Weekend Open Thread
A daily deportation tracker… When the pandemic got underway, we had daily updates on the reported number of people who got infected with COVID-19. We saw maps showing where the infections were the strongest. Perhaps they could have a similar tracker for illegals who get deported. Enjoy your weekend!
Category: Open thread
FIRST!
I’ll get you KoB, and your little doggy, too.
You were supposed to wait for me…
Might want to rethink that a little bit, Mr. Stone. The Coco (Puffy Puppy) Melon sez…BRING IT!
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My son adopted a cute little puppy about two years ago, a sweet little combo of (we thought) chihuahua and dachshund. Turns out she’s a mix of velociraptor and Percheron. If a puppy could pull a freight train, she’s the one. A walking, barking violation of the laws of physics, there ain’t no way a dog that small can weigh 30lbs. One solid muscle. My son moved for work into a no pets apartment. Guess who now has this savage beast…
Fun times ahead!
Fun times?
The power of Christ compels you!
And Marines think that Marines are “Devil Dogs”.
Chihuahua’s can cause crucifixes to burst into flames…
I’m gonna try this on my Jack Russell Chihuahua when we get home in about three hours.
I swear that motherfucker is possessed, but the most lovable little grumpy, motherfucker in the world cuddles in my armpit every night.
A TWOFER WOT! (3pete iffen ya count the HOT), FIRST on the Vaunted TAH Weekend Open Thread. Like to have gotten slowed down by tending the grilled beef beast burgers and Orasted taters & carrots being prepared for my (dis)loyal subjects.
Reach into the snowbank and draw you out a refreshing cold beverage.
Once again, KoB is the Master of The Long Game. Obviously he was colluding with Mossad to set the trap for Hack Stone. First, KoB had Mossad modify a Whirlpool Washer, then strategically placed said dryer in the Home Depot nearest the corporate headquarters of a proud but humble woman owned business formerly located on Wilson Lane. And he knew that just over a year after purchase, said washer would fail, and it would not be able to be repaired. Because of this, Hack Stone was issued a refund on the washer, purchased a different brand, but although this model could wash a comforter, the spin cycle was not strong enough to get all of the excess water out. This would require Hack Stone to take said comforter to the local laundromat to run it through a complete wash cycle, and while loading this soaking wet comforter onto the 1980’s vintage Jaguar, the Weekend Open Thread would drop. It took 13 months of patience, but Hack Stone has to respect the effort you put into securing this week’s Open Thread. Hack hopes the skid marks won’t come out of your Under-Roos.
Keep an eye on that other kitchen appliance, Mr. Stone. You know…the one that does to bread what The Gun Bunny does to your hopes and dreams of being FIRST, and what The KoB does to ChipNASA’s hopes and dreams of winning the affections of Our Beloved OAM. At least with the bread, when IT becomes toast, you can pozzee-wallah the toast. I do toast y’all’s sticky-to-itness so there is that.
You keep this shit up and we’re going to waist chain you and drop your ass ona deportation flight to (insert random 3rd world country here) so I can get the Firsts and then OAM!!!!
Oh well, another Friday and here I am putting put fires and
doing government shit trying to avoid my staff gnerating an International Incident.
Cheers KoB and all.
Many Muwah Muwahs!! No Homo.
THERE ARE TWO GENDERS AND I DELIGHT IN THE NEW LORD AND SAVIOR HERR TRUMP!!!
OK well, at least this country is getting back on the right track.
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If I really wanted to (gross you guys out!) , I’d drop a photo of my Dupuytren’s contracture surgery, which is itchy but coming along swimmingly, SHOUT OUT , THANKS BALTIMORE VA!
(Since generally everyone shits on the VA in general)
Chimpy, you needs to hie thee self over to the Valor Thief Thread…you have traffic needing your attentions. Just ’cause trash panda’s are cute doesn’t mean that OAM is looking for someone that’s chubby, has circles around their eyes, prowls around all night, and is kinda …well…a trashy eater.
I’m just chronologically getting caught up here. I’ve already been over there on the way here and I’m making my way to Sandy threads, but in the meantime, I’m gonna crank my laptop back up and throw the AOI on top of Mr. stolen valor, douche bag, dog fucking asslicker.
