Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XIX

[Flynbyu]

Well I've gotta hit the shower and meet the wife at 11:30 for lunch.

Sushi today!

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

so whats for lunch

[Peelz]

so whats for lunch

Read my mind Nucca!   Make sure you wash your hands before you eat.

[Colorado700R]

I'll supply the wasabi  :grin_nod:

[Peelz]

Skipping out early today boys, peace.

[Krandall]

 

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jan 9 1349

All the jews of Basel Switzerland are rounded up and incinerated, because they caused the bubonic plague.

Jan 9 1570

Ivan The Terrible, thinking that the town of Novgorod on the verge of defecting to Poland, commences a massacre on its citizens that lasts five long weeks. Every day men, women, and children are brutally murdered by flame or thrown in the Volkhov river. Estimates vary between 15,000 and 60,000 killed.

Jan 9 1913

Richard Nixon born.

Jan 9 1914

Birthday of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.

Jan 9 1972

The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor.

Jan 9 2002

The DOJ confirms reports that a criminal investigation of mega-corporation Enron has begun. The Texas energy profiteers gave loads of cash to the Republican party before accounting fraud and insider trading caused thousands of Enron employees to lose their savings and pensions.

Birthdays today...
1554 - Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)
1571 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (d. 1621)
1589 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (d. 1638)
1624 - Empress Meishō (d. 1696)
1685 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
1728 - Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
1745 - Caleb Strong, 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819)
1773 - Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
1811 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
1819 - James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
1823 - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (d. 1908)
1829 - Thomas William Robertson, English playwright (d. 1871)
1829 - Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (d. 1857)
1832 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec (d. 1900)
1839 - John Knowles Paine, U.S. composer (d. 1906)
1848 - Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
1849 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (d. 1935)
1854 - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
1856 - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912)
1859 - Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffragist leader (d. 1947)
1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
1868 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
1870 - Joseph B Strauss, American civil engineer (d. 1938)
1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934)
1875 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
1879 - John Broadus Watson, American psychologist (d. 1958)
1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938)
1881 - Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
1881 - Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (d. 1956)
1886 - Lloyd Loar, Acoustical engineer and inventor of the Gibson F-5 mandolin (d. 1943)
1890 - Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
1890 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist (d. 1935)
1892 - Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
1896 - Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
1897 - Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973)
1898 - Vilma Bánky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
1898 - Gracie Fields, English vaudeville performer (d. 1979)
1898 - Wally Baker, American supercentenarian
1900 - Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939)
1900 - Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
1901 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
1902 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)
1902 - Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975)
1903 - Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986)
1909 - Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (d. 1994)
1912 - Ralph Tubbs, British architect (d. 1996)
1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee (or 1911), American burlesque entertainer (d. 1970)
1914 - Kenny (Klook) Clarke, American jazz drummer and composer (d. 1985)
1915 - Anita Louise, U.S. actress (d. 1970)
1915 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982)
1916 - Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader
1916 - Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
1920 - Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
1920 - Clive Dunn, British actor
1920 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar
1921 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
1922 - Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel laureate
1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
1924 - Sergei Parajanov, Armenian film director (d. 1990)
1925 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
1926 - Giannis Christou, Greek composer (d. 1970)
1926 - Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
1928 - Judith Krantz, American author
1928 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (d. 1994)
1929 - Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
1929 - Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
1929 - Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
1931 - Algis Budrys, American author
1933 - Robert Garcia, American politician
1933 - Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist
1934 - Bart Starr, American football player
1935 - Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
1935 - Dick Enberg, American sportscaster
1935 - Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American Publisher
1935 - Brian Harradine, Australian independent Senator
1936 - Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
1940 - Jimmy Boyd, American actor and singer
1940 - Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (d. 1993)
1940 - Al Downing, American singer (d. 2005)
1940 - Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
1941 - Joan Baez, American singer and activist
1941 - Gilles Vaillancourt, Quebec politician
1942 - K Callan, American actress
1942 - Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung
1942 - Susannah York, British actress
1943 - Robert Drewe, Australian author
1943 - Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1943 - Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer
1943 - Scott Walker, American singer
1944 - Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (d. 2002)
1944 - Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin)
1945 - John Doman, American actor
1947 - Ronnie Landfield, American artist
1948 - Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (d. 2006)
1948 - Cassie Gaines Backup Singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
1950 - David Johansen American singer
1950 - Rio Reiser, German singer (d. 1996)
1951 - M.L. Carr, basketball player and coach
1951 - Crystal Gayle, American singer
1952 - Hugh Bayley, British politician
1953 - Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children's author
1955 - Michiko Kakutani, American literary critic
1955 - J. K. Simmons, American actor
1956 - Kimberly Beck, American actress
1956 - Imelda Staunton, British actress
1956 - Mike Walczewski, American Public Address Announcer at Madison Square Garden
1957 - Bibie, Ghanaian singer
1957 - Phil Lewis, lead singer of L.A. Guns
1958 - Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
1958 - Stephen Neale, British philosopher
1959 - Mark Martin, American race car driver
1959 - Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1959 - Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician
1959 - Otis Nixon, American baseball player
1961 - Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter
1963 - Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode
1965 - Darren Bennett, Australian-born American football player
1965 - Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player
1965 - Iain Dowie, English football manager
1965 - Eric Erlandson, American musician
1965 - Joely Richardson, British actress
1967 - Carl Bell, American musician
1967 - Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer
1967 - Steven Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
1967 - Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician
1968 - Jimmy Adams, West Indian cricketer
1968 - Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
1968 - Al Schnier, American rock guitarist (moe.)
1970 - Lara Fabian, Belgian singer
1970 - Alex Staropoli, Italian keyboardist (Rhapsody Of Fire)
1971 - Daniel Dumile, American hip hop artist
1971 - Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author
1971 - Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 - Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director
1972 - Sarah Beeny, British TV personality
1972 - Angie Martinez, American radio and television personality
1972 - Jay Powell, baseball player
1973 - Angela Bettis, American actress
1974 - Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood director, actor, producer, singer.
1975 - Kiko Calero, Puerto Rican baseball player
1975 - Kimberley Ann Scott Mathers, former wife of Eminem
1976 - Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player
1976 - Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer
1977 - Beth Troutman, American production assistant
1978 - Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
1978 - Chad Ocho Cinco, American football player
1978 - AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1978 - Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist
1979 - Tomiko Van, Japanese singer
1980 - Sergio García, Spanish golfer
1981 - Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
1982 - Kate Middleton, girlfriend of Prince William of Wales
1982 - Timmy Bowers, American basketball player Hapoel Jerusalem
1987 - Sam Bird, English racing driver
1987 - Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer/songwriter
1987 - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006)
1987 - Lucas Pezzini Leiva, Brazilian and Liverpool footballer
1989 - Michaella Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
1989 - Michael Beasley, American basketball player

