Thursday Overnight Open Thread - August 21, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday night ONT! So glad you stopped by. Please stay for a while and share your wit and wisdom in the gray boxes. Perhaps a lurker or two might consider de-lurking tonight?

Before Bud Light Went Off The Rails

They were ahead of their time

Back in the day……. pic.twitter.com/tVsOjxQXnK

— Andrew Wilkow (@WilkowMajority) August 21, 2025

Bud / Bud Light's "Real Men of Genius" and "Real American Heroes" ad campaigns were awesome. A few examples.

Here's a compilation of 50 of these ads


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And who could forget the "Dilly Dilly" / "Pit of Misery" campaign?

The Entire Dilly Dilly saga

Clever. Funny. Memorable. Maybe even make you want to buy the product. Everything a good ad should be.

Cracker Barrel Reinvents Itself

GO WOKE, GO BROKE: New DEI-hire CEO is rebranding Crackle Barrel to decolonize it. Her first move was to remove the old-fashioned country gentleman meant to evoke nostalgia and Americana. pic.twitter.com/8y5A68COYO

— @amuse (@amuse) August 20, 2025

Lots of reaction to this "rebranding". Here's just a bit.

Cracker Barrel didn’t just lose its logo. It lost its soul.

Under a CEO more obsessed with DEI quotas than country charm, they’ve:

– Scrubbed the iconic logo
– Remodeled 70+ stores into sterile showroom knockoffs
– Pledged $700 million to erase every trace of what made it feel… pic.twitter.com/iueJnO861v

— Desiree (@DesireeAmerica4) August 21, 2025

These are some good examples of what Cracker Barrel did to itself

What say you, Hordelings? Good move, bad move, or don't care?

Don't Pop That Zit!

Woman Wnds Up at Emergency Room After Popping Pimple in ‘Triangle of Death’

Popping pimples in the ‘Triangle of Death, a triangular area of your face between the bridge of the nose and the corners of your mouth, can cause serious medical complications and even death.

Lish Marie, a young mother of three, recently went viral on TikTok after posting a video about how popping a pimple below her face caused extreme inflammation and facial paralysis that required medical attention. Lish tried to pop a pimple just below her left nostril using her nails, but within hours, she knew something was wrong. The left side of her face became so swollen that when she tried to smile, it hurt, and only the other corner of her mouth raised into a grin. After about four hours, she went to the emergency room, where doctors immediately put her on four medications – including antibiotics and steroids – to treat the infections that had allegedly entered the bloodstream through the pimple.

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Basically, when you pop a pimple in the Triangle of Death, you create an open wound through which dangerous bacteria can enter the bloodstream and cause an infection that can reach your brain. Cases as the ones mentioned above are rare, otherwise, millions of teenagers would wind up in the hospital every year, but doctors warn that, however small, the risks need to be considered.

TikTok video at the link.

DJ Doof - This Date in Music History Version
from thisdayinmusic.com

Born on this date in 1952: Turkish-born English musician, singer, actor and songwriter Joe Strummer who was the co-founder of The Clash

Born on this date in 1954: Steve Smith, drums, Journey

On this date in 2005: Robert Moog, inventor of the synthesiser died aged 71, four months after being diagnosed with brain cancer. Dr Moog built his first electronic instrument, a theremin - aged 14 and made the MiniMoog, "the first compact, easy-to-use synthesiser" in 1970.
(Here's the synth king Keith Emerson, one of the most well-known guys to play a Moog synth)

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Update:

Late addition to the Cracker Barrel segment

posted by Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

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