas Instruments TI-99/4a?
BONUS (not in a good way) – TV commercial with Bill Cosby.
Perhaps they’re using this cutting-edge technology:
https://youtu.be/5QFV7eovE7w?si=vXAlaGwhQjVDUe-w
😉
Apple…
Vic 20 was my first computer way back in the day, complete with 300 baud modem.
Was it an acoustic coupler?🤣
Huh. I heard it was an old Trash-80:
Unlike my PDP-11
Hey, now, I did pretty cool things with a TRS-80 Model 1 and with my TRS-80 Color Computer 2!🤣
I too, had a trash 80 color in high school. 1982 Two.
16 K memory I think I was writing seven pages of a 10 page term paper on Word document and maxed out the memory and had to print out seven pages clear the memory and type the last three pages imagine that.
Zombie thread
Ah, the Model 4P… luggable, as it were.
FIRST!
Denied!
Iiiiii
Fixed I say. I want to see the security video !!!! 😀
Well, it doesn’t count unless you say “First” anyway … so there’s that. 😉
It’s in ancient Sumerian Sanskrit from a little known tribe wiped out by Thulsa Doom. A lousy governor then cut off Thulsa’s head. Yeah that’s my story.
Only video we have is a scratchy 8mm clip that looks something like Bigfoot strolling across the grassy knoll.
Back in the saddle again …
Good to have the throne under my six this week! Maybe I can start another double-ace run? We’ll see how that turns out. Meanwhile, time for a trivia drop, so let’s enjoy this one! And I acknowledge the assist from a couple of weeks ago. Thanks, guys!
DID YOU KNOW…?
Was a classic television police series set for another reboot when its creator died?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Copyright 2024
After seven years of this nonsense, I don’t make too many mistakes, but when I make one, it’s a killer.
Three weeks ago, I said that penguins were the only birds who can swim but not fly. I was rather quickly reminded of birds like the cassowary, the ostrich, the rhea, the emu, the kiwi, and many other flightless birds who can swim.
Penguins are the only ones who can dive.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa … I goofed. Thanks to my friends at valorguardians.com who pointed it out to me. Maybe I can get this week’s trivia right!
Did you know …
… a classic artist only sold two paintings during his lifetime? The popular story about Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is that he only sold one painting – The Red Vineyard – and that sale took place in 1889. But records show that van Gogh did sell at least one more painting, although neither went for a very good price: The Red Vineyard sold for 400 francs, the equivalent of £16 at the time. (Hard to make a living at that, wouldn’t you say?)
… a popular theme park is taken over by cats every night? Disneyland, the huge theme park in Anaheim, California, is overrun by stray cats every night. The park embraces the cats, because they keep the mouse population in check. Disney even treats the cats like pets, including spaying and neutering and making sure they are up to date on their shots. (There’s something disquieting about Disneyland using cats to keep down … mice.)
… goats have been used as torture devices? The “tickle torture,” devised by the ancient Romans, involved dipping the victim’s feet in salt water, then bringing in a goat to lick the salt water off. It would begin as something ticklish, but would soon degenerate to real pain. (A baaa-a-a-d thing to do.)
… ancient Romans always entered the home of a friend with their right foot? The Romans believed the left side of the body was thought to portend evil. The Latin word for left, in fact, is sinister. Our English word “sinister” means anything malevolent or threatening, and it derives directly from that Roman belief. (A pretty sinister thought.)
… only six species of animal are known to be able to recognize themselves in a mirror? Humans, of course, but also apes, dolphins, orcas, elephants, and European magpies have shown the ability to recognize themselves in mirrors, and not think the image is a different animal. (Humans are, however, the only ones who don’t always like what they see.)
