Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume VIII

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Aug 1 1589

King Henri III of France is assassinated by a crazy Jacobin monk. Among his crimes are opposing the Catholic League, and his love of... handsome young men.

Aug 1 1936

Adolf Hitler presides over the opening ceremony of the Olympics. The Chancellor of Germany announces: "I proclaim the games of Berlin, celebrating the eleventh Olympiad of the modern era, to be open." The whole thing makes for a great film by Leni Riefenstahl.

Aug 1 1954

The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River overflow, submerging 8 million acres. The floodwaters kill more than 30,000 Chinese and displace 18.9 million others.

Aug 1 1966

Former Eagle Scout and United States Marine Charles Whitman carries a sniper rifle onto University of Texas at Austin. There he climbs to the top of UT tower and begins firing indiscriminately at dozens of people, killing 13. Whitman is finally taken out 96 minutes later by three Austin PD officers.

Aug 1 1971

The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour debuts on CBS television as a summer replacement show.

Aug 1 1981

Cable music network MTV launches, by airing "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles, followed by Pat Benatar's "You Better Run." That's right, kids: once upon a time, MTV actually played music videos.

Aug 1 1994

Trading on the NASDAQ stock market is halted for 34 minutes after a squirrel commits suicide by gnawing through a power line near the organization's computer center in Trumbull, Connecticut. Systems in place to perform automatic switchover to standby generators didn't exactly, uh, work.

Birthdays today...
10BC - Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. 54)
126 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
1313 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
1377 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
1545 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
1555 - Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
1579 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
1630 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
1713 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)
1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
1738 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
1770 - William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
1779 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
1779 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
1815 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
1818 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
1819 - Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
1837 - Mother Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
1858 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
1858 - Gaston Doumergue, French President (d. 1937)
1871 - John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
1885 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
1881 - Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
1889 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
1891 - Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
1893 - King Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
1894 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
1901 - Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (d. 1925)
1910 - James Henry Govier, British artist (d. 1974)
1910 - Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
1912 - Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
1914 - J. Lee Thompson, British film director (d. 2002)
1916 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
1921 - Jack Kramer, American tennis player
1922 - Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990)
1924 - Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1924 - Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
1925 - Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
1926 - Theo Adam, German bass-baritone
1927 - Raymond Leppard, English conductor
1929 - Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (d. 2006)
1930 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
1930 - Lionel Bart, English song-writer (d. 1999)
1930 - Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (d. 1991)
1932 - Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
1932 - Meena Kumari, Indian film actress (d. 1972)
1933 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
1933 - Jesse Corti, Venezuelan-born actor and comedian
1933 - Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player
1933 - Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian (d. 2007)
1936 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
1937 - Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
1941 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1942 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
1942 - André Gagnon, French Canadian pianist and composer
1942 - Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
1945 - Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1945 - Sandi Griffiths, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
1946 - Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
1946 - Boz Burrell, British musician (King Crimson, Bad Company) (d. 2006)
1947 - Chris L. Barnard, Welsh footballer
1947 - Dennis Zine, Los Angeles City Councilman
1949 - Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan
1950 - Jim Carroll, American poet and actor
1951 - Tommy Bolin, American musician (Deep Purple) (d. 1976)
1951 - Pete Mackanin, American baseball player
1952 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
1953 - Robert Cray, American singer
1953 - Howard Kurtz, American journalist
1955 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (d. 2006)
1956 - Tom Leykis, American radio personality
1958 - Adrian Dunbar, Northern Irish actor
1958 - Rob Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
1958 - Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian cross country skier
1958 - Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player
1958 - Michael Penn, American singer and songwriter
1959 - Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard)
1959 - Otomo Yoshihide, Japanese musician
1960 - Chuck D, American activist and rapper (Public Enemy)
1960 - Richard Roeper, American columnist and film critic
1962 - Robert Clift, British field hockey player
1962 - Jacob Matlala, South African boxer
1963 - Coolio, American rapper
1963 - Demián Bichir, Mexican actor
1963 - John Carroll Lynch, American actor
1963 - Dean Wareham, New Zealand musician (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta)
1964 - Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows)
1965 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
1966 - James St. James, American author and nightlife personality
1967 - Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player
1968 - Dan Donegan, American musician (Disturbed)
1968 - Stacey Augmon, American basketball player
1969 - Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player
1969 - David Wain, American actor
1970 - David James, English footballer
1971 - Stuart Wade, English actor
1972 - Devon Hughes, American professional wrestler
1972 - Nicke Royale, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
1972 - Tanya Reid, Canadian actress
1973 - Gregg Berhalter, American footballer
1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
1973 - Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian athlete
1973 - Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
1974 - Beckie Scott, Canadian cross-country skiing athlete
1976 - Kevin Joseph, American baseball player
1976 - Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
1976 - Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer
1976 - Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
1977 - Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Damien Saez, French musician, songwriter, and author
1978 - Dhani Harrison, English musician
1978 - Edgerrin James, American football player
1979 - Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
1979 - Jason Momoa, American actor
1979 - Honeysuckle Weeks, English actress
1980 - Mancini, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
1981 - Ashley Parker Angel, North American singer and actor
1982 - Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
1984 - Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress
1984 - Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1986 - Andrew Taylor, English footballer
1986 - Anton Stralman, Swedish ice hockey player
1986 - Elena Vesnina, Russian Tennis Player
1998 - Khamani Griffin, American actor

