Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XVI

[Krandall]

Ended up getting the 1/2" wratchet out and busted her.

[Warren]

nice.


well i have to get to bed. thanks for the suggestions with my exhaust. i'll try that as soon as i can. have a good one man. 


good night raptor source.

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Nov 17 1796

Empress Catherine the Great dies of a stroke while sitting on the commode.

Nov 17 1968

NBC preempts the final 1:05 from a very close Jets-Raiders NFL football game with "Heidi". Two touchdowns were scored during this missing time. Sports fans everywhere applaud and understand the network's decision.

Nov 17 1973

"People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook".

Nov 17 1992

Scaremongering "journalists" at Dateline NBC falsify a demonstration involving a GM truck exploding on impact. In reality the trucks do not explode on impact, and smarmy reporters do not always tell the truth.

Nov 17 1997

In a three hour gun battle, Islamic militants in the ancient pharonic city of Luxor indiscriminately slaughter 60 tourists. Six gunmen and two Egyptian policemen are also killed.

Birthdays today...
   9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d. 79)
1502 - Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (d. 1533)
1503 - Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572)
1576 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (d. 1679)
1612 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
1681 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
1685 - Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
1729 - Maria Antonietta of Spain, queen of Sardinia (d. 1785)
1755 - Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824)
1765 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
1793 - Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)
1799 - Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)
1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
1827 - Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)
1835 - Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
1854 - Hubert Lyautey, French general (d. 1934)
1857 - Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (d. 1932)
1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)
1868 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)
1877 - Frank Calder, the first NHL President (d. 1943)
1878 - Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939)
1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
1887 - Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976)
1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian politician (d. 1972)
1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
1897 - Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961)
1899 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971)
1901 - Walter Hallstein, German politician (d. 1982)
1901 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (d. 1982)
1902 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1904 - Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)
1905 - Queen Astrid of the Belgians (d. 1935)
1905 - Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)
1906 - Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer (d. 1992)
1906 - Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1907 - Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985)
1911 - Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)
1916 - Shelby Foote, American historian (d. 2005)
1920 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)
1921 - Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter
1922 - Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1923 - Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001)
1923 - Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm
1923 - Mike Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
1925 - Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor
1927 - Robert Brown, American actor
1928 - Rance Howard, American actor
1929 - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)
1930 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete (d. 2006)
1933 - Orlando Peña, Cuban baseball player
1934 - Fenella Fielding, English actress
1934 - James Inhofe, American politician, senior senator from Oklahoma
1935 - Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player
1935 - Toni Sailer, Austrian skier
1936 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer
1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
1940 - Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player
1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
1942 - Khang Khek Leu, Cambodian politician
1943 - Lauren Hutton, American actress
1944 - Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame Coach
1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
1944 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
1944 - Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
1944 - Tom Seaver, baseball player
1944 - Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (d. 1991)
1945 - Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
1945 - Roland Joffé, Anglo-French film director
1946 - Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
1946 - Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull)
1947 - Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
1947 - Inky Mark, Canadian politician
1948 - Howard Dean, American politician
1949 - Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister of Vietnam
1950 - Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and race team owner
1951 - Stephen Root, American actor
1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987)
1951 - Butch Davis, American football coach
1952 - Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
1954 - Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
1955 - Dennis Maruk, Canadian hockey player
1955 - Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2007)
1957 - Debbie Thrower, BBC News Reader
1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress
1959 - Terry Fenwick, English footballer
1960 - Jonathan Ross, British presenter
1960 - Kirk Fogg, host of Legends of the Hidden Temple
1960 - RuPaul, American drag entertainer
1961 - Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (d. 1985)
1962 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
1963 - Randy Black, Canadian drummer (Annihilator)
1964 - Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality
1964 - Mitch Williams, Major League Baseball player
1965 - Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer
1966 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (d. 1997)
1966 - Sophie Marceau, French actress
1966 - Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress
1966 - Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
1966 - Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1968 - Amber Michaels, German porn actress
1968 - Sean Miller, American basketball coach
1969 - Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
1969 - Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
1970 - Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)
1972 - Leonard Roberts, American actor
1972 - Kimya Dawson, American singer
1973 - Andreas "Vintersorg" Hedlund, Swedish singer (Vintersorg)
1973 - Eli Marrero, American baseball player
1973 - Bernd Schneider, German footballer
1973 - Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater
1974 - Leslie Bibb, American actress
1974 - Berto Romero, Spanish humorist
1975 - Lord Infamous, Rapper
1976 - Diane Neal, American actress
1976 - Brandon Call, American actor
1977 - Paul Shepherd, Footballer, ex Leeds United
1977 - Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
1978 - Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress
1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player
1979 - Matthew Spring, English footballer
1980 - Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler
1980 - Isaac Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
1980 - Mercedes Martinez, professional wrestler
1981 - Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1982 - Katie Feenstra, American basketball player
1982 - Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer
1983 - Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
1983 - Ryan Braun, American baseball player
1983 - Trevor Crowe, American baseball player
1983 - Scott Moore, American baseball player
1983 - Nick Markakis, American baseball player
1983 - Harry Lloyd, English actor
1983 - Christopher Paolini, American novelist
1984 - Park Han-byul, South Korean actress
1985 - Patrick Quinn, Personal Trainer
1986 - Nani, Portuguese football player
1987 - Luke Thomas, American writer and modern man
1990 - Shanica Knowles, American actress
1992 - Darian Weiss, American actor
1994 - Raquel Castro, American actress