… a classic television police drama was set for another reboot when its creator died? Dragnet, a police procedure drama which showed much of the minutiae of law enforcement, first aired on television from 1951 to 1959, starring its creator, Jack Webb (1920-1982). Webb brought the show back from 1967 to 1970, again playing the lead role of Sergeant Joe Friday. He was developing a third incarnation of the show in 1982, when he passed away from a heart attack. Each reboot featured Friday with a new partner: when the 1967 version was planned, original partner Ben Alexander (1911-1969) was working on Felony Squad and was not available, so Webb chose Harry Morgan (1915-2011) as his partner. Morgan was not available in 1982 when Webb was planning a return of the show as he was committed to AfterMASH, so Webb was said to be working with actor Kent McCord (born 1942) to reprise his role from Adam-12 as Friday’s new partner. Additional trivia note: The series was indeed rebooted in 2003 as L.A. Dragnet, with actor Ed O’Neill (born 1946) playing now-Lieutenant Joe Friday. The show became more of an ensemble police drama after its first twelve episodes, and was cancelled during its second season. The Los Angeles Police Department retired Joe Friday’s badge number 714 as a tribute to Webb. Also, a 1987 comedy movie was made based on the series, with Dan Aykroyd (born 1952) as the namesake nephew of Webb’s original character. Morgan appeared in the film as Captain Bill Gannon, reprising his character from the 1967 series. (Just the facts, ma’am.)
… the Earth’s ozone layer is vital to life? Sure, you don’t breathe it, but ozone – a molecule consisting of three atoms of oxygen bonded together – blocks much of the ultraviolet light that comes from the Sun. A 10% loss of the Earth’s ozone could result in 300,000 additional skin cancers and 1.75 million additional cases of cataracts world-wide each year. (Save the ozone!)
… the apple has been a symbol of love since the time of the ancient Greeks? The Celts believed that the apple represented love because it lasted so long after being picked. (I wish love lasted as long.)
… a fully-loaded supertanker needs 20 minutes to stop at normal speeds? The captain of the ship has to cut the tankers’ engines 15 miles away from the dock to be able to safely get into port. (That’s a long time to stand on the brakes!)
… some ancient customs were really extreme? Take, for example, the ancient customs observed by inhabitants of the island of Fiji. Back in the day, when a man on Fiji died, it was expected that his wives, his friends, and his slaves should all be strangled. (No comment.)
… the comprehension level of the American people has declined? Yeah, like you needed me to tell you that. But you can also prove it, at least with one indicator: according to studies, modern-day speeches by American presidents are geared to the comprehension level of a seventh grade student. By comparison, speeches by presidents in the late 1960s and early 1970s were geared to twelfth-grade comprehension. (I’ll let you select the president you want to pick on about this.)
Now … you know!
It doesn’t take a detective to discover that your trivia is the apple of the WOT. Everyone loves it…whether you lead in with a right hook or a left jab. Some have been known to nearly strangle themselves laughing, even those with lower than expected comprehension. As breathtaking as a lack of ozone…or the vision of OAM! We like the fact that we can sail away on the ship of knowledge each Friday. You do have the art of trivia down to a science. You are the cat’s meow!
One of my emotional support animals is a bird that neither flies nor swims. A bird that hangs out in the yard. I’ll take a four (4) piece…with biscuits…and smashed taters with gravy.
So, do the friends and slaves of those killed to mourn the loss of the initial dead man also get strangled? Inside of a week you could wipe out the entire population.
In that society, it would be wise to only have a few acquaintances and no friends.
To the ancient Greeks, a single apple also caused the Trojan War.
Your opening line made me think of this song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lX8GG3dnsp8
I remember I was jamming “Dream On” in my apartment back in ‘95 and one of my roommates, who swore up and down that he was a die-hard Aerosmith fan, asked me, “Did Aerosmith just come out with a new album?”
I responded, “No…this was off their first album.”
He replied, “This wasn’t on Permanent Vacation!”
To which I retorted, “Motherfucker, Permanent Vacation was NOT Aerosmith’s first album. They’ve been around since ‘73”
Muh-fugger probably thought that Run-DMC gave Aerosmith their big break with “Walk This Way.”🤣
Sometimes you can only inform stupid, ya can’t always fix it.
This just came to mind:
https://youtu.be/5UJ8SriS6rg?si=aWkVYgeDM2YkjVF4
Aerosmith performing “Dream On” live for MTV’s 10th Anniversary. I love this version and the orchestral arrangement. Hard to believe this was over 30 years ago. Damn…I feel old. 🤣🍺
I see your Aerosmith orchestra, and offer up some super tramp fools overture with orchestra.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6aWDxuhD0FI&pp=ygUNcm9nZXIgaG9kZ3Nvbg%3D%3D
Dummies be dummies.
Me: “Yup, Paul McCartney was in a band.”
Dummy: “No way!”
Me: “For real.”
Dummy: “… Wings!”
Me: “Yeah, but keep going.”
