Thursday Overnight Open Thread - January 22, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! The time for the Thursday ONT has arrived. If you're a Moron's Moron, you are in luck tonight! Lots of right-in-the -wheelhouse content tonight. Won't ya step inside and check it out?

Big snow storm approaching the east coast. Even Florida was hit with a cold spell recently.

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Perhaps an unknown stipulation in the AOSHQ users' manual - If something qualifies for both the Food Thread AND the Gun Thread, it automatically becomes ONT material. (This may or may not be true, but thus far, I am not aware of Ace having implemented Community Notes).

Man Succesfully Registers Potato as Functional Gun Silencer

Zach Clark isn’t the first person to ever try using a potato as a gun silencer, but he recently became the first to have it legally approved as a silencer by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). He reportedly did it to point out the absurdity of the law that allowed him to do it, a law that now allows anyone to submit their own silencer designs, regardless of how crazy they might be.

“It’s a good way to highlight to normal people that like, ‘Yeah, this is dumb. ‘This whole law is kind of dumb,” Clark told The Reload. “There are other people who have talked about submitted forms for pillows. One is particularly funny because, for the documentation, it’s just a picture of Mike Lindell holding a My Pillow. People have submitted forms for Monster Energy cans. So, there are definitely a lot of people who are going that angle.”

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“Serial number Samwise01 was denied, but Tate001 and Tate002 were approved,” Zach Clark said. “It happened with some of my 3D-printed suppressors, too. I had three that were denied that used the exact same documentation as the other 40 that were approved. So who knows? I’m assuming with what’s going on at the ATF right now, they’re just flying through them. So, there might not even be a thought process. The person could just be clicking, yes, no, because there’s chaos over there.”

OK, fess up - which one of you did this??

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Ginger vs Marry Ann. How old are you? Ongoing AOSHQ themes converge!

Your humble host is 100% in the Mary Ann camp!

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No math on the blog? What about two Morons arguing over a number, then using math to settle their differences? It can happen!

Food Thread Adjacent

If this isn't Moron level behavior, I don't know what is!

(Click for source on X)

“My girlfriend got on to me the other day because she doesn’t understand why I can’t just pick eggs out of the carton like a “normal” person. She’s standing there watching me and says, “Why can’t you just go row by row like everyone else?”

I said, “Because no egg should ever know when its time is coming.”

She stared at me for a second, shook her head, and said, “You’re a psycho,” then walked off.

Little does she know…I’ve got a whole tournament system going on. I take two eggs, tap them together, and whichever one doesn’t crack moves on to the next round.

Only the strongest survive. 🥚 💪 😂”

Art Thread Adjacent?

Don't jump ahead to the comments until you either get it or give up!

DJ Doof - Guess The Theme

Easy one tonight. Difficulty level 1 out of 5

What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif?
(Aside from them all being live recordings from the 90s)

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