Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XVIII

[socalrappy700]

I see your governor's wife is in the hot seat too E.

~Brian

big shock.  she's just as bad.

[Flynbyu]

I took the rest of my day off after the graveside...I'm just came home and starting reading about her being taped too.

~Brian

[Krandall]

I'm headin home. Catch you guys in a few.

[kyledvor61]

I'm headin home. Catch you guys in a few.

peace

[Krandall]

The Office is on!

[BRAD]

whats up Randy? where gettin a ton of snow dumped on us

[Krandall]

Headin to bed.

GOOD NIGHT RAPTOR SOURCE!!! 

[Warren]

i'm the only one on here at 6:12 AM. is that bad? seriously when do you whores get up around here?

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Dec 12 1915

Francis Albert Sinatra's birthday. We've been asked not to bring up his mafia connections, so today we will not be resorting to that cheap gimmick to slander the Chairman of the Board.

Dec 12 1917

The worst train wreck in history, leaving 543 Frenchmen dead.

Dec 12 1937

US gunboat Panay is sunk by the Japanese military on the Yangtze River by a combined action of bombing, dive bombing, and strafing. Japan apologized, disciplining those involved and paying $2.2M reparations.

Dec 12 1980

"Whip It" earns Devo a gold record. It is the first distinction of its kind for any song about masturbation. Whip it good.

Dec 12 1989

Leona Helmsley fined $7 million and sentenced to jail for 21 months for tax evasion. They made the bitch serve 900 hours of community service.

Dec 12 1991

Richard Gere (claims he is not gay) marries supermodel Cindy Crawford (ditto). Widespread rumors that Gere was intimate with a gerbil have yet to be verified.