Wow…
Maybe Dummy should take Abbey Road in a Jet…to Junior’s Farm…and just Let It Be…or start a career as a Paperback Writer. Unless he meets Lucy in The Sky, he’ll become a member of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club.
What’s amusing is … I was channeling Gene Autry, not Aerosmith.
I’m an old fart.
Maybe, but an entertaining old fart.
I don’t have a body of water deep enough but, if properly motivated, I’m pretty sure the flightless Indian Runner Duck could dive.
Those cheeky bastards will find a way to misbehave and if freedom or a female duck (hen) was placed on the other side of a submerged barrier, they’re finding the skill.
Happy Friday! Hope everyone had a good week. So this week I’ll be doing another History Buffs Post, this time about a historical movie that was just alright. I’m talking about Roland Emmerich’s Midway (2019). Now when compared to Emmerich’s other “historical” movies (see 10,000 BC and The Patriot(gross)), Midway is surprisingly a historically accurate movie. It’s probably nothing compared to the 1976 version (which I’ve only seen as a kid, so I vaguely recall that film), but, while it is a largely historically accurate, I give the film a C+ to a B-. This is largely due to a a really stupid creative decision Emmerich makes at the end of the film. Otherwise, I would’ve said the film deserved a B to a B+. But anyway, History Buffs will explain more:
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Right, so I was able to put this together in one day and it probably shows. I’ve been having alot on my plate recently and, due to a family emergency, I will not be moving to Texas this year. It’s disappointing, but it’s the right thing to do. But for the next movie review done by History Buffs, I’ll be committing more time to it because the next one will be about a terrible history movie where I want to contribute my own thoughts in ripping it to shreds. Stay tuned and have a great weekend!
Oh, and I forgot: I give A Bridge to Far an A to an A+. Forgot to do that last week.
“to” => “too”
🤦
On station.
Joe Short-Dicks Every Cannibal On The Congo!
Biden’s Cannibal Quips Slammed by Papua New Guinea Experts
Dan Ladden-Hall
President Joe Biden’s baffling suggestion that his uncle might have been eaten by cannibals after a plane crash off Papua New Guinea during World War II has, unsurprisingly, not gone over great with the people who actually live there or have carefully studied the region’s history.
The Democrat made the comments Wednesday while discussing the fate of Ambrose Finnegan, whom he affectionately referred to as “Uncle Bosie.” “He got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be—there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea,” Biden said.
Open mouth. Insert foot.
-The potato-brain guide to the US Presidency.
That’s how they started eating Uncle Bosey. Bet you can’t eat just one.
They never found Uncle Bosie’s body because it is in the fuselage of the A-20 Havoc that ran out of fuel and went down in the ocean. Anyway, so says the sole survivor of this non-combat mishap where 2LT Bosie was a strap-hanger in the rear compartment of the aircraft. Bosie was a victim of inept piloting and rests in Davey Jones locker. His pilot was an LT, as well.
If only the pilot behind the controls of that aircraft completed his DEI training, Uncle Bosey would be with us today. No joke.
And that’s no malarky, Stoneyboy.
I should clarify that in the official loss report of the subject A-20, it was the sole survivor who was in the rear of the plane that reported the plane ran out of fuel. Since he could not see the fuel gauges in the cockpit, there no way for him to have known that unless the pilot announced that on the intercom. So that maybe why the official DPAA report only says the plane went down after both engines shut down, as the A-20 was capable of maintaining altitude with one engine out and its prop feathered.
Occom’s Razor says they ran out of gas. A fuel system malfunction perhaps? We’ll never know, but I’m fairly certain cannibals were not in the mix.
In 2013, the local cannibals in the vicinity of Sisters Eagle Airport in Sister’s Oregon were all set for a banquet, but when Daniel Bernath emerged from the wreckage, they determined that he was past his “Best If Used By” date, by several decades.
He just looked old, tough and indigestible, even back then.
Your Weekend Safety Brief.
Some asshole needs to send the white house a bag of beef jerky labeled as “Uncle Bosey”
Uncle Ben’s was on the box of rice. Uncle Bosey (Bosie?) was on a box of Soylent Green.
A long distance dedication for Joe Biden.
https://youtu.be/yRYFKcMa_Ek?si=kdmMDaxjTnoJK40N
Damn…that is COLD-BLOODED!
Happy weekend!
