Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume X

[socalrappy700]

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[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Sep 5 1921

Undiscovered actress Virginia Rappe somehow ruptures her bladder during actor-comedian Fatty Arbuckle's party at the Saint Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Three days later, the feverish woman is checked into a maternity hospital, where she dies from peritonitis. Arbuckle is eventually tried for murder, but acquitted.

Sep 5 1949

A former sharpshooter in World War II, pharmacy student Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger. He later tells a reporter "I'm no psycho. I have a good mind. I'd have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets."

Sep 5 1972

Five Palestinians armed with machine guns sneak into the Olympic Village in Munich. There they take nine Israeli athletes hostage, killing two others in the process. Later, they demand safe passage out of the country and the release of 200 Palestinians from prison in Israel. Ultimately, none of the athletes makes it out alive.

Sep 5 1975

Manson Family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme almost assassinates President Gerald Ford with a .45 automatic in Sacramento, California. But Fromme is tackled by a Secret Service agent before she can remember to rack a round into the firing chamber.

Sep 5 1989

During a televised speech from the Oval Office, President George HW Bush holds up a bag of crack cocaine purchased across the street at Lafayette Park. Three weeks later, a DEA official admits to The Washington Post that crack dealers don't actually hang out in Lafayette Park, so they purposely lured one to the spot. "We had to manipulate him to get him down there. It wasn't easy." Reportedly, the seller's first question was: "Where the FERK is the White House?"

Sep 5 1990

In his testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, LAPD chief Daryl Gates opines: "Casual drug users should be taken out and shot."

Sep 5 1991

Disgraced children's television star Pee-wee Herman returns to the public eye for the first time after his masturbation arrest, appearing on the MTV Video Music Awards. He opens with the line: "Heard any good jokes lately?"

Sep 5 2003

One Disneyland guest is killed and 10 others injured when the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad coaster jumps the tracks in Frontierland.

