Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume X

[Sand84]

Just watched a movie called "Shoot Em' Up" w/ Clive Owen in it.. ERMAHGERD.. F*CKIN BAD ASS!!!

Who else is in that?  I think I wanna see that..   O and my 400 post

him and Paul Giamatti..

If you are into a STRAIGHT UP thriller/action movie. This is for you!

Sweet I'll have to look for a torrent

[socalrappy700]

Mornin

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Sep 9 1087

William the Conqueror dies of internal injuries, sustained six weeks prior in a horse riding accident at Mantes-la-Jolie. When the corpulent king was later laid to rest in the foundations of a church, William's "swollen bowels burst, and an intolerable stench assailed the nostrils of the by-standers and the whole crowd."

Sep 9 1942

On orders of Heinrich Himmler, Auschwitz prisoners are forced to exhume and burn 107,000 decaying corpses from the camp's mass graves. They are cremated in gigantic, open-pit bonfires.

Sep 9 1956

Elvis Presley makes his first-ever appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, performing four songs for guest host Charles Laughton. Ed himself had vowed never to have Presley on his show, but Sullivan is at home, recuperating from a severe head injury.

Sep 9 1971

1,300 inmates riot inside the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York state, commandeering the prison and taking 40 guards hostage. The national guard stages an assault five days later, killing 42 people in the process (10 of them being captives).

Sep 9 1999

A bomb planted by Chechen terrorists explodes in a Moscow apartment building on Guryanov Street, killing more than 90 people. It is part of a series of apartment bombings in Russia leaving more than 400 dead.

Sep 9 2003

Edward Teller, the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb" and purported model for Dr. Strangelove, dies at the age of 95 at his home on the Stanford University campus. His role in the destruction of colleague J. Robert Oppenheimer's career during the McCarthy era resulted in his own ostracism by many of his peers.

Birthdays today...
214 - Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)
384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
1629 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)
1700 - Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
1711 - Thomas Hutchinson, American politician (d. 1780)
1731 - Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer (d. 1787)
1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
1755 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)
1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
1834 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
1853 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (d. 1926)
1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)
1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
1877 - Frank Chance, American baseball player (d. 1924)
1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
1878 - Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
1882 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
1890 - Harland Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
1892 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
1894 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
1898 - Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1899 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1899 - Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984)
1899 - Bruno E. Jacob, Founder of the National Forensics League (d. 1979)
1900 - James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)
1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
1905 - Hussain Sha - Indian Saint, Philosopher ,Pithapuram
1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
1911 - John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)
1911 - Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
1917 - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (d. 1942)
1919 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)
1919 - Gottfried Dienst, German football referee
1920 - Aldo Parisot, American cellist and teacher
1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
1920 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1922 - Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
1922 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1924 - Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
1924 - Russell M. Nelson, LDS apostle and cardiac surgery pioneer
1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
1925 - Cliff Robertson, American actor
1926 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
1927 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004)
1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
1930 - Frank Lucas, Drug Lord
1932 - Sylvia Miles, American actress
1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
1935 - Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author
1939 - Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican actor
1939 - Ron McDole, American football player
1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
1942 - Inez Foxx, American R&B singer
1943 - Art LaFleur, American actor
1945 - Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer
1946 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
1946 - Doug Ingle, American musician (Iron Butterfly)
1947 - David Rosenboom, American composer
1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician
1949 - Garry Maddox, American baseball player
1949 - Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator
1951 - Alexander Downer, Australian politician
1951 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
1952 - Angela Cartwright, American actress
1952 - Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel)
1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor
1955 - John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator
1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
1957 - Gabriele Tredozi, Italian engineer
1959 - Eric Serra, French composer
1960 - Hugh Grant, English actor
1960 - Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur
1960 - Bob Stoops, American football coach
1963 - Roberto Donadoni, Italian football player and manager
1965 - Dan Majerle, American basketball player
1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger
1966 - Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
1967 - Akshay Kumar, Indian Actor
1967 - Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006)
1967 - B. J. Armstrong, American basketball player
1967 - Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer
1968 - Francois Botha, South African boxer
1968 - Jon Drummond, American former sprinter
1968 - Julia Sawalha, English actress
1968 - Clive Mendonca, English Footballer
1969 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
1969 - Constance Marie, American actress
1970 - Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress
1971 - Henry Thomas, American actor and musician
1972 - James Farmer, American educator and artist
1972 - Mike Hampton, American baseball player
1972 - Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader
1972 - Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player
1972 - Goran Višnjić, Croatian actor
1973 - Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
1974 - Shane Crawford, Australian rules footballer
1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
1974 - Vikram Batra, Officer of the Indian Army
1974 - Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician
1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian singer and actor
1976 - Emma de Caunes, French film actress
1976 - Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer
1976 - Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, ex-Borknagar)
1976 - Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor
1976 - Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
1977 - Chae Jung-an, South Korean actress and singer
1977 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
1977 - Kyle Snyder, Major League Baseball pitcher
1978 - Kurt Ainsworth, Major League Baseball pitcher
1978 - Shane Battier, American basketball player
1978 - Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
1979 - Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer
1980 - Todd Coffey, American baseball player
1980 - Michelle Williams, American actress
1981 - Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress
1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
1983 - Kyle Davies, American baseball player
1983 - Edwin Jackson, Major League Baseball pitcher
1983 - Sam Hollenbach, National Football League quarterback
1983 - Cleveland Taylor, International footballer
1984 - James Hildreth, English Cricketer
1985 - J.R. Smith, American basketball player
1985 - Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer
1986 - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 - Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player
1986 - Michael Bowden, American baseball player
1987 - Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer
1990 - Melody Klaver, Dutch actress
2000 - Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón, granddaughter of king Juan Carlos I of Spain