Real “Blinker Fluid” is a 50/50 mix of the following items:
6810-00-107-1510 and 6810-00-249-9354 / s
Present once again, and happy to be here.
Open Thread!
Alas. It is no more.
http://vnwarstories.com/Images/image.TigerLandTruck.png
Also, does anyone feel like flying nowadays?
Boeing… the Ford Pinto of the aviation world.
I was introduced to a saying that I hope never becomes cliché. “Veteran status is not inherited”.
Not First, not last.
Media is all wound up over the flaming protester today which
got me to wondering what happened to the starvation guy from
a couple weeks ago. Did he keel over yet or is he still there.
I’m gonna grill a twenty dollar ribeye tonight out on the porch
in honor of both those heroes.
Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell is still listed in the Air Force Global Access List. Hack Stone is dying to send him an email to see if he gets an “Out Of Office” reply. Today’s assignment for the Adorable Deplorables who haunt this page is to post below what Senior Airman Bushnell’s Out Of Reply reads. Funniest post receives a one year subscription to a copy of Y3K software and a ride around the National Capital Beltway in a 2989’s vintage Jaguar.
2989?
It’s like the car in Back To The Future. Psul is trying to get back to 2013 to stop himself from agreeing to defend Phil Monkress’ fictitious military career.
You never cease to amaze, Hack. Well played sir.
Hack could admit he fucked up, or he can be like Phil Monkress, ignore his transgressions while somehow convincing an intellectually challenged executive to attack those exposing his lies. Let’s be more like Phil Monkress.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
“This is Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell, things have been heating up in my personal life and while on leave I will be burning through these issues before returning for my next graveyard shift.”
Gives a new meaning to “flaming asshole”.
Some would think the protester was a Trump fan. But he was seen earlier carrying a sign or poster claiming Trump is secretly in cahoots with Biden to bring about a totalitarian world dictatorship or something. Maybe he thought they planned to rule an empire like Caesar and Pompei of the Roman Republic.
I wonder how long it will be before portable gas cans and matches/lighters are banned “for our own good”.
Happy Patriot’s Day!
Celebrate the day, April 19, 1775. We took on tyranny in our Founding Fathers time. Our Lexington & Concord is yet to be determined. But…it’s coming…Prepare
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PRESENT and unaccountable as i award myself another Honorary First.
*rustle-rustle*
((((OVER))))
BE SAFE this weekend and DON’T get careless around any stray coconuts in the driveway.
Epstein did not kill himself.
DON’T pee on the electric fence either!
Re electric fence warning… you’re about 55 years too late on that advice. Be aware of your surroundings. There’s a reason why the grass is taller at the fence line.
Yeah. Never pissed on an electric fence, but a 10 year-old shirtless D didn’t know about that grass thing and walked straight into an electric fence.
For the LAST TIME….That’s MY line
*Rustle Rustle*
(((OVER)))
Another genius with a statement to make, that includes a Bic lighter.
(paste)
Horror as Max Azzarello lights himself on fire outside Donald Trump’s New York City trialwith ‘body engulfed in flames’
Journalists outside the courthouse described how the smell of burning human flesh engulfed the area
(end paste)
Video with close up view here…..
https://www.the-sun.com/news/11135909/fire-outside-courthouse-nyc-donald-trump-trial/
After the 1st round of fire extinguishers …
his ass flared up again.
Commence with the new nicknames…..
I’m only on beer #2 and laughing way too hard at this. I’m sorry Lord, that ain’t funny…
Yes, it is.
Be with the starving pygmies down in Africa. Amen.
Go Leftists!
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UPDATE – Dead
(paste)
The man, identified by police as 37-year-old Max Azzarello,
was declared dead by staff at a hospital Friday night,
according to the NYPD.
Azzarello had walked into Collect Pond Park in Lower Manhattan around 1:30 p.m. on Friday, opened a bookbag, and threw pamphlets containing conspiracy theories into the air, according to NYPD Chief of Department James Maddrey.
(end paste)
https://www.abc27.com/news/man-who-set-himself-on-fire-outside-trump-trial-courthouse-has-died-police-say/
I’d like to be sarcastic and say he made the world a better place, but he probably did.
They have a job opening with his former employer.
The job market is going gang busters.
If you have Pluto TV Streaming, this evening at 22:30 Eastern Time, the 70’s Cinema Channel will be airing the ultimate Bro Film, Brian’s Song. Watch it now before Hollywood ruins it with a remake with a diverse cast of Gender Fluid Non-Binary furries.
