Saturday Overnight Open Thread (6/3/23)

Moral: There ain't no moral to this story. It is what this world has become because of a bunch of snowflakes. (H/T Hrothgar)

The previous too serious for a Saturday ONT?

JK Fabulous.........

There could be a Lena Dunahm joke in here some where.

WHAT IS THAT? Evidence of huge creature larger than an elephant washes up on popular US beach

A MASSIVE tooth has washed up on a beach and is evidence that an animal related to an elephant from the Ice Age was once in the area.

The tooth was recently discovered along the Rio Del Mar State Beach near Santa Cruz, California, over Memorial Day weekend by a beach-goer who was stunned by the unusual find.

A for creativity. F for execution of the creative plan.

MAY 31--After his Minnesota home was burglarized last month, Blaze Smith anticipated that the intruder would return, so he left a window open and sat in wait, armed with a baseball bat that was wrapped in barbed wire and studded with screws and nails.

The day after the April 15 break-in, cops charge, Aldo Gomez, 35, returned to Smith’s residence at the Eastwood Manor Mobile Home Park in Mankato and climbed through the same window he had illegally entered the day before.

But when Gomez got inside the home around 9 PM, he was confronted by the 28-year-old Smith. Gomez fled the residence with Smith in pursuit.

Outside the mobile home, surveillance video captured Smith “chasing and repeatedly hitting [Gomez] on the back of his head with a baseball bat.” A police commander noted that the bat “was wrapped in barbed wire and had screws and nails in it.”

So what was the favorite slang the year you were born 29 years ago?

The Most Popular Slang the Year You Were Born
The word "duh" is much, much older than you think.

Like fashion, slang changes with the times. A word that seems current one year can feel wildly dated as time goes on. (Just think about how weird it would be to say something is "da bomb" in 2022.) Even when watching old movies, it's hard not to laugh at the since-abandoned phrases they use so

Born on this day: 3 Jun 1939
English musician Ian Hunter, vocals, guitar with Mott The Hoople, who had the 1972 UK No.3 & US No.37 single 'All The Young Dudes' which was written for them by David Bowie. Other hits include, 'All the Way from Memphis' and 'Roll Away the Stone'. As a solo artist he had the 1975 UK No.14 single 'Once Bitten twice Shy' and later was one half of Hunter Ronson with Mick Ronson. He wrote the book Diary Of A Rock 'n' Roll Star. Via thisdayinmusic.com

Yes, I'm a big Ian Hunter fan. Happy Birthday Ian.

On this day: 3 Jun 1977
Bob Marley & the Wailers released Exodus. The album featured the hits, 'Jamming', 'Waiting In Vain', 'Three Little Birds' and 'One Love'. In 1999, Time magazine named Exodus the best album of the 20th century. via thisdayinmusic.com

Best album of the 20th century? It's good but not that good IMHO.

Someone is really into Billy Joel. Genius Award Winner.

MAY 24--The song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” was blasting from inside a Minnesota building that was set ablaze by the landlord, according to police who say the accused arsonist cued up the Billy Joel single while torching the property with his tenants inside.

Investigators allege that Travis Carlson, 37, burned a Duluth duplex last Thursday morning, using gasoline extracted from his car as an accelerant. Carlson, who is being held in the county jail on $75,000 bail, has been charged with arson in the first degree, a felony carrying a maximum 20-year prison sentence.

As detailed in a probable cause statement, Duluth Police Department officers were dispatched to the duplex around 4 AM following a 911 call. When first responders arrived, “they saw the upstairs apartment in flames with ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ blaring from the upstairs apartment."

Carlson, who purchased the building in 2005, lives upstairs and rents out the downstairs space in the property, which was built in 1901.

Job well done Spelling Bee Champ. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

A Florida eighth grader correctly spelled “psammophile” to win the 95th Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday.

After fifteen rounds of the popular competition, Dev Shah took home the crown for correctly spelling the Greek-derived word defined as “an organism that prefers or thrives in sandy soils or areas,” according to Merriam-Webster.

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Practical Advice.

Notice: Posted with permission by someone at the Ace Media Empire & AceCorp, LLC. No hamsters injured in the production of this stellar ONT. The same can't be said for Sander vitreus.

posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:32 PM

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