Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XVIII

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[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Dec 14 1503

Nostradamus born. If you write vague enough prophecies, they will fool almost anyone.

Dec 14 1944

Lupe Velez, Hollywood's "Mexican Spitfire" of the 1940's, commits suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills. Contrary to her plans of being found laid out on the bed in a silk nightgown, she is instead discovered in the bathroom with her head in the toilet. Her ex-husband, Tarzan star Johnny Weismuller, frequently used to beat her.

Dec 14 1991

A ferry near Safaga, Egypt on the Red Sea strikes a coral reef, drowning more than 460 passengers.

Birthdays today...
1009 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)
1503 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566)
1546 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (d. 1601)
1625 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)
1631 - Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)
1640 - (baptism date) - Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist (d. 1689)
1678 - Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743)
1720 - Justus Möser, German statesman (d. 1794)
1775 - Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (d. 1852)
1775 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860)
1784 - Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Princess of Asturias (d. 1806)
1787 - Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1816)
1791 - Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823)
1794 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (d. 1872)
1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
1866 - Roger Fry, English artist and art critic (d. 1934)
1870 - Karl Renner, President of Austria (d. 1950)
1881 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (d. 1956)
1884 - Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950)
1895 - Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)
1895 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)
1896 - Jimmy Doolittle, American General (d. 1993)
1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (d. 1995)
1897 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (d. 1977)
1902 - Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989)
1908 - Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (d. 1996)
1908 - Claude Davey, Welsh rugby union footballer
1908 - Mária Szepes, Hungarian authoress (d. 2007)
1909 - Edward Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1911 - Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965)
1911 - Hans von Ohain, German/American aerospace engineer (d. 1998)
1913 - Dan Dailey, American actor (d. 1978)
1914 - Karl Carstens, President of Germany (d. 1992)
1914 - Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (d. 1943)
1914 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)
1916 - Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965)
1917 - C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish communist leader
1917 - June Taylor, American choreographer (d. 2004)
1917 - Elyse Knox, American actress
1918 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (d. 1994)
1918 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate
1920 - Clark Terry, American trumpeter
1922 - Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)
1922 - Don Hewitt, American creator of 60 Minutes
1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (d. 2006)
1924 - Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)
1925 - Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1927 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (d. 1998)
1931 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (d. 2002)
1932 - Abbe Lane, American singer and actress
1932 - Charlie Rich, American musician (d. 1995)
1935 - Lewis Arquette, American film actor, writer and producer (d. 2001)
1935 - Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
1938 - Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian
1939 - Ernie Davis, American football player (d. 1963)
1940 - Lex Gold, Scottish football administrator
1941 - Karan Armstrong, American soprano
1941 - Ellen Willis, American journalist (d. 2006)
1942 - Zoe Laskari, Greek actress
1943 - R. Emmett Tyrrell, American magazine publisher
1946 - Jane Birkin, English-born French actress and singer
1946 - Patty Duke, American actress
1946 - Ruth Fuchs, East German athlete
1946 - Michael Ovitz, American film producer
1946 - Stan Smith, American tennis player
1946 - Joyce Vincent Wilson, American singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
1947 - Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
1947 - Linda Sutton, English artist
1948 - Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982)
1948 - Kim Beazley, Australian politician
1948 - Dee Wallace-Stone, American actress
1949 - Bill Buckner, American baseball player
1949 - Cliff Williams, English bassist (AC/DC)
1951 - Jan Timman, Dutch chess grandmaster
1952 - Germain Houde, French Canadian actor
1953 - Vijay Amritraj, Indian tennis player
1953 - René Eespere, Soviet-born Estonian composer
1953 - Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician
1953 - Mikael Odenberg, Swedish politician
1954 - James Horan, American actor
1954 - Alan Kulwicki, American NASCAR driver (d. 1993)
1954 - Steven MacLean, Canadian astronaut
1956 - Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein skier
1957 - Gary Ferris, American author
1958 - Mike Scott, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Waterboys)
1958 - Spider Stacy, English musician (The Pogues)
1959 - Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer
1960 - Bob Paris, American bodybuilder and gay rights advocate
1960 - Chris Waddle, English footballer
1962 - Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen), American adult film actress
1963 - Greg Abbott, English former football player
1963 - Cynthia Gibb, American actress
1965 - Craig Biggio, American baseball player
1965 - Ken Hill, American baseball player
1966 - Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian racecar driver
1966 - Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Tim Skold, Swedish/American musician
1967 - Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer
1969 - Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player
1970 - Nadine Garner, Australian actress
1970 - Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer
1970 - Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter
1971 - Natascha McElhone, English actress
1972 - Eric Anderson, American musical theatre actor
1972 - Marcus Jensen, American baseball player
1973 - Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-born Canadian soccer player
1973 - Tia Texada, American actress and singer
1973 - Thuy Trang, American actress (d. 2001)
1974 - Billy Koch, American baseball player
1975 - Justin Furstenfeld, American rock singer
1976 - Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter
1976 - André Couto, Portuguese racing driver
1976 - Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish footballer
1977 - KaDee Strickland, American actress
1978 - Dean Brogan, Australian rules footballer
1978 - Kim St-Pierre, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Radu Sârbu, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1978 - Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player
1979 - Sophie Monk, Australian actress, singer, and model
1979 - Michael Owen, English footballer
1980 - Frankie J, American singer
1980 - Tata Young, Thai-American singer
1980 - Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer
1981 - Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress
1981 - Emilie Heymans, Canadian diver
1981 - Johnny Jeter, American professional wrestler
1981 - Shaun Marcum, American baseball player
1981 - Liam Lawrence, English footballer
1982 - Josh Fields, American baseball player
1982 - Steve Sidwell, English footballer
1982 - Anthony Way, English singer and actor
1984 - Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer
1984 - Edward Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 - Jakub Błaszczykowski, Polish footballer
1985 - Paul Rabil, professional lacrosse player
1985 - Julio Pimentel, Dominican baseball player
1985 - Tom Smith, Welsh rugby union footballer
1985 - Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress
1985 - Ren Yagami, Japanese actor and singer
1988 - Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
1988 - Vanessa Anne Hudgens, American singer and actress
1989 - Pedro Silva, Brazilian footballer
1992 - Tori Kelly, American singer
1995 - Princess Olimpia Preslavska of Bulgaria