They did a remake in 2001. It flopped. I have never understood why Hollywood keeps remaking old classics. There’s a reason they are called classics … some things just don’t need to be redone.
If you have 8 minutes to spare, check out this video. One of thew entertainers who can actually do a good job hosting a Hollywood awards show.
https://youtu.be/NMJt18T1rJk?si=HhnSsoYJKpPrfSho
He probably isn’t allowed near any Hollywood awards show after he pissed off, or made audience laugh nervously at his last stint as host.
Amazing, isn’t it, how being told the truth about themselves makes them nervous and pissed off?
Indeed it is.
Present.
Had an interesting episode yesterday when my F150 and a “Pilot Car” p/u crested the same hill, same lane, going opposite directions. Slowly. The motorcycle behind him (too close) laid it down when he slammed on the brakes – after I’d already gone into the grass.
No PPE on the motorcyclist, but I think he’ll be ok.
Made it to brother’s doctors’ appointment OK, as well.
Strange day.
Congrats to CW!
Here are the keys to the TAH WOT:FoF Throne Room and Strategic Earwax Reserve.
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Also, say what you’d like about Harbor Freight. Yes, mother fuck those chicoms but my goodness do they make a 21º framing nailer.
Sure, it ain’t pretty, or light in the britches, but it’s the least moody pneumatic nail chucker I’ve ever used. Time will tell.
Got out the door with two boxes of collated and the nailer for less than a professional-grade gun.
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Tomorrow is the birthday of the ‘most fantasized target of infanticide’, fwiw.
Is that Adolf Schickelgruber?
Can you imagine the hilarity of thousands of massed Germans shouting, in all seriousness …
“Heil Schickelgruber!”
humm
I always liked Charle Chaplin better, but I guess rules are rules!
It’d be better there than a UN refugee camp?
I lucked out and found a Bostitch framing nailer on clearance at Lowe’s. Something like $220 marked down to $55; I thought the display was the last one, but an employee found one new in box in the overhead. They had a bunch of nails on clearance too, so I still have boxes of those.
That more or less completed my nailer assortment. I’ve got the DeWalt 20v Max finish nailer, Ryobi 18v brad and pin nailers, and pneumatic Makita and Hitachi roofing nailers.
As for DaBaby, funny how kids grow up, isn’t it? Innocent Austrian kid to failed artist to German Corporal to failed coup and prison time, all before rocketing to the top of the German government, seeing some of the country’s greatest victories, then [mis]leading the entire nation and its allies into abject and total defeat.
Just a note about something that is happening that gives people in the Stolen Valor Community a bad name.
Someone is spamming Jon Vigue’s Widow’s Facebook Page with the SV Posts and saying she’s guilty of collaborating with him because she hasn’t taken down any of his photos,
Its been three months since he died. He was called out and anyone who searches his name will see he was a Poser.
Whats going with this now is appalling and I want no part of being in a group of people that condone this.
I agree with you, -Old Dog. I don’t have Fake Book so I can’t see what is posted there. This dood took his lies to the grave with him and had probably lied to his now widow the whole time they were together. No one needs to be giving her a hard time, the POS she was married to did that to her.
I would doubt that any of our Admin would be making or condoning any posts on that page. Admin has no control over what an individual that may comment on this site posts on a Fake Book page…and are probably not aware that said individual(s) are making them.
Couple days later and he is still being a shit bag Guys uses some fake screen name with Ukraine it it, So I basically called him shit bag and blocked him and he comes back with Alt accounts One being a Ukrainian woman. Shades of Dennis Chevalier..
Jawbone of Marine Aviator found in boy’s rock collection.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/jawbone-everett-yager-marine-captain-killed-1951-rock-collection-identified/
No relation to Chuck Yeager but you had me thinking about
him none the less.
At least he wasn’t eaten by cannibals.
God only knows how many of our brave aviators were consumed by those cannibals. Hopefully, they ate more Imperial Army pilots and soldiers.
It’s not just the cannibals they had to worry about.
https://youtu.be/yuqslS_yV2U?si=KQeTz3bQXxRSOl3d
Beware ‘The Hills Have Eyes” we shall never know.
Godspeed, Fare Well, Rest Easy, and Thanks for the Good Times, Mister Dickey Betts. We still Ramble, Man