Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume VIII

[UncleBeaner]

no surprise butt sex too far to drive

[kyledvor61]

no surprise butt sex too far to drive

well hmmm...

[UncleBeaner]

ill get that mailed out tommorow awaiting addy

[kyledvor61]

ill get that mailed out tommorow awaiting addy

pm sent

[kyledvor61]

night night beaner

[NaturalRaptor]

Good morning! Anybody alive yet?

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Aug 12 30 BC

Cleoptara, Queen of Egypt and former wife to Julius Caesar, commits suicide by means of venomous snakebite to the mammary gland.

Aug 12 1676

Wampanoag chieftain Metacom (or "Philip") is killed in a swamp near Mount Hope. Thus ends King Philip's War, the first war between Indians and European settlers.

Aug 12 1869

In San Francisco, Emperor Norton I issues a stern edict outlawing both the Republican and Democratic political parties. Violators face a prison term of five-to-ten years.

Aug 12 1948

Russian schoolteacher Oksana Kosenkina is injured when she jumps out the window of the Soviet Consulate in New York City. Soviet officials claim they had rescued her from "White Russian" kidnappers, but Kosenkina says she was trying to escape from the Soviets. The US later expels the consul general, and the Soviets close their consulate.

Aug 12 1951

Dr. Jean Vieu discovers two patients stricken with abdominal pain and grotesque hallucinations in Pont St. Esprit, France. They are just the first of more than 230 afflicted townspeople, thanks to bread tainted with ergot.

Aug 12 1953

In Siberia, the Soviet Union successfully tests its first thermonuclear device, based on Andrei Sakharov's fission-fusion "Layer Cake" design: alternating layers of uranium and hydrogen fuel sandwiched together and wrapped around a conventional Atomic Bomb. The fission explosion compresses the hydrogen, causing a fusion reaction.

Aug 12 1985

30 minutes after takeoff, JAL flight 123 loses all hydraulic pressure, rendering the controls inoperable. The crew attempts a return to Tokyo-Haneda airport by adjusting power to the engines, but the 747 crashes into a mountain ridge near Mt. Osutaka. When rescue workers arrive the following morning, they find 4 survivors and 520 dead.

