Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume VII

[Colorado700R]

later skater

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jul 16 1054

The 'Great Schism' between the Western and Eastern churches began over rival claims of universal pre-eminence. (In 1965, 911 years later, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I met to declare an end to the schism.)

Jul 16 1860

A decree from Emperor Norton I of San Francisco, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, dissolves the United States of America.

Jul 16 1917

The Bolsheviks execute the Czar, Czarina, and their children. Contrary to popular mythos, Anastasia did not escape. DNA tests in the 1990's conclude that the woman who was posing as Anastasia was instead a batty old woman.

Jul 16 1927

Industrialist Henry Ford settles a $1 million libel suit brought by labor organizer Aaron Sapiro. Ford's newsweekly, The Dearborn Independent, had accused Sapiro of being part of a conspiracy of "Jewish bankers" to seize control of national wheat production and hand it over to the Communists.

Jul 16 1945

First Atomic Bomb is exploded at Trinity, Alamagordo New Mexico. The exposion yields the equivalent 18,000 tons of TNT.

Jul 16 1964

In 1964, in accepting the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Sen. Barry M. Goldwater said "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" and that "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

Jul 16 1973

During the Senate's Watergate hearings, former White House aide Alexander Butterfield reveals that President Nixon has a secret tape recording system with lavalier microphones hidden throughout the Oval Office.

Jul 16 1998

An inattentive deputy sheriff in Lafayette, IN, drives his automobile into the stolen tombstone of actor James Dean. The 400 pound tombstone, which was stolen two days prior from Dean's gravesite at Park Cemetery (and later abandoned on a country road), rips the transmission out of the deputy's vehicle.

Birthdays today...
1194 - Saint Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)
1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)
1611 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1644)
1714 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800)
1722 - Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (d. 1803)
1723 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
1796 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader (d. 1910)
1858 - Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (d. 1931)
1862 - Ida B. Wells, American civil rights activist (d. 1931)
1870 - Lambert McKenna, Irish scholar (d. 1956)
1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (d. 1928)
1883 - Charles Sheeler, American photographer and artist (d. 1965)
1884 - Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964)
1888 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)
1888 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
1888 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
1889 - Larry Semon, American comedian (d. 1928)
1896 - Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)
1896 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (d. 1969)
1896 - Evelyn Preer, American actress (d. 1932)
1902 - Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)
1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1971)
1903 - Mary Philbin, American actress (d. 1993)
1903 - Fritz Bauer, German judge (d. 1968)
1906 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (d. 2006)
1907 - Frances Horwich, American educator and television personality (d. 2001)
1907 - Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995)
1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
1910 - Stan McCabe, Former Australian Cricketer (d. 1968)
1911 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
1911 - Sonny Tufts, American actor (d. 1970)
1912 - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1915 - Barnard Hughes, American actor (d. 2006)
1918 - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
1919 - Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea (d. 2006)
1919 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (d. 1999)
1920 - Anwar Hussain, Former Pakistani Cricketer (d. 2002)
1923 - Chris Argyris, American educator
1924 - Bess Myerson, American beauty queen
1925 - Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)
1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1927 - John Warr, Former English Cricketer
1928 - Anita Brookner, English novelist
1928 - Robert Sheckley, American author (d. 2005)
1928 - David C. Treen, American politician
1928 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (d. 1993)
1930 - Michael Bilirakis, American politician
1930 - Guy Béart, Egyptian-born French singer and songwriter
1932 - Max McGee, American football player (d. 2007)
1932 - Dick Thornburgh, American politician
1934 - Don Payne, American politician
1936 - Buddy Merrill, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show)
1937 - Richard Bryan, American politician
1938 - Tony Jackson, English bass player (The Searchers) (d. 2003)
1939 - Corin Redgrave, English actor
1939 - Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (d. 1995)
1941 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican musician (d. 2006)
1941 - Mišo Kovač, Croatian musician
1942 - Margaret Court, Australian tennis player
1943 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990)
1946 - Barbara Lee, American politician
1946 - Richard LeParmentier, American actor
1946 - Ron Yary, American football player
1947 - Alexis Herman, 23rd U.S. Secretary of Labor
1947 - Assata Shakur, American activist
1948 - Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer and actor
1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
1950 - Pierre Paradis, Quebec politician
1950 - Dennis Priestley, English darts player
1950 - Tom Terrell, musicologist, deejay
1951 - Jean-Luc Mongrain, French-Canadian journalist
1952 - Stewart Copeland, American drummer (The Police)
1952 - Robert David Steele, American spy
1953 - Douglas J. Feith, American Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
1954 - Jeanette Mott Oxford, American politician
1956 - Jerry Doyle, American actor
1956 - Tony Kushner, American playwright
1957 - Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer
1958 - Michael Flatley, Irish-born American dancer
1958 - Pierre Roland Renoir, Canadian artist
1958 - Mike D. Rogers, American politician
1959 - Gary Anderson, American football player
1959 - Doug Herzog, American television executive
1960 - Terry Pendleton, American baseball player
1963 - Phoebe Cates, American actress
1963 - Srečko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach
1964 - Phil Hellmuth, American poker player
1964 - Miguel Indurain, Spanish cyclist
1965 - Claude Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Tina Tyler, Canadian porn star
1966 - Johnny Vaughan, English writer and broadcaster
1967 - Will Ferrell, American comedian
1967 - Christopher Rocancourt, French con artist
1968 - Dhanraj Pillay, Former Indian field hockey player
1968 - Barry Sanders, American football player
1968 - Larry Sanger, American co-founder of Wikipedia
1969 - Kathryn Harby-Williams, Australian netballer
1969 - Daryl Mitchell, American actor
1969 - Rain Pryor, American actress
1970 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director
1971 - Edward Kowalczyk, American singer (Live)
1971 - Corey Feldman, American actor
1973 - Stefano Garzelli, Italian cyclist
1973 - Shaun Pollock, South African cricketer
1973 - Tim Ryan, American politician
1973 - Graham Robertson, American filmmaker and author
1974 - Jeremy Enigk, American singer/songwriter and guitarist (Sunny Day Real Estate, The Fire Theft)
1974 - Chris Pontius, American actor and Jackass cast member
1974 - Wendell Sailor, Australian rugby league and union footballer
1975 - Bas Leinders, Belgian racing car driver
1975 - Ana Paula Arósio, Brazilian actress
1975 - Jamie Oliver, Welsh keyboardist
1976 - Bobby Lashley, American Professional Wrestler
1976 - Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguyan footballer
1976 - Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
1976 - Tomasz Kuchar, Polish Rally driver
1977 - Bryan Budd, British soldier (VC recipient) (d. 2006)
1978 - Taj Anwar, model and activist
1979 - Jayma Mays, American actress
1979 - Chris Mihm, American basketball player
1980 - Jesse Jane, American pornographic actress
1980 - Adam Scott, Australian golfer
1982 - Michael Umaña, Costa Rican footballer
1984 - Katrina Kaif, Indian Actress
1984 - Hayanari Shimoda, Japanese racing driver
1986 - Calum Gittins, New Zealand actor
1989 - Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
1991 - Randall Bentley, American actor
1994 - Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor

