Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume X.IV

[Warren]

i'm going to bed too.

[BRAD]

later guys. have a good one man. i was just jokin round with ya exentix

[dick-84]

Later warren.

Wish i could just go home. Not to bed tho. I need a drink. Maybe a jack and coke!  :grin_nod:

[exentix]

haha i know b-rad, its all good.

later guys i gotta get to bed for school

[BRAD]

that drink does sound good right about now its ashame i have mid terms tomorrow or i would be drinkin now

[dick-84]

Well maybe if u study high and get high b4 the test u will get high grades. 

[BRAD]

lol good reasoning man. although that dont work. i have showed up to class before half drunk and it dont work out to well

[dick-84]

Been there. Back in junior high we got drunk on the bus all the time. Damn that was a hell of a year. 

[BRAD]

hell i done it last year in in college

[BRAD]

later dick. have a good one man. im heading to bed for the night

[dick-84]

Later Brad. Hope u do good on those test. 

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Oct 20 1930

Death row murderer Wiliam Kogut commits suicide in San Quentin prison with an ingenious pipe bomb. He tore nitrate-rich red spots from a deck of playing cards, saturated them with water, and jammed them into a length of steel pipe from his bed frame. Kogut placed the bomb on the heater and his head next to it, and waited.

Oct 20 1944

In Cleveland, liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks into storm sewers and the streets, then explodes. The devastation from the explosion and fire levels 30 blocks of the city, killing 130.

Oct 20 1947

Under the direction of Richard M. Nixon, the House Unamerican Activities Committee opens an investigation of communist infiltration of Hollywood cinema. The hysteria in the film industry results in the creation of a blacklist, preventing certain individuals from working in the business for years.

Oct 20 1973

The Six Million Dollar Man premieres on ABC. Lee Majors' exceptional acting can only be compared to that of the great William Shatner.

Oct 20 1973

The Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon fires Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus when they each refuse to fire special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. The bastard who finally commits the deed: Robert Bork.

Oct 20 1977



En route to a gig at Louisiana State University, Lynyrd Skynyrd band members Ronnie Van Zandt and Steve Gaines are killed when their private plane runs out of fuel and crashes into a swamp in Gillsburg, Mississippi. Their record company MCA withdraws the flame-filled cover art for their ironically-named Street Survivors album.

Oct 20 1991

The Oakland Firestorm destroys 3,000 buildings, causing $2B in damage. Two dozen people are killed in the conflagration.