Famous deaths...
371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)
527 - Emperor Justin I (b. c. 450)
1137 - King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
1402 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
1457 - Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (bc. 1406)
1464 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
1541 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
1546 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
1557 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
1580 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1589 - Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
1675 - Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wampanoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War
1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
1787 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
1796 - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
1798 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
1851 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
1866 - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
1903 - Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1853)
1917 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
1918 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
1929 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1964 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
1966 - Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941)
1967 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
1970 - Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
1970 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
1973 - Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (b. 1893)
1974 - Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
1977 - Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
1980 - Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
1980 - Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
1990 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
1996 - Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
1996 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
1996 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
1997 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
1998 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
2001 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
2004 - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
2005 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
2006 - Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
2006 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
2006 - Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
2007 - Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances...
Angola - Armed Forces Day.
Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago - Emancipation Day.
Benin - National Day.
People's Republic of China - Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army.
Democratic Republic of Congo - Parent's Day
Jamaica - Emancipation Day
Nicaragua - Fiesta Day.
Rastafari movement - Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery.
Switzerland - National Day.
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kamál (Perfection) - First day of the eighth month of the Bahá'í calendar.
Lughnasadh - Lá Lúnasa, the traditional first day of Autumn in Ireland.
Lammas - Neopagan festival of Lammas.
Lebanon - Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh).
Yorkshire, England - Yorkshire Day.
World Scout Day - anniversary of the first day of the Brownsea Island Camp in 1907, where Robert Baden-Powell began scouting.
United States - Colorado statehood day
United Kingdom - National Farming and Agriculture Day

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[ThisGuyAlex]

2 more days......what's with the general overall lack of whoring lately? this thread should have at least 50 pages by now.....come on guys

[Peelz]

2 more days......what's with the general overall lack of whoring lately? this thread should have at least 50 pages by now.....come on guys

sure we will be happy to oblige...

Aug 1 1981

Cable music network MTV launches, by airing "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles, followed by Pat Benatar's "You Better Run." That's right, kids: once upon a time, MTV actually played music videos.

[who else but rk]

wheres colorodo  :'(

[ThisGuyAlex]

i would guess in colorado, probably on ft. carson............my old home...

[preddy08]

Mornin hos.



Anyone have a Wii here? I just picked one up the day before yesterday and ERMAHGERD they are fun as shit!!!!!!!! Some of the most simple games are crazy addictive.

[Peelz]

Mornin hos.



Anyone have a Wii here? I just picked one up the day before yesterday and ERMAHGERD they are fun as shit!!!!!!!! Some of the most simple games are crazy addictive.

