Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume X.IV

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Oct 21 1947

Twenty-one lunatics die as a fire destroys an insane asylum in Hoff, Germany.

Oct 21 1973

J. Paul Getty Jr's ear is removed by kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome, along with a photo. It doesn't arrive until November 8.

Oct 21 1987



Former Miss America Bess Myerson arrested on charges of bribery, conspiracy, and mail fraud, all involving an alimony-fixing scandal. She was found not guilty, however.

Oct 21 1995

Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the pop band Blind Melon, dies of a heroin overdose in New Orleans, inside the band's tour bus.

Oct 21 1997

Hotel owners in the Detroit area meet to discuss suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian's practice of leaving corpses in their hotel rooms.

Oct 21 1997

The Government of Singapore announces in a widely publicized "toilet alert" that the drive for toilet cleanliness is a great success. Five toilets were selected by citizens as toilet role models.

Birthdays today...
1449 - George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III (d. 1478)
1527 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1578)
1581 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)
1650 - Jean Bart, French admiral (d. 1702)
1660 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist (d. 1734)
1675 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
1687 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)
1712 - Sir James Steuart, British economist (d. 1780)
1725 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (d. 1801)
1757 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)
1762 - Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (d. 1818)
1772 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet (d. 1834)
1775 - Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (d. 1844)
1790 - Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer (d. 1869)
1821 - Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881)
1833 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896)
1845 - Will Carleton, American poet (d. 1912)
1847 - Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian writer (d. 1906)
1851 - George Ulyett, English cricketer (d. 1898)
1886 - Eugene Burton Ely, American aviation pioneer (d. 1911)
1894 - Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (d. 1965)
1895 - Edna Purviance, American actress (d. 1958)
1898 - Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wresler and Olympic medalist (d. 1960)
1904 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (d. 1967)
1906 - Lillian Asplund, last American Titanic survivor (d. 2006)
1907 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985)
1907 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (b. 1824)
1912 - Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1997)
1912 - Alfredo Pián, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
1914 - Martin Gardner, American mathematician and writer
1917 - Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (d. 1993)
1921 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, British composer (d. 2006)
1922 - Liliane de Bettencourt, heir to L'Oreal
1924 - Celia Cruz, Cuban singer, Queen of Salsa. (d. 2003)
1924 - Joyce Randolph, American actress
1925 - Louis J. Robichaud, Canadian premier of New Brunswick (d. 2005)
1927 - Fritz Wintersteller, Austrian mountaineer who made the first ascent of Broad Peak
1928 - Whitey Ford, American baseball player
1929 - Ursula K. Le Guin, American author
1930 - Ivan Stepanovich Silayev, Last prime minister of the Soviet Union
1931 - Vivian Pickles, English actress.
1938 - Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2001)
1940 - Geoff Boycott, English cricketer
1940 - Manfred Mann, English musician
1940 - Frances FitzGerald, American journalist and author
1941 - Steve Cropper, American musician
1942 - Elvin Bishop, American musician
1942 - Judy Sheindlin, American judge ("Judge Judy")
1942 - Allan Grice, Australian racing driver
1943 - Tariq Ali, Pakistani author and historian
1945 - Everett McGill, American actor
1946 - Jim Hill, American sportscaster
1946 - Lux Interior, American singer (The Cramps)
1946 - Lee Loughnane, American musician
1948 - Shaye Cohen, Historian and Professor at Harvard University
1948 - Tom Everett, American actor
1949 - Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1971)
1949 - Mike Keenan, Canadian ice hockey coach
1949 - Benjamin Netanyahu, 9th Prime Minister of Israel
1950 - Ronald McNair, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1952 - Trevor Chappell, Australian cricketer
1952 - Patti Davis, American actress and novelist
1952 - Allen Hoey, American poet and novelist
1952 - Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (d. 1990)
1953 - Keith Green, American musician (d. 1982)
1953 - Peter Mandelson, British politician
1953 - Charlotte Caffey, American musician (The Go-Go's)
1954 - Brian Tobin, Canadian premier of Newfoundland
1955 - Rich Mullins, American musician (d. 1997)
1956 - Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer
1957 - Julian Cope, English musician and writer
1957 - Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1957 - Steve Lukather, American musician
1959 - George Bell, Dominican baseball player
1959 - Tony Ganios, American Actor
1959 - Rose McDowall, Scottish musician
1959 - Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
1962 - David Campese, Australian rugby union footballer
1964 - Jon Carin, American musician (Pink Floyd, The Who)
1965 - Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, Spanish footballer
1967 - Paul Ince, English footballer
1968 - Melora Walters, American actress
1969 - Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, crown prince of Bahrain
1969 - Mo Lewis, American football player
1969 - Michael Hancock, Australian rugby league footballer
1970 - Louis Koo, Hong Kong actor.
1971 - Damien Martyn, Australian cricketer
1971 - Jade Jagger, Socialite and Jewellery Designer
1971 - Nick Oliveri, American musician
1971 - Paul Norman Telfer, Scottish footballer
1972 - Felicity Andersen, Australian actress
1972 - Saffron Burrows, English actress
1972 - Masakazu Morita, seiyu and actor
1972 - Matthew Friedberger, American musician (The Fiery Furnaces)
1972 - Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian professor of international law
1973 - Lera Auerbach, Russian composer
1973 - Charlie Lowell, American Musician
1975 - Toby Hall, American baseball player
1975 - Henrique Hilário, Portuguese footballer
1976 - Jeremy Miller, American TV actor
1976 - Lavinia Miloşovici, Romanian gymnast
1976 - Josh Ritter, American musician
1976 - Mélanie Turgeon, French Canadian alpine skier
1978 - Will Estes, American actor
1978 - Joey Harrington, American football player
1979 - Khalil Greene, American baseball player
1979 - Gabe Gross, American baseball player
1980 - Kim Kardashian, American socialite
1980 - Brian Pittman, American musician (Relient K)
1981 - Nemanja Vidić, Serbian footballer
1982 - James White, American basketball player
1982 - Matt Dallas, American Actor
1983 - Zack Greinke, American baseball player
1983 - Ninette Tayeb, Israeli singer
1983 - Andy Marté, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, French Canadian short track speed skater
1984 - Kenny Cooper, American soccer player
1984 - Marvin Mitchell, American football player
1984 - Kieran Richardson, English footballer
1986 - Chibuzor Chilaka, English footballer
1986 - Alex Kew, British actor
1986 - Natalee Holloway,U.S teen,disappeared in Aruba (d.2005)
1986 - Christopher Uckermann, Actor, and singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1990 - Ricky Rubio, Spanish basketball player

