Weekend Open Thread

| November 1, 2024 | 39 Comments

Halloween has come and gone, and we are now at the point to where we set our clocks back this coming Sunday. Next week will hopefully provide us with plenty of material to post about. Enjoy your weekend!

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KoB

FIRST!?

Hack Stone

Shit! You dethroned Hack by 6 seconds. Hack hit paste, but his copy did not post. Probably due to outdated Red Hat Software.

Hack Stone

Hack has been pounding that refresh button nonstop since 11:45. Need to put in for Workman’s Comp for a sore thumb.

26Limabeans

FIRST is a statement, not a question so I would give it to Hack
if I were in charge.

Claw

Which I did. (as Keeper of the Coveted Book of Firsts)

KoB

Exclamation point follows the declaration of FIRST. The question mark was a fat finger when posted. These laptops don’t have a mouse, just a pad.

Hack Stone

First

KoB

DENIED!!!! Better lucky than good! The Gun Bunny has hereby stolen the EARNED NEVER AWARDED Title of FIRST on the Vaunted TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread!

Tacos, chili cheese dogs, and refreshing beverages for all hands!

Commissioner Wretched

Rolaids available in the med tent.

KoB

The K Roger Store had some 1# packs of Grounded Sir Loin of Beef Beast (96/4%) on a deal for $3.99 each…Oscar Meyer Beef Beef dawgs 2fer $5, and extry sharp grated cheddar cheese @ $1.99. I played “Load ’em up Larry” on all of those. Oh…and scored some large bags of assorted Hell-O-Ween candy for 1/2 price. Got 10 of them. Should tide me and Baby Sister over till Christmas candy sale.

I take my Rolaids in fermented form. Can’t get heartburn if you wash tacos and chili cheese dawgs down with some Golden Yuenglings.

Hack Stone

Magic 8-Ball says…

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Commissioner Wretched

Wow … I wait all afternoon for the drop of the WOT and while my back is turned, *poof.* Congrats to King and I’ll take third.

KoB

Just clean living and a burst of luck, CW. Had just returned from escort duty/provision run, put the cold stuff from the cooler into the fridge, sat down, opened up Mr. Chromie, and WHUMP!…there it was…an Orphaned TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread, pleading for someone to “Be The First To Comment”. I could smell the smoke from Hack Stone’s F5 Key.

Commissioner Wretched

Since yesterday was Halloween, we have a Halloween comment to start the trivia column this week. Beyond that, it’s the same old stuff, only it’s new stuff. (Figure that one out.)

DID YOU KNOW…?
What was the smallest and lightest automobile ever made?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Copyright © 2024

Happy Halloween!

In the column’s home newspapers, it hits the streets on Thursday, so it’s the actual day of trick-or-treating. If it comes out ahead or behind where you read this, then just consider me the marksman who missed the bull’s-eye this time.

What did I decide to do for Halloween? To be honest, I chose to do exactly as I always do … stay home, keep the porch light off, and hope the little ghouls and hobgoblins trying to extort candy pass me by. I’m a cheap old so-and-so.

I’m turning into a curmudgeon in my old age. But I do share the weekly trivia … so here you go! Happy trick-or-treating!

Did you know …

… the sudden relocation of a Major League Baseball team caused the All-Star Game to be relocated as well? On March 14, 1953, the owner of the Boston Braves, Lou Perini (1903-1972), announced that his team was moving to Milwaukee that season, with Opening Day less than three weeks away. Perini cited years of declining attendance as the reason for the move, and other National League owners approved the rapid move provided Perini did not try to sell the team. But the Braves’ move put MLB in a pickle – the 1953 All-Star Game had been scheduled for Braves Field in Boston. Following a few emergency meetings, the game was relocated to Cincinnati’s Crosley Field. The Braves would later move to Atlanta in 1966. Additional trivia note: Only one player was on the Braves’ roster in Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta – Eddie Mathews (1931-2001), star third baseman. (Tomahawk chop that one!)

Commissioner Wretched

… three-quarters of all people who eat chocolate Easter bunnies eat the ears first? (Huh?)

… you may have eaten a réchauffé? In fact, chances are almost 100% that at one time or another in your life, you have done so. A réchauffé is a dish of warmed-up food from a previous meal. In other words, leftovers. (They sound so much better when you call them réchauffé, though, don’t they?)

… a movie studio filed a lawsuit against a video game producer? In 1981, Universal Studios filed a lawsuit against Nintendo over the Donkey Kong video game. The studio felt that the ape in the video game was “too similar” to the ape in King Kong, and Nintendo was infringing on their trademark. Nintendo won the suit. (They weren’t monkeying around.)

… only one planet in the Solar System cannot be seen by the naked eye? Neptune, the farthest planet from the Sun, is too dim to be seen without the aid of a telescope. Ah, you ask, but what of planet seven, Uranus? It can be seen with the naked eye but only under certain circumstances – a dark sky with minimal light pollution, and only if one knows exactly where to look. It would appear as a greenish-blue speck of light, giving you a great place to aim your binoculars or telescope. (Finding the dark sky with minimal light pollution is your job.)

Hack Stone

Hack read somewhere that Donkey Kong was called Monkey Kong in Japan, which would make sense, as there are no donkeys that appear in the game, but somewhere along the line of translating from Japanese to English it ended up being named Donkey Kong.

And the inspiration for Pac Man was someone looking at an open pizza box with one slice removed, and from that point forward Atari removed thousands of quarters from Hack Stone’s pockets.

