Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume X.IV

[BRAD]

later peels have a good one man

[kyledvor61]

schwing

[Warren]

holy crap it's only me and one other person online right now. lol

[exentix]

not anymore, see ya warren, gotta get to school 

[Warren]

see ya man. have a good day at school. i have to leave for work in about 10 min.

[Warren]

i'm the only one on right now.  :'( :'( :'(

[Peelz]

resident meth head reporting for duty sir.

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Oct 24 1947

In a very un-American fashion, Walt Disney testifies to the House Unamerican Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be Communists, ranting about how Communists were infiltrating the unions he has to deal with, and how "Commie groups began smear campaigns against [him]."

Oct 24 1955



A nude, very dead body is found in the Mexico apartment of Will Rogers' daughter Mary. The corpse of Manolo Just, a probable bisexual of approximately 30 years, had the name "Mary Rogers" tattooed on his arm. The death is suspicious, but never conclusively attributed to homicide.

Oct 24 1960

At the Soviet Union's Baykonur space facility, an R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad, incinerating 165 people. Included among the dead is Field Marshall Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is covered up as having occurred in a plane crash.

Oct 24 1989

Televangelist Jim Bakker receives 45 years and a $500,000 fine for defrauding investors of $3.7M. Bakker had already been dismissed from his PTL ministry, so the criminal penalties probably just added insult to injury.

Oct 24 1991

Gene Roddenberry, creator of the Star Trek science fiction franchise, dies in a Santa Monica, California hospital after a heart attack.

Birthdays today...
  51 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
1378 - David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402)
1632 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723)
1675 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)
1710 - Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773)
1763 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839)
1788 - Sarah Josepha Hale, American poet (d. 1879)
1804 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
1811 - Ferdinand Hiller, German composer (d. 1885)
1854 - Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907)
1855 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
1857 - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)
1868 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (d. 1969)
1872 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (d. 1957)
1875 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
1882 - Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress (d. 1976)
1887 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917)
1887 - Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (d. 1969)
1891 - Rafael Molina-Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
1894 - Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (d. 1987)
1896 - Jack Warner, English actor (d. 1981)
1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1903 - Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
1904 - Moss Hart, American dramatist (d. 1961)
1906 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)
1909 - Bill Carr, American athlete (d. 1966)
1911 - Sonny Terry, American blues musician (d. 1986)
1911 - Paul Grégoire, French Canadian archbishop of Montreal (d. 1993)
1913 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984)
1915 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
1915 - Roger Milliken, American millionaire
1915 - Marghanita Laski, British Journalist and Novelist(d. 1988)
1919 - Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2008)
1920 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996)
1923 - Denise Levertov, English-born poet (d. 1997)
1925 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)
1926 - Y. A. Tittle, American football player
1926 - Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (d. 2008)
1927 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer and actor (d. 1992)
1927 - Gilbert Bécaud, French composer and actor (d. 2001)
1929 - George Crumb, American composer
1929 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 2004)
1929 - Hubert Aquin, French-Canadian novelist and activist (d. 1977)
1930 - J.P. Richardson, The Big Bopper, American singer (d. 1959)
1930 - Johan Galtung, Norwegian peace researcher
1930 - Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
1931 - Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer
1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1932 - Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Ronald and Reginald Kray, British gangsters (Ronald d. 1995; Reginald d. 2000)
1933 - Norman Rush, American writer
1935 - Malcolm Bilson, American pianist and music professor
1936 - Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1937 - Santo Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny)
1939 - F. Murray Abraham, American actor
1940 - Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director
1941 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer
1943 - Bill Dundee, American professional wrestler
1944 - Viktor Prokopenko, Ukranian footballer and coach (d. 2007)
1945 - Anthony Christian, English artist
1945 - Gérald Larose, Quebec labour union executive
1946 - Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (d. 1993) (Steppenwolf)
1947 - Kevin Kline, American actor
1948 - Paul and Barry Ryan, British composers-singers
1948 - Kweisi Mfume, American politician and activist
1949 - Robert Pickton, Canadian charged with the first degree murder of twenty-six women
1950 - Steven Greenberg, American composer
1950 - Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player
1954 - Brad Sherman, American politician
1954 - Thomas J. Mulcair, Quebec politician
1954 - Mike Rounds, American politician
1954 - Jozef Ráž, Slovak musician
1956 - Dale Maharidge, American author
1957 - Ron Gardenhire, German-born American baseball manager
1957 - John Kassir, American actor and comedian
1960 - Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer
1960 - B.D. Wong, American actor
1960 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (d. 1999)
1960 - Joachim "Jo" Winkelhock, German race car driver
1961 - Mary Bono, American politician
1961 - Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist
1962 - Dave Blaney, American race car driver
1962 - Jay Novacek, American football player
1963 - John Hendrie, Scottish footballer
1965 - Kyriakos Velopoulos, Greek politician
1966 - Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate
1967 - Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
1968 - Robert Wilonsky, American journalist
1969 - Adela Noriega, Mexican actress
1970 - Rob Leslie-Carter, British Engineer and Project Manager
1971 - Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress
1971 - Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
1972 - Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress
1972 - Scott Peterson, American murderer
1972 - Pat Williams, American football player
1973 - Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist
1973 - Madlib, American musician and rapper
1973 - Mike Matthews, American baseball player
1973 - Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer
1973 - Jeff Wilson, New Zealand rugby player/Cricketer
1974 - Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
1974 - Corey Dillon, American football player
1974 - Jamal Mayers, Professional Hockey Player
1975 - Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer
1976 - Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
1977 - Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer
1978 - Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
1978 - Justin Lee Brannan, American musician
1979 - Ben Gillies, Australian musician (Silverchair)
1980 - James Killian, American football player
1980 - Monica, American singer
1980 - Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
1980 - Zac Posen, American fashion designer
1981 - Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress
1981 - Tila Tequila, American model
1982 - Mohamed Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian racing driver
1982 - Macay McBride, American baseball player
1983 - Brian Vickers, American race car driver
1983 - Adrienne Bailon, American actress and singer
1983 - Keyshia Cole, American singer
1984 - Kaela Kimura, Japanese model and singer
1984 - Felicia Chin, Singaporean actress
1985 - Wayne Rooney, English footballer
1986 - Aubrey Graham, Canadian actor and rapper
1986 - John Ruddy, English footballer
1987 - Charlie White, American ice dancer
1987 - Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
1987 - Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor
1989 - Eliza Taylor-Cotter, Australian actress

