Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XIII

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Oct 10 1780

Over 48 hours, a slow-moving hurricane decimates Barbados, killing 4,326 (however according to the island's governor, "fortunately few people of consequence were among the number"). Over the next week, the catastrophic storm system moves on to Martinique (9,000 dead) and St. Eustatius (4-5,000). The unprecedented Great Hurricane of 1780 remains the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record.

Oct 10 1962

The British Broadcasting Company bans "Monster Mash" -- the Halloween-themed novelty tune by Bobby "Boris" Pickett -- for being "offensive." The BBC never specifies precisely what it is about the song that's problematic.

Oct 10 1973

Bribe-happy Vice President Spiro T. Agnew finally resigns, after pleading guilty to federal income tax evasion. In addition to his venality, Agnew is chiefly remembered for this offhand remark during the 1968 campaign: "What's the matter with the fat Jap?"

Oct 10 1991

Disgruntled postal worker Joseph Harris kills four people in Ridgewood, New Jersey. First he brings an Uzi, pipe bomb, and a samurai sword to his supervisor's home, where he kills her and her fiance. Then Harris visits the post office, shooting two coworkers. When he finally surrenders to police, the gunman is wearing a ninja costume and a gas mask.

Oct 10 1994

Evel Knievel is arrested in a Sunnyvale, California topless bar for beating 22-year-old girlfriend Krystal Kennedy back at the Comfort Inn motel.

Birthdays today...
1344 - Mary Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1362)
1567 - Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)
1678 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (d. 1743)
1684 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
1700 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
1731 - Henry Cavendish, British scientist (d. 1810)
1780 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
1794 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
1819 - Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian (d. 1883)
1825 - Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic (d. 1904)
1828 - Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
1830 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)
1834 - Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (d. 1872)
1837 - Robert Gould Shaw, American Army officer (d. 1863)
1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, Nobel laureate (d. 1930)
1863 - Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
1863 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
1864 - T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924)
1870 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1953)
1870 - Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935)
1885 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
1889 - Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forgers (d. 1947)
1895 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)
1895 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1898 - Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
1900 - Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
1901 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
1903 - Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (d. 1969)
1903 - Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)
1906 - Paul Creston, American composer (d. 1985)
1906 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
1908 - Johnny Green, American songwriter, arranger and conductor (d. 1989)
1908 - Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983)
1909 - Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director
1913 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
1914 - Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer (d. 1974)
1917 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
1923 - Nicholas Parsons, English actor
1924 - James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994)
1924 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (d. 2004)
1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
1925 - Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (d. 2001)
1926 - Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
1927 - Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)
1930 - Eugenio Castellotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1957)
1930 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate
1930 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate
1930 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)
1932 - Harry Smith, English footballer
1933 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
1935 - André Bureau, French Canadian communications executive
1935 - Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (d. 1988)
1936 - Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.
1938 - Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer
1939 - Joseph Pitts, American politician
1941 - Peter Coyote, American actor
1942 - Radu Vasile, Romanian Prime Minister
1943 - Frederick Barthelme, American author
1946 - Charles Dance, English actor
1946 - Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), English writer
1946 - Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
1946 - Peter Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 - John Prine, American singer
1946 - Chris Tarrant, English TV presenter
1946 - Ben Vereen, American actor
1947 - Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1948 - Séverine, French singer
1948 - Ed Volker, American musician
1950 - Nora Roberts, American novelist
1951 - Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman
1953 - Midge Ure, Scottish musician
1953 - Gus Williams, American basketball player
1954 - Rekha, Bollywood actress
1954 - David Lee Roth, American singer (Van Halen)
1954 - Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian singer and actor
1956 - Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress
1956 - Mark Gordon, American film producer
1957 - Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist
1958 - Tanya Tucker, American singer
1959 - Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
1959 - Bradley Whitford, American actor
1960 - Eric Martin, American singer (Mr. Big)
1960 - Ron Flockhart, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Jodi Benson, American voice actress
1961 - Henrik Jørgensen, Danish marathon runner
1961 - Martin Kemp, British musician (Spandau Ballet) and actor
1961 - Julia Sweeney, American actress and comedian
1963 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
1963 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
1963 - Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
1963 - Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian cross-country skier.
1964 - Sarah Lancashire, English actress
1964 - Quinton Flynn, American voice actor
1965 - Clive Jones, British engineer
1965 - Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
1965 - Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress
1965 - Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan)
1965 - Steve Scalise, American politician
1966 - Tony Adams, English footballer
1967 - Jonathan Littell, French-American writer
1968 - Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker
1969 - Brett Favre, American football player
1969 - Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress
1970 - Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
1970 - Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger
1970 - Bai Ling, Chinese American actress
1970 - Corinna May, German singer
1970 - Mohammed Mourhit, Belgian athlete
1970 - Sir Matthew Pinsent, English rower
1971 - Ian Bennett, English footballer
1971 - Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
1972 - Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter
1972 - Alexei Zhitnik, Russian ice hockey player
1973 - Mario López, American actor
1973 - Semmy Schilt, Dutch kickboxer
1974 - Assi Cohen, Israeli comedian and actor
1974 - Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr, American NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver
1974 - Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Ramón Morales, Mexican footballer
1975 - Plácido Polanco, Dominican baseball player
1976 - Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder
1976 - Pat Burrell, American baseball player
1978 - Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American actress
1979 - Mya Harrison, American singer
1979 - Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
1979 - Wu Chun, Brunei born Taiwanese actor
1979 - Ahn Chil Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T.
1980 - Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer
1980 - Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)
1980 - Sherine, Egyptian singer
1981 - Michael Oliver, American actor
1982 - Amon Buchanan, Australian rules footballer
1982 - Hideki Mutoh, Japanese racing driver
1983 - Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 - Rod Benson, American basketball player
1984 - Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
1984 - Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
1984 - Paul Posluszny, American football player
1984 - Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player
1985 - Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
1985 - Aaron Himelstein, American actor
1986 - Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player
1991 - Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer
1991 - Mariana Espósito, Argentine actress, singer and model