Commissioner Wretched

… the smallest and lightest automobile ever made was produced from 1962 to 1965? The Peel P50 was created on the Isle of Man by the Peel Engineering Company. This tiny “city” microcar, able to only hold a driver, was 54 inches long, 39 inches wide, and weighed 130 pounds. The car was so small it could enter standard doorways. The P50 had no reverse gear, but was so light an exterior handle allowed operators to basically push it wherever they needed to. The tiny vehicle, street-legal in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom, had a top speed of 37 miles per hour and a three-speed manual transmission. It had a top fuel economy of about 100 miles per gallon of gasoline, and sold at its height for £299 ($2,275 in 1965) each. Additional trivia note: The car is back in limited production in both gas and electric varieties. They cost a bit more today, though – £14,879 ($18,858) for the gasoline version, and £13,679 ($17,337) for the electric. (I need me one of those!)

… medieval castles in Europe did not employ alligators or crocodiles in their moats? Despite cartoon portrayals over the decades, there is no archaeological evidence that any European castle ever used such reptiles to defend them. (Not that it wasn’t a bad idea, they just didn’t have any.)

… pine cones can predict the weather? They sure can. Look at a pine cone and observe the scales. If they’re close together, dry weather is expected, but if they spread apart, rain is on the way. (And if they’re wet, it’s already raining.)

Hack Stone

And if a pine cone has peanut butter and bird seed on it, you’ve got a homemade bird feeder.

Commissioner Wretched

… a move was underway during the War of 1812 for at least part of the United States to return to British rule? Some federalists in New England held a meeting called the Hartford Convention to discuss the idea of seceding from the United States and rejoining Britain, while the state of Massachusetts sent an emissary to discuss a separate peace with Britain. (Glad it didn’t work!)

… two actors from the movie Titanic helped the last survivor of the actual shipwreck? After the success of the 1997 movie, stars Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974) and Kate Winslet (born 1975) learned that the then-only living survivor of the actual Titanic, Millvina Dean (1912-2009), was having to sell mementos of the ship which she had acquired in order to raise money to live. DiCaprio and Winslet each contributed more than $20,000 to a fund established to pay her nursing home fees. (A titanic thing to do!)

… it’s estimated that some ten decillion snowflakes have fallen on Earth since the planet was formed? The number, written out, is 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. (Who gets paid to figure this stuff out, anyway?)

… you may be a sufferer of oenophobia? If you are, then you are deathly afraid of wine. (So don’t whine about it.)

Now … you know!

Hack Stone

Now that Hack Stone long and distinguished term as a kind but benevolent dictator of the Deplorable Garbage has come to an end, Hack now instructs his faithful followers to make their voices heard and peacefully egg KoB’s domicile.

Hack will use this respite to help right the ship for the proud but humble woman owned business as it navigates the rough seas of financial restructuring. You will be happy to know that the Vice President of the company had the foresight to draft a COOP Plan, which we will be executing this weekend. That would be relocating the corporate headquarters to an abandoned chicken coop on the outskirts of Frederick Maryland.

And the Vice President asked Hack to extend a thank you to all the Deplorable Garbage who contributed to his Go Fuck Me Fund. We managed to raise $0.00, but on the plus side, he did win that battle with the squeegee guy for the prime spot on the River Road exit of I-495.

Hack Stone

Be sure to set your clocks back this Saturday evening, otherwise when you head off to church Sunday morning, you may experience Mass Confusion.

5JC

I haven’t had a clock or a watch to set back since 2011.

Hack Stone

Psul of The Ballsack does not adjust his watch. It’s not as if he has to keep the time straight in order to meet with clients.

KoB

“…lest we forget…” Rest Easy, Young Sir. We’ve got The Watch…including The Watch over a Most Special Mom. We will say your name…We will be your Witness…We Salute you and The Sacrifice that you made on this date in History.

5JC

Rest Easy Soldier.

1000005590
Amateur Historian

I was gearing up to be first today, but I got distracted at the wrong moment. Anyway, I voted today. Go Trump!!!

ChipNASA

KoB WHAT!??!?! YEAH BABY!!!

Late but not forgotten.

Top TWENTY!!! Forging FIRST!!!!

Well fucktards, I’ll just leave this here as an omen….I am praying and we all hope it looks like this next week.

Cheers and Beers (for all of you on KoB)

I’m AUDI 5000

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Eggs

Present and accounted fer.

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KoB

Just so you’ll know…
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SFC D

Dammit King, why you gotta go and make me cry every friday?

Fyrfighter

I’ll second that!

ChipNASA

ANNNNNNNDDDD fuck you….at least my ex is dropping off my step ex fur childrens for me this evening to have fow many days in a row. YAYYYYYY!!!!

Green Thumb

There is a place in France where Phil Monkress likes to dance;

There is a hole in the wall where Phildo works the balls….

Ret_25X

4 days to regime change. Every vote almost counts…LOL

SFC D

Problem is, it takes two weeks to count every vote in Arizona. I know our schools suck, but holy shit!

MarineDad61

October 31 story, but NOT a Halloween story.

Steven Seagal,
who played a Navy SEAL in the movie Under Siege,
is now loaded up with black hair dye, black beard dye,
and (but caught here in photos also wearing gray and camo)
mostly wears black clothing to hide his weight, now up to 320 lbs.

Also, he’s not only a big fat fake…
He’s living this way in RUSSIA, and getting himself wrapped up in UKRAINE.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14011109/Steven-Seagal-large-balloons-weight-Russia-documentary.html

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MarineDad61

Before and after

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Claw

Viet of the Nam Draft Dodger.

HT3

To all the sheep bleating Trump called for Liz Cheney to be executed. Get the peanut butter out of your ears and listen to what DJT ACTUALLY said. We know how much the AP loves Trump

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