Famous deaths...
546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop
701 - Pope Sergius I
1000 - Olaf I of Norway
1087 - King William I of England
1398 - King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (b. 1433)
1513 - King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer and founder of Montreal (b. 1612)
1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
1806 - William Paterson, Signer of the U.S. Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)
1815 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
1841 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778)
1891 - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
1907 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
1941 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
1969 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
1976 - Mao Zedong, Founder and first leader of the People's Republic of China (b. 1893)
1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder (b. 1892)
1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
1981 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)
1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1990 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1905)
1990 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (b. 1951)
1994 - Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
1996 - Bill Monroe, American bluegrass singer and composer (b. 1911)
1997 - Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1997 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
1998 - Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
1999 - Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
2000 - Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)
2003 - Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
2005 - John Wayne Glover, English serial killer (b. 1932)
2006 - Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
2006 - Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer and electronic musician (b. 1955)
2006 - Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
2007 - Hughie Thomasson, Noted American musician (b. 1952)

Holidays and observances...
Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku).
North Korea - Republic Day (1948).
Tajikistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
California - Admission Day (to commemorate the state's admission to the USA).
Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise
Eastern Orthodoxy - Synaxis of the Theopatores Joachim and Anna.

Have a great Tuesay.

~Brian

[Peelz]

Happy Tajikistanian independence day!    A day to be thankful for the fact.......That you are not from Tajikistan!

[Flynbyu]

Intervention had an update show on last night.

It was awesome. Lot's of people smokin' the glass dick, snortin', shooting shit.

~Brian

[Peelz]

Intervention had an update show on last night.

It was awesome. Lot's of people smokin' the glass dick, snortin', shooting shit.

~Brian

LOL at "smokin the glass dick"    So the show is not a success? :grin_nod:

[Flynbyu]

Intervention had an update show on last night.

It was awesome. Lot's of people smokin' the glass dick, snortin', shooting shit.

~Brian

LOL at "smokin the glass dick"    So the show is not a success? :grin_nod:

I like it when they show the addict trippin and shit. Then the family begs them to go to rehab. Some make it, some relapse.

~Brian

[Peelz]

It's great when they ar wiggin' out, and totally bash their friends and families because they are on the spot.
Then I know, I have done my job as resident meth producer.  

O'tay, gotta get the little guy to school. Lata!

[socalrappy700]

damn, sounds like I missed a good show.

[Flynbyu]

It was good.

A lot of people sober for 3-4 years.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

If you get past 2 years you're on your way.  That seems to be the mark to hit.

[socalrappy700]

Sep 9 1087

William the Conqueror dies of internal injuries, sustained six weeks prior in a horse riding accident at Mantes-la-Jolie. When the corpulent king was later laid to rest in the foundations of a church, William's "swollen bowels burst, and an intolerable stench assailed the nostrils of the by-standers and the whole crowd."

Ok, that one was just nasty.

[Krandall]

Sep 9 1971

1,300 inmates riot inside the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York state, commandeering the prison and taking 40 guards hostage. The national guard stages an assault five days later, killing 42 people in the process (10 of them being captives).


It's a prison... throw in some cyanide bombs and call it a day.

National Guard - 1

Prisoners - 0

[socalrappy700]

The national guard killed 10 hostages....damn.  Guess thats what you get when you send in the national guard.

[preddy08]

Its pretty sad, almost everyday there is some sort of bo-mb news.