Birthdays today...
1187 - Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
1567 - Date Masamune, Renowned Samurai and Daimyo in Japan (d. 1636)
1568 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
1621 - Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble (d. 1694)
1638 - Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
1667 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
1695 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
1722 - Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
1725 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
1735 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
1750 - Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
1771 - Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (d. 1847)
1774 - Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
1775 - Juan Martín Díez, el Empecinado (the undaunted), Spanish guerrillero (d. 1825)
1787 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
1792 - Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857).
1806 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
1807 - Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
1809 - Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (d. 1880)
1826 - John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
1827 - Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849)
1836 - Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921)
1847 - Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist and inventor (d. 1935)
1867 - Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
1874 - Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1876 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
1876 - Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
1881 - Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician (d. 1938)
1888 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
1892 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
1901 - Mario Scelba, Italian politician and former Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1991)
1902 - Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and executive (d. 1979)
1905 - Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer (d. 1983)
1905 - Maurice Challe, French general (d. 1979), one of the leaders of the Algiers putsch in 1961.
1905 - Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (d. 2005)
1908 - Gloria Holden, British actress (d. 1991)
1909 - Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
1910 - Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
1912 - John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
1912 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
1912 - Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
1914 - Nicanor Parra, Chilian poet and mathematician
1916 - Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991)
1916 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 2002)
1918 - Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992)
1921 - Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (d. 2007)
1923 - Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
1924 - Paul Dietzel, American college football coach
1927 - Paul Volcker, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank
1929 - Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
1929 - Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
1933 - Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilian catholic archbishop
1934 - Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
1935 - Johnny Briggs MBE, English actor
1936 - Jonathan Kozol, American writer, sociologist
1936 - Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player
1937 - Antonio Valentin Angelillo, Argentinian footballer
1937 - Colin Wesley, South African cricketer
1939 - Claudette Colvin, American civil rights movement leader (Montgomery Bus Boycott)
1939 - William Devane, American actor
1939 - John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2008)
1939 - George Lazenby, Australian actor
1939 - Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006)
1940 - Raquel Welch, American actress
1942 - Werner Herzog, German film director
1942 - Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (d. 1995)
1942 - Denise Fabre French television presenter.
1943 - Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (d. 2007)
1944 - Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author and playwright (d. 1996)
1945 - Al Stewart, Scottish singer and songwriter
1946 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer and songwriter (Queen) (d. 1991)
1946 - Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
1946 - Begum Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
1947 - Buddy Miles, American musician (d. 2008)
1947 - Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer
1948 - Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
1950 - Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
1950 - Paul William Roberts, Canadian writer
1951 - Paul Breitner, German footballer
1951 - Patti McGuire, American model and television producer
1951 - Michael Keaton, American actor
1954 - Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive
1954 - Richard Austin, West Indian cricketer
1956 - Roine Stolt, Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings)
1957 - Peter Winnen, Dutch bicycle road athlete
1961 - Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist
1962 - Peter Wingfield, Welsh actor
1963 - Juan Alderete, American bassist (Racer X)
1963 - Jeff Brantley, American baseball player
1963 - Jonathan Phillips, English actor
1963 - Taki Inoue, Japanese racing driver
1963 - Kristian Alfonso, American actress
1964 - Frank Farina, Australian footballer
1965 - Chris Morris, English satirist
1965 - David Brabham, Australian racing driver
1965 - César Rincón, colombian matador
1966 - Achero Mañas, Spanish actor and film director
1966 - Milinko Pantić, retired Serbian footballer
1967 - India Hicks, English model
1967 - Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
1968 - Brad Wilk, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1969 - Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo, Brazilian footballer
1969 - Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
1969 - Dweezil Zappa, American musician
1970 - Steve Burton, American actor
1970 - Kim Hye-su, South Korean actress and model
1970 - Liam Lynch, American musician (Sifl and Olly)
1970 - Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer
1971 - Adam Hollioake, England cricketer
1972 - Shane Sewell, Canadian professional wrestler
1972 - Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer
1973 - Rose McGowan, Italian-born actress
1973 - Alexandra Kerry, daughter of American Senator John Kerry
1973 - Paddy Considine, English actor
1974 - Rawl Lewis, West Indian cricketer
1975 - Rod Barajas, American baseball player
1975 - George Boateng, Dutch footballer
1975 - Matt Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1975 - Jamie Spaniolo, American horrorcore rapper
1976 - Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
1976 - Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
1977 - Rosevelt Colvin, American football player
1977 - Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish football winger
1977 - Minoru Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler
1977 - Alexey Harkov, Russian bassist (Kipelov, Sergey Mavrin)
1977 - Nazr Mohammed, American Basketball player
1978 - Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
1978 - Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1978 - Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
1978 - Sylvester Joseph, West Indian cricketer
1979 - John Carew, Norwegian footballer
1979 - Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
1979 - George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer
1980 - Franco Costanzo, Argentinian football goalkeeper
1981 - Drew Carter, American football player
1981 - Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player
1982 - Alexandre Geijo, Spanish/Swiss footballer
1982 - Sondre Lerche, Norwegian musician
1983 - Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer
1983 - Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
1983 - Xavier Susai, Australian comedian
1984 - Trey Hill, Grammy-nominated musician
1985 - Ryan Guy, American soccer player
1987 - Pierre Casiraghi, son of Princess Caroline of Monaco
1990 - Kim Yu-Na, Korean figure skater
1991 - Skandar Keynes, English actor

Famous deaths...
1165 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
1201 - Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
1235 - Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
1548 - Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
1607 - Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
1629 - Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c. 1585)
1734 - Nicolas Bernier, French musician and composer (b. 1664)
1786 - Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
1803 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
1803 - François Devienne, French composer (b. 1759)
1808 - John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
1836 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
1838 - Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
1857 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1867 - Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
1876 - Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
1877 - Crazy Horse, Lakota (Sioux) chief (b. 1849)
1898 - Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
1901 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1914 - Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
1917 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
1920 - Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
1922 - Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
1926 - Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1932 - Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
1936 - Federico Borrell García, Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1912)
1936 - Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
1942 - François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
1945 - Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1953 - Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading 'blood and soil' ideologists (b. 1895)
1954 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1954)
1965 - Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
1966 - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
1970 - Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver and one-time F1 (posthumous) world champion (b. 1942)
1973 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1975 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
1977 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant (b. 1897)
1979 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
1982 - Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
1983 - Antonio Mairena, flamenco singer (b. 1909)
1988 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
1990 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
1992 - Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
1997 - Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
1997 - Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
1998 - Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
1998 - Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
1999 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
1999 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
2001 - Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
2001 - Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
2003 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
2005 - Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
2007 - Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
2007 - Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
2007 - D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
2007 - Thomas Hansen (musician) (b. 1976)

