Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - December 18, 2024 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

This is the Wednesday night ONT.

He did the thing: Man finds himself in sticky situation after licking frozen display at outdoor mall

One punter thought he would cool down by sticking his tongue on the sculpture, on what turned out to be a rather warm and humid day in the city.

But the moment turned out to be slightly embarrassing when the mans tongue became stuck to the frozen exhibition in the middle of a bustling mall.

The man was unable to remove his tongue from the frozen billboard despite efforts from a security guard who tried pouring water over the mans tongue to melt the ice.

Everything in Australia can kill you. Even the ice is a threat.

Air Force A10 Warthog testing footage from 1977:

TRex likes made scientist type projects and this is one of them:

We Drive (Again) the Twin-Engine Honda CRX

Yum! Goodies at the Nurnberg Christkindlesmarkt:

While the ONT makes no official restaurant endorsements (at least not until a restaurant shows up at the ONT offices with wheelbarrows of cash), Dave Thomas brings his own brand of Christmas cheer:

The ONT is looking out for you: Is the five-second rule true? Dont push your luck.

By analyzing bacterial transfer at less than a second, 5, 30, and 300 seconds, they found that longer contact times resulted in more transfer but some transfer took place instantaneously, after less than 1 second, thus debunking the five-second rule once and for all.

Drones? Did someone say drones?

Working the system:

Police in Vienna, Austria, are currently investigating the bizarre case of a couple who got married and then divorced 12 times over a period of 43 years in order to take advantage of a legal loophole that allowed them to receive substantial amounts of money. The elderly couple is suspected of having arranged every divorce strictly on paper so the wife could receive the 27,000 euro ($28,300) severance pay she was awarded after her first husbands death in 1981. They took advantage of a loophole in Austrian legislation that allowed widows to retain the severance pay as long as she was not married. Every two and a half years, she was to receive 2.5 times her annual widows pension, so every three years or so she and her second husband would divorce so she could receive the money, and then they would remarry.

Is Doof living a double life in Idaho?

The Idaho man who holds the most concurrent Guinness World Records added another title to his name by donning a blindfold and performing 41 pickleball serves in one minute.

David "Record Breaker" Rush said his journey toward taking the title for the most blindfolded pickleball serves in one minute began when he came across a video of the previous record, which stood at 23 serves.

Beer consumption comparison within the US:

This is not the first restaurant to feature a water menu, but you will never see TRex paying $95 to drink water from a Canadian iceburg. A fool and his money... something... something... something. Maybe the food thread can make more sense of this:

Howdy Ho from Mr. Hankey:

Dropkick Murphys with some Christmas flavor for our big ONT finish:

Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking? Come out and play. The ONT is not fat. It is festively plump.

posted by Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

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