# Bad, bad, bad Prank night at the Wrek insane asylum...(and crazy hat night) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471 "2021-11-16T23:11:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/1 "2021-11-16T23:11:53Z")
We combine our fun-ness to make it more fun!! Wheee…here we go- Mid-dau made her greatest ever baked Ziti. Everytime she makes it Mr. Wrekker sez: “Why can’t we have American food sometimes?” This tends to piss MD off. Her plan is to have a plate of cold bologna and pork and beans ready to serve him. Now…this may piss him off. I told her he’s liable to throw the plate at her. It’s according to how many Cocktails he’s had. So she dug up an old football helmet we had around here and has been wearing it all afternoon. The Lil’Wrekker came home and went and found her a tiara and veil. She’s sporting that. I have a tasteful black beret, I look good!!🤭 The kids are in all manner of knit caps and hunting things with the ear flaps. I can wait to see what Son-of-a-wrek comes up with. He always out does us all. Although, the football helmet is hilarious. He’s gonna have to dig deep on this one. Bayliss even has a birthday hat on. Well, I keep putting it back on him. He’s not really into the thing. At. All. Let the frivolity begin! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/2 "2021-11-16T23:16:19Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Everytime she makes it Mr. Wrekker sez: “Why can’t we have American food sometimes?” > This tends to piss MD off. > Her plan is to have a plate of cold bologna and pork and beans ready to serve him. There is a couple, with whom I’m friends, in which, at least early in their relationship, the husband had the food preferences of a 9-year-old. At their wedding reception, when everyone else was being served a dinner of chicken or steak, the waitress brought out a special dinner for the groom, which had been selected for him by his new wife: Spaghetti-Os and Oscar Mayer Bologna. He was thrilled, as it was his very favorite meal. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/3 "2021-11-16T23:18:19Z")
Big Wrek eats both bologna and pork and beans Alot. You might say. But he’s gonna realize she’s pranked him. Oh, man. I love spaghetti-os ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/4 "2021-11-16T23:20:49Z")
I am shocked…_shocked_…to not learn that the Meezers were wearing hats. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/5 "2021-11-16T23:24:44Z")
They are actually kinda freaked out. I look up at their perch in the beams and they look worried. I suspect they are planning to run away from home, cause we’re all bonkers. Oh, oh one of the kids found a blue cowboy hat. That’s Mr. Wrekkers hat for tonight. It’s sitting in his chair. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/6 "2021-11-16T23:25:44Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I suspect they are planning to run away from home, cause we’re all bonkers. The bonkers thing is not a new development; what’s kept them from running away so far? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/7 "2021-11-16T23:27:39Z")
So true. They like feeling superior, I guess. And I got the good treats. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/8 "2021-11-16T23:42:06Z")
I think you need to install a camera so we can see what goes on in your home. Kinda like nesting cameras that are on 24/7. Truthfully, your family’s shenanigans could almost be my family shenanigans. T’day coming up. I wonder what it will bring. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/9 "2021-11-17T07:25:11Z")
Mr. Wrekker was not amused. Son-of-a-wrek wore his prized molded plastic razorback hog head hat. Hamza wore a red and white checked dish towel. It’s ok he’s not being disrespectful, he’s Muslim. I was just happy no one thought of a white sheet. The Ziti was great, as usual. DIL wouldn’t wear a hat. She’s a party pooper. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/10 "2021-11-17T08:06:57Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Everytime she makes it Mr. Wrekker sez: “Why can’t we have American food sometimes?” What is “American food”? If Mr Wrekker is a culinary purist, he must mean the food that real indigenous Americans ate before the Europeans invaded.and polluted their diet with things like ziti and Chef Boyardee Spaghetti-Os. (I ask you: what kind of American name is “Boyardee”? Actually, the correct spelling of the real person was Hector Boiardi, an Italian immigrant and thus not “American”, either). So if Mr Wrekker wants “American” food, I say he should get it, cooked in the authentic American style. Some suggestions: You should always have on hand walrus, bearded seal, grouse, ptarmigan, buffalo, squirrel, opossum (sorry, Clarence) and raccoon. And of course pemmican, made from dried buffalo meat that’s been sitting in the sun for about a month and pounded together with rendered buffalo fat. On special occasions you could make Mr Wrekker a real gourmet American treat, like freshly boiled buffalo stomach lining made into tripe soup, thickened with brains, accompanied by roasted intestines. For a real feast, this should be accompanied by sides of maize and perhaps a bit of bird brain stew, or stink fish, fish heads which have been buried in the ground until sufficiently stinky. You can’t get more authentically American than that! More ideas here: > **[Indigenous cuisine of the Americas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_cuisine_of_the_Americas)** > > Indigenous cuisine of the Americas includes all cuisines and food practices of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Contemporary Native peoples retain a varied culture of traditional foods, along with the addition of some post-contact foods that have become customary and even iconic of present-day Indigenous American social gatherings (for example, frybread). Foods like cornbread, turkey, cranberry, blueberry, hominy, and mush have been adopted into the cuisine of the broader United States ... ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/11 "2021-11-17T16:46:57Z")
Ummm? Would you mind if I let him read your post? The sound of Boiled Bison Belly soup makes me wanna heave my green smoothie. Bleeeeck! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/12 "2021-11-17T16:58:26Z")
