Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume IX

[Krandall]

I am going to bed. all effects of alcohol have worn off for the most part. gnight raptorsource!

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Aug 23 1305

Scottish patriot William Wallace ("Braveheart") hanged, disemboweled, drawn, and quartered. His head was displayed on London Bridge.

Aug 23 1926

Rudolf Valentino dies.

Aug 23 1939

Germany and Russia signed the Molotov-Ribbentropp non-aggression pact (1939)

Aug 23 1951

Ninety West Point cadets are expelled for cheating, including most of the Academy's football team.

Aug 23 1968

The Youth International Party designates Pigasus as their choice of candidate for U.S. President. The boar hog is introduced at a press conference outside the Chicago Civic Center, with the slogan "They nominate a President and he eats the people. We nominate a President and the people eat him." The gathering is broken up shortly thereafter when the Chicago PD takes into custody the Yippie organizers and their pig.

Aug 23 1994

Inside an abandoned boathouse on the Scottish island of Jura, two members of the band KLF set fire to 20,000 fifty pound notes in front of witnesses. It takes two hours to burn all UKP 1,000,000.

Aug 23 1995

St. Petersburg resident Ilshat Kuzikov arrested in his apartment in connection with the murders of Misha Bochkov and Edik Vassilevsky, whose severed heads were found in city streets. Discovered in his apartment were jars of pickled human remains, bags of ears, a pair of arms and legs, and a partially eaten "casserole".

Birthdays today...
686 - Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (d. 741)
1486 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566)
1524 - François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (d. 1590)
1623 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (d. 1675)
1724 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
1741 - Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
1754 - King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
1769 - Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
1783 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. naval officer (d. 1819)
1805 - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
1814 - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (d. 1877)
1829 - Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1920)
1836 - Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (d. 1902)
1843 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932)
1846 - Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
1847 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
1849 - William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
1852 - Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
1852 - Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913)
1854 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (d. 1925)
1864 - Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (d.1936)
1868 - Edgar Lee Masters, American author (d. 1950)
1875 - William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
1875 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist (d. 1946)
1880 - Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
1883 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (d. 1953)
1884 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
1884 - Ogden L. Mills, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1927-1932 (d. 1937)
1900 - Ernst Krenek, Austrian-born composer (d. 1991)
1900 - Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
1901 - John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (d. 1991)
1903 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
1905 - Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
1908 - Hannah Frank, Scottish Artist and Sculptor
1909 - Syd Buller, England First Class Cricketer and English test umpire (d. 1970)
1910 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
1911 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (d. 1998)
1912 - Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996)
1917 - Tex Williams, American singer (d. 1985)
1919 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (d. 1984)
1921 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner
1921 - Sam Cook, England cricketer (d. 1996)
1922 - George Kell, baseball player
1922 - Jean Darling, American child actress
1922 - Pierre Gauvreau, Quebec painter, television writer and producer
1923 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
1924 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (d. 2005)
1924 - Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 - Robert Mulligan, American movie and television director
1926 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist, (d. 2006)
1927 - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
1928 - Marian Seldes, American actress
1929 - Vera Miles, American actress
1930 - Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France
1931 - Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1932 - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
1932 - Mark Russell, American comedian, musician, and political commentator
1933 - Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Pete Wilson, Governor of California
1934 - Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
1934 - Sonny Jurgensen, American football player
1936 - Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
1943 - Nelson DeMille, American novelist
1944 - Antonia Novello, former United States Surgeon General
1945 - Rayfield Wright, American football player
1946 - Keith Moon, English musician (The Who) (d. 1978)
1947 - Willy Russell, British playwright
1947 - David Robb, British actor
1948 - Andrei Pleşu, Romanian writer, essayist
1948 - Daniel Ruettiger "Rudy", University of Notre Dame football legend
1949 - Katiana Balanika, Greek actress and singer
1949 - Geoff Capes, English Strongman
1949 - Shelley Long, American actress
1949 - Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor
1951 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
1951 - Queen Noor of Jordan
1951 - Jimi Jamison, American singer (Survivor)
1952 - Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician
1953 - Bobby G, British singer (Bucks Fizz)
1954 - Charles Busch, American director, writer, actor and drag queen
1956 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
1956 - Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician
1956 - Skipp Sudduth, American actor
1957 - Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician
1958 - Julio Franco, Atlanta Braves, oldest regular position player in MLB history
1959 - George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player
1960 - Rodney Alan Greenblat, American graphic artist
1960 - Chris Potter, Canadian actor
1961 - Dean DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
1961 - Gary Mabbutt, English footballer
1962 - Martin Cauchon, Canadian politician
1963 - Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player
1963 - Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
1963 - Park Chan-wook, Korean director and screenwriter
1963 - Richard Illingworth, England cricketer
1964 - Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist
1964 - Kong Hee, Singaporean, Founder and Senior Pastor of the City Harvest movement in Asia
1964 - Yoshikazu Taru, Japanese professional wrestler
1965 - Roger Avary, Canadian-born screenwriter, director, and producer
1966 - Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player
1967 - Richard Petrie, New Zealand cricketer
1968 - Chris DiMarco, American golfer
1969 - Keith Tyson, English artist
1969 - Jeremy Schaap, American sportswriter
1969 - Geneviève Brouillette, Quebec television and film actress
1970 - Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
1970 - River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
1970 - Brad Mehldau, American pianist
1971 - Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer
1971 - BoneCrusher, American rapper
1972 - Martin Grainger, English footballer
1972 - Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player
1972 - Mark Butcher, England cricketer
1973 - Casey Blake, American baseball player
1973 - Kerry Walmsley, New Zealand cricketer
1974 - Ray Park, Scottish actor
1974 - Shifty, American musician (Crazy Town)
1974 - Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner
1974 - Christian Beranek, American graphic novelist and actor
1975 - Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler
1975 - Jarkko Ruutu, Finnish ice hockey player
1976 - Scott Caan, American actor
1977 - Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer
1978 - Kobe Bryant, American basketball player
1978 - Julian Casablancas, American musician
1979 - Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
1980 - Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Rex Grossman, American football player
1981 - Ozzy Lusth, American Survivor contestant
1981 - Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer
1981 - Carmen Luvana, American pornographic actress.
1981 - Carlos Cuéllar, Spanish footballer
1982 - Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
1982 - YTCracker, American musician
1982 - Scott Palguta, professional soccer player
1983 - Sun Ming Ming, Chinese basketball player
1984 - Glen Johnson, English footballer
1986 - Neil Cicierega, American cartoonist and musician
1986 - Josh Morris, Australian rugby league player for St. George Illawarra Dragons
1986 - Brett Morris, Australian rugby league player for St. George Illawarra Dragons
1987 - Nikki Gil, Filipina actress, host and singer
1988 - Daniel Schwaab, German footballer
1995 - Eliza Pineda, Filipina child actress