Birthdays today...
1298 - Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
1418 - Albert VI of Austria (d. 1463)
1574 - Anne of Denmark, queen consort of James I of England (d. 1619)
1610 - Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)
1659 - Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1739)
1712 - Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (d. 1780)
1724 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (d. 1816)
1745 - John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1829)
1779 - Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint (d. 1865)
1783 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)
1786 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)
1791 - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (d. 1847)
1799 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (d. 1852)
1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist (d. 1879)
1805 - Henry Wells, Founder of American Express (d. 1878)
1806 - Stand Watie, American Confederate general (d. 1871)
1821 - Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
1845 - Bruce Price, American architect (d. 1903)
1849 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1920)
1863 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944)
1864 - Paul Elmer More, American essayist (d. 1937)
1866 - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1919)
1870 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil baron (d. 1912)
1875 - Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (d. 1953)
1876 - Alvin Kraenzlein, Olympic gold medalist (d. 1928)
1887 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (d. 1974)
1892 - Herman Potočnik aka Hermann Noordung, Slovenian rocket engineer (d. 1929)
1893 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (d. 1973)
1900 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)
1902 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (d. 2003)
1903 - Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer (d. 1976)
1903 - Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963)
1904 - Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor and socialite (d. 1981)
1905 - Manès Sperber, Austrian-born writer (d. 1984)
1907 - Roy Douglas, English composer and orchestrator
1908 - Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and conductor. (d. 1993)
1909 - Karen Morley, American actress (d. 2003)
1914 - Patrick O'Brian, English author (d. 2000)
1915 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
1918 - Joe Williams, American singer (d. 1999)
1919 - Olivia Barclay, English astrologer (d. 2001)
1919 - Dan DeCarlo, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
1920 - Fred Kida, American comics artist
1923 - Bob Barker, American television game show host
1923 - Ken Kavanagh, Australian racing driver
1924 - Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City
1925 - Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer
1925 - Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (d. 2000)
1927 - Robert Noyce, American inventor (d. 1990)
1928 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Soviet-born Kyrgyz writer
1929 - Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician
1929 - John Osborne, English dramatist (d. 1994)
1930 - Bill Beutel, American journalist (d. 2006)
1931 - Lionel Blair, English actor and choreographer
1932 - Bob Pettit, American basketball player
1934 - Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico
1937 - Buford Pusser, American sheriff (d. 1974)
1938 - Connie Francis, American singer
1940 - Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
1940 - Dionne Warwick, American singer
1942 - Peter Sarstedt, British musician
1943 - Dickey Betts, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band)
1943 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (d. 1999)
1944 - Kenneth Cranham, Scottish actor
1944 - Jean Doré, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal
1945 - Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (d. 1997)
1946 - Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver and two-time F1 world champion
1946 - Paula Wagner, American film executive
1948 - Tom Wilkinson, English actor
1949 - Bill Nighy, English actor
1950 - Rajnikanth, Indian actor
1950 - Billy Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
1952 - Herb Dhaliwal, Canadian politician
1952 - Cathy Rigby, American gymnast and actress
1953 - Bruce Kulick, American guitarist (ex-Kiss, Grand Funk Railroad)
1954 - Liz Claman, American television anchor
1955 - Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek businesswoman
1955 - Eddy Schepers, Belgian cyclist
1956 - Johan van der Velde, Dutch cyclist
1957 - Sheila E., American musician
1957 - Robert Lepage, French Canadian playwright
1958 - Sheree J. Wilson, American actress
1962 - Tracy Austin, American tennis player
1962 - Mike Golic, American football player
1963 - Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress and singer
1964 - Sabu, American professional wrestler
1964 - Haywood Jeffries, American football player
1965 - Will Carling, English rugby union footballer
1966 - Royce Gracie, Brazilian martial artist
1966 - Kouichi Nagano, Japanese voice actor
1966 - Último Dragón, Japanese professional wrestler
1967 - Yuzo Koshiro, Japanese composer
1967 - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Japanese composer
1967 - John Randle, American football player
1968 - Kate Humble, English television presenter
1968 - Rory Kennedy, American documentarian
1968 - Laurie Williams, Jamaican West Indies cricketer (d. 2002)
1969 - Carrie Westcott, American model and actress
1970 - Mädchen Amick, American actress
1970 - Jennifer Connelly, American actress
1970 - Regina Hall, American actress
1972 - Nicky Eaden, English footballer
1972 - Wilson Kipketer, Danish middle-distance runner
1972 - Kevin Parent, French Canadian singer and songwriter
1972 - Brandon Teena, American hate crime victim (d. 1993)
1972 - Yeoryios Theodoridis, Greek sprinter
1972 - Hank Williams III, American musician, grandson of Hank Williams
1973 - William Hutton, American engineer
1973 - Walter Otta, Argentine footballer
1974 - Nolberto Solano, Peruvian footballer
1975 - Mayim Bialik, American actress
1975 - Craig Moore, Australian footballer
1976 - Dan Hawkins, English guitarist (The Darkness)
1976 - Lloyd Owusu, English/Ghanaian football player
1977 - Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm, American triplet models
1977 - Bridget Hall, American supermodel
1977 - Orlando Hudson, American baseball player
1977 - Colin White, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Monica Barladeanu, Romanian actress
1978 - Louis (artist), Korean singer ("Jung Hwa Ban Jum")
1978 - Jennifer Rovero, Playboy Playmate
1978 - Evren Genis, Turkish composer
1979 - Garrett Atkins, American baseball player
1979 - Nate Clements, American football player
1979 - Sharin Foo, Danish singer and bassist
1981 - Ronnie Brown, American football player
1981 - Shane Costa, American baseball player
1981 - Pedro Ríos, Spanish footballer
1981 - Jeret Peterson, American aerial skier
1981 - Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer
1981 - Stephen Warnock, English footballer
1982 - Dmitry Tursunov, Russian tennis player
1983 - Katrina Elam, American singer
1984 - Daniel Merrett, Australian Rules Football
1984 - Daniel Agger, Danish footballer
1986 - Perparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer
1986 - Thomas Wansey, English actor
1990 - Victor Moses, an English footballer of Nigerian descent
1991 - Daniel Magder, Canadian actor

