Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - June 18, 2025 [TRex]

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

This is the Wednesday night ONT.

No, the mystery click is not Stairway to Heaven. That would have been too easy. Besides, the DC Zoo is at the top. While a good zoo, it doesn't qualify as Heaven.

I was all set to mock ESPN for showing cornhole on television. I'm not saying that my cornhole skills are strong. After all, my small brain and short arms are not well suited. There is an American Cornhole League and lots of people apparently take cornhole seriously. My mockage wasn't aimed at those who enjoy a well placed beanbag toss or those that soak in any attention they can get for an activity more commonly found at a backyard BBQ or a craft brewery. Good for them.

I will also let others debate whether cornhole qualifies as a sport. Given the weirdness in modern Olympic games, seems like almost anything qualifies. Does throwing horseshoes qualify as a sport? Dunno. Guessing the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association might have a view, but that's not my issue.

My question was how ESPN - the world wide leader in sports - can fail to find anything more compelling to broadcast. ESPN has a big platform and the world is a big place. Lots of sport happens in a lot of places. But is ESPN really that lazy or uninspired? Apparently so. How do I know?

This is the championship in the women's category. The champion in this match was decided when one combatant's "shoulder gives out."

There is also a men's category. I refuse to provide a link.

No sign of jello wrestling (yet).

The Greatest Show on Dirt:

I especially appreciate the "Mow Rons Motorsport" team name.

Wholesome content alert:

Today I learned the answer to the question: How do astronauts in the International Space Station wash their clothes in space?

They don't.

They each have a limited number of items as it would cost a lot of money to regularly send fresh clothes to them from Earth. These are worn again and again until they're too smelly or dirty to wear anymore.

There does come a time when astronauts have to get rid of some of their dirty clothes. Some of them are put in cargo spacecrafts which burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, while other more expensive items like spacesuits are sent back to Earth for cleaning and repairs.

More science knowledge I learned today: an octopus has arms, but not tentacles.

Huh.

An arm is a limb that's covered with suction cups from beginning to end. A tentacle has suckers only at its end, which is usually wide and heavy.

Each arm of an octopus contains its own brain. That means the arm can operate on its own, or it can be controlled by the central brain. An octopus uses its arms to build its own housing and to climb in and out of shells and other objects. It uses two arms to crawl along the bottom, so those arms are sometimes called legs.

Either way, keep your arms and tentacles inside the moving ONT to avoid injury. (I said "tentacles" not "testicles." But probably best to keep those under control as well.)

Honda makes cars, lawnmowers, and jets. But now rockets too?! Apparently so.

Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing Test of Experimental Reusable Rocket

Honda's involvement in rocketry comes as news to me.

Caption contest winner from last week.

I'm not saying his injuries were no big deal that one time, when Evil Knievel tried to jump over a hundred school buses. He got plenty banged up. I'm just saying, don't forget the big picture! You know as well as I do how things turned out that other time, when a hundred school buses tried to jump over Evil Knievel.

Well played!

Credit to lurker ICanCallYouBetty

Air Force humor:

NKAWTG

In the news - related but not directly related since this is a quasi-smart military blog (at times): Boeing In Talks To Restart C-17 Production I never understood why production was closed down in 2015. I'm still bitter about F-22 production.

Today I learned that Jeremy Clarkson's parents made Paddington Bear.

Up in Doncaster, Mr. Clarkson's parents - Shirley and Eddie Clarkson - ran a design business called Gabrielle Designs and created a prototype Paddington Bear toy in 1972, which they gifted to Mr. Clarkson and his sister Joanna for Christmas.

The plush bear was quickly praised and Mr Clarkson's parents began to sell them in shops. However, they did so without regard to the author's copyright on the bear and Mr. Bond soon got his lawyers involved to take action against the Clarksons.

As legal action brewed, the pair headed down to London to meet with Mr Bond's solicitors and by chance met the author in the lift.

Mr. Bond and the Clarksons became fast friends and awarded he awarded them the licencing rights to the toy throughout the world.

Apparently this is true:

The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving:

Would you like to swing on a star? Bing Crosby for our big ONT finish.

Has anyone figured out why the Pentagon doesn't have a pizza place onsite? Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ??

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