Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - May 14, 2025 [TRex]

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

This is the Wednesday night ONT. It is also game night! Step inside and play along.

TRex has an early morning, so looking for the Horde to behave itself. If you can't behave, at least be entertaining. Please observe proper ONT etiquette. Legally Sufficient has the Ruler of Dread and is authorized to wield it was warranted. JQ has the key to the kegerator, wine cellar and liquor cabinet. She also has apple juice if you desire an alcohol-free ONT. Ciampino has the sock drawer but mostly needs to stay away from cats. tcn in AK has a telescope on the roof so make an orderly line if you want to look in to the heavens or just spy on the neighbors. Miklosbot will scan the perimeter for intruders.

Guess how many Peeps are the jar. No clues other than the two photos:

I asked an AI tool to make an estimate based on the photos. It gave me a guess and a very convincing explanation of the logic. It was also nowhere close to the right answer.

The correct answer will be posted...later. Maybe next Wed.

New Yorker cartoon captions are generally insipid at best. The illustrations, however, offer a blank canvas for your own caption creations.

Do your worst. Just identify which cartoon you are captioning in your post.

1. Bunny

2. Cupid

3. Sand

If Youtube was made for cat videos, AI was made for baby videos:

Classics:

Point Nemo - space and geography trivia for controlled de-orbits:

Welcome to lonely Point Nemo, Earth's dumping ground for derelict space junk.

Point Nemo, the loneliest and most remote expanse of ocean on Earth, is where spacecraft go when they die.

This spread of water, 34 times larger than France, has been used as a dumping ground for space vehicles since 1971. An estimated 263 decommissioned spacecraft, including the Russian space station Mir, have been deliberately brought down and sunk here.

Three riddles - answers further below:

You're in a mansion with a lightbulb in the attic and three switches in the basement. It's late in the evening, and you're tired, so you can only go from the basement to the attic once. How do you figure out which switch controls the lightbulb?

Two people ordered the same cocktail at a restaurant. They both drank it at different paces, but one person died while the other survived. How?

A man was pushing his car when he stopped in front of a hotel and knew immediately that he was bankrupt. How?

Props is the best Whose Line is it Anyway? game:

Plinko is the best Price is Right game (but I still can't get used to Drew Carey's current look):

Games cats play:

Puzzle answers:

Number 1: You're in a mansion with a lightbulb in the attic and three switches in the basement. It's late in the evening, and you're tired, so you can only go from the basement to the attic once. How do you figure out which switch controls the lightbulb?

Answer: Turn on the first switch and wait for 5 minutes. Then turn it off and turn on the second switch. Go to the attic. If the light is on, the second switch controls it. If the light is off, touch the bulb: if it's warm, the first switch is the correct one; if it's cold, the third switch controls the light.

Number 2: Two people ordered the same cocktail at a restaurant. They both drank it at different paces, but one person died while the other survived. How?

Answer: The cocktail contained poison in the ice. One person drank quickly before the ice melted, while the other waited, allowing the poison to spread.

Number 3: A man was pushing his car when he stopped in front of a hotel and knew immediately that he was bankrupt. How?

Answer: The man was playing Monopoly.

The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving:

Oldest living Llama in captivity for a Guinness Book of World records? Guess so.

Ace of Base for our big ONT finish:

Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking? Come out and play. Hall of Fame reinstatement pending.

posted by Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

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