Birthdays today...
1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)
1566 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (d. 1633)
1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1644 - Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer (d. 1704)
1647 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)
1686 - John Balguy, English philosopher (d. 1748)
1696 - Maurice Greene, English composer (d. 1755)
1720 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)
1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
1774 - Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (d. 1843)
1856 - "Diamond Jim" Brady, American financier (d. 1917)
1859 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (d. 1929)
1866 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1954)
1867 - Edith Hamilton, German classicist (d. 1963)
1872 - Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1956)
1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author (d. 1958)
1880 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)
1880 - Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (d. 1925)
1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
1883 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (d. 1938)
1885 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)
1885 - Marion Lorne, American actress (d. 1968)
1886 - Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)
1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1889 - Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (d. 1981)
1892 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)
1897 - Maurice Fernandes, West Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
1899 - Ben Sealey, West Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
1902 - Mohammad Hatta, Vice President of Indonesia 1945-1956 (d. 1980)
1904 - Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, only son of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
1906 - Harry Hopman, Australian-born tennis player and coach (d. 1985)
1906 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
1907 - Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (d. 1988)
1909 - Richard Bare, American director
1910 - Jane Wyatt, American actress (d. 2006)
1910 - Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (d. 1970)
1911 - Cantinflas, Mexican actor (d. 1993)
1912 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (d. 1997)
1914 - Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (d. 2001)
1914 - Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (d. 1981)
1915 - Michael Kidd, American choreographer (d. 2007)
1918 - Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (d. 1944)
1919 - Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)
1923 - John Holt, West Indian cricketer (d. 1997)
1924 - Derek Shackleton, English cricketer (d. 2007)
1924 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)
1925 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004)
1925 - Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975)
1925 - George Wetherill, American scientist (d. 2006)
1926 - John Derek, American actor (d. 1998)
1926 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (d. 2005)
1926 - Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
1927 - Porter Wagoner, American singer (d. 2007)
1928 - Charles Blackman, Australian artist
1928 - Bob Buhl, American baseball player (d. 2001)
1928 - Dan Curtis, film and television producer and director
1929 - Buck Owens, American singer (d. 2006)
1930 - George Soros Hungarian-American financier and political activist
1930 - Jacques Tits, Belgian mathematician
1931 - William Goldman, American screenwriter
1932 - Charlie O'Donnell, American game show announcer
1932 - Somdet Phra Nang Chao Sirikit Phra Borommarachininat, Queen of Thailand
1933 - Parnelli Jones, American race car driver and team owner
1935 - John Cazale, Italian-American actor (d. 1978)
1937 - Walter Dean Myers, African-American author
1938 - Jean-Paul L'Allier, Canadian Mayor of Quebec
1939 - George Hamilton, American actor
1939 - Roy Romanow, Canadian politician
1939 - Michael D. Antonovich, American politician
1940 - Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer (d. 2005)
1941 - Réjean Ducharme, Quebec novelist and playwright
1943 - Deborah Walley, American actress (d. 2001)
1944 - Peter Hofmann, German tenor
1947 - Ron Mael, American musician (Sparks)
1947 - Sam Rosen, American sportscaster
1949 - Panagiotis Chinofotis, Greek politician
1949 - Mark Knopfler OBE, Scottish guitarist (Dire Straits)
1950 - Jim Beaver, American actor and writer
1951 - Willie Horton, American murderer and rapist
1952 - Chen Kaige, Chinese film director
1954 - Sam J. Jones, American actor
1954 - Pat Metheny, American guitarist
1955 - Ann M. Martin, American author
1955 - Terry Taylor, American retired professional wrestler
1956 - Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor
1956 - Sidath Wettimuny, Sri Lankan cricketer
1959 - Amanda Redman, English actress
1960 - Laurent Fignon, French cyclist
1960 - Greg Thomas, England cricketer
1961 - Roy Hay, British guitarist and keyboardist (Culture Club)
1961 - Lawrence Hayward, English musician (Felt, Denim, Go Kart Mozart)
1961 - Mark Priest, New Zealand cricketer
1962 - Miss Cleo, American psychic
1963 - Sir Mix A Lot, American rapper
1965 - Peter Krause, American actor
1966 - Les Ferdinand, English footballer
1967 - Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
1967 - Andrey Plotnikov, Russian race walker
1967 - Andy Hui, Hong Kong actor and singer
1968 - Andras Jones, American actor
1969 - Aga Muhlach, Filipino actor
1969 - Stuart Williams, West Indian cricketer
1970 - Anthony Swofford, American novelist
1970 - Jim Schlossnagle, baseball coach
1970 - Charles Mesure, British actor
1971 - Michael Ian Black, American comedian
1971 - Rebecca Gayheart, American actress
1971 - Pete Sampras, American tennis player
1972 - Mark Kinsella, Irish footballer
1972 - Takanohana, Sumo yokozuna
1972 - Gyanendra Pandey, Indian cricketer
1973 - Joseba Beloki, Spanish cyclist
1973 - Jonathan Coachman, American professional wrestler and executive
1973 - Todd Marchant, American ice hockey player
1973 - Richard Reid (shoe bomber)
1973 - Yvette Nicole Brown, American actress
1973 - Sayyed Muqtada al-Sadr - son of Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr
1973 - Grey DeLisle, American voice actress
1974 - Matt Clement, American baseball player
1975 - Casey Affleck, American actor
1975 - David Filmore, American actor
1976 - Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström, Finnish guitarist
1976 - Antoine Walker, American basketball player
1976 - Wednesday 13, American musician (Wednesday 13, Murderdolls)
1976 - Brad Lukowich, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Richard McCourt, English children's television presenter
1976 - Henry Tuilagi, Samoan rugby player
1976 - Pedro Collins, West Indian cricketer
1977 - Plaxico Burress, American football player
1977 - Jesper Grønkjær, Danish footballer
1977 - Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer
1978 - Hayley Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Chris Chambers, American football player
1979 - D.J. Houlton, American baseball player
1979 - Cindy Klassen, Canadian speed skater
1980 - Maggie Lawson, American actress
1980 - Dominique Swain, American actress
1980 - Matt Thiessen, Canadian-born musician (Relient K)
1980 - Jade Villalon, American singer/songwriter
1981 - Tony Capaldi, Northern Ireland footballer
1981 - Djibril Cissé, French footballer
1982 - Alexandros Tzorvas, Greek footballer
1983 - Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Dutch footballer
1984 - Marian Rivera, a Philippine actress
1990 - Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer

