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Part 1 was featured here last week. Did you see it? It explored the beginnings of a true FReeper tradition. A tradition that is in dire need of being resuscitated.Anyway, we continue the silliness with the second OFST.... **** OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD **** Posted on 12/10/2004 11:05:24 AM PST by TheBigBBy request...another OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD! Feel free to vent, post silly jokes, make nonsensical statements, or even IGNORE THIS THREAD. I ask that we all keep our good buddy TomServo in our thoughts, also.To get things started, a favorite cartoon:more....... 415 replies this time TheBigB (as far as...

It was almost 20 years ago that The Official Friday Silliness Thread began. As far as I can tell it was TheBigB who began this great Freeper tradition. Looking back over his posting history, it seems he posted lots of funny threads and vanities since his sign on date in 2000. But I can’t find any evidence of an earlier OFST other than this one. Dated 11/19/2004. **Official Friday Silliness Thread**11/19/2004, 2:33:34 PM · by TheBigB · 604 replies · 16,767+ views11/19/04 | self Here is the very first joke on the very first Silliness Thread. To: TheBigBA senior citizens'...

Three people sued the National Park Service earlier this month for its policy not to accept cash payments at a growing number of locations.Esther van der Werf of Ojai, California, Toby Stover of High Falls, New York, and Elizabeth Dasburg of Darien, Georgia, filed their lawsuit on March 6 after being prevented from paying in cash at various national parks, monuments and historic sites around the country. Citing a U.S. code that states U.S. currency is legal tender for all public charges, the lawsuit alleges that the park service’s cashless policy is in violation of federal law.The park service instituted...

A man has been banned from all Buc-ee’s locations for life after bringing his “service duck” along for a jaunt around the store. Circus performer Justin Wood and his online celebrity duck Wrinkle filmed their latest adventure at the world’s largest Buc-ee’s in Sevierville, Tennessee. A circus performer captured a video of the moments when he was allegedly banned from Buc-ee's for life for bringing his service duck inside. The duo were allowed to go on their way once Wood presents IDs proving Wrinkle is a service animal, but shortly after another employee approaches. “Even if it’s considered a service...

Donald Trump said Thursday during a visit to the Texas-Mexico border that Gov. Greg Abbott is “absolutely” on his short list of potential vice presidential candidates for his 2024 run. During a joint interview with Abbott on Fox News, the former president was asked by host Sean Hannity whether Abbott was under consideration for the position. Trump responded that Abbott is “a spectacular man” and he was honored when Abbott endorsed him for president last year. “And he’s done a great job,” Trump said. “Yeah, certainly he would be somebody that I would very much consider.” “So he’s on the...

ATLANTA, Georgia — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis fought back against allegations about her personal life during a Thursday court hearing on whether she misrepresented her relationship with Nathan Wade, the prosecutor hired as lead lawyer in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump. "You're confused. You think I'm on trial," Willis quipped to a defense attorney. "These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020. I'm not on trial, no matter how hard you try to put me on trial." An attorney for Willis made one last attempt to keep her...

Few people look twice these days at veterans accompanied by service dogs that help their humans cope with post-traumatic stress disorder. Not so with spider monkeys. When a female patient brought two of the small, wiry monkeys to an appointment last Wednesday at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, a military clinic on the West Side, staffers looked twice. And then they asked her to leave. “The animals were under blankets and not immediately visible, but once staff became aware, they politely informed the patient that emotional support animals, to include monkeys, are not permitted in a military medical facility,” said...

A San Antonio jury decided Tuesday that a Guatemalan immigrant failed to prove her toddler got sick at an area immigration facility in 2018 and, as a result, died six weeks after their release — the main allegation of the mother’s federal lawsuit against the operator of the complex. By an 8-1 verdict, jurors found Memphis, Tenn.-based CoreCivic was not negligent while housing Mariee Camyl Newberry Juárez and her mother, Yazmin Juárez Coyoy, in the South Texas Family Residential Center in March 2018. After they were released on March 25, Mariee spent six weeks in hospitals in New Jersey and...

President Joe Biden's campaign has joined TikTok, despite the app being banned on most US government devices over security concerns. His campaign launched its account with the username "@bidenhq" during the Super Bowl on Sunday. In a launch video, captioned "lol hey guys", aides quizzed Mr Biden about his preferences for the big game. The president signed legislation in 2022 blocking most federal government devices from using TikTok. Several states have also adopted the measure. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have called for the app - owned by Chinese company ByteDance - to be banned in the US...