Shit!
third
5th. second best ever
Snuck it in again! I’ll settle for fourth, I guess. Congrats, King!
The King of Battle stays on the throne! All remains right with the world, even as our AO digs out from the last of this week’s snow and ice. I do have some trivia, though, if you’d be interested … so here ’tis!
DID YOU KNOW…?
Was there really a Kilroy, as in “Kilroy Was Here”?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Copyright © 2025
As I sit here at my desk, on a Thursday morning (the day I write this silly stuff), looking out my office window, I realize …
It’s not spring yet.
We just got started with winter what, a month ago? And here I am, waxing poetic for spring already.
Be gone, cold air! Be gone, winter weather! Be gone, gray skies!
Did it work? Did I banish them from where you are? I ask because, well, it didn’t work here.
No matter. The warmer days will come. As will the trivia … right now, for that matter. Enjoy!
Did you know …
… the correct answer to an old, old question? You’ve no doubt heard the old saw, “If a tree falls in a forest and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?” Well, the answer is actually “no.” Sound is a sensation excited in the ear when air or other medium is in motion, and if there is no ear there to be excited, there’s no sound. (Thanks to Mason for the tip!)
… you may know a pozzee-wallah? In fact, you might even be one. What’s a pozzee-wallah, you ask? That’s a person who is very fond of jam. The slang term was used in the early 20th Century. (Using it today might get you a punch in the nose. I’m just saying.)
… the first network television series to be filmed in color was made in 1955? That year, a show called Norby premiered on NBC. The comedy series, about a small-town bank vice president and his family, starred David Wayne (1914-1995) in the title role. It lasted thirteen episodes and was cancelled due to the then-high cost of using color film and a lack of affiliates which had the show’s time slot open. Additional trivia note: Norby was shot on Eastman Kodak film, and Kodak was the show’s sponsor as well. The first series of any kind to be filmed in color was The Cisco Kid, a syndicated western which ran from 1950 to 1956. (Peacocks must have been in black and white back then.)
… newborn human babies cannot taste salt at birth? The ability to detect salt develops at about four months of age. (That’s a rather salty thing to think about.)
… Japan has the world’s dullest theme park? Well, probably not, but what would you call a theme park where children can experience all the thrills of adulthood – working, banking, and such – other than dull? It’s called KidZania, and it’s not just located in Japan. Sixteen such parks can be found around the world, each of them a two-third-scale indoor town staffed by children ages four to fifteen. The idea is to learn how to handle adult life. One of the “attractions” that has the highest participation is the car rental office. (No comment.)
… Kilroy, of “Kilroy was here” fame, really existed? During World War II, the most commonly seen piece of graffiti was the phrase, “Kilroy was here,” along with a sketch of someone seeming to peer over a wall. But who in the world was Kilroy? It turns out that the saying originated with one James Kilroy (1902-1962), a worker at the Fore River Shipyard in Massachusetts. Kilroy’s job was to check rivets in ships, and he would mark them with chalk. But when he went off duty, other riveters would erase the mark, and they’d end up getting paid double for their work. So to ensure the rivets were properly counted only once, he added “Kilroy was here” and later created the doodle of the long-nosed person looking over the wall. The marks weren’t always covered with paint due to the speed at which ships were being built for the war, so the graffiti made it overseas and became a trademark for American forces. Additional trivia note: A story that went around after the war had an outhouse built at Potsdam for the exclusive use of the heads of state meeting there. The first person to use it was Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), who allegedly emerged and asked an aide in Russian, “Кто такой Килрой?” (“Who is Kilroy?”).
… the first president to ride in a self-propelled vehicle was William McKinley? It happened in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, when McKinley (1843-1901) was being taken to a hospital after being shot by an assassin. An electric ambulance transported the President, who died eight days later. (I doubt that McKinley appreciated the novelty of the vehicle at the time.)
… the city of London pays rent to the monarch? No, not for the entire city, but for a couple of small pieces of property, one in Shropshire and the other near the Royal Courts of Justice. The rent is pretty reasonable, and hasn’t changed over the last 800 years – an ax, a knife, six horseshoes, and sixty-one nails. No one outside of the Royal family knows the exact location of the land, either. (I’m not sure what His Majesty does with that loot, but it’s a pretty cheap rent nonetheless.)