Famous deaths...
30BC - Cleopatra (b. 69 BC)
875 - Louis II Holy Roman Emperor (b. 825)
1424 - Yongle, Emperor of China (b. 1460)
1484 - George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395)
1484 - Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414)
1512 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1577 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513)
1588 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (b. 1543)
1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer
1633 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (b. 1561)
1638 - Johannes Althusius, German writer (b. 1557)
1648 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615)
1674 - Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)
1689 - Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611)
1778 - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714)
1809 - Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738)
1810 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
1822 - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, English politician and statesman (b. 1769)
1827 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757)
1848 - George Stephenson, British locomotive designer (b. 1781)
1861 - Eliphalet Remington, American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (b. 1793)
1864 - Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
1865 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (b. 1785)
1891 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (b. 1819)
1896 - Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg
1900 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836)
1901 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832)
1914 - John Philip Holland, Irish submarine designer (b. 1840)
1918 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872)
1922 - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (b. 1871)
1928 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854)
1934 - Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (b. 1856)
1935 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)
1941 - Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
1944 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., brother of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1915)
1948 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871)
1952 - David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884)
1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1875)
1955 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1959 - Mike O'Neill, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1877)
1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist (James Bond) (b. 1908)
1968 - Esther Forbes, American novelist (b. 1891)
1973 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1973 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1898)
1979 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1982 - Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
1982 - Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
1982 - Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907)
1985 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (plane crash) (b. 1941)
1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian-American artist (b. 1960)
1989 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1989 - Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (b. 1964)
1990 - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (b. 1935)
1990 - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
1992 - John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
1996 - Robert Gravel, French Canadian actor and theatrical director (b. 1945)
1996 - Mark Gruenwald, American comic book writer and editor (b. 1953)
1997 - Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939)
1999 - Jean Drapeau, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)
2000 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
2002 - Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (b. 1916)
2004 - Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
2004 - Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931)
2005 - John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946)
2007 - Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator (b. 1925)
2007 - Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b. 1963)

Holidays and observances...
United Nations - International Youth Day (since 1999)
Glorious Twelfth at the Yorkshire Dales
Thailand - The Queen's Birthday, Mother's Day

Have a great Tuesday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Aug 12 30 BC

Cleoptara, Queen of Egypt and former wife to Julius Caesar, commits suicide by means of venomous snakebite to the mammary gland.



So she put a snake up to her boob and let it bite?

[darkside94]

how do you people get up so early!!! even if SOME of you do have jobs
welll i guesss it doesnt help that i went to bed at 230 either because im addicted to raptorsource

[socalrappy700]

how do you people get up so early!!! even if SOME of you do have jobs
welll i guesss it doesnt help that i went to bed at 230 either because im addicted to raptorsource

I was here by 7.  But if you made what I did even you might get your lazy ass out of bed. 

[darkside94]

hey hey hey i gotta mow grass today so dont be pickin on ME bout bein lazy sure you can find someone thats gonna wake up at like 2

[Peelz]

how do you people get up so early!!! even if SOME of you do have jobs
welll i guesss it doesnt help that i went to bed at 230 either because im addicted to raptorsource

I was here by 7.  But if you made what I did even you might get your lazy ass out of bed. 

+1 funny how income can motivate. It's a no brainer. no wake up, no $, = no quads. :grin_nod: oh..and no raptorsource.

[Krandall]

Meh... If I could make it without having to make a cent. I would. Work is over rated. Money is over rated.

[socalrappy700]

I'm a greedy SOB, more is never enough.

[darkside94]

hehe well when you get rich give me like 5k