Birthdays today...
1463 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (d. 1512)--
1496 - Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (d. 1550)
1616 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
1620 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
1632 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (d. 1723)
1656 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)
1660 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723)
1677 - Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland (d. 1766)
1700 - Charlotte Aglaé of Orléans, Duchess of Modena (d. 1761)
1711 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795)
1719 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (d. 1772)
1759 - Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815)
1780 - Pauline Bonaparte, princess Borghese, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1825)
1784 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)
1785 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
1808 - Karl Andree, German geographer (d. 1875)
1819 - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
1819 - Carl Mikuli, Polish pianist (d. 1897)
1822 - Thomas Hughes, English novelist (d. 1896)
1832 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894)
1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
1858 - John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
1859 - John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952)
1864 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951)
1874 - Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
1889 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (d. 1965)
1890 - Jelly Roll Morton, American composer (d. 1941)
1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (d. 1978)
1893 - Charley Chase, American comedian (d. 1940)
1894 - Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
1895 - Rex Ingram, American actor (d. 1969)
1897 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
1900 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (d. 1974)
1904 - Anna Neagle, English actress (d. 1986)
1904 - Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
1905 - Ellery Queen, pseudonym of two American writers (d. 1982)
1907 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 2001)
1909 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
1913 - Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and singer (d. 1998)
1914 - Fayard Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2006)
1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (d. 1973)
1918 - Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003)
1919 - Tracy Hall, American inventor (d. 2008)
1922 - John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992)
1923 - Robert Craft, American conductor
1925 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (d. 2007)
1925 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (d. 2002)
1925 - Roger Hanin, French actor
1931 - Richard Caliguiri, American politician (d. 1988)
1931 - Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
1932 - Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004)
1932 - William Christopher, American actor (M*A*S*H)
1934 - Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
1934 - Michiko, empress of Japan
1935 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
1937 - Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
1937 - Wanda Jackson, American rock and rockabilly singer
1938 - Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (d. 2006)
1940 - Kathy Kirby, British singer
1940 - Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States
1942 - Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003)
1942 - Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1943 - Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano
1944 - David Mancuso, American disc jockey
1946 - Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (d. 1994)
1946 - Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 - Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
1949 - Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
1950 - Tom Petty, American musician
1951 - Patrick Hall, British politician
1951 - Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician
1951 - Claudio Ranieri, Italian football player and manager
1953 - Keith Hernandez, American baseball player
1953 - Bill Nunn, American actor
1954 - Steve Orich, orchestrator
1954 - Günter Müller, German sound artist, improvisor and percussionist
1955 - Thomas Newman, American composer
1955 - David Profumo, English novelist
1955 - Aaron Pryor, American boxer
1956 - Danny Boyle, English film director
1957 - Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer
1958 - Valerie Faris, American film director
1958 - Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author
1958 - Scott Hall, American professional wrestler
1958 - Mark King, English musician and singer (Level 42)
1958 - Dave Krieg, American football player
1958 - Viggo Mortensen, American actor
1958 - Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist
1958 - Dave Finlay, Irish professional wrestler
1960 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004)
1960 - Lepa Brena, famous Yugoslav singer
1961 - Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
1961 - Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
1962 - David M. Evans, American screenwriter and film director
1962 - Dave Wong, Hong Kong/Taiwanese singer-songwriter
1963 - Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut
1963 - Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
1965 - Norman Blake, Scottish musician
1965 - Jil Caplan, French singer and songwriter
1965 - Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player
1965 - William Zabka, American actor
1966 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006)
1966 - Allan Donald, South African cricketer
1966 - Stefan Raab, German entertainer
1966 - Patrick J. Volkerding, Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution
1967 - Luigi Lo Cascio, Italian actor
1967 - Luck Mervil, Québécois actor and singer
1967 - Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor
1969 - Juan González, Puerto Rican baseball player
1969 - Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league footballer
1969 - Lambros Papakostas, Greek high jumper
1970 - Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler
1970 - Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author
1971 - Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
1971 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper
1972 - Will Greenwood, England rugby union player
1976 - Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx)
1977 - Matt Jansen, English footballer
1977 - Leila Josefowicz, Canadian classical violinist
1978 - Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
1978 - Paul Wilson, Irish bass player (Snow Patrol)
1978 - Michael Johns, American Idol (season 7) finalist
1979 - Paul Ifill, Barbadian footballer
1979 - John Krasinski, American actor
1979 - Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
1980 - Gary Jarman, English musician
1980 - Jose Veras, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Willis McGahee, American football player
1981 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
1981 - Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
1982 - Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer
1982 - Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer
1983 - Alex Nackman, musician
1983 - Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
1983 - Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor
1984 - Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer
1984 - Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player for Irish rugby team
1985 - Jennifer Nicole Freeman, American actress
1985 - Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
1985 - James Sutton, British racing driver
1986 - Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress
1988 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1994 - Morgan Featherstone, Australian model

Famous deaths...
460 - Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress
1139 - Henry X, Duke of Bavaria
1570 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
1631 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
1640 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
1740 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
1865 - Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerrilla (b. 1821)
1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
1900 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
1907 - Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b.1834)
1910 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
1926 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
1935 - Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
1936 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
1940 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885)
1953 - Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (b. 1916)
1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
1967 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
1968 - Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896)
1972 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
1977 - Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash:
          Cassie Gaines (b. 1948)
          Steve Gaines (b. 1949)
          Ronnie Van Zant (b. 1948)
1983 - Peter Dudley, British actor
1983 - Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915)
1984 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1987 - Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
1988 - Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (b. 1922)
1989 - Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
1990 - Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905)
1992 - Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (b. 1926)
1993 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
1994 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
1995 - Christopher Stone, American actor (b. 1942)
1999 - Calvin Griffith, Former owner of Washington Senators (b. 1911)
2001 - Ted Ammon, American financier (b. 1949)
2002 - Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
2002 - Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
2003 - Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 - Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (b. 1924)
2004 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923)
2004 - Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2005 - Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934)
2005 - Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (b. 1941)
2005 - Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940)
2006 - Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
2007 - Max McGee, American football player (b. 1932)
2007 - Paul Raven, British bass-player (Killing Joke, Ministry) (b. 1961)

Holidays and observances...
Christianity - the feast day of martyr Andrew of Crete, Caprasius of Agen
October 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Bahá'í Faith - Holy Day - Birth of the Báb
French Republican Calendar - Orge (Barley) Day, twenty-ninth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

Have a great Monday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Oct 20 1930

Death row murderer Wiliam Kogut commits suicide in San Quentin prison with an ingenious pipe bomb. He tore nitrate-rich red spots from a deck of playing cards, saturated them with water, and jammed them into a length of steel pipe from his bed frame. Kogut placed the bomb on the heater and his head next to it, and waited.


Wow.. That's freaking nuts. That guy must of been semi genious to know the hearts and diamonds were nitrate rich.

[Peelz]

Oct 20 1944

In Cleveland, liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks into storm sewers and the streets, then explodes. The devastation from the explosion and fire levels 30 blocks of the city, killing 130.


It was me...Sorry! I told thenm it was done, but they just kept cooking


Morning chicas

[Krandall]

Hola Peels!