Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - February 18, 2025 [scampydog]

Greetings and good Tuesday evening. A roundup of random items - house cleaning. Any day with an ONT is a great day to be alive. Still not tired of winning.

Artists gave a couple of the First Ladies very long legs in the link below. Content warning, one portrait in there that will cause you to retch.

Official White House portraits of former presidents and first ladies since 1965.

The White House Historical Association has had an active role in acquiring and donating portraits of recent presidents and first ladies since 1965 when the Association negotiated to acquire a portrait of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt from the widow of artist Douglas Granville Chandor. Since that time, it has been a goal to acquire contemporary or historic portraits of presidents and first ladies, "either to represent those not in the collection or to replace earlier likenesses judged less than successful."

OPM - Other People's Money.
OPM - Office of Personnel Management.

Federal government employment and salary info. Spreadsheet Kung Fu material here. This site aggregates publicly available information and includes about half of the Federal employment data. While not exhaustive (no CIA, NSA, DIA, GA, NGIA, TVE, and others), there are notable things when filtering through the 1.5 million salaries captured.

Hit the drop down on the Employer box (and pour a tall drink - you'll need it). Info below all for 2024.

The OPM itself had 2,902 salaries. 62% of them making more than $100k. OPM, indeed.

15 people work at the Denali Commission. What is the Denali Commission? What do they do? Mostly infrastructure projects. Why is the average salary $149,795?

Peace Corps? 981 salaries. Railroad Retirement Board? 813 salaries. Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council? 24 salaries - 23 of which are in excess of $100,000.

Visit the DOGE site for a look at their progress.

A tariff free mood setter from Canadian legend Jerry Doucette.

Here is a nice tribute to Jerry from April of 2022.

Comedian belittling an unemployed DNC misinformation specialist. 😂😂😂😂👇 pic.twitter.com/1XNzNQ4mR2

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) January 31, 2025

Tito to Stalin
Several reports stating that Stalin kept Tito's letter in his desk, which was discovered upon his death.

Yo Adrian! Oh yeah, pattern recognition. The diamond tread of Chuck Taylor All-Stars. Rocky wore a black pair in the movie.

They really do make you run faster and jump higher.

Who had a pair of these? Or still does?

A bit more reminiscing. How about Holly Hobbie?

Probably. Maybe. Could find a pair of Chuck Taylors and a Holly Hobbie waste basket or blanket around these parts.

On this day, February 18th:

1984 East German figure skater Kararina Witt wins gold at Sarajevo Olympics. And hetero men suddenly wanted to watch figure skating.

"They wanted to make sure that I'd always come home ... that I would not defect," says Witt, who says she had no idea at the time that the Stasi were monitoring her. But when the Berlin Wall came down in 1990, the veil of secrecy opened up on the Stasi and the files they had been compiling for more than 40 years - including 27 boxes marked with Witt's name.

This is kind of cool.

Rome, Italy

Every 25 years, Rome celebrates a year long Catholic festival, The Jubilee. The 2025 Jubilee kicked off on Christmas Eve in 2024, with the opening of the first Holy Door. A total of five Holy Doors will be opened for this Jubilee.

Some Holy Door history

Jubilee calendar

Alright, Horde. We're dividing up teams. We're not getting bogged down with whether the movie was good (because we all know some of you will get that wrong anyway), we're talking about movie posters. Awesome movie posters.

What are your favorite(s)? Those that made you say, "I have to watch this masterpiece."

A list of 50 to get you going. Don't say I never did anything for you.

Who has a cool movie poster or two in their basement or dungeon?

Top 10 commenters:
1 [551 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman' [77.34 posts/day]
2 [387 comments] 'Aetius451AD'
3 [360 comments] 'Rodrigo Borgia'
4 [351 comments] '18-1'
5 [336 comments] 'Axeman'
6 [333 comments] 'Skip '
7 [307 comments] 'jim (in Kalifornia)'
8 [304 comments] 'Anna Puma'
9 [303 comments] 'runner'
10 [303 comments] 'Oldcat'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [258 names] 'Ciampino - take the funding away until they beg then go elsewhere' [36.21 unique names/day]
2 [233 names] 'Can Pick'em!'
3 [69 names] 'Duncanthrax'
4 [61 names] 'He's a stupid one isn't he '
5 [59 names] 'Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual'
6 [56 names] 'World is dominated by dumb, loud, cocky people'
7 [46 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
8 [40 names] 'Edith Piaf'
9 [39 names] '18-1'
10 [39 names] 'Count de Monet'

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