… the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War had a very low death count? When British and Colonial forces squared off at Lexington, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775, a total of eight men were killed, all in the Colonial forces. Another ten were wounded. The British had only one casualty, a man shot in the leg. Often considered the first battle of the war, it was more of a minor skirmish. Additional trivia note: This first engagement also had something modern battles do not have – a voluntary audience. Between 40 and 100 spectators watched the encounter from the side of the road.
… real skeletons were used as movie props in a popular film? Producers of the movie Poltergeist, released in 1982, used actual human skeletons for the climactic scene in the haunted family’s back yard. Asked why they used actual human skeletons, the producers said simply, “They were cheaper than plastic ones.” (Try telling that to the families of the original owners of the bones.)
Now … you know!
Thank ye, CW. It is an Honor to continue my Benevolent Dictatorship (as befitting THE King of FIRST) over the d’weeded and Adorable Deplorables of TAH. Had not been Hack Stoning my F5 key was more intent on PREPAREing mid-rats and just happened to put said rations in the “Rest” mode when I dropped by. Kilroy wasn’t there, but the TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread was. It was orphaned…and needing a home.
“Come to the sunny south”, they said. “It’s warm all the time with no snow or ice”, they said. “Leave your winter coat in the Cub’s locker room, you won’t need it”, they said. Welp…at least once a decade “they” are wrong. Welcome South Brother. Central and South Georgia got hit harder than the ATL, our advantage is we don’t have as many idiots out and about trying to drive in the abominable snow, man. Folks stayed at home and let their kids have fun in it. Grandson and his buds @ FSU in Tally made themselves a snowman. I-10 in the panhandle of the Gun Shine State was locked down, tight. Still got a goodly bit of that white sh*t in the shady areas of Fire Base Magnolia. Should be gone by Sunday, highs heading into the mid 50s-60s.
It ain’t my ear that gets excited by the Siren Sound of a certain Adorable Deplorable. One thing that is for sure when a tree falls in the forest…every chihuahua within 50 miles will bark at it.
I get all pozzee-wallah when it’s peach spread upon a buttered cat headed bisket. Honey Hush!
Won’t be much longer til there’s no one around that remembers black and white TeeVees…or that there were only, at the most, four (4) TeeVee channels.
Who does these studies? And what baby would prefer a “salt” teat over a “sugar” teat?
Better to teach kids real life skilz than 72 genders.
They could mark the rivets and print “Kilroy was here” with snail trails now with the “speed” that ships are built. And don’t buy a ship built on a Monday or a Friday. Just shows that sorry ass workers are not a modern thing.
Joe Biden’s self propelled vehicle would be a hot air balloon.
Come The Fall (no, not the Autumn Season), an ax, knife, horseshoes and nails will be more valuable than $.
The spectators at FIRST (heh heh) Manassas (Bull Run to “those people”) brought parasols and picnic baskets…dressed like they were hunting foxes, they could no more fight, than fly (bonus Class VI Ration for where that line came from)…but they could run nearly as fast as “those people” back to Washington.
I’d jump the bones of the ladies on the “Bones” TeeVee Show.
Another fine job on the trivia, CW. You da man! Throw another log on the fire and snuggle up with Lois.
Whenever the wintry weather threatens, King, I catch a lot of comments about the fact that I’m from Chicago and “know what to do in weather like this.”
They’re right, of course. I do know what to do.
Get inside where it’s warm and stay off the roads.
The first skirmish of the day, yes, but by the end of the day the redcoats had taken 200 casualties to the colonists’ 93.
“the correct answer to an old, old question? You’ve no doubt heard the old saw, “If a tree falls in a forest and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?” Well, the answer is actually “no.” Sound is a sensation excited in the ear when air or other medium is in motion, and if there is no ear there to be excited, there’s no sound. (Thanks to Mason for the tip!)”
I disagree.
A sound is vibrations in a medium (air, liquid, or solid), someone being there to hear the vibrations or not.
Does a vibration cease to be a vibration, if no one is there to hear it? No, it is still a vibration, therefore “sound”.
I concur with your rebuttal, with a bit of additional clarification: if a tree falls in the woods with no one there to hear it, it does indeed make a sound. It does not, however, make a noise.
