Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume IX

[socalrappy700]

Even on my day off I can't get myself to sleep in.   

[darkside94]

i know i only slept in like 5 days this year
i went to bed at like 3 then i woke up at like 8 

[socalrappy700]

I get up at 5 everyday so when it comes to my day off I have a hard time sleeping in. 

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Aug 29 1898

The Goodyear tire company is founded.

Aug 29 1904

David Hyrum Smith, son of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, dies in an insane asylum after 27 years of lunacy. His father in 1844 had predicted that his unborn son would be named David and that he would be "President and King of Israel". At least he got the name right.

Aug 29 1958

United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Aug 29 1966

The Beatles hold their final concert at Candlestick Park.

Aug 29 1993

Brazilian police, upset over the killing of four of their own, roam the streets of Rio de Janiero and slaughter 21 street people at random. This incident comes several weeks after police had killed five boys in a similar fashion.

Aug 29 1994

The Orange County Register breaks the story that China has been harvesting organs from executed prisoners prior to their executions. What's more, executions are scheduled according to organ transplant priorities.

Aug 29 1996

Dick Morris, the top political adviser to President Bill Clinton and also a married man, resigns abruptly after the Star reveals his long-term relationship with a Washington prostitute. Morris had divulged secret White House information to Sherry Rowlands, even allowing the hooker to secretly listen in on some of his telephone conversations with the President.

Aug 29 1996

California becomes the first state in the nation to require the surgical or chemical castration of persons who have committed two or more sexual assaults on minors.

Aug 29 2005

Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage.

Aug 29 2007

A United States Air Force B-52 with two live nuclear weapons flies from Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base by accident.

Birthdays today...
1619 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
1628 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
1694 - Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)
1725 - Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
1728 - Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)
1756 - Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
1756 - Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)
1777 - Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
1805 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician (d. 1894)
1810 - Juan Bautista Alberdi, founding father of the Argentine Republic (d. 1884)
1811 - Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1888)
1842 - Alfred Shaw, England cricketer (d. 1907)
1843 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
1844 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
1857 - Sandford Schultz, England cricketer (d. 1937)
1862 - Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
1871 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
1876 - Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
1876 - Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
1898 - Preston Sturges, American filmmaker (d. 1959)
1901 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1904 - Werner Forssmann, German physician Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1905 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
1912 - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-Polish cinematographer
1912 - Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
1912 - Sohn Kee-chung, Korean Olympic Champions in Men's Marathon (d. 2002)
1913 - Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1916 - George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
1916 - Luther Davis, American playwright
1917 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
1920 - Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
1923 - Richard Attenborough, English film director
1923 - Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)
1923 - Hiralal Gaekwad, Indian cricketer
1924 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
1924 - Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
1926 - María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
1928 - Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000)
1929 - Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004)
1930 - Jacques Bouchard, Quebec advertising executive (d. 2006)
1931 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
1931 - Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist
1933 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
1934 - John Guy, New Zealand cricketer
1935 - William Friedkin, American film director
1936 - John McCain, American politician
1937 - James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
1938 - Elliott Gould, American actor
1938 - Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury
1939 - Joel Schumacher, American film director
1940 - Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
1941 - Robin Leach, English television host
1942 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)
1942 - John Heuser, Electron Microscopist, Washington University in Saint Louis
1945 - Wyomia Tyus, American athlete
1946 - Bob Beamon, American jumper
1947 - James Hunt, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1993)
1950 - Doug DeCinces, American baseball player
1950 - Dave Reichert, American politician and former sheriff
1952 - Karen Hesse, American children's writer
1952 - Dave Malone, American rock guitarist
1953 - James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist
1954 - Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American science fiction novelist
1955 - Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist
1956 - GG Allin, American rock singer
1957 - Jerry D. Bailey, American racing jockey
1958 - Lenny Henry, British writer, comedian and actor
1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer, dancer and composer
1959 - Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer
1959 - Akkineni Nagarjuna, Telugu film actor
1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver, Member of the Kennedy Family
1959 - Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
1959 - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
1960 - Tony MacAlpine, American shred guitarist
1961 - Rodney McCray, Former basketball player
1961 - Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
1962 - Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer
1962 - Carl Banks, American Football Player
1963 - Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer
1965 - Dina Spybey, American actress
1965 - Will Perdue, American basketball player
1967 - Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
1971 - Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player
1971 - Carla Gugino, American actress
1972 - Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor
1973 - Adam Sessler, American TV show host
1973 - Olivier Jacque, motorcyclist
1974 - Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer
1975 - Dante Basco, Filipino-American actor
1976 - Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
1976 - Kevin Kaesviharn, National Football League player
1976 - Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
1976 - Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
1977 - John Patrick O'Brien, American soccer player
1977 - Aaron Rowand, American baseball player
1977 - Devean George, American basketball player
1977 - Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
1977 - Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian
1977 - Jo Weil, German actor
1978 - Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
1979 - Chieu Luu, Canadian journalist
1979 - Ryan Shealy, American baseball player
1980 - David Desrosiers, Canadian musician(Simple Plan)
1980 - Chris Simms, American football player
1980 - David West, American basketball player
1980 - Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor
1980 - Mohammad Sheikh, Kenyan cricketer
1981 - Lanny Barbie, Canadian adult actress
1981 - Geneviève Jeanson, Quebec bicycle racer
1981 - Jay Ryan (Jay Bunyan), Australian actor
1982 - A+, American rapper
1982 - Carlos Delfino, Argentinean basketball player
1985 - Pouyan Afkary, Iranian-American musician (Scary Kids Scaring Kids)
1985 - Jeffrey Licon, American actor
1986 - Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
1987 - Tony Kane, Irish footballer
1990 - Sam Stern, English Chef / Author
1992 - Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter

