Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - August 5, 2025 [scampydog]

Welcome to the Tuesday ONT. We were spoiled last week with a MisHum, ONT - porterhouse version. Tonight: Weiner, water soup. Big thanks to Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) for covering last Tuesday night.

A bit of Americana. Small town bowling alley. A few pensive thoughts about the automatic scoring. Bring back the sheets of paper, stubby pencils, and the sacred math of bowling.

Any 300 bowlers out there?

Top 6 reasons why Bowling gets a second look.

1. Beer vs. sweat
2. No sunburns
3. Shirts - there is no debate daylight here
4. Dad/Mom bods
5. Lingo - strikes, spares vs. falafel, ernie, dink
6. Nachos, frozen pizza, fried food vs. kinesiology tape

Add your argument to the list.

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Bowling team names - ONT wheelhouse. Bowl movements.

Huge list of bowling names.

- Bowlsheviks - Pocket Pounders and Pinup Girls - Pin Droppers - Bowling Stones

Bonus: Found at bowling alley.

PSA:

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." EE Cummings

Anyone else have a spouse or significant other that is a smart ass? Scampywife had the 9 horse to win. Prior to collecting her winnings (and after taking a slug of my beer), she promptly asked if I needed to borrow some cash for the next race.

Quarter Horses at the track that day. 300 - 330yd races.

Amusing horse track terminology.

Bridge Jumper – Always fun to beat the bridge jumper, the guy who makes huge show bets on a heavy favorite.

Chalk Eating Weasel – You know the type -- all he wants to do is bet the favorite.

Not speedy but smile worthy.

Senior (14yo) dog ends last in race but wins the crowd pic.twitter.com/tv1cSuNuyV

— B&S (@_B___S) September 26, 2024

For the 'Ettes. Or is it...

For the 'Rons. Age isn't the factor - we have all been there.

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— videos in my folder (@VideosFolder) July 29, 2025

Live long enough and you start quoting Dante. And other recycled brain thoughts - unapologetically.

Sixth Circle of Hell: Heresy Representing the rejection of religious and political norms, the sixth circle leads Dante to Farinata degli Uberti, a military leader and aristocrat who tried to win the Italian throne and was convicted posthumously of heresy in 1283. Dante also meets Epicurus, Pope Anastasius II, and Emperor Frederick II.

This many days old. Tons of links out there (many full of nonsense). Cool reading about the Initiation Wells. Dante references abound.

The cultural landscape upon which the Quinta da Regaleira sits dates back thousands of years. There are archaeological sites in the area dating back to the early Neolithic (5 th millennium BC) and extending all the way through to the Iron Age (4 th – 2 nd centuries BC). The Roman occupation of the region began in the mid-2 nd century BC and it was later conquered by the Moors. Sintra finally yielded to Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal after the conquest of Lisbon in 1147. Afonso built an imposing royal Palace there which served as a summer residence until the late 16 th century. After the suppression of the Templars in 1312, the lands passed to the Order of Christ. In the late 15 th century, Sintra was associated with Leonor, one of the greatest Queens of Portugal. Succeeding monarchs spent much time in the town, but after the Restoration of 1640, Sintra lost this link and the Royal palace served only as a prison for Afonso VI. Sadly, most of the built heritage of the region was destroyed in an earthquake in 1755, though there are some outstanding court and military buildings, examples of religious architecture and archaeological sites.

Capitalism beats the hell out of the other isms. What are they renting? Shade? The tree? Shadows?

Tomorrow marks 80 years since Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. One of the commenters at the linked article noted a couple of errors - still interesting reading.

In the baking midday heat, Tibbets had decided to go and judge the finished livery he had instructed the crews to paint on the newly christened Enola Gay. He admired his mother’s name in a bold black font beneath the pilot’s side of the cockpit. The imposing bomber, along with the other six that would accompany him on the mission, had their distinctive 509th arrow inside a circle insignia removed and replaced with a simple large black R. Tibbets worried that any deviation might lead an inquisitive Japanese interceptor to attack them. He now oversaw the plane being towed to the loading pit. He studied the weapon as it was slowly and carefully hoisted into the bomb bay of the Enola Gay by the technical staff.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead with his handkerchief, Tibbets could make out a variety of scrawled messages; one declared, To Emperor Hirohito, from the Boys of the Indianapolis. He recognized the tribute to the old battleship that had delivered parts of the bomb to Tinian. He took in the familiar dimensions of the plumb-shaped, gunmetal-gray ordnance: nine hundred pounds, twelve feet long, a diameter of twenty-eight inches, and sharp tailfins protruding. Tibbets later recalled in his memoir: “Looking at the huge bomb with its blunt nose and four tail fins, I wondered why we were calling it ‘Little Boy.’ It was not little by any standard. It was a monster compared with any bomb that I had ever dropped.”

A bit of Tuesday evening music. Let's go with some barbecued iguana - Wall of Voodoo. Deadpan, talk/sing, oddball fun. Uncool becomes cool in the right setting.

A fair amount of chatter lately about appliances and older items of better quality. The Tuesday ONT presents: The (sometime from the 1980's) Norelco razor. That's right, two rotary heads and an intact cord. Still used for cleanup of spots missed with the safety razor Stiletto knife.

History of electric razors.

While in the foil shavers camp there are a few major players, when it comes to rotary razors things are quite different.

Philips Norelco is basically in a league of its own and the name is synonymous with the rotary razor.

With a rich history behind, Philips Norelco has become a cult classic and has a large community of loyal enthusiasts throughout the world and particularly in the USA.

I suspect there are a number of hand tools and gadgets in circulation and still in use in the homes of the Morons. What items have survived the decades for you? Those that remain in semi-regular use.

With so much news out there about Sydney Sweeney, let's shift focus to something else. Or not. Give the algorithm what it wants (not Sydney - but somehow similar).

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