Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - January 21, 2025 [scampydog]

Good evening, Horde. 47, first day post inauguration!

A bit of retro AoS content from January 21, 2021. Reminder Commenting on old threads will get you banned.

J.J. Sefton captured the mood that day in the Morning Report. Pretty spot on by J.J.

J.J. also linked this post over at American Thinker.

The mainstream media, whose opposition to the Republicans and capitalism is a permanent part of the current political landscape, take pride in unmercifully vilifying anyone who genuinely dissented from the socialists views and policies. No lie is too big to tell, no premise too outrageous to promote. Duplicity permits itself no boundaries. Ironically, liberals who for two centuries have fought for the freedom of speech, do not condemn censorship; they enthusiastically support it.

The mood today? A noticeable improvement over four years ago. Some might even call it joyful.

What are you looking forward to with the new administration?

Tom Homan?

Blackrock could use a power cleanse. Scroll down to the sortable table to see their holdings.

Legacy media death spiral?

68 Shorter CNN:

How can we continue our hard work of defaming people if you take all our money?!?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - resident squatch expert at January 17, 2025 01:24 PM (wKJf5)

We may be on a bit of a happiness streak, but the left never quits.

B Side 45 starter from Canadian band Loverboy. USA gets Trump. Our northern neighbors are on the verge of ditching Trudeau.

This is kind of fun and how two hours can disappear on a Saturday afternoon. Cleaning out the storage room.

Who in the Horde read an encyclopedia or a dictionary to pass the time as a youth? You Nerdos know who you are. Delurk and confess.

AI reports the following (date of publishing page missing):

Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition (1934)

Well, butter my biscuit. Online pictures confirm one that matches, along with several versions featuring different colored cover materials. We either have the correct date or are within the appropriate era.

That which is known. A random open of the dictionary presented the entry pictured below.

Here is a link to an archive of another from 1934. Not a perfect match, but very similar.

ONT Intermission, Moron Style.

No honorary ONT membership for this bugger.

'Immune' to Alcohol? Sorcery.

If a 175 pound man drank five one liter handles of vodka in a day, he would die. But when a tiny Oriental hornet weighing half a gram consumes the equivalent amount of alcohol relative to its body size, it carries on like nothing happened.

Much better Hornets here.

Give Gary Larson, The Far Side a visit.

Quote wheel stops on: Randall 'Tex' Cobb. Witty, former heavyweight boxer and actor. Raising Arizona? Uncommon Valor? What was your favorite Cobb movie?

I'd love to fight Gerry Cooney. But I have my price: twenty five cents and a loose woman.

Don King is one of the great humanitarians of our time. He has risen above that great term, prejudice. He has screwed everybody he has ever been around. Hog, dog, or frog, it don't matter to Don. If you got a quarter, he wants the first 26 cents.

On a rematch with Larry Holmes: I don't think his hands could take the punishment.

On Cosell's retirement during the Holmes fight: I can do my sport no greater service than this.

Two-seater outhouse? I guess the missus was up for an anniversary gift. No Sears catalog, but some framed piano sheet music on the walls.

Outhouse incidental learning session.

Two-seater outhouses aren't as strange as you think: Have you ever used an outhouse that had two seats and thought, Huh? Turns out, traditional two-seater outhouses have two holes for different-sized behinds: a bigger one for adult bottoms and a smaller one for kids.

The B Side ONT Finish.

Which 45 B Sides did/do you enjoy?

Here is a huge list to get you started. Organized by year. Worth a look.

1958 Don Gibson, I Can't Stop Lovin You. A Side is Oh Lonesome Me.

1963 Beach Boys, Little Deuce Coupe. A Side is Surfer Girl.

1980 The Clash, London Calling. A Side is Train in Vain.

1983 Pretenders, My City is Gone. A Side is Back on The Chain Gang.

1980 Bob Seger, You'll Accomp'ny Me. A Side is Betty Lou's Getting Out Tonight.

Tonight's ONT brought to you by: Winning. Can we get 12 consecutive years of conservatively attuned leadership?

Four years of Donald and let's be honest, Melania. Send Australian Fiddleback Timber Comports to: scampydog at protonmail dot com.

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