Sunday Overnight Open Thread - November 16, 2025 [Doof]

Wow - a whole year already?!?

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday night ONT! In case you were wondering, and I know you ALL were - tonight marks the one year anniversary of my first ONT post. Exactly 52 weeks ago tonight, I dipped my toes into the ONT hosting pool for the first time. Little did I know then that I'd become the regular Sunday night host, I'd incrementally add a 2nd and 3rd night, and I'd co-host the (as of then non-existent) Saturday night Club ONT. You folks put up with me FOUR nights a week! How do you do it?!?!

Anyway, I was planning to merely mention this 1-year anniversary just briefly. Then I saw the Wednesday night ONT from T Rex, and a bar was set. Naturally, I had to try to outdo my good friend and colleague - the short armed one. So what's say we step inside and see what I was able to come up with?

This is YUUUUGE!

Somehow, word of my anniversary reached POTUS 45/47. So awesome of him to take time out of his busy schedule to send me this message!

Thank you, Mr. President! I'm a big fan of your work, as well!

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Speaking of POTUS, check out this clip from 2015. It's new to me - how about you?

Put This Guy on the AOSHQ Sockpuppet List

Man Changes His Name Every Year to Avoid Paying Child Support

Roman Korenev, head of the bailiff service responsible for collecting child support payments in Tyumen, Russia, recently revealed one of the most shocking cases of his career in an interview with Russian media outlet 72.RU. The official claimed that a local man completely changed his last name, first name, and patronymic once a year, hoping to evade child support liability.

A year later, the unnamed man would return to his old name and repeat the process. This was his attempt to evade bailiffs and “zero out” the debt. It’s unclear how long he managed to hide from the bailiffs, but his efforts turned out to be futile.

“When a person’s name changes, the registry office reports this information to the bailiffs, so the debtor can’t avoid paying child support this way,” Roman Korenev said.

Pretty shifty and very slimy. Hit the link for more info and some additional links to slimy behavior such as this.

Gen X Content

If you happened to read my first ONT a year ago, you may recall that it featured a plethora of Gen X content. How about we do that again?

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This one will take you back!

This is actually more technologically advanced than the process for building a thread here on AOSHQ.

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Damn - I miss these types of sound systems!

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Who can relate?

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Some vids to take you back to the good ole days

Yeah - you just had to be there!

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If you watched music videos in the mid to late 80s, you should totally get this!

'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)

It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.

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THE FOLD STANDARD

PARIS — In a move that has left even the most jaded front-rowers reaching for their pearls, haute couture has officially entered its Pulp Fiction Era. Designers are trading silk faille for recycled receipt rolls, swapping Swarovski for staples, and draping models in gowns that could double as origami cranes made by beginners. The trend has been officially labeled Papier Couture.

The Origami That Ate the Métier
It started innocently enough: Matthieu Blazy sent a Balenciaga receipt trench down the runway in April, printed with 47 yards of actual customer complaints. (“Item not as described—returned.” ) Critics called it “conceptual.” By November, every atelier from the 8th arrondissement to Bushwick was pulping Vogue archives into bias-cut slips.

Key Looks from “Le Crunch” Season
1. Chanel No. 5-Ply
A cocoon coat crafted from 3,200 shredded I LOVE PARIS tourist maps. The hem unfolds into a pop-up Eiffel Tower if you sneeze too hard. Price: €1.2 million (or 12,000 café receipts—whichever you hit first).

2. Dior’s “Press Release” Gown
87 layers of glossy press releases announcing the gown itself. The skirt spells “SOLD OUT” in negative space. Comes with a QR code that rickrolls you to a 404 page.
(Sorry - image not available. Apparently it's undocumented.)

3. Rick Owens’ “Confessional” Cape
Black cardstock, hole-punched, and threaded with red string like a crime-scene mood board. Whisper “I overpaid” into the hood and it auto-shreds in protest.

Sustainability? Or Just Printer Ink?
Eco-warriors are folding under the weight of hypocrisy. Yes, the paper is FSC-certified, post-consumer, soy-ink, gluten-free—but each look requires 17 reams, a laminator, and one intern named Chaz who hasn’t seen sunlight since September.

“It’s carbon-neutral if you don’t count the thermo-lamination or the private jet to the paper mill in Finland.”
—A spokesperson.

Street Style: Crumple Core
Outside the shows, influencers are balling up yesterday’s Financial Times into salmon-pink turbans. One It-girl arrived in a Fortune 500 ballgown—literally sewn from shredded stock certificates.

The Aftermath
By finale, the Grand Palais runway resembled a ticker-tape parade hosted by a shredder. Models exited trailing confetti. Pharrell closed the week with a Louis Vuitton paper bag shaped like a Birkin. It retails for €42,000 and holds exactly one AirPod.

What’s Next?
Rumor has it Spring 2026 will be “Wet Paper”—gowns that dissolve on contact with champagne. Until then, invest in Mod Podge. Your recycling bin just became couture.
Piper is busy folding this article into a tiny paper boat. Send help (and scissors).

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Thanks, Piper! I see what you did there with the paper theme. Paper being the standard gift for 1 year anniversary. Thank you for remembering - and for the effort you put in each week to help make the Sunday ONT better than if it were just my stuff!

DJ Doof - Party Like It's 1987 Edition

Weekly commenter stats for week of 11-16-2025

AoSHQ Commenter Statistics:
Number of posts: 93
Number of comments: 25308
Number of unique hashes: 2086

Top 10 commenters:
1 [434 comments] 'Bulg' [61.65 posts/day]
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3 [399 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer'
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Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [174 names] 'Odd Fra Oslo' [24.71 unique names/day]
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Tonight's ONT brought to you by Thanksgiving fun for Morons

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Check out the link for a full year in 2 minutes time-lapse video.

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