Famous deaths...
886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
1123 - King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)
1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
1442 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
1526 - King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b. 1506)
1542 - Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)
1657 - John Lilburne, English dissenter
1712 - Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
1769 - Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)
1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
1799 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
1844 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)
1889 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
1891 - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)
1904 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
1930 - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
1931 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder
1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)
1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)
1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)
1975 - Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1976 - Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)
1976 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)
1977 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)
1981 - Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)
1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
1984 - Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
1987 - Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)
1987 - Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
1989 - Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
1992 - Teddy Turner, comedian (b. 1917)
1995 - Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)
2000 - Willie Maddren, English former footballer (b. 1951)
2001 - Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, Australian rock star, lead singer Skyhooks, TV and radio star (b. 1952)
2001 - Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
2002 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)
2003 - Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
2003 - Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)
2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
2007 - Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)
2007 - Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)
2007 - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
2007 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)

Holidays and observances...
Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Eastern Catholicism, and Roman Catholic Church commemorate the beheading of John the Baptist with a feast day.
Slovakia - Slovak National Uprising Day (1944, against the Nazis).
The first day of Thoth - which is the first day of the Egyptian calendar. Thoth is the Ibis-headed GERD of knowledge.

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Aug 29 1996

Dick Morris, the top political adviser to President Bill Clinton and also a married man, resigns abruptly after the Star reveals his long-term relationship with a Washington prostitute. Morris had divulged secret White House information to Sherry Rowlands, even allowing the hooker to secretly listen in on some of his telephone conversations with the President.




How lucky of a whore can you be to score one of the top political advisers to the president!!! talk about raking in some cash!

[preddy08]

Even on my day off I can't get myself to sleep in.   

Holly shit its way too early to post E, go back to bed!!


About a year ago I was the same way, waking up the same time (7 o'clock) with out a alarm. It did'nt matter if it were my day off, a weekend, or vacation. I was up no matter what! Then about 6 months ago I completely lost it! Now I can't wake up at 7:30 to save my life, even with my phone blaring in my face! 11:00 on the weekends is'nt out of the question, it usually takes a hard late night for me to sleep that late.

[Flynbyu]

Aug 29 1996

Dick Morris, the top political adviser to President Bill Clinton and also a married man, resigns abruptly after the Star reveals his long-term relationship with a Washington prostitute. Morris had divulged secret White House information to Sherry Rowlands, even allowing the hooker to secretly listen in on some of his telephone conversations with the President.




How lucky of a whore can you be to score one of the top political advisers to the president!!! talk about raking in some cash!

What a man.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Everybody must have work off today for the big weekend.


Anyone got any big plans?

I'm headed to Lydia's brothers house in Black River Falls. Would have liked to haul the rappy, but maybe next time.

[Flynbyu]

Everybody must have work off today for the big weekend.


Anyone got any big plans?

I'm headed to Lydia's brothers house in Black River Falls. Would have liked to haul the rappy, but maybe next time.

I'll be working of course.

Nazis.

~Brian

[Peelz]

working today..on call from noon today til Saturday 8pm. 

[Flynbyu]

Sen. John McCain has picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.

There goes his chances of winning the election.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Sen. John McCain has picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.

There goes his chances of winning the election.

~Brian

JUST heard that.

Supposedly Minn Govn was one of his options too. Tim Pawlenty. Choosing her I think he's lost all chances.

Oh well...



And I feel ya peels.
i'm on call all weekend. 

[Flynbyu]

I've heard good things about the Minnesota governor.

WTF was McCain thinkg selecting this woman?

Via CNN: The conservative Sarah Palin defeated two so-called political insiders to win the governor's job -- incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski in the GOP primary and former two-term Democratic Gov. Tony Knowles in the 2006 general election.

Palin made her name in part by backing tough ethical standards for politicians. During the first legislative session after her election, her administration passed a state ethics law overhaul.

Palin's term has not been without controversy. A legislative investigation is looking into allegations that Palin fired Alaska's public safety commissioner because he refused to fire the governor's former brother-in-law, a state trooper.

Palin acknowledged that a member of her staff made a call to a trooper in which the staffer suggested he was speaking for the governor.

Palin has admitted that the call could be interpreted as pressure to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, who was locked in a child-custody battle with Palin's sister.

"I am truly disappointed and disturbed to learn that a member of this administration contacted the Department of Public Safety regarding Trooper Wooten," Palin said. "At no time did I authorize any member of my staff to do so."

Palin suspended the staffer who made the call.



~Brian

[Krandall]

what a mess to get himself into with her.

I agree with McCain that Obama doens't have the foreign policy matters really down since he's not held a high office position before, but to me at this point he seems like the most logical choice of the 2. I didn't get to hear obamas thing last night. I'm gonna watch it on lunch heard a lot of good things about it.

[Flynbyu]

what a mess to get himself into with her.

I agree with McCain that Obama doens't have the foreign policy matters really down since he's not held a high office position before, but to me at this point he seems like the most logical choice of the 2. I didn't get to hear obamas thing last night. I'm gonna watch it on lunch heard a lot of good things about it.

My decision was going to be based on who McCain picked, and at this point I'm leaning toward Obama. MCain has a long way to go in my opinion now.


You can watch Obama's speech on CNN.com

~Brian