Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume VII

[kyledvor61]

1700cc

a vw bug motor by chance?

[shookie]

the thing was fucking huge

[kyledvor61]

the thing was F cking huge

so a vw motor then?


a BIG streetbike is a 1300 hayabusa and i believe kawasaki has a 1400 out but thats the biggest i believe

[shookie]

it was a 2 stroke he didnt even get to got full power

[kyledvor61]

it was a 2 stroke he didnt even get to got full power

wtf is a 1700 2 stroke

the biggest sled is a 1000 firecat mach z or thundercat but i dont think anyone makes a 1700 kit

[shookie]

idk 2 motors possibly they were out of missouri some big ass trailer they had 8 drags

[Krandall]

Alrighty gents, I'm out of here for the evening.


GOOD NIGHT RAPTORSOURCE! 

[kyledvor61]

Alrighty gents, I'm out of here for the evening.


GOOD NIGHT RAPTORSOURCE! 

peace out nucca

[kyledvor61]

idk 2 motors possibly they were out of missouri some big ass trailer they had 8 drags

i think its time for you to go to bed, your starting to talk crazy

[shookie]

i forgot to take vid or pics damn

[kyledvor61]

i forgot to take vid or pics damn

what was he running? 300, 330, 1/8 mile, 1/4 mile? pavement or dirt? what times?

[shookie]

dirt 300ft idk the times they didnt post them wich is gay

[kyledvor61]

dirt 300ft idk the times they didnt post them wich is gay

gayyyyyy

night raptorsource

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jul 25 1485

In Toledo, Spain, over 400 dead bodies are charged with heresy and burned in effigy, in a great public spectacle. What a wonderful thing, this Spanish Inquisition.

Jul 25 1917

Margaret Zelle, also known as Mata Hari, is found guilty of spying and is sentenced to death. There is no actual evidence that she is a spy.

Jul 25 1985

Rock Hudson acknowledges he has AIDS.

Jul 25 1990

At a baseball game, actress Rosanne Arnold warbles the Star Spangled Banner, grabs her crotch, and endears herself to an entire nation.

Jul 25 1999

Woodstock '99 festival ends in looting and rioting, leaving 12 trailers burned, towers toppled, and several women raped during the course of the show. About 500 state troopers were needed to quell the mass uprising of peace and love, apparently triggered by overpriced vendors and commercialization.

Jul 25 2000

A right tire explosion on the Concorde causes the plane to crash after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, leaving 113 dead. It is the first crash in Concorde's history, and the only supersonic commercial flight to ever crash.

Birthdays today...
1016 - Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058)
1109 - Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
1336 - Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
1404 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
1421 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1653 - Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat (d. 1728)
1658 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
1750 - Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)
1797 - Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (d. 1889)
1799 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
1839 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
1844 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
1848 - Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
1860 - Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
1867 - Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918)
1867 - Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1882 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942)
1883 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947)
1886 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
1894 - Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
1894 - Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin (d. 1918)
1895 - Yvonne Printemps, French actress and singer (d. 1977)
1896 - Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)
1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1902 - Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983)
1905 - Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1994)
1905 - Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
1907 - Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
1908 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
1908 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)
1908 - Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)
1914 - Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (d. 1994)
1916 - Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (d. 1989)
1917 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990)
1918 - Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
1920 - Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994)
1920 - Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
1923 - Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
1923 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
1924 - Frank Church, American politician (d. 1984)
1925 - Jerry Paris, American actor (d. 1986)
1926 - Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
1927 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)
1927 - Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
1928 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
1928 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
1929 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
1929 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995)
1930 - Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
1930 - Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990)
1930 - Annie Ross, British jazz singer
1934 - Don Ellis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1978)
1934 - Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
1935 - Barbara Harris, American actress
1935 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1935 - Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
1935 - Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms merchant
1936 - Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver
1936 - Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect
1937 - Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
1941 - Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
1941 - Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
1942 - Bruce Woodley, Australian musician (The Seekers)
1943 - Jim McCarty, English musician (The Yardbirds)
1946 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer (I Threes)
1946 - John Gibson, American media host
1951 - Verdine White, American musician (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1954 - Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
1955 - Iman Abdulmajid, Somali model
1955 - Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
1958 - Thurston Moore, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1959 - Anatoly Onoprienko, a Ukrainian serial Killer
1960 - Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
1961 - Bobbie Eakes, American actress
1961 - Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress
1963 - Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician
1963 - Julian Hodgson, English chess player
1965 - Illeana Douglas, American actress
1966 - Maureen Herman, American bassist
1966 - Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
1966 - Christine C. Quinn, American politician
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor
1967 - Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
1967 - Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
1969 - Jon Barry, American basketball player
1971 - Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter
1971 - Billy Wagner, American baseball player
1973 - Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth)
1973 - David Denman, American actor
1973 - Kevin Phillips, English footballer
1973 - Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer
1973 - Michael C. Williams, American actor
1974 - Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
1974 - Jay R. Ferguson, American actor
1975 - Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
1976 - Tera Patrick, American pornographic actress
1976 - Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet
1976 - Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 - Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
1978 - Louise Brown, World's first test tube baby
1978 - Gerard Warren, American football player
1979 - Amy Adams, American singer
1979 - Allister Carter, English professional snooker player
1980 - Diam's, French female rapper
1980 - Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
1980 - Toni Vilander, Finnish racing driver
1981 - Conor Casey, American soccer player
1981 - Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
1982 - Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
1984 - Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
1985 - James Lafferty, American actor
1985 - Jasmine Lennard, English model
1985 - Nelson Angelo Piquet, Brazilian race car driver
1987 - Michael Welch, American actor
1988 - Heather Marks, Canadian model
1988 - Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
1989 - Noel Callahan, Canadian actor

Famous deaths...
306 - Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)
1409 - King Martin I of Sicily
1471 - Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)
1492 - Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
1616 - Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
1643 - Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
1676 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
1681 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
1790 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
1790 - William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 - Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
1794 - André Chénier, French writer (b. 1762)
1826 - Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)
1842 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
1853 - Joaquin Murieta, California outlaw
1861 - Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
1865 - "James Barry", military surgeon, first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor
1887 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
1934 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
1934 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1892)
1934 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
1952 - Herbert Murrill, English composer (b. 1909)
1962 - Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879)
1963 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
1971 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (b. 1896)
1973 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
1982 - Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (b. 1892)
1984 - Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1984 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
1986 - Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)
1988 - Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
1989 - Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)
1992 - Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1995 - Charlie Rich, American rock/soul/country musician (b. 1932)
1996 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (b. 1914)
1997 - Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)
1998 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
2002 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
2003 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
2003 - Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
2003 - John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
2005 - Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 - Carl Brashear, First African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)
2007 - Bernd Jakubowski, German goal keeper (b. 1952)
2007 - Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (b. 1979)

Holidays and observances...
Inca festival in honor of the thunder GERD Ilyap'a
Roman festivals - Furinalia
Galicia (Spain) - National Day (Día da Pátria Galega).
Puerto Rico - Constitution Day (1952). Formerly Occupation Day (1898).
Ebernoe Horn Fair in Sussex, southern England

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[Peelz]

Jul 25 2000

A right tire explosion on the Concorde causes the plane to crash after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, leaving 113 dead. It is the first crash in Concorde's history, and the only supersonic commercial flight to ever crash.

Then..all of a sudden, all concordes were these terrible machines that were unreliable. I love the media sometimes. I remember seeing that one the news that day.