Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume IX

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Aug 21 1614

Erzsebet Bathory, ruler of Transylvania, dies at 54. She had sought immortality by killing young virgins and bathing in their blood. It didn't work.

Aug 21 1985

Just seconds after stepping off the plane, opposition candidate Benigno Aquino is gunned down by assassins at Manila Int'l Airport, on orders of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos.

Aug 21 1986

1,700 people are killed in Cameroon when Lake Nyos emits a huge cloud of fast-moving fog, quickly enveloping the villages of Nyos, Kam, Cha, and Subum. The lethal mist, consisting mainly of carbon dioxide and water vapor, displaces the oxygen in the low-lying zones, killing thousands of cattle and even more birds and wild animals. One eyewitness later describes the landscape as being "littered with human remains and animal carcasses."

Aug 21 1996

Superfreak Rick James (prisoner J29237) is released from Folsom Prison after serving a two year sentence for drugs and assault. He had planned to marry his fiance, Tanja Anne Hijazi, upon release but she had been nicked for shoplifting a pair of boots two days earlier. They did make a cute couple.

Birthdays today...
1165 - King Philip II of France (d. 1223)
1535 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
1567 - Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (d. 1622)
1597 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1660 - Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer (d. 1737)
1665 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
1670 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734)
1725 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805)
1754 - William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
1754 - Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833)
1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
1789 - Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
1798 - Jules Michelet, French historian (d. 1874)
1800 - Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
1801 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (d. 1876)
1813 - Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
1816 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
1826 - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
1872 - Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator (d. 1898)
1891 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
1892 - Charles Vanel, French actor and director (d. 1989)
1904 - William "Count" Basie, American bandleader (d. 1984)
1906 - Friz Freleng, American movie animator (d. 1995)
1908 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
1908 - Oversight (nom de plume), American philosopher
1909 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (d. 1992)
1912 - Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
1915 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (d. 1998)
1918 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1920 - Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996)
1924 - Jack Buck, American sports announcer (d. 2002)
1924 - Chris Schenkel, American sports journalist (d. 2005)
1924 - Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Judy Grable, American professional wrestler (d. 2008)
1925 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)
1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, ex-dictator of Argentina
1927 - Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the (Mormon) Church of of Latter-day Saints
1928 - Art Farmer, American trumpet player (d. 1999)
1929 - X. J. Kennedy, American poet
1929 - Marie Severin, American comic book artist and colorist
1930 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
1930 - Frank Perry, American film director (d. 1995)
1932 - Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter
1933 - Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
1934 - Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist
1936 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d. 1999)
1936 - Radish Tordia, Painter Of Figurative Art From Georgia
1937 - Robert Stone, American novelist
1938 - Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor
1939 - James Burton, American guitarist
1939 - Clarence Williams III, American actor
1939 - Festus Mogae, president of Botswana
1943 - Hugh Wilson, American director, writer and actor
1944 - Jackie DeShannon, American singer
1944 - Peter Weir, Australian film director
1944 - Perry Christie, former prime minister of the Bahamas
1945 - Jerry DaVanon, baseball player
1945 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (d. 2006)
1949 - Loretta Devine, American actress
1950 - Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer
1950 - Arthur Bremer, American criminal, who shot George C Wallace in May 1972.
1951 - Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
1951 - Char Margolis, American medium
1951 - Harry Smith, American television journalist
1951 - Margo Kane, Canadian playwright.
1952 - Keith Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
1952 - Glenn Hughes, British bassist and vocalist (Finders Keepers/Trapeze/Deep Purple)
1952 - Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (d. 2002)
1954 - Archie Griffin, former American football player and only two-time Heisman Trophy winner.
1954 - Ivan Stang, American writer
1956 - Kim Cattrall, English-born actress
1959 - Jim McMahon, American football player
1961 - David Morales, American disc jockey
1961 - Stephen Hillenburg, American animator and cartoonist
1961 - V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
1962 - Jeff Stryker, American actor
1963 - King Mohammed VI of Morocco
1963 - Richmond Arquette, American actor
1964 - Trinity Loren, American actress and model (d. 1998)
1965 - Jim Bullinger, American baseball player
1965 - Caryn Mower, American actress, stuntwoman and former professional wrestler
1966 - John Wetteland, Major League Baseball player
1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
1967 - Serj Tankian, Armenian-born singer (System of a Down)
1967 - Darren Bewick, AFL footballer
1969 - Josée Chouinard, Canadian figure skater
1970 - Nathan Jones, American professional wrestler
1970 - Erik Dekker, Dutch cyclist
1971 - Liam Howlett, British musician (The Prodigy)
1971 - Matthew Noonan, American Concert Organist
1971 - Robert Harvey, Australian Rules Footballer (St Kilda Football Club)
1973 - Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google
1975 - Alicia Witt, American actress
1975 - Simon Katich, Australian cricketer
1976 - Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player
1976 - Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican American soccer player
1978 - Reuben Droughns, American football player
1978 - Jason Marquis, American baseball player
1978 - Alan Lee, Irish footballer
1978 - Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player
1978 - Peter Buxton, English rugby union player
1979 - Kelis Rogers-Jones, American singer
1980 - Burney Lamar, American race car driver
1980 - Paul Menard, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver
1981 - Jarrod Lyle, Australian Golfer
1981 - Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player
1981 - Collie Buddz, (Colin Harper) Reggae & Dancehall artist
1983 - Josh Harrington, American professional BMX rider
1983 - Chantelle Houghton, British TV personality
1983 - Brody Jenner, American actor
1983 - Scott McDonald, Australian footballer
1984 - Neil Dexter, South African cricketer
1984 - Alizée Jacotey, French singer
1984 - Melissa Schuman, American actress
1984 - B.J. Upton, American baseball player
1986 - Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
1987 - Kim Kibum, one of the member of Korean boy band Super junior. actor and singer
1988 - Louise Setara, English singer-songwriter
1988 - Paris Bennett, American singer and finalist on American Idol (season 5)
1989 - Hayden Panettiere, American actress, model and singer
1996 - Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress

Famous deaths...
1157 - King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)
1153 - Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)
1271 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
1581 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
1627 - Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)
1673 - Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier
1689 - William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier
1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
1763 - Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1796 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
1836 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
1838 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
1870 - Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)
1935 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
1940 - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)
1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize (b. 1857)
1947 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
1951 - Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905)
1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
1957 - Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1960 - David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)
1964 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (b. 1893)
1971 - George Jackson, American prisoner, Soledad Brother, Black Panther (b. 1941)
1978 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907)
1979 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
1981 - Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954)
1982 - Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader (b. 1932)
1988 - Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
1989 - Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1992 - Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (b. 1894)
1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1997 - Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)
2000 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2001 - Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2003 - Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (b. 1946)
2003 - Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
2005 - Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2005 - Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
2005 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
2005 - Martin Dillon, tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957)
2006 - Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
2006 - Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
2007 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
2007 - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (b. 1918)
2007 - Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (b. 1981)
2008 - Gene Upshaw, NFL Player, NFLPA Presdient (b. 1945)

Holidays and observances...
Ninoy Aquino Day - special holiday in the Philippines.
Roman festivals - Consualia, in honor of Consus, is held.
Roman Catholic saints - Pope Pius X.
Orthodox - Thaddaeus, Abraham of Smolensk.

Have a great Thursday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

i used to love the smashing pumpkins, my dad used to listen to them all the time

anyone here ever herd of the shelby series 1?

YES... a f*CKIN  bad ass car. they look awesome.

I remember reading about them back in High School in Motor Trend. Supercharged. Expensive too.

[socalrappy700]

i used to love the smashing pumpkins, my dad used to listen to them all the time

anyone here ever herd of the shelby series 1?

Yup, his wife died testing one.

[Krandall]

Aug 21 1986

1,700 people are killed in Cameroon when Lake Nyos emits a huge cloud of fast-moving fog, quickly enveloping the villages of Nyos, Kam, Cha, and Subum. The lethal mist, consisting mainly of carbon dioxide and water vapor, displaces the oxygen in the low-lying zones, killing thousands of cattle and even more birds and wild animals. One eyewitness later describes the landscape as being "littered with human remains and animal carcasses."



And seriously?
That's like X-Files stuff

[who else but rk]

really? i didnt kno his wife died

well anyway i saw one on tuesday for the first time in my life. it was sick, sounded good too

[Krandall]

really? i didnt kno his wife died

well anyway i saw one on tuesday for the first time in my life. it was sick, sounded good too

any pics?

I've NEVER seen one before. They arnet' made anymore are they?

[BRAD]

Aug 21 1986

1,700 people are killed in Cameroon when Lake Nyos emits a huge cloud of fast-moving fog, quickly enveloping the villages of Nyos, Kam, Cha, and Subum. The lethal mist, consisting mainly of carbon dioxide and water vapor, displaces the oxygen in the low-lying zones, killing thousands of cattle and even more birds and wild animals. One eyewitness later describes the landscape as being "littered with human remains and animal carcasses."



And seriously?
That's like X-Files stuff

Yeah thats just creepy

[Flynbyu]

i used to love the smashing pumpkins, my dad used to listen to them all the time

anyone here ever herd of the shelby series 1?

Yup...

It was powered by Oldsmobile's 4.0 L L47 Aurora V8 engine. It has 320 horsepower (240 kW) and will do 0-60 mph in better than 4.5 seconds and records 12.8 in the quarter mile at 112 mph (180 km/h). Top speed is 185 mph (298 km/h)—some 15 mph (24 km/h) faster than the 427 Shelby Cobra. The 1998 car weighed 1202 kg/2650 lb.

Production ceased, and a Series 2 was attempted but never reached actual production.

One car in silver color with the middle stripe removed was awarded to 1998 Playmate of the Year, Karen McDougal by Playboy in June 1998.

<via Wikipedia>



~Brian

[who else but rk]

showoff 
the series 1 was made in 1999 and was a old car but it did have alot of problems, wich i think is why it never got popular. i have no idea what the msrp was on these cars but i did see one for sale recenty for 130k. here is a pic that my sister got wich is terrable

looks like a old 911 here but it aint

[Krandall]

sweet headlights...

[Flynbyu]

sweet headlights...

His sister's or the car?



~Brian

[who else but rk]

this thing sounds frigan beast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5vq7P9uUcA

[Danny T]

sister

[Danny T]

this thing sounds frigan beast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5vq7P9uUcA

That sounds amazing,

The looks of this one is sick though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tndq8n558AI&feature=related

[Krandall]

Leryn Franco : http://www.king-mag.com/online/?p=7293