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

Howdy Hordelings! Happy Monday to you all. Thanks for stopping by tonight's ONT. Hope you enjoy the mixed bag of fun stuff - and please join in the conversation! Shall we step inside?

Bikers Save a Landmark

Harley-Davidson Founder’s Home Saved from Demolition by Devoted Bikers and Their Favorite Company

The ancestral home of the co-founder of Harley-Davidson motorcycles has been saved from demolition after it went on the market and was about to be scooped up by developers who would tear it down.

The Davidson Cottage, located in the Angus village in Scotland, was home to William C. Davidson, who emigrated to America in 1857, where three of his children (Arthur, Walter and William) joined 20-year-old William Harley to create the iconic Harley-Davidson company.

The once-derelict property was painstakingly restored over many years by biker aficionados who transformed it into a re-creation of a mid-nineteenth century dwelling.

However, the property went on the market once again, which required another push to save the building.

The Davidson Legacy Preservation Group was formed and won a matching grant from the UK government Community Ownership Fund. But the group needed to raise more than £300,000 to obtain keys to the cottage.

After a three year campaign, and many individual donations, the Harley-Davidson Company stepped in at the last minute to provide the final funding to get the team over the line.

More info and photos at the link.

Smooooooth

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— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) March 16, 2025

This child parked his karting perfectly in reverse gear.

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— The Best (@Thebestfigen) March 23, 2025

Good Sports

The Baltimore Orioles Double-A affiliate Chesapeake Baysox recently introduced a new temporary alternate name and logo. Behold the Chesapeake Oyster Catchers.

Hold up. Are you seeing something else besides an oyster in a shell?

The team's social media people have a good sense of humor.

Good on them for acknowledging the humor of the situation. I don't know about you but I kinda want to snatch up some of their merch.

DJ Doof - This Day in History Version
(from thisdayinmusic.com)

1986: Van Halen released their seventh studio album 5150 (pronounced fifty-one-fifty) which became their first album to top the US chart. The first of four albums to be recorded with lead singer Sammy Hagar, who replaced David Lee Roth was named after Eddie Van Halen's home studio, 5150, in turn named after a California law enforcement term for a mentally disturbed person.

Born on this date in 1951: Scottish musician, Dougie Thompson who was the bassist with progressive rock band Supertramp. Thomson played with Supertramp on all of their most famous albums: Crime of the Century, Crisis? What Crisis?, Even in the Quietest Moments, Breakfast in America.

Born on this date in 1949: Canadian musician Steve Lang best known for his role as a bassist in the rock band April Wine from 1976 to 1984. Their 1976 album The Whole World's Goin' Crazy reached No.1 in Canada and was the first in Canadian history to have platinum advanced sales orders. He died on 4 February, 2017 aged 67.

Bonus "This Date in History" Content

Everyone knows the Simple Minds song that was on the soundtrack for The Breakfast Club. As you might expect, I'm going in a different direction because that song would be too easy.

Instead -- Here's Wang Chung

What say you, Horde - does this movie hold up 40+ years later? Boomers had The Big Chill. We Gen X'ers had The Breakfast Club. Both were great for their time. But are they good for anything besides nostalgia for those respective generations?

Anyway -- how about some of your favorite lines from The Breakfast Club?

I'll start with a deep cut (of course) --
"Will milk be made available to us?"
"I have a very low tolerance for dehydration."
"I've seen her dehydrate, sir. It's pretty gross."

Weekly commenter stats for week of 3-23-2025

Top 10 commenters:
1 [504 comments] 'Anna Puma' [71.59 posts/day]
2 [469 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer'
3 [448 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman'
4 [445 comments] 'whig'
5 [377 comments] 'Bulg'
6 [338 comments] 'I used to have a different nic'
7 [288 comments] 'Disinterested FDA Director'
8 [277 comments] 'Blonde Morticia'
9 [276 comments] 'Christopher R Taylor'
10 [275 comments] 'Axeman'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [94 names] 'Quarter Twenty ' [13.35 unique names/day]
2 [93 names] 'Tall Paul'
3 [85 names] 'Ye Olde Mikolos of Yore'
4 [80 names] 'The AWFLs anyway'
5 [79 names] 'fiercely heterosexual Cory Booker'
6 [77 names] 'Ciampino - time to start shooting arsonists'
7 [66 names] 'I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper'
8 [57 names] 'Duncanthrax'
9 [57 names] 'Ciampino - Did you mean synthetic vanillin?'
10 [53 names] 'Count de Monet'

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Update

From earlier today. Teresa in Ft. Worth shared some info about our friend Jewells

I am not sure if this is the right place to put this, but I ran across this on Facebook yesterday - it is an update on our beloved Jewell45, posted by her daughter. I messaged her daughter and she said that I could post it here. If anyone knows who is doing the ONT tonight, please forward this to them as well so that they can post it.

If anyone would like Jewell's mailing address (to send cards) and/or her daughter's email address, shoot me an email at teresa.hamilton.koch at gmail.com:

Okay. Need to do a life update for mama. She hasn’t been doing so hot the last couple weeks. Like I said last month, the cancer has been spreading. She’s been declining quite a bit since then. Her energy level is very low and she’s struggling with breathing after the smallest tasks or even if shes talks too much. The decision has been made to transition to hospice care.

I want to be clear here about a couple things. Number one, she is NOT in her final days although her oncologist estimates with how the cancer has progressed that she is probably down to several months, 6-9 maybe more.

Number 2. She is up for visitors but not much. Please contact myself, dad or her first.

She won’t last much longer than 15-20 minutes if you do stop by, so keep your expectations low.

Other than that, continued prayers and good vibes are always appreciated. Much love to you all. If you have questions, feel free to contact me privately. This is obviously a difficult time as you can imagine but I’ll do my best.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at March 24, 2025 11:22 AM

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