Wednesday Night ONT - September 9, 2026 [TRex]

Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open. Don't fret if the bar appears to run out of beer - the beer shed out back is fully stocked. Step up and place your order.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Special sympathies to those who have braces now or ever had braces.

If you're a troll, go away.

This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.

[Top photo: Canfield Ohio Fair]

ICYMI - hockey player and coach and ESPN analyst Barry Melrose died today at age 70. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2023.

The Wednesday ONT is definitely NOT the fashion ONT

ONT Medical News Desk

"Tiny" Man Dies While Seeking Large Penis

Influencer Igho "Tiny" Ubiribo Dead at 43 After Undergoing Penis Enlargement Surgery in Thailand

Influencer Igho "Tiny" Ubiribo has died. He was 43.

Ubiribo, who also went by Denisi and Ego on social media, died after experiencing complications from a genital enlargement procedure in Thailand, a U.K. coroner confirmed to TMZ on Saturday, September 5.

According to the medical examiner, Ubiribo suffered a pulmonary embolism during the cosmetic surgery. (A pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot is stuck in an artery in the lung that blocks blood flow, according to the Mayo Clinic.)

The businessman allegedly had 40 milliliters of hyaluronic acid and lidocaine injected into his penis at an unidentified Thai clinic in March, per an Inner West London Coroners' Court inquest obtained by TMZ.

In case there is any question, Tiny's procedure is not ONT approved and Ace of Spades disclaims any adverse consequences from any medical advice given or implied on the blog or in the comments.

Hat tip MisHum

ONT Department of Economics

NYS Fair pays $40,000 to keep $1 potato booth alive with new vendor

Every summer, tens of thousands of New York State Fair visitors willingly stand in one of the fairgrounds' longest lines for something they could make at home: a $1 baked potato.

This year, they'll be getting it from someone new.

Tully's Good Times has been selected to take over the potato booth in the Horticulture Building after longtime operator Wahid Akl decided it was time to move on, ending an era for one of the fair's most recognizable food traditions.

The change comes after the fair sought applications this spring from existing concessionaires interested in operating the booth.

Why did Akl decide it "was time to move on"?

Akl said the decision to give up the booth came down to simple math. Running the potato booth required about 30 employees working two shifts each day of the fair, he said.

While the booth routinely served tens of thousands of customers, the signature baked potato remained locked at $1 as labor and food costs continued to climb.

"We had 30 employees, two shifts," Akl said in an earlier interview with syracuse.com. "You need to serve, clean up the dining room, make sure everything is running. We had a great run out of it. But with everything getting so expensive... I'm not a nonprofit organization."

So how will the new operator make it work if the old operator couldn't?

The New York State Fair will pay a $40,000 management fee to the operator, cover payroll for booth employees and provide the New York-grown potatoes, according to a document concessions manager Jack Davison sent to vendors in April. The operator must continue selling a baked potato or three salt potatoes with butter or sour cream for $1, a longtime fair tradition. In return, the booth's rental fee is waived.

Oh.

Where and when? (No, I don't know the answer.)

ONT Department of Career Advice

Mandatory Metallica

Cliff 'Em All - 1985:

Niche YouTube Channel of the Week

Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Animagraffs. The content is dedicated to illustrating deep detail with animations of your favorite machines, structures and processes. Want illustrated explainers of the Golden Gate Bridge, nuclear power, the Hoover Dam, off-road Baja racing trucks, a steam locomotive, the SR-71 Blackbird, an 18th century warship, etc.?

It takes a lot of research for the content and a lot of work to build the animation. The channel even has content showing how the content is created.

The channel has over 1.93 million subscribers. Many videos have millions of views. Videos on a jetliner and car engine have reached 19 million views each.

The most recent video shows how an F-14 Tomcat works. You're welcome.

Same but very different...

BTW, a visit to Red Bull Hangar 7 in Salzburg, Austria is highly recommended.

I did not know that. Weird, wild stuff

F-117 Nighthawk Needs Fresh Explosives For Its Tailhook Nearly Two Decades After "Retirement"

The F-117 CAD/PAD order list also includes what are described as the "Tail Hook Panel Pyrotechnic Assembly" and "Tail Hook Panel Initiator." These small shaped explosive charges and electrically-initiated detonators, respectively, and are completely unrelated to the F-117's ejection system.

To take a step back quickly, most land-based combat jets in U.S. service today, as well as many in service elsewhere globally, have tailhooks. Unlike their carrier-based counterparts, these aircraft have the hooks for emergency use in combination with arresting gear installed on runways on land.

On non-stealthy land-based combat jets, the integration of an emergency tailhook system is relatively straightforward since it can simply be installed externally or semi-externally at the rear end of the aircraft. It is a more complicated proposition for stealth designs where a hook protruding, even partially, from the underside of the fuselage would negatively impact the jet's radar cross section.

Who new the F-117 had a tailhook (I mean other than every Moron except me)?

Pittsburgh Scanner

The Pittsburgh police scanner is an internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!

Billy Strings for the big ONT finish:

I will start considering potentially thinking about concern over re-naming the Gulf of America when people like the NY State legislature stop trying to re-name "mother" to "gestating parent" and "father" to "non-gestating parent." Ugh. The great sorting clarifies and continues. Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly transferred to an undetermined department for processing. Are you lurking ????

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