# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657 "2024-01-05T16:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 186
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3701 "2025-01-29T23:54:10Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Aren’t vagaries those small furry animals that look like eggplants with feet? No, those are capybaras. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3702 "2025-01-30T00:17:10Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > It’s in the flagon with the dragon. > The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true. You _broke_ the vessel with the pestle?! ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3703 "2025-01-30T03:18:14Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > You _broke_ the vessel with the pestle?! Then the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3704 "2025-01-30T03:40:18Z")
If I may hijack this wordplay thread with a story about stupid MFers in the news… The city of Cle Elum, WA is being forced to declare bankruptcy because the city tried to play Trumpian games with a real estate developer. [https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/cle-elum-city-council-bankruptcy-city-heights-holdings-llc/281-c3d45334-55ce-4f81-a1cc-8ab9c49e0121](https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/cle-elum-city-council-bankruptcy-city-heights-holdings-llc/281-c3d45334-55ce-4f81-a1cc-8ab9c49e0121) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3705 "2025-01-30T12:34:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Cle Elum, WA “Cle Elum” is almost “Mule Elk” backwards. (See the thread on playing word games). It’s such a weird name I had to look kit up. It’s the name of a nearby river, evidently a Native American place name. It looks like it meany “swift water” Too bad it’ll be remembered mainly for a bankruptcy and minor corruption. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3706 "2025-01-30T14:16:06Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Too bad it’ll be remembered mainly for a bankruptcy and minor corruption. At least it will be remembered? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3707 "2025-01-30T15:02:29Z")
It is right on I90, so thousands of people see the name on the freeway sign every day. Kind of like Oriska and Fingal North Dakota. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3708 "2025-01-30T15:57:47Z")
Yep, Cle Elum is well known to people that travel that stretch of I90. And, it has Superchargers! 🙂 Wait, the city will be looking for ways to increase revenue. I wonder if there will be a electricity surcharge now? ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3709 "2025-01-30T21:15:36Z")
> **[MMA's Bryce Mitchell Says Hitler Was 'Good Guy,' Dana White Slams Comments](https://www.tmz.com/2025/01/30/bryce-mitchell-hitler-purify-germany-jews-holocaust/)** > > Mitchell's boss, UFC honcho Dana White, unloaded on his comments at a Power Slap press conference just now ... in which he labeled the fighter "probably one of the dumbest human beings." UFC fighter thinks that Hitler was a “good guy” based on his independent research. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3710 "2025-01-30T21:23:28Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > based on his independent research. Where did he do his “research”? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3711 "2025-01-30T22:19:00Z")
Don John dot com ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3712 "2025-01-30T22:20:08Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It’s the name of a nearby river, evidently a Native American place name. Half the places around here are Native American place names. 😜 Just glad that city isn’t in my region here at work! > [@eschereal](#): > > It is right on I90, so thousands of people see the name on the freeway sign every day. Yeah, it’s “that place between the Snoqualmie Pass and Ellensburg”. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3713 "2025-02-01T15:41:08Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It is right on I90, so thousands of people see the name on the freeway sign every day. I’m sure some people are surprised to drive through Lacey and see the sing for Sleater-Kinney Rd. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3714 "2025-02-02T01:48:06Z")
The MMA figther just upthread really did his homework: > [@](#): > > “I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy…He fought for his country, he wanted to purify it by kicking the greedy jews out that were destroying his country that were turning them all into gays” > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > …the sing for Sleater-Kinney Rd. Understandable typo 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3715 "2025-02-02T16:04:47Z")
So, this story goes from evil to stupid back to evil. To summarize: Two guys on snowmobiles were accused of running over a fox. They turned themselves into the Game Commission, and were charged by the local District Attorney named Pier Hess Graf. That’s the first evil part. She then says she’ll meet with local news, provided they don’t send a reporter named Christine Vendel, who “oversees breaking news and investigations.” Why? Because Vendel" worked with reporter Jenna Wise on the yearlong investigation that [uncovered Lebanon County had one of the lowest prosecution rates for sex crimes in Pennsylvania.](https://www.pennlive.com/news/2024/11/i-felt-attacked-by-them-sex-assault-victims-find-pa-prosecutors-take-on-few-cases-why.html)" Here’s the stupid: Graf said, during the interview for the fox story (and to a reporter from that same outlet), that Vendel’s a horrible woman and she hopes Vendel “burns in a fire”, and Graf canceled the interview upon learning Vendel would be there. And more evil: She’s also refused to press charges in two separate rape cases. > **[Snowmobilers said they were trying to run over fox they chased through...](https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2025/01/snowmobilers-said-they-were-trying-to-run-over-fox-they-chased-through-central-pa-field-police.html)** > > Pa. game wardens filed charges Thursday against a 20-year-old man and 17-year-old alleging animal cruelty and hunting fox without a license. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3716 "2025-02-03T07:50:15Z")
Kanye West showed up uninvited at the Grammys with his new wife (who oh-so-coincidentally looks a LOT like Kim Kardashian) and was escorted out after said wife dropped her coat to reveal she was wearing a see-thru mesh dress that literally exposed every part of her body. I’m going to spoilertag the link because the photos, though they have black bars on them, are probably still NSFW; [https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/breaking-kanye-wests-wife-bianca-949032](https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/breaking-kanye-wests-wife-bianca-949032) ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3717 "2025-02-03T10:25:14Z")
They got headlines and attention with no repercussions. Doesn’t seem stupid to me. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3718 "2025-02-03T20:06:08Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > They got headlines and attention with no repercussions I mean, if the attention he wants is to inform people he’s a tasteless clown who doesn’t respect women and is still obsessed with his ex, then mission accomplished. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3719 "2025-02-03T20:10:16Z")
Does anyone else thinks she looks like a hostage? It would probably be more obvious one way or the other in video ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3720 "2025-02-03T21:18:04Z")
Holding a bland but attractive face is a standard skill of actors/models. Doing so while naked on the red carpet at the Grammy’s is world class acting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=185) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=187)