Famous deaths...
1125 - Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer
1204 - Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
1221 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
1266 - Birger jarl, Swedish statesman (b. 1210)
1422 - King Charles VI of France (b. 1368)
1500 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442)
1505 - Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician
1558 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar (b. 1484)
1600 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
1623 - William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
1662 - Henry Lawes, English composer (b. 1595)
1687 - Sir Edmund Waller, English poet (b. 1606)
1765 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
1775 - Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
1777 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
1805 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (b. 1758)
1872 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (b. 1794)
1873 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
1896 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
1904 - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (b. 1877)
1931 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writer (b. 1862)
1940 - William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
1944 - Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
1963 - Józef Franczak, last cursed soldier - anticommunist underground in Poland(b. 1918)
1965 - Bill Black, American musician (b. 1926)
1969 - Jack Kerouac, American novelist (b. 1922)
1969 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
1973 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver (b. 1932)
1975 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1887)
1978 - Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician (b. 1895)
1980 - Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)
1984 - François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932)
1986 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (b. 1922)
1989 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (b. 1910)
1990 - Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1921)
1992 - Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921)
1995 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (b. 1967)
1995 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (b. 1919)
1995 - Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (b. 1916)
1998 - Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1915)
2003 - Fred Berry, American actor (b. 1951)
2003 - Luis A. Ferré, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1940)
2003 - Louise Day Hicks, American politician (b. 1916)
2003 - Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
2005 - Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (b. 1989)
2006 - Sandy West, American musician (The Runaways) (b. 1959)
2007 - Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts) (b. 1951)