This whole thing begs a question. Am I wrong? The native American has been accused of eating dog meat. Were these dogs used otherwise? Did they have access to friendly dogs(other than wolfs and coyotes)? Or did the white man bring dogs to the Americas? Mr.Wrekkers new squirrel dog is a Carolina Cur. If you believe the internet these were the only indigenous American ‘dog’. Sort of a American Dingo, or something. They purposly do not say Canine in the articles. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/13 "2021-11-18T00:04:07Z")
We acquired 6’6" tall [Victor](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1265/3747/products/MN-169_silver_front_1024x1024_cb80bd47-880a-4e14-8a42-c43cf2c5dfa5_2000x.jpg) (& some friends) when Lord & Taylor went out of business. Victor doesn’t reside with me but it’s _amazing_ how much he seems to move around behind various (bedroom or bathroom) doors when I go to her house. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/14 "2021-11-18T00:30:09Z")
Nah, dogs have been domesticated for thousands of years longer than people have been in North America. Per Wiki: > Genetic studies suggest a domestication process commencing over 25,000 years ago, in one or several wolf populations in either Europe, the high Arctic, or eastern Asia.[[10]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog#cite_note-Ostrander2019-10) In 2021, a [literature review](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature_review) of the current evidence [infers]\*([Inference - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inference)) that the dog was domesticated in [Siberia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia) 23,000 years ago by [ancient North Siberians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_North_Eurasian), then later dispersed eastward into the Americas and westward across Eurasia.[[21]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog#cite_note-Perri2021-21) I like to think that dogs drove human evolution the same way we drove theirs. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/15 "2021-11-18T00:35:29Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > This whole thing begs a question. > Am I wrong? The native American has been accused of eating dog meat. > Were these dogs used otherwise? > Did they have access to friendly dogs(other than wolfs and coyotes)? Or did the white man bring dogs to the Americas? > > Mr.Wrekkers new squirrel dog is a Carolina Cur. If you believe the internet these were the only indigenous American ‘dog’. Sort of a American Dingo, or something. They purposly do not say Canine in the articles. Dogs have been on this continent for at least ten thousand years; quite possibly longer. They were used for everything from hunting to draft animals, and a lot of things besides; and yes, sometimes for food. Different tribes undoubtedly had different customs. The native dogs got wiped out pretty much entirely by the Columbian invasion, and replaced by dogs of European origin. Modern studies find maybe 4% of their genetics surviving. A couple of cites out of lots of possibilities (note some discrepancies between them): > **[Learn and Explore - Canadian Museum of Nature](https://nature.ca/en/learn-explore/)** > > Get connected with nature! Learn about nature and explore things to do from the Canadian Museum of Nature that you can enjoy at home, in your classroom with students, or on the go. Explore by topic For Educators  Plan a field trip or book a... > **[European Dogs Devastated Indigenous American Pup Populations](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-european-dogs-devastated-indigenous-american-pup-populations-180969561/)** > > Disease, cultural change wiped out pre-contact populations, leaving no trace of ancient dogs’ DNA in modern counterparts ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/16 "2021-11-18T06:20:47Z")
Color my ignorance fought!! Y’all so itelligent. Wait til I tell Me. W, his expensive, pure bred Carolina Cur is a fake. I always knew he was a mutt. 😳 Not to mention the dog is totally untrainable. He’s comical tho’. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/17 "2021-11-18T06:44:59Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Wait til I tell Me. W, his expensive, pure bred Carolina Cur is a fake. > > I always knew he was a mutt. 😳 > > Not to mention the dog is totally untrainable. He’s comical tho’. Article on squirrel dogs: > **[Need a Squirrel Dog? These are the Best Squirrel Hunting Breeds - K9 Web](https://www.k9web.com/breeds/squirrel-dog/)** > > Squirrel hunting is popular across the southeastern USA and other regions. While any dog can act as a squirrel dog, some dog breeds are born for this job. What I will say, thouigh, is that many (not all) such dogs are not exactly the brightest of breeds, so “untrainable” sounds quite plausible. Like this squirrel dog, called a “treeing cur”: [![](https://www.k9web.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cute-treeing-cur-standing-780x780.jpg) ](https://www.k9web.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cute-treeing-cur-standing-780x780.jpg) I ask you, is that the face of an intelligent dog?\* \* - No. Now, if you take a truly intelligent dog like me, a Bernese Mountain Dog, why,.we just get along with everybody, just as friendly as can be. Including squirrels, y’all: [![](https://i.imgur.com/k8dDYmu.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/k8dDYmu.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/18 "2021-11-18T07:07:32Z")
Awwww. That’s so sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/19 "2021-11-18T07:20:16Z")
Dillon the demon looks most like the _Kemmer cur_ in your article. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471/20 "2021-11-18T07:33:16Z")
This is so fascinating. So the article says the indigenous dog population was descended from Siberian domesticated dogs. But whence the Siberian dogs? I found another article that said they were descendants of a species of grey wolf now extinct. And THAT article had this wonderful quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Character of Dogs”: > “The dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man’s plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed.” Don’t you love it? P.S. Is it weird I want to give the dog in the Smithsonian photo scritches? He (or she) looks like he was a Very Good Dog. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-prank-night-at-the-wrek-insane-asylum-and-crazy-hat-night/954471.md?page=2)