Famous deaths...
1460 - Guarino da Verona (b. 1370)
1476 - Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)
1510 - Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
1542 - King James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
1553 - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)
1591 - Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet (b. 1542)
1624 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
1651 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
1713 - Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
1715 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
1735 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)
1741 - Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
1788 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714)
1788 - King Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
1799 - George Washington, first President of the United States (b. 1732)
1838 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806)
1860 - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
1861 - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria (b. 1819)
1865 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)
1873 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
1902 - Julia Grant, wife of President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1826)
1912 - Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant (b. 1887)
1920 - George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
1927 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
1935 - Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (b. 1902)
1947 - Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
1947 - Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
1956 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president of Finland (b. 1870)
1963 - Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)
1964 - William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
1966 - Shailendra, Indian lyricist (b. 1923)
1970 - Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876)
1971 - Dick Tiger, Nigerian-born boxer (b. 1929)
1974 - Walter Lippman, American writer, journalist, and political commentator (b. 1889)
1975 - Arthur Treacher, English actor (b. 1894)
1978 - Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist (b. 1886)
1984 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1898)
1985 - Catherine Doherty, social justice activist (b. 1896)
1985 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (b. 1934)
1989 - Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (b. 1919)
1989 - Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1921)
1990 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
1993 - Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)
1993 - Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
1994 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)
1996 - Gaston Miron, French Canadian poet and editor (b. 1928)
1997 - Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918)
1997 - Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who) (b. 1946)
1998 - Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
1998 - Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (b. 1928)
1998 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist (b. 1924)
2001 - W. G. Sebald, German writer (b. 1944)
2003 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
2003 - Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (b. 1927)
2004 - Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2004 - Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate (b. 1939)
2005 - Trevanian, American author (b. 1931)
2006 - Anton Balasingham, chief political strategist of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1938)
2006 - Ahmet Ertegün, co-founder of Atlantic Records (b. 1923)
2006 - Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances...
Monkey Day
Alabama Day

Have a great Sunday.

~Brian

[Peelz]

happy "alabama" day. Grow a mullet and nail your sister!

Dec 14 1503

Nostradamus born. If you write vague enough prophecies, they will fool almost anyone.

True statement.  IE: Scientology, Bible, Mormon. 

No, that would be your total lack of riding talent.

You monumental prick.

[socalrappy700]

The Bible is not vague at all, but thanks for playing. 

[Peelz]

For a young guy looking for facts..it was.

Early morning post. Sorry bro, discussion over.

Is it warming up over there yet? 50 here. woohoo.

[socalrappy700]

42 here and I couldn't be more pissed with that.  I'm all for warmer weather but this just warmed up long enough for most of the snow to melt and everything to look like crap.  Then tomorrow its going to get butt ass cold and be a mix of brown and half melted snow.  If its going to be winter I at least want everything nice and white.

[BRAD]

So true man. When winter comes around I want it to stay cold and snowy

[Peelz]

Snow is already gone, little housebreaking puppy coming in with wet muddy feet!   

Where is this mysterious Global Warming of which the pundits speak...can I have it today?

Hey B-rad.

[RaptorRandy]

It's  22 F on the hill this morning with 6'' of new snow and now crisp and clear but windy, which makes it feel much colder. The wife and I are going to bundle up and go play in it for a while......I might have to bolt the tracks on the outlander   

Ya'll have a great sunday

[Peelz]

up to 58 now. not bad, but I know what is coming.

[Krandall]

Dec 14 1991

A ferry near SaFA   Ga, Egypt on the Red Sea strikes a coral reef, drowning more than 460 passengers.



THey must not have learned to tread water.

[Peelz]

Krandall, found out there was an "ugly xmas sweater party" at a local night club last nite. Missed it.

[Krandall]

that's awesome!

[kyledvor61]

being sick sucks

[Peelz]

dropped 26 degrees in 2 hrs