Famous deaths...
996 - King Hugh Capet of France (b. 938)
1260 - Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
1375 - King Valdemar IV of Denmark (bc. 1320)
1537 - Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England
1572 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (bc. 1508)
1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
1655 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592)
1669 - William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
1672 - John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
1708 - Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
1799 - Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739)
1821 - Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
1852 - Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician (b. 1782)
1875 - Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer
1898 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
1912 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842)
1915 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
1922 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
1935 - Dutch Schultz, American gangster (b. 1902)
1938 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
1943 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (b. 1912)
1944 - Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)
1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier, politician and convicted traitor, by execution (b. 1887)
1948 - Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
1964 - Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer, first winter ascent of the Eiger North Face (b. 1931)
1966 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1971 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
1972 - Jackie Robinson, American baseball player, and the first black player in Major League Baseball (b. 1919)
1972 - Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)
1974 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
1975 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (b. 1888)
1985 - Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (b. 1941)
1985 - Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
1989 - Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer, second person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders (b. 1948)
1991 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
1994 - Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940)
1997 - Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
2001 - Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937)
2002 - Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (b. 1969)
2002 - Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
2002 - Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
2003 - Rosie Nix Adams, Stepdaughter of Johnny Cash (b. 1958)
2004 - Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954)
2004 - Ricky Hendrick, American race car team owner (b. 1980)
2004 - James Cardinal Hickey, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1920)
2005 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2005 - Robert Sloman, writer (b. 1926)
2005 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
2005 - Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)
2005 - Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
2006 - Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
2006 - William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar, orientalist and historian (b. 1909)
2007 - Petr Eben, Czech organ composer (b. 1929)
2007 - Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyz journalist
2007 - Ian Middleton, New Zealand novelist (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances...
French Republican Calendar - Poire (Pear) Day, third day in the Month of Brumaire
Zambia - Independence Day (1964)
United Nations Day (charter 1945)
Discordianism - Maladay

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

Morning Ladies

[BRAD]

mornin gents

[Krandall]

Oct 24 1991

Gene Roddenberry, creator of the Star Trek science fiction franchise, dies in a Santa Monica, California hospital after a heart attack.


Now if only the show would die..

[Peelz]

Happy Zambian independence day

[BRAD]

what up guys?  hows work going?

[Colorado700R]

I've explained the same information to this ferkterd about 30 times over the last 5 years. he's back again asking the same things 

[BRAD]

bomb his ass and say it was an accident