There are many sounds that we cannot hear; ultrasound for example is sounds with frequencies above 20 kHz. A dog whistle is an ultrasonic whistle; humans cannot hear it but dogs do hear the sound it produces.
Noise is a subset of sound; neither requires human reception to exist. Determining if a sound could be considered noise, ie. audibly intrusive, jangly, etc. may require human judgement, but whether a tree’s falling is a sound or a noise, it is still a sound. Depending, of course, on what your definition of “is” is.
My eighth grade music teacher said sound is organized; noise is unorganized. Since the school didn’t have an organ, I couldn’t argue.
If a man speaks in the forest, and there’s no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
I guess I fall into the category of people who only consider sound occurring when those vibrations in the medium strike a human ear. I’m strange like that.
Well, I’m strange in a lot of ways, but …
I have a friend that works as a federal LEO, and they’re ramping up operations to take down some “bad guys” as ordered by the President. Lets all say a prayer for the brave men and women that will have to do the work the Biden Regime wouldn’t.
Gotta PMCS my equipment.
The Militia is standing by.
Cry Havoc…and release the dogs of war.
Guns laid and bore sighted. Proximity fuses for “Beehive” rounds dialed in. Tubes are HOT! Missile Batteries trained on Threat Axis Co-ordinates. Lanyards are taunt awaiting “Weapons Free” Fire Mission Call for a Time On Target Rolling Barrage. Every third (3rd) man pulled from the North Wall to act as follow on Strike Force.
I ain’t kidding. If worst ever gets here, one of the metric we were told during GWOT was one good guy for every 1,000 of gen pop, we’re gonna need some bodies.
LEOs, NG, Reserves and all civil employees ain’t even enough to post one guy on every mile of high tension power line in these States United.
The cartels have enough know-how and supplies to fight very dirty.
This calm and ordered society we’ve been gifted is the outlier. A mean reversion would be enough to bring tha pain for too many.
Prepare.
Not second, but still here.
Spirit Airlines is trying to set the standard for the flying elite. No word if this new requirement is applicable to the flight crew.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-travel/spirit-airlines-no-longer-allowing-passengers-inappropriate-clothing-tattoos-fly
I have to think that’s going to cut into their customer base, right? Dressing like whore for a cheap flight was a Spirit staple amiright or amiright? I think most of us are old enough to remember wearing ‘church clothes’ to fly on Eastern Airlines/TWA/Pan-Am.
When I was a consultant, I was wearing a coat & tie because I was either meeting the client at the airport or going directly to their offices after my flight. Seeing ‘adults’ in pajamas on a plane is not uncommon nowadays.
You should see what the other members of the jury pool were wearing when Hack had jury duty this week. As far as Hack could tell, he was the only male wearing a suit and tie, and he cut a dashing figure in the lime green leisure suit that he borrowed from Psul.
That was loaned to him by The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics).
Which Phildo probably stole from some poor, easily-fooled Amerian Taxpayer along the way….
One does not wear a tie with a leisure suit, one wears a contrasting color, spread collar shirt, open at the neck, 2-3 buttons down! A tie? How gauche!
When you show up in the lobby by of a major corporation dressed like this, you just know that you’ll be selling a shitload of Red Hat Software.
One only gets 1 chance to make a first impression, and that’s the idea they come up with? They must be wealthy Walmart shoppers.
Well, not first. But, in case you were wondering:
https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2024/11/09/the-m8-greyhound-in-mexico-after-wwii/
Attention to orders!…The Weekend Safety Brief is a follows… DO NOT take your dog out drinking with you!
Stay safe
And this meme is why the West is depopulating.
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) works balls.
Ah dangit
PRESEMT and Unaccountable as I award myself yet another Honorary First.
((((OVER))))
Epstein did not kill himself.
I wonder how soon we’ll see the names on Epstein’s list?
I bet if Trump announced tomorrow he was releasing Epstein client list, you would hear no more about deporting illegals, DEI programs being shut down, climate change or many of the other things the left and rinos like to bitch and whine about.
Present. Inaccountable.
No real problems from the snow/freeze (yet). One broken pipe on Princess’ house. Favorite Son-in-Law and I fixed it, but they all got some bug.
