Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XII

[Krandall]

Hope the trip in Ohio was fun.

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Sep 30 1630

Pilgrim John Billington, who arrived on the Mayflower, is hanged at Plymouth for killing John Newcomen with a musket. Billington is the first Englishman executed in New England.

Sep 30 1888

Jack the Ripper slaughters his third and fourth victims, two hookers named Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

Sep 30 1955

Heading westbound on Highway 466 just outside Cholame, California, movie star James Dean is killed in a head-on collision with another driver. University student Donald Turnupseed was driving home in his Ford when he swerved into the oncoming lane, smashing into Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder. The actor gave us an oeuvre of just three films, but at least he left a damn good looking corpse.

Sep 30 1970

The Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography releases its 646-page report concluding that all sexually-explicit films, books, and magazines aimed at adults should be legalized. One publisher, William Hamling, sells 100,000 copies of the report with 546 additional "illustrations," for which he receives four years in prison.

Birthdays today...
1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
1227 - Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
1530 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
1550 - Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631)
1631 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
1700 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773)
1710 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)
1715 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)
1732 - Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
1765 - José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815)
1800 - Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)
1811 - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, Queen of Prussia and German Empress (d. 1890)
1827 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)
1861 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932)
1870 - Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
1870 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948)
1882 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
1883 - Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945)
1887 - Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress (d. 1980)
1893 - Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964)
1895 - Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980)
1898 - Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933)
1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
1904 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971)
1905 - Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1908 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974)
1912 - Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
1913 - Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (d. 1975)
1915 - Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
1917 - Park Chunghee, President of South Korea (d. 1979)
1917 - Buddy Rich, American big band drummer (d. 1987)
1918 - Lewis Nixon, WWII Veteran (d. 1996)
1919 - Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (d. 1992)
1919 - Patricia Neway, American soprano
1920 - Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American musician and cellist
1921 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
1922 - Alan Stretton, Australian general
1924 - Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
1926 - Robin Roberts, American baseball player
1927 - W. S. Merwin, American poet
1928 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1931 - Angie Dickinson, American actress
1932 - Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)
1932 - Johnny Podres, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1933 - Cissy Houston, American gospel/r&b singer
1933 - Barbara Knox, English actress
1934 - Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer
1934 - Anna Kashfi, Welsh actress
1935 - Johnny Mathis, American singer
1935 - Z. Z. Hill, American blues singer (d. 1984)
1937 - Valentin Silvestrov, Ukrainian composer
1939 - Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968)
1943 - Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 - Marilyn McCoo, American singer (The Fifth Dimension)
1943 - Ian Ogilvy, British Actor
1944 - Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer
1945 - Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel
1945 - Bob Lassiter, American radio personality
1946 - Paul Sheahan, Australian Test Cricketer 1967-1974
1946 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
1946 - Claude Vorilhon, founder of Raelism, a ufo religion
1947 - Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)
1947 - Dave Arneson, American game designer
1947 - Rula Lenska,English Actress
1948 - Craig Kusick, former Major League Baseball Player
1950 - Renato Zero, Italian musician
1951 - Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1952 - Jack Wild, British actor (d. 2006)
1953 - Deborah Allen, American singer
1953 - S.M. Stirling, Canadian-born author
1954 - Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish-born singer and songwriter
1954 - Barry Williams, American actor
1954 - Patrice Rushen, American musician
1957 - Fran Drescher, American actress
1958 - Marty Stuart, American musician
1959 - Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach
1960 - Blanche Lincoln, American politician
1961 - Eric Stoltz, American actor
1961 - Crystal Bernard, American actress
1961 - Eric van de Poele, Belgian racing driver
1961 - Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress
1962 - Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and manager
1962 - Shaan, Indian singer
1964 - Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
1964 - Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)
1964 - Robby Takac, American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
1965 - Kathleen Madigan, American comedian
1966 - Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist
1969 - Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)
1970 - Mark Smith, English body builder, former Gladiators player
1971 - Jenna Elfman, American actress
1972 - Ari Behn, Norwegian author
1972 - Jamal Anderson, American football player
1974 - Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
1975 - Marion Cotillard, French actress
1975 - Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
1977 - Maia Brewton, American actress
1977 - Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer
1977 - Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
1978 - Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
1978 - Róbinson Zapata, Columbian footballer (goalkeeper)
1979 - Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
1979 - Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, musician and pianist
1979 - Vince Chong, Malaysian singer-songwriter
1980 - Camilla D'Errico, Canadian comic book artist and painter
1980 - Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
1981 - Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast
1981 - Brandon Watson, American baseball
1982 - Lacey Chabert, American actress
1982 - Kieran Culkin, American actor
1982 - Tory Lane, American nude model, exotic dancer, and pornographic actress
1982 - Michelle Marsh, British model
1982 - Teal Redmann, American actress
1982 - Ryan Stout, American comedian
1983 - Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast
1984 - T-Pain, American rapper/singer
1987 - Denise Laurel, Filipino actress and singer