Holidays and observances...
Apple Day
R.C. saints - Saint Ursula; Saint Hilarion; John of Bridlington
Republic of China - Overseas Chinese Day
Trafalgar Day — celebrated throughout much of the British Empire in the 19th and early 20th Century.
French Republican Calendar - Tonneau (Barrel) Day, thirtieth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

Have a great Tuesday.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

Morning Brian 

[Peelz]

happy overseas chinese day

[BRAD]

Oct 21 1997

The Government of Singapore announces in a widely publicized "toilet alert" that the drive for toilet cleanliness is a great success. Five toilets were selected by citizens as toilet role models.

leave it to the chinese for something like that

[Krandall]

Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the pop band Blind Melon, dies of a heroin overdose in New Orleans, inside the band's tour bus


RIP.. Blind Melon is good stuff.

[socalrappy700]

Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the pop band Blind Melon, dies of a heroin overdose in New Orleans, inside the band's tour bus


RIP.. Blind Melon is good stuff.

Yup.     If you are in a band there are two ways out...overdose or die in a plane crash.

[Krandall]

Travis Barker lived through his plane crash! 

[socalrappy700]

but his best friend paid the price for him.  I was a big blink 182 fan.  We went to miguel jr's at least once a week and every once and awhile Travis would show up, he was hooked on that place, plus it was about a mile from his house.

[Krandall]

but his best friend paid the price for him.  I was a big blink 182 fan.  We went to miguel jr's at least once a week and every once and awhile Travis would show up, he was hooked on that place, plus it was about a mile from his house.

That's sweet!!!! I'd love to meet him, from the interviews I've seen with him. He's a big shot, but has time for the little people.

[socalrappy700]

The few days he came in instead of going through the drive through he seemed really cool.  I was always too chicken to ask for his autograph.  Plus I thought that was rude, man was there to eat.  I've also seen him a few times at wahoo's fish taco's.  We talked to him there and he was really cool, he gave us all some hats that his people had and he gave a TON of stickers to my friends son.

[Krandall]

That's way cool And yea, I understand the whole autograph thing.. Although they are super stars. I'm sure they'd like to lead "somewhat normal" lives. Thats also awesome that he gave you guys hats ect... I think other stars need to take notice.

[Peelz]

Oct 21 1997

The Government of Singapore announces in a widely publicized "toilet alert" that the drive for toilet cleanliness is a great success. Five toilets were selected by citizens as toilet role models.

leave it to the chinese for something like that

UMMM....b-rad....SIngapore?....chinese? You may need to study more!

[socalrappy700]

It was way cool of him, it was one of his hat designs that he did for DC shoes.  But then three weeks later I took it off out in ocotillo wells to put my helmet on and left it on the top of my bag, well it got windy while we were out riding and when we got back it was gone.  I looked all over but I never found it.  

He was really cool to my friends 9 year old son Cody, he ended up going back out to his truck and getting a bunch of stickers.  He was just so cool to him and I bet if he had more stuff with him he would given it all to Cody.  He even kneeled down and put a fake tattoo on his arm.  

[BRAD]

Oct 21 1997

The Government of Singapore announces in a widely publicized "toilet alert" that the drive for toilet cleanliness is a great success. Five toilets were selected by citizens as toilet role models.

leave it to the chinese for something like that

UMMM....b-rad....SIngapore?....chinese? You may need to study more!

sorry about that. I knew something sounded off when i typed that

[Krandall]

Thanks Geography Ninja!