Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume IX

[preddy08]

kinda slow, just finishing up packing for walden

Look out for your corn hole!!!! Troy may be on the loose this weekend.....LOLOLOL

yeah, sounds like he might be making multiple trips out there to get his bike together and set-up camp

Do you ride with Troy often? Deffinately a fun guy to ride with!

[Peelz]

I better be nice to peels, he might pull his gat 

Standard equipment for a " pharmaceutical rep".



~Brian

I like that...has a certain ring to it. Classier than...meth-head! :grin_nod:

[who else but rk]

GERD damit preddy ever time i see your sig it makes me want some damn jerkey

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Aug 27 1883

After three massive explosions over the previous 16 hours, the volcanic island of Krakatoa suffers a final, inconceivably destructive blast. The noise is heard 3,000 miles away in Madagascar. Two-thirds of the island's land mass collapses into the ocean, and the resulting 175-foot tsunami wipes away 163 coastal towns and villages along the Sunda Straight, killing 36,417 inhabitants.

Aug 27 1928

The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlaws war forever.

Aug 27 1967

While The Beatles are away in Bangor, Brian Epstein is found dead in his home. Officially, the cause of death was accidental overdose of sleeping pills, but many believe it was suicide. He was becoming increasingly depressed over his lack of involvement with the Beatles and also his personal turmoil caused by trying to keep his homosexuality a secret.

Aug 27 1968

TV newsman Dan Rather gets beaten up in front of cameras on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The reporter is trying to interview a delegate being dragged off the floor when the bruisers suddenly turn on the Rather. "He lifted me right off the floor and put me away. I was down, the breath knocked out of me, as the whole group blew on by me... In the CBS control room, they had switched the camera onto me just as I was slugged."

Aug 27 1979

The IRA assassinates Louis Earl Mountbatten by placing a bomb on his yacht off the coast of Ireland. Mountbatten was the Queen's cousin, a war hero, and one of the most respected people in England.

Aug 27 1987

Jello Biafra's obscenity trial ends in Los Angeles, with the jury deadlocked 7-5 in favor of acquittal. Prosecutors had hoped to throw the Dead Kennedys singer in jail for including an H.R. Giger poster in the packaging of his band's latest album, Frankenchrist.

Aug 27 1990

Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan is killed when his Bell 206B helicopter crashes into a man-made ski hill near Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

Birthdays today...
1407 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
1471 - George, Duke of Saxony (d. 1539)
1487 - Anna of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark (d. 1514)
1637 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
1665 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
1669 - Anne Marie of Orléans, queen of Italy (d. 1728)
1698 - Baal Shem Tov, Founder of the Chasiddic movement {d. 1760)
1677 - Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
1724 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
1730 - Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher (d. 1788)
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
1803 - Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895)
1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1891)
1858 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
1865 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
1865 - Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1951)
1870 - Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (d. 1919)
1871 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (d. 1945)
1874 - Carl Bosch, German chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
1875 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (d. 1967)
1877 - Charles Rolls, British co-founder of Rolls-Royce (d. 1910)
1877 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born Hollywood film producer (d. 1974)
1884 - Vincent Auriol, French President (d. 1966)
1886 - Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
1886 - Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
1890 - Man Ray, American photographer and artist (d. 1976)
1896 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
1898 - Gaspard Fauteux, French Canadian parliamentarian (d. 1963)
1899 - C. S. Forester, British author (d. 1966)
1899 - Byron Foulger, American actor (d. 1970)
1904 - Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983)
1904 - John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
1906 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
1908 - Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
1908 - Kurt Wegner, German artist (d. 1985)
1909 - Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966)
1909 - Lester Young, American musician (d. 1959)
1911 - Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
1912 - Gloria Guinness, Mexican socialite and writer(d.1980)
1913 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, Russian-born wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
1915 - Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate
1916 - Martha Raye, American actress (d. 1994)
1916 - Tony Harris, South African cricketer (d. 1993)
1917 - Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1919 - Murray Grand, American songwriter and cabaret singer (d. 2007)
1921 - Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)
1921 - Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998)
1924 - David Rowbotham, Australian poet
1925 - Darry Cowl, French actor (d. 2006)
1926 - Pat Coombs, English actress (d. 2002)
1926 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)
1927 - Jimmy C. Newman, American singer
1928 - Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician
1929 - Ira Levin, American author (d. 2007)
1931 - Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru (d. 2007)
1931 - Joe Cunningham, American baseball player
1932 - Antonia Fraser, British author
1935 - Ernie Broglio, American baseball player
1935 - Frank Yablans, American film producer
1936 - Joel Kovel, American politician
1937 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
1937 - Tommy Sands, American actor and singer
1940 - Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
1942 - Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist (Captain & Tennille)
1942 - Brian Peckford, Canadian politician
1943 - Tuesday Weld, American actress
1945 - G. W. Bailey, American actor
1946 - Tony Howard, West Indian cricketer
1947 - Barbara Bach, American actress
1947 - Harry Reems, American actor
1947 - John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer
1948 - Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek musician (d. 1990)
1949 - Jeff Cook, vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, fiddle, banjo and mandolin for Alabama
1950 - Charles Fleischer, American actor
1951 - Buddy Bell, American baseball player-manager
1951 - Mack Brown, American University of Texas Head Football Coach
1952 - Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens, American actor
1953 - Alex Lifeson, Canadian guitarist (Rush)
1953 - Peter Stormare, Swedish-born actor
1954 - John Lloyd, British former tennis player
1954 - Derek Warwick, British race car driver
1955 - Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
1955 - Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
1955 - Diana Scarwid, American actress
1957 - Bernhard Langer, German golfer and two-time Masters champion
1958 - Normand Brathwaite, Canadian comedian and television and radio host
1958 - Sergei Krikalev, Russian cosmonaut
1958 - Tom Lanoye, Belgian author
1959 - Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver and F1 team co-owner (Scuderia Toro Rosso)
1959 - Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
1961 - Yolanda Adams, American gospel singer
1961 - Tom Ford, American fashion designer
1962 - Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
1962 - Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - Downtown Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and former MTV VJ
1964 - Frankie Thorn, American actress
1965 - Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer
1966 - Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia
1967 - Bob Nastanovich, American musician (Pavement, Silver Jews)
1969 - Reece Shearsmith, British actor and comedian
1969 - Mark Ealham, England cricketer
1969 - Chandra Wilson, American actress
1970 - Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
1970 - Tony Kanal, English-born musician (No Doubt)
1970 - Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer
1970 - Jim Thome, American baseball player
1970 - Andy Bichel, Australian cricketer
1970 - Mark Ilott, England cricketer
1971 - Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
1972 - Denise Lewis, English heptathlete
1972 - Dalip Singh, Indian professional wrestler
1972 - Mike Smith, Canadian actor
1973 - Carlene Begnaud, American professional wrestler
1973 - Cory Bowles, Canadian actor
1973 - Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer
1973 - Dietmar Hamann, German footballer
1974 - José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 - Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
1974 - Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer
1975 - Jonny Moseley, American skier
1975 - Mark Rudan, Australian footballer
1976 - Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
1976 - Carlos Moyà, Spanish tennis player
1976 - Steve Taylor, British writer
1976 - Milano Collection Akihito Terui, Japanese professional wrestler
1976 - Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
1977 - Deco, Portuguese footballer
1977 - Mase, American rapper
1979 - Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker/actor
1979 - Tian Liang, Chinese diver
1979 - Sarah Neufeld, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
1983 - Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor
1984 - David Bentley, English footballer
1984 - Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
1985 - Alexandra Nechita, Romanian artist
1986 - Mario, American R&B singer
1988 - Alexa Vega, American actress

