Welcome back to another installment of the Watercooler, RedState’s daily Open Thread! Today, we’ve got…

Weird News

• Well, this is just crappy… who’d steal an inflatable colon?
• Brace for a big stink of dead-body smell if you live near Dartmouth… Morphy the Corpse Flower’s teeing up to bloom.
• If your neighbors annoy you with dogcrap and other junk in your yard… be grateful you aren’t THESE folks.
• MacGyver conductor rescues dog on railroad tracks… with his TIE.
• Courthouse escape thwarted… by a fast-moving judge?
• Man breaks hip going out to buy Mega Millions ticket… gets invited to join hospital lottery pool which scores million-dollar win.

This Week In History

• Sunday, 10/28: Battle of Hatcher’s Run, 1864; Glidden patents barbed wire, 1873; Cuban Missile Crisis ends, 1962
• Monday, 10/29: First store opens in Denver, 1858; Battle of Wauhatchie ends, 1863; “Black Tuesday” final market crash to open Depression, 1929
• Tuesday, 10/30: Continental Congress establishes naval committee, 1775; Helena, MT, founded after gold strike, 1864; “War of the Worlds” panic, 1938
• Wednesday, 10/31: Nevada statehood, 1864; Adventures of Sherlock Holmes published, 1892; Toyota enters US auto market, 1957
• Thursday, 11/1: Lincoln appoints McClellan to command, 1861; Weather Bureau issues first forecast, 1870; Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, 1943
• Friday, 11/2: Gov. Winslow takes Plymouth militia to war, 1675; Dakotas gain statehood, 1889; first US commercial radio broadcast, 1920; Spruce Goose flies, 1947
• Saturday, 11/3: Continental Army disbanded, 1783; Black Bart’s last stagecoach robbery, 1883; Chevrolet enters auto market, 1911; Nixon’s “Silent Majority,” 1969

Today’s Birthdays: Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low and Prohibitionist Andrew Volstead, 1860; military historian B. H. Liddell Hart, 1895; entertainer Dale Evans, 1912

Holidays Around the World: Slovenia, Chile and many Lutheran/Reformed Protestant Churches observe Reformation Day; Peru celebrates Dio de la Cancion Criolla and India has National Unity Day.

This Week In History is compiled with assistance from History.com and Wikipedia. Something interesting not listed here? Please share in the Comments section–this is an Audience Participation Encouraged featurette.

Gratuitous Gun Giveaways

• *American Handgunner magazine, for a Kahr ST9 pistol or SCCY CPX-3 pistol package (CPX-3 ends next Wednesday!): http://americanhandgunner.com/giveaway/
• *Guns Magazine, for a SIG M400 Tread rifle, CZ CZ82 pistol, 6.5 Creedmoor Ruger Precision Rifle or North American Arms NAA-22 .22LR derringer (derringer ends TODAY!): http://gunsmagazine.com/giveaway/
• Davidson’s Gallery of Guns, for a Howa M1500 APC American Flag or M1500 HS Precision 6.5 Creedmoor bolt-action rifle (both end TODAY!): https://ggg.galleryofguns.com/
• Aero Precision, for a custom AR15 (ends TODAY!): http://gvwy.io/7jtoyng
• GrabAGun, for a Panzer Arms BP-12 detachable-magazine bullpup 12ga. shotgun (ends TODAY!): http://grabagun.com/giveaway

*Note: FMG Publishing giveaways require you to provide an FFL dealer’s info at entry. Aero Precision giveaways give me one entry each per person who uses my referral link.

RedState Slack – Realtime Chat and Private Messaging for the VRWC

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Quote of the Day

Couldn’t decide which was more apt between these, so it’s a Two-Fer.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.–Paul Harvey

Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.–Basil King

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