Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XVI

[Krandall]

evening gents.

Suppers on the table gonna go eat.

[BRAD]

whats up guys?

[dick-84]

Whats up brad?

[BRAD]

nuthin much man. hows work going for ya?

[dick-84]

Its going. Im on 8 hours days right now. I hope when the new year comes im back on 12's again. I like the money!  :grin_nod:

[Peelz]

Did you guys see the transcript from Palin's speech at the RNC?

They changed the word to new-clear for Palin not to f*ck it up!

No shit!

~Brian

Grammar Ninja is sad.

+1 Aaron:

i heard a mean rumaor the other day about BARE-RACK. hes going to remodel the white house and put in a hotel

Even in jest, I've had about enough with racial slurs like this.  Post edited.

we do share some views...sheep f**king not being one of them.

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Nov 18 1421

On Saint Elizabeth's Day, heavy storms combine with the high tide to cause a series of dikes to fail in southern Holland. Massive flooding destroys 72 villages, killing somewhere between 4,000 and 10,000 people.

Nov 18 1686

King of France Louis XIV's anal fistula is operated on by surgeon Charles Francois Felix, with great success. To prepare for the operation Felix practiced his surgery on anuses of the peasantry, with some fatalities at first but improving his technique in time for the royal bung.

Nov 18 1953

U.S. Army scientist Frank Olson jumps from the 10th floor of a New York City hotel room, plunging to his death. Five days previously, a CIA experiment wherein Olson was slipped LSD went awry, giving the fragile scientist a very bad trip. That trip proved detrimental to Olson's mental health. Twenty years later, Olson's wife sues.

Nov 18 1969

Joseph P Kennedy dies at age 81. Achievements: Bootlegger; ambassador to England; his mob ties helped get John F. Kennedy elected. When Jackie wanted a divorce from the philandering president, he offered her $1 million.

Nov 18 1970

Singer/polygamist Jerry Lee Lewis divorces his third wife Myra Gail, after 12 years of marriage. Not only was she jailbait when they got married (being 13 at the time), but Lewis was married to Jane Mitcham at the time.

Nov 18 1978

Congressman Leo Ryan is slain at the People's Temple compound in Guyana, after which over 900 members of the cult led by the Reverend Jim Jones drank cyanide laced Flavor Aid (a Kool Aid knockoff), their bodies bloated by the sun when they are discovered several days later.

Nov 18 1997

Gary Glitter arrested in Britain on a child porn charge. Glitter had brought his computer in for repair, where contraband images were discovered.

Birthdays today...
1522 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)
1630 - Eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686)
1647 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)
1727 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)
1772 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (d. 1806)
1774 - Wilhelmine of Prussia, queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)
1785 - David Wilkie, British artist (d. 1841)
1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
1804 - Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878)
1810 - Asa Gray, American botanist (d. 1888)
1832 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Swedish explorer (d. 1901)
1836 - Sir William S. Gilbert, British dramatist (d. 1911)
1836 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist and founder of criminology (d. 1909)
1839 - August Kundt, German physicist (d. 1894)
1856 - Nicholas Nikolaevich, Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929)
1861 - Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (d. 1951)
1874 - Clarence Day, American author (d. 1935)
1882 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (d. 1963)
1882 - Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (d. 1973)
1883 - Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (d. 1981)
1897 - Patrick Blackett, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1898 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (d. 1989)
1899 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-born conductor (d. 1985)
1901 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (d. 1984)
1904 - Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
1906 - Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
1906 - George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)
1906 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer (d. 1988)
1907 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
1908 - Imogene Coca, American actress and comedian (d. 2001)
1909 - Johnny Mercer, American lyricist (d. 1976)
1911 - Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000)
1913 - Endre Rozsda, French surrealist painter (d. 1999)
1915 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2004)
1917 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (d. 1957)
1918 - Tasker Watkins, Welsh World War II hero (d. 2007)
1919 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (d. 2005)
1920 - Mustafa Khalil, Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2008)
1922 - Luis Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan president (d. 1967)
1922 - Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (d. 2004)
1923 - Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)
1923 - Ted Stevens, American politician
1924 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Scottish jurist (d. 2000)
1925 - Gene Mauch, American baseball manager (d. 2005)
1927 - Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
1928 - Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer
1932 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver {d. 1973)
1934 - Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and ambassador
1935 - Rudolf Bahro, German dissident (d. 1997)
1935 - Rodney Hall, Australian author
1936 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995)
1936 - Ennio Cardinal Antonelli, Italian cardinal and President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
1939 - Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer
1939 - Brenda Vaccaro, American actress
1940 - Qaboos ibn Sa'id, Sultan of Oman
1941 - David Hemmings, British actor (d. 2003)
1942 - Linda Evans, American actress
1942 - Susan Sullivan, American actress
1943 - Leonardo Cardinal Sandri, Argentine Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
1944 - Wolfgang Joop, German artist and fashion designer
1945 - Wilma Mankiller, first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation
1946 - Alan Dean Foster, American author
1947 - Jameson Parker, American actor
1948 - Andrea Marcovicci, American singer and actress
1948 - Jack Tatum, American football player
1950 - Graham Parker, English singer
1950 - Rudy Sarzo, Cuban bass guitarist (Quiet Riot)
1950 - Eric Pierpoint, American actor
1951 - Justin Raimondo, American author
1952 - Delroy Lindo, British actor
1952 - Peter Beattie, Australian politician
1953 - Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist
1953 - Kevin Nealon, American comedian and actor
1954 - John Parr, British pop singer
1954 - Evan Gray, New Zealand cricketer
1955 - Carter Burwell, American composer
1956 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1995)
1956 - Warren Moon, American football player
1957 - Seán Mac Falls, Irish-born poet
1958 - Daniel Brailovsky, Argentine football manager
1958 - Oscar Nunez, Cuban American actor
1959 - Jimmy Quinn, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1960 - Kim Wilde, British singer
1960 - Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
1962 - Kirk Hammett, American guitarist (Metallica)
1962 - Jamie Moyer, American baseball player
1963 - Dante Bichette, American baseball player
1963 - Peter Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1963 - Len Bias, American basketball player (d. 1986)
1966 - Jorge Camacho, Spanish poet
1967 - Jocelyn Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1968 - Romany Malco, American actor and music producer
1968 - Gary Sheffield, American baseball player
1968 - Owen Wilson, American actor
1969 - Sam Cassell, American basketball player
1969 - Duncan Sheik, American singer
1969 - Ahmed Helmi, Egyptian actor
1970 - Elizabeth Anne Allen, American actress
1970 - Mike Epps, American actor
1970 - Megyn Kelly, American television news anchor
1970 - Johan Liiva, Sweden vocalist (Arch Enemy)
1970 - Peta Wilson, Australian actress
1972 - Jessi Alexander, American country music singer/songwriter
1972 - Robert Shapiro, American politician/humorist
1973 - Nic Pothas, South African/English wicket-keeper
1974 - Chloë Sevigny, American actress
1975 - David Ortiz, Dominican baseball player
1975 - Jason Williams, American basketball player
1975 - Anthony McPartlin, British actor and television presenter
1975 - Shawn Camp, American baseball player
1976 - Shagrath, Norwegian singer (Dimmu Borgir)
1976 - Mona Zaki, Egyptian Actress
1977 - Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league footballer
1977 - Fabolous, American rapper
1978 - Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
1980 - Junichi Okada, Japanese singer (V6)
1980 - Dustin Kensrue, American Singer/Songwriter (Thrice)
1980 - François Duval, Belgian rally driver
1980 - Luke Chadwick, English footballer
1980 - Minori Chihara, Japanese voice actress/singer
1981 - Christina Vidal, American actress
1981 - Gian Magdangal, Filipino singer and actor
1983 - Jon Johansen, Norwegian software developer
1983 - Travis Buck, American baseball player
1984 - Johnny Christ, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1984 - Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer w-inds.
1985 - Christian Siriano, American fashion designer
1986 - Nic Sampson, New Zealand actor
1988 - Jeffrey Jordan, American college basketball player; son of Michael Jordan
1988 - Montanna Thompson, English actress
1992 - Nathan Kress, American actor