Famous deaths...
375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321)
594 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c.539)
641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
885 - Queen Liutgard
1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
1302 - St. Gertrude the Great (b. 1256)
1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516)
1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer
1665 - John Earle, English bishop
1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682)
1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)
1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
1796 - Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (b. 1729)
1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
1818 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen consort of King George III (b. 1744)
1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)
1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794)
1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
1865 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (b. 1813)
1897 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
1910 - Ralph Johnstone, pioneer pilot, 1st 'American' pilot killed in the crash of an airplane, Denver, Colorado.
1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
1921 - Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist
1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865)
1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860)
1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
1947 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
1955 - James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
1973 - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
1979 - John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull)
1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
1986 - Georges Besse, French automobile executive (b. 1927)
1987 - Paul Derringer, baseball player (b. 1906)
1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
1995 - Alan Hull, English Rock Musician (Lindisfarne)
1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances...
R.C. Saints - Elisabeth of Hungary; Gregory of Tours; Hilda of Whitby; Hugh of Lincoln; Acisclus
International Students Day
Czech Republic and Slovakia - Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day commemorating the beginning of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989.
Shogi day. (More accurately 17th day on Kannazuki; 17th November in modern calendar)
Have a great Monday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Nov 17 1992

Scaremongering "journalists" at Dateline NBC falsify a demonstration involving a GM truck exploding on impact. In reality the trucks do not explode on impact, and smarmy reporters do not always tell the truth.





Explode on impact! You think they'd let something like that roll off the line. Fox news for the win.

[Flynbyu]

GM settled that out of court for $500 a throw. They issues coupons for "rebates" on turcks with fuel tanks on the side, or "saddle bag" tanks. I saw a bunch of those coupons after the class action suit.

~Brian

[BRAD]

whats up guys. i just found out that the library is gonna lay me off at the end of this week

[Krandall]

Bummer

What you going to do then?

[Flynbyu]

Damn.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

That sucks Brad 

[BRAD]

it sucks. im gonna go back to working fulltime at my old job hopefully. if they dont decide to lay me off to

[socalrappy700]

anything else at the school that you can do?

[BRAD]

well there is some good news to it. i picked up  my check today so. i will be good on money for alittle while longer

[BRAD]

anything else at the school that you can do?

nope not at the school. i may try to pick up a part time job at my parents business. hopefully they can find it in their hearts to hire there own son

[Krandall]

or they may just laugh at you.;

just remember. there's ALWAYS jobs out there. No matter who you hear that from. You just have to be willing to do them

[socalrappy700]

You could get a job at McDowell's.  You start on lettuce, soon you'll be on Fries, and in two years you can make assistant manager.....and that's where the big bucks roll in.