Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - March 12, 2025 [TRex]

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

This is the Wednesday night ONT.

A special welcome to those who have given up commenting on Ace of Spades for Lent and have assumed temporary lurker status. The rest of you know what that means. More commenting to take up the slack. This site is fueled by comments. It doesn't run on pixy dust (umm...wait a minute...nevermind). Comment of the week honors are at stake.

Speaking of commenting, the Weekly Commenter Stats for the week of 3/9/2025 have arrived. These people are not lurkers.

Top 10 commenters:
1 [479 comments] 'Bulg' [68.03 posts/day]
2 [433 comments] 'whig'
3 [401 comments] '...'
4 [360 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein'
5 [342 comments] 'Christopher R Taylor'
6 [321 comments] 'Harry Paratestes'
7 [298 comments] 'I used to have a different nic'
8 [255 comments] 'Anna Puma'
9 [244 comments] 'rickb223 '
10 [242 comments] 'Sebastian Melmoth'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [137 names] 'Invasive Species' [19.46 unique names/day]
2 [80 names] 'Hysteria yes but also authoritarianism '
3 [75 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
4 [73 names] 'I gotta ask '
5 [69 names] 'Big Homo, democrats and Sheryl Crow'
6 [49 names] 'I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper'
7 [39 names] 'Duncanthrax'
8 [38 names] 'mindful webworker - this is social mediacracy'
9 [37 names] 'Miklos is just warming up'
10 [30 names] 'Count de Monet'

No respect at all...

Update for those of you participating in the 2025 Ace of Spades Wednesday ONT Prediction challenge.

Justin Trudeau is on the way out but not yet formally gone. Rumored later this week.
Epstein and JFK documents still pending.
Looking less likely that SpaceX will make 18 Starship launches this year.
Chatter, but daylight savings time arrived but no move (yet) to make it permanent.
RFK Jr. remains in office.
Chatter, but PBS and NPR still getting money.
Iran leader still in place.
No SCOTUS resignations.
No recent chatter about Diddy files.

Stay tuned!

Hiyooo!! Hello Rick Allen!

More interweb wisdom.

Groan. But you did smile, didn't you?

This one's for you, Bulg...

A woman decides to have a face lift for her 50th birthday. She spends $15,000 and looks sensational. On her way home, she stops at a news stand to buy a newspaper. Before leaving, she says to the clerk, "I hope you don't mind my asking, but how old do you think I am?"

"About 32," is the reply.
"Nope! I'm exactly 50," the woman says happily.

A little while later she goes into McDonald's and asks the counter girl the very same question.
The girl replies, "I would guess about 29." With a big smile, the woman replies, "Nope, I'm 50."

Now she is feeling really good about herself.
While waiting for the bus to go home, she asks an old man waiting next to her the same question.

He replies, "Lady, I am 78 and my eyesight is going. Although, when I was young there was a sure-fire way to tell how old a woman was. It sounds very forward, but it requires you to let me put my hands under your bra. Then, and only then I can tell you EXACTLY how old you are."

They wait in silence on the empty street until her curiosity gets the better of her. She finally blurts out, "What the hell, go ahead."

He slips both of his hands under her blouse and begins to feel around very slowly and carefully. He bounces and weighs each breast and he gently pinches each nipple. He pushes her breasts together and rubs them against each other.

After a couple of minutes of this, she says, "Okay, okay.....How old am I?"
He completes one last squeeze of her breasts, removes his hands, and says, "Madam, you are 50."

Stunned and amazed, the woman says, "That was incredible, how could you tell?"

"I was behind you at McDonalds."

Molly Malone's melons are the bewb newz from Ireland:

Molly Malone statue may be elevated to keep her out of reach of repeated groping

The majority of people will touch her boobs for good luck, that's a misogynistic tradition.

A lot of people clamour around her, kiss her on the cheek, kiss her boobs, it's all inappropriate. It's reducing her to this derision and not giving her the status of being a national treasure.

I walk by the Oscar Wilde statue in Merrion Square every day. You don't see people rubbing his crotch for good luck.

With the Statue of David, if you were to grope him, people would feel that's inappropriate and offensive. But when the same happens to Molly Malone, they don't even think twice.

The breasts of the Juliet statue in Verona Italy, the testicles of the Charging Bull in New York, the bulge in the pants of Victor Noir's statue at his grave in Paris, the foot of St Peter in the Vatican, and the bronze mice at the Old Bridge in Heidelberg could not be reached for comment.

In the hierarchy of virtue signaling, self-appointed "advocates" speaking on behalf of inanimate objects have to be near the top.

Wow.

The interweb is not wrong.

No idea if real or not, but made me realize that I had no idea how much a Globe of Death cost. I asked Grok and it confirmed that a second hand standard Globe of Death might be in this range but a new custom Globe of Death might be closer to $100k. Now you know...

Because we can:

Dear Wednesday ONT readers, I give you...the record for the most concerts by a vegetable orchestra. Really? This qualifies as a WORLD RECORD? I was told as a child not to play with my food and they give these people a plaque? Better than eating it I guess...
The fresh sounds coming from the world's first vegetable orchestra

Even after reading and watching, it still seems like a parody sketch to me.

May be a world record, but this seems ill-advised: Canadian man eats 25 Carolina reaper peppers in under 5 minutes

I might make it look a little easier than it is but I'm burning up here, I really feel it. The peppers, they really hurt a lot.

At least his feat involves pain and discomfort. Harder than playing a celery kazoo or whatever the veggie orchestra plays to earn themselves a record. The story does not report how the proud new record holder handled his subsequent trip to the little boys room...

A little virtual insanity for a big ONT finish:

Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking? Come out and play. No autopens were used in the writing of this post. Have a good blood moon but wash your hands afterwards.

posted by Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

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