Famous deaths...
1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
1559 - Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
1590 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
1785 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
1797 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
1814 - William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
1852 - Rose Philippine Duchesne Catholic nun and French saint
1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
1889 - William Allingham, Irish author
1922 - Marcel Proust, French novelist (b. 1871)
1941 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1941 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
1941 - Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
1952 - Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)
1962 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
1965 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (b. 1888)
1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (b. 1888)
1969 - Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
1972 - Danny Whitten, American musician and songwriter (b. 1943)
1976 - Man Ray, American artist (b. 1890)
1977 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (b. 1897)
1977 - Victor Francen, Belgian actor (b. 1888)
1978 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (suicide) (b. 1931)
1978 - Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman (b. 1925)
1978 - Harvey Milk, San Francisco Supervisor and Gay Rights Activist(b. 1930)
1979 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, baseball player (b. 1901)
1980 - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)
1982 - Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer (b. 1959)
1984 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (b. 1907)
1986 - Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
1987 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (cancer) (b. 1934)
1991 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1913)
1994 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (b. 1907)
1994 - Peter Ledger, Austrailian artist (b. 1945)
1999 - Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
1999 - Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
2002 - James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
2003 - Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
2004 - Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929)
2005 - Harold J. Stone, American actor (b. 1911)

Holidays and observances...
Roman festivals - day 1 Dios dedicated to the sun GERD by emperor Licinius
Latvia - Independence Day (1918)
Morocco - Independence Day (1956)
Oman - National holiday
Venezuela - Feast of the Virgen de Chiquinquirá, also known as la Chinita, in the western state of Zulia
Abhai of Hach
Roman Catholic Saints - Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul ; Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne ; also St Mawes, St Odo of Cluny, St Romanus of Antioch

Have a great Tuesday.

~Brian

[BRAD]

mornin gents

[Peelz]

buenos dias, Sorry to hear about the library job

[BRAD]

ah it's cool. i talked to my old boss about it yesterday. and he said i could come back on full time if i wanted

[Flynbyu]

Man, that's awesome.

~Brian

[BRAD]

yeah it is. and i get to keep my old pay rate there too. which means i will be making more money working for him than the other co-worker does and more than what i made in the library

[Flynbyu]

That's a true blessing.

~Brian

[BRAD]

yes it is. i guess it kinda pays off to work for family

[Peelz]

yes it is. i guess it kinda pays off to work for family

wtf...are you a Soprano?

Speaking of work. Being that I run the only full color/full size digital printer within 100 miles, I get to print out lots of "secret" stuff. Today...it is our $20 grocery gift card we give out to all the employees. SHHHH....don't tell. Really, the office  were like super secret ninja style about it. WHen it is the same thing we get every year.

Oh...and I got my 5 year anniversary in here.  Just making some positive posts for a change.