Famous deaths...
  93 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)
634 - Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph
1106 - Magnus, Duke of Saxony
1176 - Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot
1387 - King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
1507 - Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
1519 - Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
1540 - Guillaume Budé, French scholar
1591 - Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527)
1618 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
1628 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
1652 - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
1706 - Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
1723 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)
1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)
1813 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
1819 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
1853 - Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806)
1867 - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
1892 - Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
1926 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
1927 - Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (b. 1891)
1927 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (b. 1888)
1937 - Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
1955 - Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895)
1962 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)
1962 - Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)
1963 - Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (b. 1900)
1966 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
1967 - Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
1971 - The original Shamu, Sea World orca
1974 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
1982 - Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
1987 - Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (b. 1952)
1989 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)
1989 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)
1990 - David Rose, American composer and orchestra leader (b. 1910)
1995 - Dwayne Goettel, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy)(b. 1964)
1997 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
1999 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b.1926)
1999 - James White, Northern Irish writer (b. 1928)
2000 - John Anthony Kaiser, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1932)
2001 - Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
2001 - Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2003 - Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
2003 - Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1913)
2003 - John Geoghan, American Catholic priest (b. 1935)
2005 - Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
2005 - Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (b. 1973)
2006 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1928)
2007 - Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances...
Roman festivals - Vulcanalia.
RC Saints - Saint Rose of Lima, Philip Benitius
Romania - Liberation Day (1944).
Swaziland - Umhlanga Day.
Ukraine - Flag Day.
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

Have a  great Saturday.

~Brian

[exentix]

good mornin everybody 

[who else but rk]

talkin shit behind my back.
nice
FERK you darkside

[Peelz]

Brian, being a pilot and a weather buff, you have I am sure seen this, But... this is my new favorite weather radar.  radar.weather.gov

http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/full_loop.php

[darkside94]

FERK you rk ill say it to your face
oooh what are you gonna do cyber-beat-me-up

[Flynbyu]

Brian, being a pilot and a weather buff, you have I am sure seen this, But... this is my new favorite weather radar.  radar.weather.gov

http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/full_loop.php

Actually, I haven't seen that. Pretty cool. Just saved in my favorites.

I use www.wunderground.com quite a bit. I use this to get a general outlook.

~Brian

[who else but rk]

F ck you rk ill say it to your face
oooh what are you gonna do cyber-beat-me-up

ill hire my cyber mafia to pay you a visit!

[darkside94]

oh GERD dont turn off my computer nooooo

[Flynbyu]

F ck you rk ill say it to your face
oooh what are you gonna do cyber-beat-me-up

ill hire my cyber mafia to pay you a visit!

Cyber mafia?



FAHGETTABOUIT!



~Brian

[darkside94]

hey i just remembered that my best friend can hack like a mofo
seriously i had an old computer that wasnt worth two shits and i let em hack it
ill just say that its sittin in the closet waitin for the trash man

[yfm700lover]

hey everyone

[Peelz]

Brian, being a pilot and a weather buff, you have I am sure seen this, But... this is my new favorite weather radar.  radar.weather.gov

http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/full_loop.php

Actually, I haven't seen that. Pretty cool. Just saved in my favorites.

I use www.wunderground.com quite a bit. I use this to get a general outlook.

~Brian

yep I have that in favorites too.

OK boredom has set in. All the operator ladies went to lunch. Need something to do.

[who else but rk]

its official, my dad is the owner of a venom red viper convertable

[Peelz]

its official, my dad is the owner of a venom red viper convertable

very nice... sexy car. Don't wrap it around a tree the first time he lets you drive it. :grin_nod: