Monday Overnight Open Thread - April 14, 2025 [Doof]

The ONT says so long to our dear friend Jewells. A lovely 'ette who will be missed around here. Let's raise a glass in her honor! Rest in peace, sweet lady.

Ferda B'ys

(That's "For The Boys" for those of you not familiar with Letterkenny and/or Shoresy.)

Last night's ONT featured another segment of fashion pr0n for the 'ettes. Tonight we have some stuff ferda 'rons. ['Ettes are welcome to look too - the ONT flies-on-the-wall won't tell anyone]

Ready, aim, fire!

Women would never know this feeling pic.twitter.com/oWKKvd3lzt

— MERICA MEMED (@Mericamemed) April 12, 2025

It starts young and never stops working

This technique to attract babies works on men too! pic.twitter.com/o0gTcaJpVX

— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) April 12, 2025

He's got himself a keeper

Best wife of the year 😂 pic.twitter.com/TurJFLIYY4

— Funny Moments (@FaildVideo) April 12, 2025

Poles are for strippers vaulters (don't ask me how many times I've watched this)

This pole vault by Canadian Olympian Alysha Newmanpic.twitter.com/KNvgLfFrxU

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 18, 2025

Been there, done that

Speaking of Keepers

Perfect companion for the man who pretends to hear nothing?

A Spanish woman who had been claiming disability pension for an inability to speak following a work-related incident 16 years ago has been exposed as a fraud by a private detective.

In 2003, a woman working at a supermarket in Andalucia, Spain, was attacked by a customer. Following the traumatic incident, she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and the loss of her ability to speak. After reviewing her case, Social Security granted the woman a permanent disability pension, but because this was a work-related incident, the insurance company was deemed responsible for the costs. Years later, as per regular procedure, the insurance company reviewed her case and found some irregularities, which prompted further investigation. A few years ago, it hired a private detective who discovered that the woman spoke normally but continued to cash her disability payments.

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To prove without a shadow of a doubt that the woman could speak, the private detective approached her on the street one day and asked her for directions on how to reach a local department store. She fell right into his trap, eloquently explaining in perfectly articulated Spanish how to reach the store, not knowing that she was being recorded. With this final piece of evidence, the insurance company took legal action to prove that it was no longer responsible for providing disability benefits.

Check out the whole article

Much Better Story

British Woman Gives Birth After Receiving Transplant Womb from Sister and Pro Bono Surgery at Hospital

A woman has spoken to the media for the first time after becoming a mother to the UK’s first child born from a transplanted womb.

Grace Davidson was able to have that opportunity thanks to her sister, who donated her womb in what Davidson called “a huge act of sisterly love.”

Born in February, little Amy Isabel was named after her aunt who donated the womb she was conceived in, and given a middle name of the leader of the team that led her surgery.

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Davidson and her husband Angus had originally planned to seek a womb transplant in 2018, but the original donor proved unsuitable. The pair had received confirmation from Davidson’s sister Amy that she would be willing to donate her womb, which she used to have two children, but the pandemic delayed things further.

In February of 2023, Isabel Quiroga at Churchill Hospital in Oxford led a team of 30 in performing the procedure, after which Davidson became pregnant at the first attempt of IVF.

“I’m not often short of words but when the baby came out I was speechless—there were a lot of tears in the theater that day,” said Richard Smith, a gynecological surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare who led the team which retrieved the womb from Amy. “The whole thing is astonishing and incredibly moving.”

More details and a video at the link

DJ Doof - Sensational 70s Music Birthday Boys Version
(from thisdayinmusic.com)

Born on this day in 1945: English guitarist and songwriter Ritchie Blackmore from Deep Purple.

Blackmore later formed the band Rainbow

Born on this day in 1944: American musician Mike Brewer. He and Tom Shipley were the music duo Brewer & Shipley. Their third album, 1970's Tarkio, included the song 'One Toke Over the Line,' which became an unlikely pop hit in 1971

Born on this day in 1942: British session pop singer Tony Burrows, singer, who with Edison Lighthouse had the 1970 UK No.1 single 'Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes'

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