Famous deaths...
1150 - Emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état.
1282 - Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)
1283 - Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)
1499 - Johann Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
1543 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
1562 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
1598 - Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)
1677 - Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
1757 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
1757 - Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
1766 - Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
1800 - Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
1805 - Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1843 - William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773)
1848 - Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
1858 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
1877 - Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
1878 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
1901 - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
1908 - Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
1908 - Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840)
1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
1911 - Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
1918 - Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
1923 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
1927 - Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner (b. 1855)
1931 - Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
1936 - John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
1939 - Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866)
1945 - Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
1946 - Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
1946 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
1947 - Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
1960 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)
1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1971 - Giannis Christou, Greek composer (b. 1926)
1971 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
1972 - Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)
1975 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
1975 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1979 - Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (b. 1891)
1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922)
1984 - Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906)
1985 - Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)
1987 - Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
1989 - Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1990 - Sir Edward McTiernan, Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
1990 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
1992 - Steve Brodie, American actor (b. 1919)
1992 - Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
1993 - Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
1994 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927)
1995 - Peter Cook, British actor and comedian (b. 1937)
1995 - Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
1997 - Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
1998 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918)
1998 - Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935)
2000 - Ted Jones, Hydroplane builder/designer (b. 1908)
2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
2001 - Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)
2003 - Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)
2004 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
2005 - Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)
2006 - Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
2006 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
2007 - Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
2007 - Jean-Pierre Vernant, French structuralist historian and anthropologist (b. 1914)
2008 - Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923)
2008 - William Quinn, Irish Republican Army soldier (b. 1950)
2008 - Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
2008 - Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b. 1924).

Holidays and observances...
Martyrs' Day (Panama) commemorates the 1964 riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone
Black Nazarene feast in the Quiapo district, Manila, Philippines
Republic Day in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Adrian of Canterbury
Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow
Theophan the Recluse

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Jan 9 2002

The DOJ confirms reports that a criminal investigation of mega-corporation Enron has begun. The Texas energy profiteers gave loads of cash to the Republican party before accounting fraud and insider trading caused thousands of Enron employees to lose their savings and pensions.

[Flynbyu]

Those guys totally f*cked people.

~Brian

[Peelz]

Those guys totally f*cked people.

~Brian

+1 good morning deviants

[Colorado700R]

morning all

[Krandall]

 

mornin gentlemen!

[RaptorRandy]

Mornin

[Peelz]

Looks like a.m. crew is punched in and ready sir, what are your orders?

[RaptorRandy]

Well it looks like I am semi retired for the time being, I saw the wife off to work this morning and said go make us some money baby.........