Holidays and observances...
Roman festivals - Jupiter Stator to commemorate that Jupiter helped Romulus to stop the Sabine invasion under Titus Tatius.
RC Saints - The feast day of Teresa of Calcutta, currently pending sainthood.
India - The birthdate of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India.
Zechariah and Elisabeth, parents of John the Baptist
Bertin, abbot of Saint-Omer.
Abdas of Susa

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[preddy08]

Mornin gents!

TGIF!!

[socalrappy700]

yup, out of here at 11 today.

[preddy08]

yup, out of here at 11 today.

I'm debating on how much overtime I want this week.

[BRAD]

yup, out of here at 11 today.

dangit i got class till 12 and then goto work at 3. im gettin screwed on this school and work stuff

[socalrappy700]

yup, out of here at 11 today.

I'm debating on how much overtime I want this week.

I don't get overtime so none would be my first pick. 

[preddy08]

yup, out of here at 11 today.

I'm debating on how much overtime I want this week.

I don't get overtime so none would be my first pick. 

Hey my buddy will be finishing up his YFZ (blown engine, AGAIN) and will be down to hit up Bussey after next weekend! I may be out in that area early next month.

Did you get a chance to look at any of the videos on youtube?

[Krandall]

Sep 5 1949

A former sharpshooter in World War II, pharmacy student Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger. He later tells a reporter "I'm no psycho. I have a good mind. I'd have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets."





that's awesome!!!!!



8.5 hrs OT this week. Hoping they'll let me split early.

[BRAD]

Im really starting to hate my Physical Science teacher. he needs to learn how to speak clear and plain english

[socalrappy700]

yup, out of here at 11 today.

I'm debating on how much overtime I want this week.

I don't get overtime so none would be my first pick. 

Hey my buddy will be finishing up his YFZ (blown engine, AGAIN) and will be down to hit up Bussey after next weekend! I may be out in that area early next month.

Did you get a chance to look at any of the videos on youtube?

I didn't, but I'll make sure to this weekend.  Any idea what weekend you'll be going?  And please don't say the 11th.

[Peelz]

yup, out of here at 11 today.

I'm debating on how much overtime I want this week.

I don't get overtime so none would be my first pick. 

Hey my buddy will be finishing up his YFZ (blown engine, AGAIN) and will be down to hit up Bussey after next weekend! I may be out in that area early next month.

Did you get a chance to look at any of the videos on youtube?

Mornin sissymaryies

preddy, post up some details when you know when you are goin'. me and a couple other guys might look into headin that way. Wife might work, so not sure what were doing..


ANd.....F#$k overtime! I have had enough!  But...I'll take the $ :grin_nod:

[Flynbyu]

yup, out of here at 11 today.

I'm debating on how much overtime I want this week.

I don't get overtime so none would be my first pick. 

When do you come close to having over time "Mr. I'm outta here at 11".



~Brian

[Flynbyu]

I'm on hour number 44 for the week. I'll end up having close to 45 by the end of the day, plus another 10 hours tomorrow.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

yup, out of here at 11 today.

I'm debating on how much overtime I want this week.

I don't get overtime so none would be my first pick. 

When do you come close to having over time "Mr. I'm outta here at 11".



~Brian

I think I hit close to 40 this week.....including my holiday time for monday.  Right now i should be around 35ish.  But when the shit hits the fan around here its not hard for me to get 90+ and still make the same as a slow week.