We have the WII, and the WII fit-pretty nifty. The funy part is, it is an equalizer. My 5 yr old can beat me at bowling, baseball, etc. It was weird at first. We have a bunch of old school nintendo and sega games loaded onto it. My wife and I have mario 3 battles. We did have all out wars on bowling. Then we went bowling for real, not so good.  Plus, The online browser is a great feature.

BTW preddy, I may headed to the cornhusker state soon, got a guy in Colorado looking to buy the FZ1. I told him I would meet him halfway for a fee.

[exentix]

yay!!!!!!!!! today i get my permit!!!!!!!! over a week after my b-day and all this crap.... i went on my b-day but they said my moms bf wasnt a legal parent or guardian even tho i had my moms signiture... then we went that following saturday, i forgot my social security card but i got to take the test anyway they just couldnt write me a permit... so now, today my mom finally is going to take me up... so ill have my permit on 8/1 instead of 7/23... unless the issue it from the day i passed the test which would be the 26th... i hope so





now that i am done ranting and raving... good morning ho's!! 

[preddy08]

Mornin hos.



Anyone have a Wii here? I just picked one up the day before yesterday and ERMAHGERD they are fun as shit!!!!!!!! Some of the most simple games are crazy addictive.

We have the WII, and the WII fit-pretty nifty. The funy part is, it is an equalizer. My 5 yr old can beat me at bowling, baseball, etc. It was weird at first. We have a bunch of old school nintendo and sega games loaded onto it. My wife and I have mario 3 battles. We did have all out wars on bowling. Then we went bowling for real, not so good.  Plus, The online browser is a great feature.

BTW preddy, I may headed to the cornhusker state soon, got a guy in Colorado looking to buy the FZ1. I told him I would meet him halfway for a fee.

Bring your raptor, and well head to genoa. I'll bring the beer, since it seems I owe everyone a beer

Where do you get the bowling and baseball and all those game. Is'nt it already loaded on the Wii. And how do you get the browser up. I can get the weather and new, but taht is it.

[Peelz]

Mornin hos.



Anyone have a Wii here? I just picked one up the day before yesterday and ERMAHGERD they are fun as shit!!!!!!!! Some of the most simple games are crazy addictive.

We have the WII, and the WII fit-pretty nifty. The funy part is, it is an equalizer. My 5 yr old can beat me at bowling, baseball, etc. It was weird at first. We have a bunch of old school nintendo and sega games loaded onto it. My wife and I have mario 3 battles. We did have all out wars on bowling. Then we went bowling for real, not so good.  Plus, The online browser is a great feature.

BTW preddy, I may headed to the cornhusker state soon, got a guy in Colorado looking to buy the FZ1. I told him I would meet him halfway for a fee.

Bring your raptor, and well head to genoa. I'll bring the beer, since it seems I owe everyone a beer

Where do you get the bowling and baseball and all those game. Is'nt it already loaded on the Wii. And how do you get the browser up. I can get the weather and new, but taht is it.

bowling is in WII sports-came with console. On your WII menu, browse around til you find hardware downloads-download internet channel, MII channel, you can get the old games. You need to have wireless connection so the wii can access the internet. You can even play demo games not out yet or new releases. It is a pretty cool little machine.

[exentix]

i heard wii's are really g a y... i havent played one tho, id feel stupid haha 

[darkside94]

wii is da bomb i havent even bought another game besides mario kart
all i play is wii sports 

[exentix]

wii is da  bo mb  i havent even bought another game besides mario kart
all i play is wii sports 

mario cart for the 64 was da shit!!!

[preddy08]

SOB, I didnt get Wii sports. When you get a chance, look at Reisident Evil 4, CRAZY GAME.

I am kinda wishing I got the PS3, but oh well.

When we go to Little Sahara, I'll bring the Wii and bring the everything out side. That fun to see peoples reaction when your watching a movie or playing video games out side.

[darkside94]

i am prou do say i have EVERY console nintendo ever made bs stupid ds
and exentix got mario kart 64 in right now lol