Famous deaths...
1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1342 - King Charles I of Hungary
1546 - Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
1557 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
1594 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
1647 - Masaniello, Neapolitan rebel (b. 1622)
1664 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
1686 - John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1691 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
1729 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
1747 - Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter (b. 1665)
1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
1796 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1879 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)
1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
1886 - Ned Buntline, American pulp novelist (b. 1823)
1896 - Edmond Goncourt, French writer and critic (b. 1822)
1915 - Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
1916 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
1917 - Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b. 1847)
1947 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian (exact date of death uncertain) (b. 1912)
1949 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
1953 - Hilaire Belloc, English writer (b. 1870)
1960 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1960 - John P. Marquand, American novelist (b. 1893)
1976 - Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
1981 - Harry Chapin, American musician (b. 1942)
1982 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (b. 1947)
1982 - C.R. Swart, South African politician (b. 1894)
1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1985 - Wayne King, American musician, songwriter and bandleader (b. 1901)
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
1990 - Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (b. 1927)
1990 - Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)
1991 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
1991 - Frank Rizzo, American politician (b. 1920
1992 - Buck Buchanan, American football player (b. 1940)
1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1994 - Marcel-Marie Desmarais, French Canadian priest, writer, preacher and broadcaster (b. 1908)
1995 - May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet (b. 1912)
1995 - Stephen Spender, English poet (b. 1909)
1996 - John Panozzo, American musician (Styx) (b. 1948)
1996 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)
1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)
1999 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
1999 - Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)
2001 - Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
2001 - Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)
2004 - George Busbee, Governor of Georgia (b. 1927)
2005 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
2005 - Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
2005 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer (b. 1920)
2006 - Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
2006 - Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)

Holidays and observances...
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Saint Helier, hermit, martyr
Saint Gondulph, bishop of Tongeren, confessors

Have a great Wednesday.

~Brian

[NaturalRaptor]

"First Atomic  bomb  is exploded at Trinity, Alamagordo New Mexico. The exposion yields the equivalent 18,000 tons of TNT."

Jul 16 1964


Practice makes perfect!

[Peelz]

good morning mujeres.

Not much bs'ing today. Still some software tweaking to do. Network connections suck! Have a great wednesday.

[Krandall]

Jul 16 1998

An inattentive deputy sheriff in Lafayette, IN, drives his automobile into the stolen tombstone of actor James Dean. The 400 pound tombstone, which was stolen two days prior from Dean's gravesite at Park Cemetery (and later abandoned on a country road), rips the transmission out of the deputy's vehicle.

Talk about a crappy day @ work..

drivin listening to the beach boys.. and then BAM!

[Flynbyu]

"First Atomic   bo mb   is exploded at Trinity, Alamagordo New Mexico. The exposion yields the equivalent 18,000 tons of TNT."




Practice makes perfect!

Yeah, and the world has lived in fear since!

~Brian

[Krandall]

hola senior' Brian

[Flynbyu]

Hola mi amigo.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Mi yamo Randy. Que Tal'?

(Been practicing spanish.. kind of a noobie still)

[preddy08]

Guten tag hos

Ich sprecht das German, Spanish ish nicht so gut.

[Flynbyu]

Mi nombre es Brian, y yo amamos pornografia.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

Guten tag hos

Ich sprecht das German, Spanish ish nicht so gut.

Well not everyone can speak spanish, you have to be able to roll your R's.  I would think that would be an important language to learn here in America but my friends out in cali said there is less and less everyday.  Since they are locking down the border and making it hard for employers to give them jobs and landlords to rent to illegals there is a trend of them moving back.

[SULLY0556]

   Good!  I don't plan on learning spanish.   

[Krandall]

Guten tag hos

Ich sprecht das German, Spanish ish nicht so gut.

Ich spreche die deutch auch. Ich habe svie Jahre deutch.

[preddy08]

Guten tag hos

Ich sprecht das German, Spanish ish nicht so gut.

Ich spreche die deutch auch. Ich habe svie Jahre deutch.

Two year of high school german and many hours of listening to Ramstein Thats all I got.