Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume X.IV

[dungbeetle06]

 

[Flynbyu]

Working on Saturdays blows goats.

~Brian

[Peelz]

Hey...it's that guy shakin his booty again.  

Sup dung.

I gotta go for a bit. Check you later.


Brian has post o' the day again!

[dungbeetle06]

Yup saturdays do blow........Thank GERD for the internet

[Warren]

i fired the beast up with my new barkers.  it sounds awesome. i havn't rode it yet because i still need to change the map. but hopfully today i will get some seat time if the rain holds off.

[dungbeetle06]

So I was a cheap a$$, instead of chumpin up for a new axle I bought a set of those durablue wheel spacers......Anyone ever used em?

[Flynbyu]

~Brian

[dungbeetle06]

damn it.....cant see the picture

[Flynbyu]

damn it.....cant see the picture

~Brian

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[Peelz]

~Brian

is that from airplane?

[shookie]

whats up guys

[Peelz]

yep, work still blows! 

have a great Sunday

[Warren]

you working on a sunday peels?

[Flynbyu]

~Brian

is that from airplane?

Yes, it's from Airplane!.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Oct 26 1440

Gilles de Rais, one of the wealthiest noblemen in France, is executed for heresy after he is found to have engaged in the kidnap, sodomization, and murder of 200 young boys from the lower classes. Rais enjoyed masturbating on the stomachs of the boys as they suffered excruciating deaths, sometimes also enjoying necrophilia with their corpses.

Oct 26 1944

Vice President Harry S Truman publicly denies ever having been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Oct 26 1979

Kim Jae Kyu, director of South Korea's central intelligence agency, "accidentally" shoots President Park Chung Hee to death, also killing Park's bodyguard. Park had been president (dictator, effectively) since 1961. Kim is executed the following May for his attempted coup d'etat.

Oct 26 1984

The newborn "Baby Fae" is given the heart of a baboon, in an operation performed by Dr. Leonard Bailey in Loma Linda, California. She lasts 21 days.

Oct 26 1984

19-year-old John D. McCollum kills himself with a .22 caliber handgun after spending the day listening to Ozzy Osbourne records. One year later, McCollum's parents file suit against Ozzy and CBS Records, alleging that the song "Suicide Solution" from the album Blizzard of Ozz contributed to their son's death. Except that the song's subject was quite plainly alcohol addiction. The case is eventually thrown out of court.

Oct 26 1991

33-year-old insurance agent Lori Keevil-Matthews visits an outdoor art project installed by Christo. 1,760 yellow umbrellas were scattered along the ridge line of the Tejon Pass, near Interstate 5 in Southern California. Then a freak 40 mph gust suddenly picks up a 485-pound umbrella, slamming the spectator against a boulder. She dies on the scene.

Oct 26 1997

During a 1,500-person tug-of-war contest in Taipei the rope snaps, suddenly amputating the left arms of Chen Ming-kuo and Yang Chung-ming. The two men had wrapped the rope around their left biceps [big mistake] Both arms are successfully reattached.

Oct 26 1997

Basketball great Charles Barkley is charged with aggravated battery and resisting arrest after throwing 20-year-old man Jorge Lugo through a plate glass window in an Orlando, Florida dance club. Barkley later tells reporters: "I regret we weren't on a higher floor."

Oct 26 2002

After pumping an aerosol form of the fast-acting anesthetic Fentanyl Citrate into the air, Russian special forces raid the Palace of Culture of the Podshipnikov Zavod. Three days prior, Chechen terrorists captured 750 audience members inside the Moscow theater. The gas kills 116 captives. About fifty terrorists are slain as well, primarily from summary execution (close-range pistol shots to the head).