Famous deaths...
  19 - Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
680 - 10 Muharram 61 AH - Husayn ibn Ali (AS) , Shi'a Imam, Muhammad's grandson (b. 626)
732 - Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
833 - al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
1359 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
1459 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist and classicist (b. 1380)
1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer (killed in battle) (b. 1484)
1659 - Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
1674 - Thomas Traherne, English poet
1691 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
1720 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
1747 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
1759 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
1806 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (b. 1778)
1837 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
1893 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
1901 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
1913 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
1914 - King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
1948 - Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)
1957 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
1963 - Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
1963 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
1964 - Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
1970 - Édouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)
1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
1976 - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
1977 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
1978 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)
1978 - Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
1979 - Paul Paray, French conductor (b. 1886)
1982 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
1983 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
1990 - Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
1998 - Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
1998 - Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
2001 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
2001 - Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
2002 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
2004 - Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
2004 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
2005 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
2005 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
2006 - Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2007 - Mehmed Uzun, Contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist. (b. 1953)

Holidays and observances...
RC Saints - Saint Thomas of Villanueva?  ; Saint Paulinus of York (in England); Viktor of Xanten; Saint Cerbonius
Republic of China (Taiwan) - National Day (Double Ten Day 雙十國慶)
Fiji - Fiji Day (National Day)
Japan - National Health-Sports Day until 2000; since made a moveable feast on the second Monday in October.
World Mental Health Day
Old Michelmas - Celtic holiday
French Republican Calendar - Tournesol (Sunflower) Day, nineteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
North Korea - Party Foundation Party (celebration of the founding of the Workers Party of Korea)
Finland - The Day of Finnish literature

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Oct 10 1991

Disgruntled postal worker Joseph Harris kills four people in Ridgewood, New Jersey. First he brings an Uzi, pipe  bo  mb , and a samurai sword to his supervisor's home, where he kills her and her fiance. Then Harris visits the post office, shooting two coworkers. When he finally surrenders to police, the gunman is wearing a ninja costume and a gas mask.


When I go out. I want to go out wearing a ninja costume! 

[socalrappy700]

Dude, that guy is the man.  I didn't know he did it in a ninja outfit.

[Colorado700R]

Oct 10 1991

Disgruntled postal worker Joseph Harris kills four people in Ridgewood, New Jersey. First he brings an Uzi, pipe  bo  mb , and a samurai sword to his supervisor's home, where he kills her and her fiance. Then Harris visits the post office, shooting two coworkers. When he finally surrenders to police, the gunman is wearing a ninja costume and a gas mask.


When I go out. I want to go out wearing a ninja costume! 

That guys my hero

[Krandall]

How'd you win the signing w/ the bulls thing E?

[Flynbyu]

I figured you guys would appreciate the ninja thing.

I was shocked myself.

~Brian

[shookie]

whats up guys hows work

[Krandall]

Goin good here. short staffed. I'm in IDGAF mode (I don't give a f*ck)

[Colorado700R]

Bout to go brief again 


Next cack suker that I brief better bring his check book 

[shookie]

im glad the schools dont block this

[socalrappy700]

How'd you win the signing w/ the bulls thing E?

Someone my dad knew.  He was taking names to raffle them off and gave them to me.  Have no idea how he got them but damn politicians get everything.....dicks.

[Krandall]

bastards. That's awesome!!! Have fun w/ that!!! 

[Colorado700R]

Woah!   i just got hit by the smell of Ben-gay, Old spice, and Crown.


Howdy Randy 

[socalrappy700]

Bass Turds. That's awesome!!! Have fun w/ that!!! 

Somehow I'm sure my tax dollars paid for it anyway.   

[BRAD]

whats happenin guys?