Famous deaths...
420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury
1101 - Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
1246 - Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)
1440 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician
1487 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
1551 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
1560 - Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
1572 - St. Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
1581 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
1626 - Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559)
1628 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554)
1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
1770 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
1772 - James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)
1865 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)
1888 - Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
1888 - Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)
1891 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
1897 - St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)
1910 - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)
1942 - Hans-Joachim Marseille, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
1943 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
1955 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)
1961 - Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec (b. 1888)
1973 - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
1974 - Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
1977 - Mary Ford, American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (b. 1924)
1978 - Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
1985 - Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
1985 - Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)
1988 - Al Holbert, American race car driver and team owner (b. 1946)
1989 - Virgil Thompson, American composer (b. 1896)
1990 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1990 - Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
1994 - Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1998 - Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953)
2002 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)
2002 - Göran Kropp, Swedish adventurer and mountaineer (b. 1966)
2003 - Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (b. 1944)
2003 - Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)
2004 - Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936)
2004 - Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)

Holidays and observances...
RC Saints - Saint Jerome
Botswana - Independence Day (1966)
São Tomé and Príncipe - Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day
French Republican Calendar - Panais (Parsnip) Day, ninth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
International Translation Day, introduced in 1991 by International Federation of Translators
September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Nietzschean New Year - In The Anti-Christ, Friederich Nietzsche declared September 30th, 1888 to be the "the day of salvation, on the first day of the Year One"

Have a great Tuesday.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

Sep 30 1888

Jack the Ripper slaughters his third and fourth victims, two hookers named Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

Great great great great grandpa Jack hard at work.

[BRAD]

whats up whores? hows work going?

[Krandall]

Sep 30 1970

The Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography releases its 646-page report concluding that all sexually-explicit films, books, and magazines aimed at adults should be legalized. One publisher, William Hamling, sells 100,000 copies of the report with 546 additional "illustrations," for which he receives four years in prison.



"illustrations"     

[Krandall]

yo' brad!! works goin great here   what you up to this fine day?

[Peelz]

Que pasa whoritas....

HAPPY BOTSWANIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY! Any plans?   

Guess what I am doing a week from today.....no it's not meth.


"vroom, vroom, cruisin tha dunes" yes I am a nerdy dad, I just quoted Backyardigans.

Have a lovely tuesday....

[Krandall]

 

NERD!


j/k, that'll be awesome Peels! Guess what I'll be doing in a week.... Sittin in about the same spot I am now...

[Colorado700R]

NERD!


j/k, that'll be awesome Peels! Guess what I'll be doing in a week....

Still wishing you had a swingarm ? 

Morning

[Peelz]

NERD!


j/k, that'll be awesome Peels! Guess what I'll be doing in a week.... Sittin in about the same spot I am now...

"mee soo soddy" we will be even. I was stuck here during silver lake trip.

haha......owned by Colorado....

[Colorado700R]

So this market crash has me confused.  My Truck loan was through Wachovia, they just went tits up...now what?

[socalrappy700]

So this market crash has me confused.  My Truck loan was through Wachovia, they just went tits up...now what?

your truck loan will be through citi bank now.

[Krandall]

So, most banks are owned by someone just higher up? a bigger bank>?

[Peelz]

So this market crash has me confused.  My Truck loan was through Wachovia, they just went tits up...now what?

Socal beat me to it. B-b--but What happens when citibank crashes and our lovely gov't still can't make up their mind.  J/K


I feel like talking about other things. Depression talk makes me feel...well......depressed.

[Colorado700R]

kinda what I figured.  I was hoping for a bankrupcy type deal where I got to pay them back 13 cents on the dollar