Saturday Overnight Open Thread (10/3/20)

Larry, looking worried, said, 'Dad, I think the UPS guy wants to buy Mom .....'
(H/T Hrothgar)

First time lurkers may not know we attempt to keep Saturday night's ONT light. But since it's Saturday night and exotic dancers and the Kung Flu are the focus of a story north of the border the spread of Covid-19Kung Flu is the fault of gentlemen clubs.

Toronto will always be the city that banned the Barenaked Ladies from performing on municipal property and threatened to arrest Madonna for lechery, and it will always be the city that redeployed giant concrete blocks from marijuana dispensaries (where the city used them to seal up entrances) to a lakefront parking lot, because too many people were using the surrounding parkland to enjoy spring sunshine. It will always be the city where Tory and several city councillors agreed that allowing people to enjoy a drink with friends in the park was a good idea, given the pandemic circumstances and the potential alternative — people enjoying a drink with friends indoors — but never got around to allowing it to happen, because no mere coronavirus can change this city’s fundamental nature.

It’s been like a six-month Mardi Gras for latent Presbyterians and the fiercely judgmental, with their living rooms and computer desks standing in for Bourbon Street. With the possible exception of Ottawa, no Canadian city has made such a farce of the notion that “we’re all in this together.” It’s bizarre that strip clubs stayed open as long as they did, really.

But among other industry advocates, Filmores, a venerable downtown Toronto establishment (whose “bad girls,” it advertises, make for a “good time”) is pushing back. “What do you call a strip club without lap dancing?” its historic marquee currently asks passersby. “A bar! Yet ordered closed???”

We can have some science on a Saturday night, amirite?
Well, we are.

For those of you younger than 29..........4 valuable life lessons...........

My professional sports viewing is now limited to Bob Menery. Outstanding. Don't forget NSFW-Language

A memorable proposal. Can you imagine these two playing Twister?

DIY gone wrong? Or a new amusement ride?

As a Cob, I am allowed to bend the rules. Math. Time travel. And moar math.

Scientists in Australia claim to have proved that time travel is theoretically possible after solving a logical paradox.

Physicists from the University of Queensland used mathematical modelling to reconcile Einstein’s theory of general relativity with classical dynamics. The clash between these two systems is behind a famous flaw with time travel, known as the grandfather paradox.

Einstein’s theory allows for the possibility of a person using a time loop to travel back in time in order to kill their grandfather. However, classical dynamics dictates that the sequence of events following the grandfather’s death would culminate in the time traveller not existing in the first place.

“As physicists, we want to understand the universe’s most basic, underlying laws and for years I’ve puzzled on how the science of dynamics can square with Einstein’s predictions,” said Germain Tobar, who led the research. “Is time travel mathematically possible?”

Born on this day: 3 Oct 1954
American musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. He was one of the most influential guitarists in the revival of blues in the 1980s. Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash on August 27th 1990 age 35. His family successfully sued the operators of the company for allowing an unqualified pilot to fly in fog and were awarded $2 million (£1.2 million). Vaughan played guitar on David Bowie's Let's Dance album. via thisdayinmusic.com

An entire concert? Yes, because.

No use crying over spilled milk or knifing someone unless you are a Genius Award Winner.

SEPTEMBER 30--An argument over whether almond milk or whole milk was the superior milk turned violent when a Florida Man allegedly slashed his cousin with a pocket knife, according to an arrest report.

Police responding Sunday afternoon to a disturbance at a home in Lehigh Acres arrested Justin Garcia, 30, for aggravated battery, a felony. Garcia, seen below, was freed yesterday from the Lee County jail after posting $25,000 bond.

According to the victim, he and Garcia engaged “in a verbal argument about what milk is better, almond milk, or whole milk.” The dispute became physical “when Garcia became enraged at the victim for disagreeing with him.”

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