Monday Overnight Open Thread - February 24, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! How has your Monday been? Maybe you are ready to wind down and hang out with us here on tonight's ONT. There's a mixed bag of fun and interesting stuff waiting for you. Come on in and join the conversation!

Orange Man Wasn't Bad

Kathie Lee Gifford says Trump saved her and baby daughter from ‘psychopathic murderer’ in 1993

The former host of “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee” broke down in tears as she recalled the incident on a podcast appearance earlier this month.

Gifford was set to host the Miss America pageant that year in Atlantic City, when she said her late husband Frank Gifford got a call from the FBI.

“They said, ‘Mr. Gifford, we have a problem. There’s this guy. This is a very, very bad human being … And he’s coming to get your wife,” she shared during a Feb. 6 interview on “The Sage Steele Show.”

Gifford, 71, said the FBI told her husband the family shouldn’t change their plans so as not to tip off the stalker. But her husband was leery.

Gifford said unbeknownst to her, her husband made a call to Trump, who then owned the Miss America franchise, to tell her about the unsettling news he’d just received.

“Frank, don’t you worry about it. I’ve got your girls,” Trump told Gifford’s husband, referring to Gifford and her 6-week old daughter.

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The morning of the pageant, she went down to the hotel lobby to buy a paper.

She was stunned by the headline.

“It says Daily News — Kathy Lee Gifford, death threat,” she recalls.

That’s when she put the pieces together.

Read the whole thing. Very interesting.

Funny clip of DJT on SNL several years ago.

Donald Trump as a janitor on SNL in 2004 pic.twitter.com/WpI2QaI3bK

— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) February 24, 2025

History Nerd Content

13 Facts About the 13 Original Colonies

New Hampshire Was the First Colony to Grow Potatoes

New Hampshire was the first of the American colonies to form an independent government, as well as the first colony to have a state constitution. Yet it’s the humble potato that might be the Granite State’s biggest contribution to American history.

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Connecticut’s Royal Charter Was Hidden in a Tree

In 1662, the Colony of Connecticut was granted a royal charter by England’s King Charles II. But in 1686, King James II, after taking the throne following his brother’s death, decided he wanted the royal charters returned so he could establish the Dominion of New England...

...Legend has it that while the matter was being debated in Hartford between the royal governor and the colonists, the candles in the meeting hall suddenly went out. Under cover of darkness, the royal charter was spirited away by colonial captain Joseph Wadsworth and hidden in the trunk of a nearby white oak tree.

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South Carolina Had a Booming Indigo Trade

South Carolina was the first of the colonies to successfully grow indigo — a crop so vital to the colony’s economy that it was referred to as “blue gold.” Indigo’s production, and subsequent success in the colonies, is attributed to teenager Eliza Lucas (later Eliza Pinckney), whose father shipped indigo seeds to America from Antigua in the 1730s. Her father also hired Nicholas Cromwell, a dye-making expert from Montserrat, to guide her. Cromwell was caught sabotaging the dye-making process and was dismissed, only to be replaced by his brother Patrick, who was also caught sabotaging Lucas’ production efforts.

More at the link. History is kewl!

Also from historyfacts.com - Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Layout Come From?

Chew on This Palette Palate Cleanser For a While
(Thank you Hadrian the Seventh for making me feel dumb catching the error.)

How bubblegum is made

DJ Doof – Another Round of Birthday Tunes

Born on this day in 1959: Colin Farley, British bassist with Cutting Crew who had this US No.1 hit in 1987...

Born on this day in 1950: American musician, singer and songwriter George Thorogood.

Born on this day in 1947: British-American composer, singer-songwriter Rupert Holmes, who had the 1980 US No.1 single 'Escape, (The Pina Colada Song) and also this 1980 hit...

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