Famous deaths...
542 - Saint Caesarius of Arles
827 - Pope Eugene II
1312 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
1394 - Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)
1450 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
1521 - Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer
1545 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
1572 - Claude Goudimel, French composer
1577 - Titian, Italian artist
1590 - Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
1635 - Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
1664 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
1748 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
1773 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
1857 - Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American literary critic and editor (b. 1812)
1871 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
1875 - William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
1909 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)
1929 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
1931 - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
1931 - Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
1944 - Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
1948 - Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
1958 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
1963 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
1963 - W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)
1963 - Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)
1964 - Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (b. 1895)
1965 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
1967 - Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (b. 1934)
1968 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)
1969 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)
1969 - Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905)
1971 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898)
1971 - Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (b. 1906)
1975 - Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
1976 - Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
1979 - Earl Mountbatten, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (b. 1900)
1980 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)
1981 - Valery Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
1984 - Bernard Youens, English actor (b. 1914)
1987 - Scott La Rock, American DJ (Boogie Down Productions) (b. 1962)
1988 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
1988 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)
1996 - Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
1999 - Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)
2001 - Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)
2001 - Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (b. 1936)
2003 - Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)
2004 - Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
2005 - Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)
2006 - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
2006 - Maria Capovilla, oldest woman alive from 2004-2006 (b. 1889)
2006 - Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
2007 - Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances...
Roman Festivals - Volturnalia held in honor of Volturnus. 
Moldova - Independence Day (from the USSR, 1991).
Texas - Lyndon Baines Johnson Day

Have a great Wednesday.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

Aug 27 1990

Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan is killed when his Bell 206B helicopter crashes into a man-made ski hill near Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

[Peelz]

Happy moldovan independence day

[Krandall]

Aug 27 1990

Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan is killed when his Bell 206B helicopter crashes into a man-made ski hill near Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

Amen Brother... 

Lydia and I walked out of the church to "Pride and Joy" by him!

[Colorado700R]

Aug 27 1990

Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan is killed when his Bell 206B helicopter crashes into a man-made ski hill near Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

I remeber that.  Big news for a small town in WI.

[Flynbyu]

Aug 27 1990

Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan is killed when his Bell 206B helicopter crashes into a man-made ski hill near Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

Amen Brother... 

Lydia and I walked out of the church to "Pride and Joy" by him!

Awesome!

Stevie Ray is one of my favs.

~Brian

[kyledvor61]

my heads about to explode :'(

[Flynbyu]

Happy moldovan independence day

I'm celebrating like a mofo over here.



Eastern Europe rocks.

~Brian

[Krandall]

 

Gives me reason to drink tonight!

[Peelz]

Gives me reason to drink tonight!

I'm leaving work! I'll tell my boss: My parents are from Moldova, biotch!

I'm Takin' vacation.

[Flynbyu]

23 more days.....

~Brian

[Krandall]

That's gonna be so awesome!! Maybe this year you can actually get us some pics..

I just remembered last year you got busted.