Saturday Night "Club ONT" November 15, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Dino, and The Doggo.

Disco lives! The Triumvirate is intact. Let's get the Club opened up.

Fall is upon us. Button up your insulated flannel, grab a table by the fire, find some cider or your drink of choice, and pretend you love pumpkin spice.

Or maybe pretend you DON'T like pumpkin spice

Club ONT Department of Philosophy

Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

A pilot got on the loudspeaker shortly after takeoff and said to the passengers, "Folks, welcome aboard flight seven eighty-nine to Cleveland. We'll be flying at thirty-five-thousand feet, and expect to land in an hour and a half. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight."

Forgetting to turn off the microphone, he turned to his co-pilot, yawned, and said, "Why don't you take over for a while? I'm going to take me a big healthy shit, and then I'm gonna shag the brains outta that new blonde flight attendant."

His announcement went over the whole plane. The pretty blonde flight attendant heard this and exclaimed, "Oh my God!" and started running towards the cockpit.

An old lady sitting in an aisle seat stopped her and said, "Relax honey, he's gotta take a shit first."

Drink of the Night

Keepin' it simple tonight - cold beer!

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For Our Patrons Who No Longer Partake

Club ONT Scoville

Nothing like a plate of wings. Pick your sauce. Bring on the dragon heat.

How does this Scoville measurement work? Glad you asked.

Scoville first had to develop a calibrated scale for spiciness and an experimental method for gauging the spiciness of various peppers. In this method, known as the “Scoville organoleptic test,” chilis are dried, ground into a fine powder, and mixed into a solution of alcohol, water, and sugar. This mixture is then given to a panel of 5 tasters to consume. As the perceived spiciness of any given food varies widely from person to person, this panel allows an average value to be obtained. The pepper solution is then progressively diluted with water and given back to the panel until all members can no longer detect any spiciness. The number of dilutions needed to cross the sensory threshold, rounded to the nearest multiple of 100, thus becomes the heat rating of the pepper, expressed in Scoville Heat Units or SHU. For example, if a saturated pepper solution had to be diluted 50,000 times before the tasters can no longer detect it, that pepper is given a Scoville number of 50,000 SHU.

To give an idea of just how this scale works, a Bell Pepper, which contains no capsaicin, has a rating of 0 SHU, while the average Jalapeño clocks in at 3,500-8,000 SHU. The Scotch Bonnet, Red Savina habanero, and Bhut Jolokia or “Ghost Pepper” – previously among the hottest in the world – top out at 580,000 SHU, while police-grade pepper spray and the Carolina Reaper reach 1.5-2 million SHU. Chemically pure capsaicin, meanwhile, sits at a whopping 16 million SHU.

Looking for a party dip without the side effects of sweating, crying, and a gallon of milk? A nice, calm buffalo chicken dip is always welcome. Pro tip: go with bleu cheese instead of ranch. Ranch is for people that clap when the ice cream truck is down to low-sugar, fruit-based treats.

Club ONT Gear Heads

Some HP, a touch of history, mechanical misfits, and a hint of genius. Some were brilliant, some promised speed, others efficiency - and all make for a fun trip down memory lane.

Odd / Rare Internal Combustion Engines.

The Millenia was canceled after the 2002 model year, and the industry waited nearly a quarter century to revisit the Miller cycle, with the 2025 Volvo XC90 adopting the design. In the interim, dozens of hybrid vehicle powertrains have employed the Atkinson cycle, a less aggressive take on the Miller concept that swaps in electric motors for superchargers to paper over the reduced compression that comes with it.

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The HQ proudly counts our very own Mannix - he’s cooler than this car, but just by a hair. Below, the lost‑and‑found story of an awesome car from that TV show.

Good reading. Take time to click through the picture gallery - not Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) style pics, but still great.

Although Barris was given a relatively free hand in creating the Dart’s special features, he knew it was not to be a gimmick-laden machine like the James Bond Aston Martin. After all, Joe Mannix was a regular guy working for 100 bucks a day, not a British secret agent. “They left it up to me as to what would be a trendsetter to follow the concept of the show,” George Barris told us. “The Toronado was a one-of-a-kind expensive-looking vehicle, like slipping a private eye into a Rolls-Royce. We wanted the Dart to have a performance look, but we played it down to make Mannix’s visibility as a private eye not so luxurious.”

Club ONT Music

Top 10ish Comments of the Week

Alert the archives and the Permanent Record Department. We have some disturbingly competent and very witty comments this week.

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NOTICE: Last week there was a disturbance among Club ONT patrons. Seems there were several disagreements in and around the jukebox. Apparently there are strong feelings among patrons regarding whether certain songs from the late 1970s are properly classified as "disco" or other adjacent classifications such as "disco-funk," "rock-disco," "euro-disco," "soul disco," "R&B," "pop", and "pure funk." Club ONT apologizes for the commotion and requests that patrons resolve such differences in the usual manner of mutual ridicule and rock, paper, scissors. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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