Famous deaths...
884 - Carloman, King of the West Franks
1212 - Geoffrey, Archbishop of York
1569 - Metropolitan Philip of Moscow (b. 1507)
1574 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
1586 - Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)
1685 - John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
1751 - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678)
1754 - Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701)
1766 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700)
1789 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
1790 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733)
1817 - Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751)
1843 - King William I of the Netherlands, (b. 1772)
1858 - Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (b. 1787)
1889 - Robert Browning, English poet (b. 1812)
1889 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1804)
1894 - Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
1913 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
1923 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903)
1926 - Jean Richepin, French poet (b. 1849)
1929 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
1934 - Thorleif Haug, Norwegian Nordic skier (b. 1894)
1939 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (b. 1883)
1941 - Cesar Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero (b. 1915)
1951 - Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer (b. 1907)
1952 - Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (b. 1879)
1963 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (b. 1903)
1968 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b. 1902)
1970 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
1971 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born American General Manager of RCA (b. 1891)
1976 - Jack Cassidy, American actor (b. 1927)
1976 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
1977 - Lady Spencer Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885)
1980 - Jean Lesage, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1912)
1985 - Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
1985 - Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (b. 1938)
1987 - Enrique Jorrín, Cuban musician and composer (b. 1926)
1988 - Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, American Mafia figure (b. 1917)
1992 - Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901)
1993 - József Antall, Hungarian politician (b. 1932)
1994 - Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933)
1996 - Vance Packard, American author (b. 1914)
1997 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
1998 - Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (b. 1930)
1998 - Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (b. 1922)
1998 - Mo Udall, American politician (b. 1922)
1999 - Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
1999 - Joseph Heller, American author (b. 1923)
2000 - George Montgomery, American actor (b. 1916)
2001 - Jean Richard, French actor (b. 1921)
2002 - Dee Brown, American author (b. 1908)
2002 - Brad Dexter, American actor (b. 1917)
2002 - Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (b. 1965)
2003 - Heydər Əliyev, President of Azerbaijan (b. 1923)
2003 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (b. 1926)
2003 - Keiko, orca, star of Free Willy (b. 1977)
2005 - Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician (b. 1957)
2005 - Annette Vadim, Danish actress (b. 1936)
2005 - Robert F. Newmyer, American film producer (b. 1946)
2006 - Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
2006 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1935)
2006 - Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1917)
2006 - Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology (b. 1930)
2007 - Ike Turner, American singer, former husband of Tina Turner (b. 1931)
2007 - Francois Hajj, Lebanese Army's chief of operations (b.1953)

Holidays and observances...
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Masá'il (Questions) - First day of the 15th month of the Bahá'í calendar
Mexico, Roman Catholic Saints- Virgin of Guadalupe Day
Kenya - Jamhuri Day: Independence Day (from Britain, 1963)
Turkmenistan - Neutrality Day

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Dec 12 1980

"Whip It" earns Devo a gold record. It is the first distinction of its kind for any song about masturbation. Whip it good

WHAT?! ITS ABOUT MASTURBATION!?!

[Krandall]

you can add to your list of famous deaths Bettie Page

She was a hottie.

[socalrappy700]

she's so hot I think I would STILL nail her.

[Krandall]

Wouldn't put it past you.... 

Just throw some hand warmers in her for a few mins. and good to go.






Was -4 this morning w/ a -10 Windchill.

I heard on the news in International Falls (Near Nick) It was -27 To dang cold for this time of year.

[socalrappy700]

was 10 on my way to work.  Made for a cold ass walk from the train to my office.  I think my balls are still somewhere up around my lungs.

[BRAD]

its sittin in the lower 20's here with about 3"s of snow on the ground.  what's up guys?