Birthdays today...
1427 - Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
1473 - Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)
1491 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (d. 1521)
1609 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
1673 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian prince, linguist, and scholar (d. 1723)
1684 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
1694 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (d. 1758)
1757 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823)
1759 - Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794)
1768 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (d. 1844)
1794 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
1795 - Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (d. 1872)
1797 - Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (d. 1865)
1800 - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (d. 1891)
1802 - King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
1803 - Joseph Hansom, English architect and inventor (d. 1882)
1842 - Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1849 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917)
1854 - C. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914)
1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912)
1869 - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1957)
1871 - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (d. 1941)
1873 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942)
1874 - Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, socialite and philanthropist (d. 1948)
1874 - Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936)
1880 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934)
1883 - Napoleon Hill, American Writer and Philosopher (Think and Grow Rich)(d. 1970)
1883 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (d. 1958)
1888 - Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader (d. 1934)
1899 - Judy Johnson Hall of Fame baseball player in the Negro Leagues (d. 1989)
1902 - Jack Sharkey, American boxer (d. 1994)
1905 - George Flahiff, Canadian Cardinal (d. 1989)
1906 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (d. 1967)
1911 - Sid Gilman, American football player (d. 2003)
1911 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (d. 1972)
1911 - Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (d. 1996)
1912 - Don Siegel, American director (d. 1991)
1913 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1991)
1914 - Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984)
1915 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (d. 1950)
1916 - François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
1921 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (d. 1968)
1925 - Jan Wolkers, Dutch author (d. 2007)
1928 - Francisco Solano López, Argentine comics artists
1929 - Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires) (d. 2000)
1934 - Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German composer and musician (Cluster, Harmonia)
1936 - Shelley Morrison, American actress
1941 - Charlie Landsborough, Singer/Songwriter
1942 - Bob Hoskins, British actor
1945 - Pat Conroy, American writer
1945 - Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author
1946 - Pat Sajak, American game show host
1946 - Holly Woodlawn, Puerto Rican actress
1946 - Keith Hopwood, British musician (Herman's Hermits)
1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and United States Senator
1947 - Jaclyn Smith, American actress
1947 - Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
1947 - Ian Ashley, British racing driver
1948 - Toby Harrah, American Major League Baseball player
1949 - Steve Rogers, Major League Baseball pitcher
1949 - Antonio Carpio, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1949 - Kevin Sullivan, American professional wrestler
1951 - Bootsy Collins, American musician (P Funk)
1952 - Andrew Motion, English poet and Poet Laureate
1953 - Rosa Monckton, notable charity fundraiser
1953 - Keith Strickland, American musician (The B-52's)
1954 - Vassilis Hatzipanagis, Greek footballer
1956 - Stephen Gumley, Australian businessman
1956 - Rita Wilson, American actress
1957 - Bob Golic, American football player
1959 - Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
1959 - François Chau, Cambodian actor
1959 - Brian Bovell, British actor
1960 - June Brigman, American comic book artist
1961 - Dylan McDermott, American actor
1961 - Gerald Malloy, American politician
1962 - Cary Elwes, British actor
1963 - Natalie Merchant, American singer
1963 - Ted Demme, American film and television director (d. 2002)
1964 - Thomas Cavanagh, Canadian actor
1965 - Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Hong Kong singer
1965 - Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress and producer.
1966 - Jane Hajduk, American actress
1966 - Steve Valentine, British actor
1966 - Jeanne Zelasko, American sportcaster
1966 - Masaharu Iwata, Japanese composer
1967 - Keith Urban, New Zealand singer
1970 - Lisa Ryder, American actress
1970 - Dian Bachar, American actor
1971 - Anthony Rapp, American singer and actor
1973 - Seth MacFarlane, American animator
1973 - Taka Michinoku , Japanese professional wrestle
1974 - LISA, Japanese musician
1974 - Raveena Tandon, Indian actress
1976 - Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player
1977 - Jon Heder, American actor
1978 - Jimmy Aggrey, English footballer
1978 - Mark Barry, English musician (BBMak)
1978 - CM Punk, American professional wrestler
1978 - Eva Kaili, Greek TV presenter and politician
1979 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (d. 2002)
1980 - Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer
1981 - Guy Sebastian, Australian singer
1981 - Sam Brown, American comedian
1982 - Adam Carroll, British racing driver
1983 - Dmitri Sychev, Russian football player
1983 - Francisco Liriano, Major League Baseball pitcher
1983 - Luke Watson, South African rugby player
1984 - Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
1984 - Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer
1984 - Adriano Correia Claro, Brazilian footballer
1984 - Amanda Overmyer, American Singer, American Idol (season 7)
1985 - Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player
1985 - Monta Ellis, American basketball player
1985 - Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress

Famous deaths...
899 - Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (b. 849)
1235 - King Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)
1440 - Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (b. 1404)
1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
1671 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
1675 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
1686 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
1717 - Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
1751 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
1764 - William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
1773 - Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1803 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)
1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
1864 - "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
1866 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
1890 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (b. 1826)
1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
1909 - Hirobumi Ito, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1841)
1930 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
1937 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)
1944 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
1945 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
1956 - Walter Gieseking, French pianist (b. 1895)
1957 - Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1896)
1957 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)
1962 - Louise Beavers, American actress (b. 1902)
1965 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
1966 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Kiev, Russian Empire (currently Ukraine) born inventor (b. 1889)
1978 - Alexander Gerschenkron, Russian-born economic historian (b. 1904)
1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
1984 - Gus Mancuso, baseball player (b. 1905)
1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1993 - Oro, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1971)
1994 - Wilbert Harrison, American singer (b. 1929)
1995 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
1997 - Joe Cinque, Civil Engineer (b 1978)
1999 - Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2002 - Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen terrorist (b. 1979)
2004 - Bobby Avila, Major League Baseball player (b. 1924)
2005 - Keith Parkinson, fantasy artist (b. 1958)
2005 - George Swindin, football player manager (b. 1914)
2006 - Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
2007 - Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
2007 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (b. 1943)
2007 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (b. 1918)
2007 - Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances...
Roman festivals - first day of Ludi Victoriae Sullanae (until 1 November)
Austria - National Day: Anniversary of the Declaration of Neutrality (1955)
Nauru - Angam Day

Have a great Sunday.

~Brian