A new dating app called "Score" has been launched by financial services company Neon Money Club. Score is positioning itself as an app for financially responsible singles, requiring users to have a minimum credit score of 675 in order to join.

As US allies reel from Donald Trump’s weekend comments encouraging Russia to attack European allies if they don’t meet NATO budget contribution goals, multiple former Trump advisers warn in my upcoming book that the former president will seek to formally withdraw the US from the NATO alliance if he wins a second term. In “The Return of Great Powers”, which will be published March 12, a former senior US official, who served in both the Trump and Biden administrations at a high level, told me that if Trump defeats President Joe Biden in November “the US will be out of...

The latest dependability study results from J.D. Power make for grim reading if you’re in the market for a new car. The longer-term reliability of two thirds of all brands has decreased, and industry-wide, drivers are experiencing 190 problems per 100 vehicles. That’s 4 more problems per 100 vehicles than the study found 12 months ago. Worse still, the rate at which problems present themselves has increased. A year ago, 12 percent of people experienced an issue in the first 90 days to three years of ownership. Now, the rate is up to 17 percent. It should be noted here...

Only spent 30 minutes with his father. William did not even see him. Sent to a hotel instead of spending the night in a royal palace.

WILLMAR, Minn. — A 75-year-old man has died after a sheriff's deputy in rural Minnesota shocked him with a Taser during an attempted eviction, officials announced Wednesday. The cause of Michael James Yanacheak's death in Willmar is undetermined pending further investigation by the medical examiner, the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said in a statement. The BCA, which was called in to investigate the incident, said Riley Kampsen is the Kandiyohi County sheriff’s deputy who deployed his Taser. Kampsen has five years of law enforcement experience. According to the BCA timeline, two Kandiyohi County sheriff’s deputies and two Willmar...

The former president was indicted four times last year and has also had to answer civil lawsuits targeting his business and him as an individual.WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s affiliated committees spent about $27 million on lawyers’ bills and related legal fees in the last six months of 2023, new federal election filings show, bringing the total for a year that included four separate indictments to almost $50 million. Trump’s political fundraising apparatus is sprawling, but the new filings show that the price of lawyers is weighing him down. Still, Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner, has seized on the...

The Texas Military Department posted a photo to its official X account Tuesday afternoon, showing the Gonzales flag flying above its headquarters in Austin.The flag, which reads “Come and Take It” underneath an image of a cannon, is the best-known flag of the Texas Revolution and originated at the Battle of Gonzales, according to the Texas Historical Commission. In the post on X, it’s shown flying below the Texas flag at Camp Mabry.No message was posted with the photo. The post had garnered more than 20,000 views about an hour after it went online.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, wants the Biden administration to reverse course and "restore" humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war. On October 7, 2023, Hamas led the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history. Israel subsequently launched its heaviest-ever airstrikes on Gaza, home to more than 2 million Palestinians. Israeli officials have said that about 1,200 people in Israel were killed and some 250 hostages were taken by Hamas, according to the Associated Press. Meanwhile, more than 26,000 Palestinians have been killed, officials from the health ministry in Gaza said. International organizations have...

Stanley Kubrick’s sharp and persuasive comedy about nuclear war remains a hilarious act of provocationSixty years ago, Columbia Pictures released the first of two black-and-white movies with the exact same premise: what if American planes with hydrogen bombs were inadvertently ordered to drop their payload on targets in the Soviet Union, potentially triggering an all-out nuclear war that wipe out humanity? The Cuban missile crisis had pushed the superpowers to the brink of conflict less than two years earlier, and film-makers were unusually eager to face their cold war nightmares head on.~snip~On balance, Kubrick’s message is more persuasive. Dr Strangelove...

E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist to whom a jury awarded $83.3 million in damages last week as part of a defamation trial against Donald Trump, said on CNN Monday that the court proceedings were little more than a “campaign stop” for the former president. “The courtroom was not a courtroom to him, it was a campaign stop. That was clear,” Carroll said on “CNN This Morning.” “He’s using me to win voters. Sexual assault. A man found liable for sexual assault is using the woman he sexually assaulted to get votes.” Carroll has alleged Trump raped her in...