Enjoying all the good news and the laments of the
women(D)emon-rats while their dreams burn in the background.Waiting for someone to change the lyrics to “American Pie” to something about DEI…
Good to hear, Graybeard. We’re nearly defrosted in Middle God’s Country, no issues @ Fire Base Magnolia, none @ FOB Hawkins Hill, and will check on things @ COP Timber Ranch tomorrow. I’d killed the power to the deep well pump and bled the lines down so (crosses fingers, says another prayer) that should be good to go. Have had harder freezes in the past but it’s been a good ten (10) years since we had any frozen precip. Was seeing in the news feed that y’all got hammered worse than Old Paulie did. I’ll bet them spoiled rotten Grand Young’uns of your’s had a large time playing in it. Fixin broke pipes?…not so much.
Got to take the Long and Winding Road ’bout 30 miles thru the woods to a meeting tomorrow, but it shouldn’t be a big deal. There’s enough Big Rigs running that way they’ll have busted up any black ice that may be lingering by the time I head out. Highs will be bumping the mid 50s by noon.
Yep, the Grands all had a grand ol’ time. I’ve seen worse, but fortunately not often that the d*mnyankee weather hits us here.
Middle-school granddaughter was down with the bug that later got to Favorite Son-in-Law, and her cousins joined together to make a 30″-tall (aprox.) snowman outside her window so she could enjoy it.
Y’know some parenting has gone right when cousins care for each other and do nice things to cheer up one who’s down.
Blessed beyond measure, and proud as a peacock.
Be careful about that black ice. It’s got a lot of folks.
Don’t know if it is a factor, but news today is of a tanker wreck in the county east of our AO released a lot of sodium dioxide. Unfortunately before Emergency Services could respond, a school bus with kiddos passed through the fumes. AFAIK, the kiddos are all OK, but taken to hospitals for further evaluation.
It don’t take black ice for people to act the fool.
It’s Yankee weather, not d*mn yankee weather. Th difference between the 2 was explained to me long ago. A Yankee comes for a period of time and goes home. A d*mn Yankee stays forever.
Point made.I concede the argument.
Watch any bridges you cross. As the snow melts, it refreezes since there’s nothing underneath to keep the pavement warm(ish) or protected from the cold.
Yep, nasty sh*t that it is. Only 3 bridges to cross on the state road and it should be warmish by 1000 hrs when I leave out. Because of my many years of traveling all over, I’ve had my fair share of bad weather driving conditions, way yonder more than the average Good Ol’ Boy. I decided to stay in God’s Country because I didn’t want to have to put up with that on a regular basis. Our local DOT ain’t set up for salting/de-icing and the best thing to do is just wait it out. Most of the fender benders we had locally was on I-16 where the snowbirds thought they could drive down here thru it like they do at home. More concerned about Bambi jumping out of the woods in front of me than anything else. The Prime Mover I’m taking on this ride is FWD with some damn good, deep treaded, all weather Mitchy Lynns.
’80s, baby! (Had to be there, I guess.)
Or, is this is more funny:
More good news for your Friday.
https://justthenews.com/government/senate-approves-hegseth-defense-secretary?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
Since Hack Stone has been living rent free in the mind of Psul of The Ballsack for over ten years, Psul figures that he can live rent free in a $6500 a month rental home in Bethesda. Maybe in the next appearance on this lawsuit, the Judge could explain that it doesn’t work that way. But you have to hand it to Psul, not many people have three personal bankruptcies, or is it four, in their history. And that does not count the 2017 bankruptcy of the proud but humble woman owned business. With a track record like that, he definitely was All Points Logistics material.
These anti Trumpers need some therapy. Now you can’t even get a weather report without being lectured.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/meteorologist-fired-local-network-after-profanity-laden-posts-claiming-elon-musk-nazi-saluted-report?dicbo=v2-c7BaUdj
The TDS is strong with them.
I’m beginning to feel a distinct vacuum effect here in the Minneapolis area as spaces are started to be vacated by certain groups of people in certain areas of the city…
Adios, MFers.
Or what ever other clicks and whistles that’re equivalent.
That obese commie oligarch governor of IL, Pritzker is falsely claiming ICE is raiding an elementary school looking for illegals. The MSM have all jumped on his agitprop wagon. In reality it was the Secret Service looking for some adult person, but supposedly they never entered the school.