Tuesday Night Open Thread

Old music. Some of the best music is old music. Heck, all of the best music is old music.

[The YouTube]

What about you? Got something that’s on your mind that you’d like to share? It’s Tuesday Night Open Thread, and your turn to choose the topic.

Who wants to start?

Like Donald Sutherland at the End of “Body Snatchers”

NewsGuard, a new service that uses trained journalists to rate thousands of news and information sites, will announce that it has launched a secure, encrypted digital and telephone hotline for political candidates and members of the public to report suspected fake news sites.

I’m confused… I thought reporting fake news is what the trained journalists were for.

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You Built a Time Machine Out of a Toy DeLorean?

[8 stopmotion tricks in 2 minutes] (Viewer #91,257)

Don’t know if anyone here plays with stopmotion – I certainly don’t – but I found this intriguing, because I don’t think much about how it’s done. I especially liked the Lego jump trick.

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Link of the Day: IMAO Still Has a Meaning, We Just Won’t Tell You What It Is

[High Praise! to Your Daily Dose of Vitamin Fred]

Acronymwits

[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]

Icebreaker: Which Animal Would You Choose to Be?

Having finished “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data” and enjoyed the results, I’m moving on to a new list:

76 Fun Icebreaker Questions (Not all of which will be used, since some are either/or questions, which are boring.)

Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.

If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.

Which animal would you choose to be?

Anything but a pig, because pigs can’t eat bacon.

Just Wait a Minute, It’ll Come to Me

[High Praise! to Freedom Is Just Another Word]

Straight Line of the Day: Viral Video: Students Shocked to Discover That Former President Obama…

Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.

Viral video: students shocked to discover that former President Obama…

Frank’s Marketing Tips

Hey, here’s my last newsletter if you didn’t sign up for it. It’s too late for the audiobook giveaway on Sidequest, but all the marketing tips I give are still golden.

BTW, what do you all think of the annoying popup to sign up for my newsletter? Do you like it, or are some of you getting annoyed by the annoying popup?

The Illustrated Frank J: It Never Really Happens, It’s Just a Tale We Tell to Scare Children

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Let’s Collaborate

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are trying to encourage President Trump to not pull America out of the Iran nuclear deal.

I don’t know what Trump will tweet to that, but I bet it includes a picture of a bottle of Vichy water.