Sunday Overnight Open Thread - August 30, 2026

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Glad you could stop by! Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

Welcome home, Lieutenant

This is a local news story for your humble host. Not sure how much attention it got nationwide.

BWI Airport welcomes home fallen WWII pilot, 83 years after his death

The BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport community gathered to honor and welcome home U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Walter Bateman on Friday evening, a Maryland native and American aviator killed during World War II.

Bateman piloted a B-24D Liberator bomber that was shot down Aug. 16, 1943, during a bombing mission against enemy airfields at Foggia, Italy.

Bateman was 22, and there were no survivors among the 10 crew members.

Photo from dignitymemorial.com

More from the Harford County MD Sheriff's Office

After more than 80 years, U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Walter R. Bateman is finally coming home. Lt. Bateman was serving as a pilot with the 67th Bombardment Squadron, 44th Bombardment Group when his B-24D Liberator failed to return from a mission over Italy on August 16, 1943. He and nine fellow airmen were listed as missing in action, and for decades, his and his crew's remains were unidentified. He was 22 years old. On May 29, 2026, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency confirmed Lt. Bateman's identity using modern forensic technology. Tonight, after more than eight decades, he will return home to Maryland...where his story first began.

Thank you for your service and sacrifice, Lieutenant.

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I find this very clever and kinda kewl. What say you?

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Flock segment of the night

Flock has a partnership with Dish Network. Interesting.

Dish Network is about to be extremely unpopular

Dish Network technician confirms they are the ones doing the majority of the Flock Safety Camera installs across America

Dish Network is installing the Flock mass surveillance network

Dish was picked as a partner to do the installs because Dish has a large national force of outdoor technicians experienced in pole mounting, cabling and similar work with satellite TV installs. Flock’s own materials say they use third party for installs. Looks like we found who

It’s time to Bud Light Dish Network

As El Rushbo used to say "demonstrate absurdity by being absurd"

I never thought I'd be aligned with Bernie!

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Do you know how cashews are harvested and prepared for consumption?

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Remember the "dunce corner"? How about a "fart corner"?

A ‘gas station' for farts? This Georgia teacher says it's a classroom win-win

The first thing to know about this gas station is that it is not a gas station.

There are no pumps. No convenience store. No windshield squeegees. And, despite what one might reasonably expect, there is no requirement that anyone actually purchase gas.

It is a designated corner of an Atlanta elementary school classroom where students can go when they need to pass ... gas.

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“I have a very weak stomach, so I cannot take it,” she tells TODAY.com. “And so I was like, OK, I’m just gonna create this little area over here, and you just get up, you go over there, do your business, come back, and that’s just it.”

Video of the teacher explaining this at the link.

'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 (tacky) Glamour of Dolly Parton

The teased hair. The cinched waist. The rhinestones. The sky-high heels. That look was a decision Dolly Parton made young, and she would not give it up, not when the labels asked her to tone it down, not ever. “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap,” she’d joke.

So in honor of the true star and humanitarian, let’s walk through a few outfits that epitomize Dolly.

The coat that started it

Before the sequins, there was scrap fabric. Coat of Many Colors is a song about a patchwork coat her mama sewed from leftover rags. The kids laughed. Dolly wore it like a crown. This story is the key to her fashion; she never hid where she came from. She just added rhinestones.
Decades later she translated the coat into red-carpet language, a satin patchwork shirt-dress in orange, pink, yellow, and blue for the Coat of Many Colors premiere. Country memory. Hollywood cut.

The Jolene jumpsuit, 1974

Nashville seamstress Lucy Adams made the blue-and-white striped jumpsuit with the white puffed jacket that became the Jolene album cover. Dolly later said she chose it because it moved. She had to sit, squat, and pose on the floor. Those puffy sleeves were a personal favorite.
Jumpsuits mattered for another reason. Onstage they let her work, and, as she once noted, they kept the front row from getting a free show. See? She was practical.

Rhinestones as a work uniform

By the mid-1970s the silhouette was locked: tiny waist, plunging neckline, pointy elbows, sequins, crystals, and later those Nudie embroidery insets. And the hair — extensions, wigs, pieces — teased into another stratosphere. That was not a costume. That was the uniform.

The Playboy cover, 1978

Dolly became the first country star on the cover of Playboy. She wore the bunny kit: bodysuit, ears, cuffs, bow tie. And she refused to pose nude. That was just her style. Take a mainstream shock magazine and walk in on your own terms.
In 2021 she recreated the look for her husband Carl Dean’s birthday. She was 75. She said he still thought she was a hot chick. I love that so much.

Bob Mackie’s butterfly

For the 1979 TV special Dolly & Carol in Nashville, Bob Mackie built her a wing-like “Butterfly” gown. Butterflies were her motif. “They don’t sting, they don’t bite, and they are so beautiful,” she said. Mackie dressed her for other television spectaculars too. His sketches still look like they were drawn for a cartoon goddess who also had to hit her mark.

Pink for 9 to 5, 1980

For the premiere, Dolly asked Ann Roth — the film’s costume designer — what a girl was supposed to wear to a thing like that. She arrived in a pink lace-and-satin gown with a matching fur stole. She later told Vogue it may have been the first time she felt fashionable rather than just “Dolly.”

Miami, NYE 2022

Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party. Opening number: “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll.” Dolly owned the stage in a black leopard jumpsuit — studs down the seams, mesh cutouts at the legs, hoops, platforms, crimped hair. Miley matched her in a black Gucci mini and leopard gloves. Godmother and goddaughter, one silhouette.
When Miley called it Dolly’s rock look, Dolly shot back, “Well, you dressed me.”

Halftime Show, Thanksgiving 2023

Dolly took the Cowboys’ Salvation Army halftime show in a customized cheerleader uniform: blue crop, white star vest, tiny white shorts, rhinestone mesh, and a crystal star over her navel. Manager Danny Nozell said even the inner circle didn’t see it until she left the dressing room.
Seventy-seven years old. Ninety thousand people. She said if it landed it would be cute, and if it didn’t they could call it an old woman doing a stupid thing. I saw it in real time. It landed. She also said she did it partly for her husband, who loved that squad. Of course she did.

In the end, Dolly has left us a simple instruction: if you’re going to show up, show up shining.

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