Monday Overnight Open Thread - March 3, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Thanks for stopping by tonight's ONT. You could have chosen anywhere to spend the end of your Monday. Since you're here, you must have run out of better options. Kick back and enjoy a low key, easy going time. Join us - if you dare!

Road Trip Season is Approaching

Springtime is almost here. Time to start making or fine tuning those road trip plans. To help you out, here's one guy's take on the 10 most scenic drives in the US.

(Not so) Helpful Driving Tip For The Rest of Winter

Tomorrow is Mardi Gras. No matter what you do/show to acquire your beads (The ONT will not judge), here's a suggestion for reusing them in case of slippery roads. (The ONT has not tested this - proceed at your own stupidity risk).

Hello Louisiana friends. For the next couple days , Remember to use your tire chains for added traction on these icy roads. pic.twitter.com/5yLlyahK3Q

— Bumpstock Ken 🇺🇸 (@BumpstockKen) January 21, 2025

For those unaware - "Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday" and is the celebratory carnival that leads up to the beginning of Lent, the season of fasting and penitence. It gets its name from the practice of consuming foods that would be forbidden during Lent leading up to the beginning of the fast on Ash Wednesday".
(from merriam-webster.com)

History Tidbit

This Year Is the 250th Anniversary of the First Battle of the American Revolution, But it Ended in a Standoff

Without any shots to hear around the world, a little-known and heated standoff marked the opening of America’s Revolutionary War.

On February 26th, 1775, two-hundred and fifty years ago last week, British Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Leslie led a raid into the town of Salem, Massachusetts, to seize what they expected to be cannon stored at a makeshift armory.

Rather than finding artillery, after arriving at the north bridge into town they found an inflamed citizenry, largely unarmed, but indignant in the face of British demands. The colonists flooded Salem’s streets and barred Leslie’s passage until the officer was forced to negotiate and withdraw.

Charles Moses Endicott, a man who fancied himself Salem’s official historian, recorded the event from eyewitness accounts offered by elderly Salemites, and is, as Robert Pushkar writing for the Smithsonian Magazine points out, the only reason we know of it.

“Here … we claim the first blow was struck in the war of independence, by open resistance to both the civil and military power of the mother country; comparatively bloodless, it is true, but not the less firm and decided,” Endicott wrote in his account published by “W. Ives & G. W. Pease, printers.”

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Pushkar notes that had a British or Colonial soldier gone rogue, the Revolutionary War would have all but certainly started that day. Yet the combination of a young Loyalist minister’s appeals and the understanding that Lieutenant Colonel Leslie needed to save face led to an agreement: the drawbridge would be lowered and the regiment permitted to “march in a peaceable manner” no more than 275 yards into the town, “and then return, without molesting any person or property,” Endicott wrote.

This they did, and jeers followed their retreat, including one from a local nurse who supposedly asked them “Do you think we were born in the woods to be frightened by owls?”

Read the whole thing. Very interesting.

How many of you were aware of this historical event?

DJ Doof – This Date in History Version

Born on this day in 1966: American actor, rapper, voice actor, and producer Tone- Loc, (Antony Smith)

On this date in 1986: Metallica released their highly influential third album, Master of Puppets

Rick Beato's "What Makes This Song Great?" breakdown of the title song

On this date in 2012: American rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 64

Bonus DJ Doof Content

Saw this on X recently with the caption "Who is missing?"

First thoughts - Alex Lifeson (of course) and Peter Frampton should be on there.

Who else should be on there? Who should be removed?

Top 10 commenters:
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8 [290 comments] '...'
9 [285 comments] 'Christopher R Taylor'
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Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [144 names] 'Emily Litella.' [20.45 unique names/day]
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5 [54 names] 'Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Lifelong democrats and moochers'
6 [52 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
7 [46 names] 'Miklos'
8 [40 names] 'Duncanthrax'
9 [36 names] '18-1'
10 [36 names] 'I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper'

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