Monday Overnight Open Thread - April 7, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Happy Monday to you all. As the photo above says, today is National Beer Day! Pour yourself a cold one and step on in to the ONT.

Why National Beer Day?

From Wikipedia

National Beer Day is celebrated in the United States every year on April 7, marking the day that the Cullen–Harrison Act came into force after having been signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 22, 1933. April 6, the day before, is known as New Beer's Eve. The 18th Amendment was later repealed by the ratification of the 21st Amendment on December 5 that year, officially ending Prohibition.

National Beer Day isn’t random, it marks FDR’s economic gamble

The United States celebrates National Beer Day on Monday. While you may think this is just another arbitrarily made-up holiday, April 7 commemorates one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s earliest and most successful New Deal policies combating the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Roosevelt promised “bold, persistent experimentation” and he followed through on that pledge. Shortly after his inauguration, Roosevelt asked Congress to declare beer nonintoxicating. Yes, that’s right. For the prior 13 years, the 18th Amendment prohibited the production and sale of “intoxicating liquors,” which Congress defined as anything above 0.5% alcohol by volume.

Roosevelt’s rationale for legalizing beer wasn’t to let depressed citizens drown their sorrows. Rather, with 14 million people out of work, he hoped that beer’s return would create jobs tied to its production, distribution, service, and consumption. Congress took quick action and set 12:01 a.m. April 7, 1933, as the moment that beer up to 4% by volume, which is in the vicinity of most light beers today, would be permitted. 

April 7 was like Mardi Gras, the Fourth of July and 10 New Year’s Eves rolled into one. In Chicago, the sounds of whistles, bells, horns, and other noisemaking devices commenced at the “beero hour,” and they continued to fill the Loop deep into the morning. The line at the bar of Berghoff’s German Restaurant was consistently eight deep — dimes were passed forward while steins were passed back.

Further north, every one of Milwaukee’s taverns, tap rooms, bars, and cafes overflowed to the curb as people climbed onto parked cars and serenaded one another with drinking songs.

More at the link

Even bears celebrate National Beer Day

Finally - this is how your humble host celebrated National Beer Day. A Guinness / Yuengling black and tan. Perfectly layered!

Today is also International Beaver Day

Celebrate International Beaver Day – April 7, Every Year!

It’s All About The Dams

Remember beavers are more than fascinating watchable wildlife; learning to coexist with this species can help solve major environmental problems. By building dams beavers restore the land’s most valuable ecosystem, wetlands. Not only are wetlands havens of life with biodiversity comparable to tropical rain forests, they also provide essential services, such as water cleansing, climate regulation, and moderating the flow of streams.

More about International Beaver Day

April 7th is International Beaver Day, a great time to lead a hike to a beaver pond, arrange a library display or give a program about this amazing animal.

Beavers are more than fascinating watchable wildlife–they can help us solve major environmental problems. To raise public awareness about this shy, but important species, individual actions can also range from writing a letter to the editor to doing a radio or television interview. An agency could take advantage of this day to launch a new beaver policy.

Have you given special attention to your beaver today? Or maybe you need to take care of a friend's beaver.

Hell Yeah!

Men will take one look at this and say, "Hell yeah!" pic.twitter.com/LnNfvkqOwq

— Fight With Memes (@FightWithMemes) April 4, 2025

Does Mr. Spock Have an Alibi?

Vulcan Death Grip

A 26-year-old Chinese programmer who got a vigorous neck massage to relieve pain narrowly avoided permanent paralysis after suffering a stroke.

Xiao Zhang (pseudonym), a young IT professional from Changsha, China’s Hunan Province, often suffered from neck pain due to spending many hours at his desk. After learning that traditional massage could help relieve neck pain, he decided to try it out at a local massage parlor. Everything was going great until he felt a sharp pain in his neck during a more vigorous maneuver by the massage therapist, which was shortly followed by a strong headache. He didn’t think too much of these symptoms, but the very next morning, he woke up with numbness and weakness of the left side of his body, as well as slurred speech. Scared, the 26-year-old rushed to the Second People’s Hospital of Hunan Province, where he was diagnosed with a secondary cerebral infarction.

A head magnetic resonance imaging and cerebral angiography showed that Xiao Zhang had suffered a “right carotid artery dissection and secondary cerebral infarction.” Luckily for the young patient, he arrived at the hospital soon enough to prevent permanent damage. Employing comprehensive treatments such as anticoagulation therapy, improvement of collateral circulation, and the clearing of oxygen free radicals, doctors managed to mitigate the damage, and Zhang is now on his way to a full recovery.

“The carotid artery is an important blood vessel that supplies blood to the brain. When the intima of the blood vessel wall is torn, blood seeps into the blood vessel wall to form a “dissection”, which can cause stenosis or even occlusion of the blood vessels, leading to insufficient blood supply to the brain and eventually developing into cerebral infarction,” Dr. Liu Yan from the hospital’s Department of Neurology explained. “In addition, the blood vessels in the neck are superficial, and improper external force compression (such as vigorous massage, sudden head turning, “twisting the neck”, etc.) may directly damage the blood vessels.”

NHL/Ovi >>>>>>> NBA/Lebron

There's a bit of a difference in how these guys celebrated their achievements. It's subtle, but if you look close, you might see it.

LeBron and Ovie: The difference

Ovie broke Gretzky's 31yo record today, dove to the ice, and was immediately mobbed by teammates

LeBron broke Kareem's 38yo record, ran away from teammates with his hands up, so everyone could see just him

Narcissism.

Look pic.twitter.com/IIyLryYNLh

— Apex Jones (@ApexJones22) April 6, 2025

DJ Doof - Beavers and Beer Version

Obligatory

Underrated!

Deep cut from one of my favorite modern country bands: Old Dominion - "Beer Can in a Truck Bed"

Weekly commenter stats for week of 4-6-2025

Top 10 commenters:
1 [445 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman' [63.18 posts/day]
2 [365 comments] 'whig'
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5 [312 comments] 'Bulg'
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Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
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3 [105 names] 'Long Live the King!'
4 [91 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
5 [58 names] 'Heterosexual And Loving It!'
6 [41 names] 'Duncanthrax'
7 [40 names] 'Moron Analyst'
8 [35 names] 'Count de Monet'
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10 [25 names] 'What could go wrong?'

Tonight's ONT brought to you by basement bars and backs of cars.

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