Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XIX

[Peelz]

someone needs to post in this thread besides Big B. I'll do the dis-honors.

Happy cold as freakin Sunday.

Dec 21 2012

The Mayan "long count" calendar is based on great cycles of 5125 years, the current cycle ending on this day in 2012. Endings of cycles are punctuated by cataclysmic singularities on a deluge scale, so be prepared. This is the end of time!



F**k It, let it end. At least it is warm, theoretically, where I am going.

Get that Uhaul yet Erich?
BTW E, We are getting Colin the baby Raptor for his B-day, January 3rd. He kinda got the short end of the birthday stick having it right after Xmas. The rest of us are spring kids.

[socalrappy700]

Same for Owen, his birthday is January 23rd.  Did you find the baby raptor down by you?  They don't make the raptor model anymore. But let me know right away, the guy still has one left.  I'll ship it to you.

[Peelz]

Same for Owen, his birthday is January 23rd.  Did you find the baby raptor down by you?  They don't make the raptor model anymore. But let me know right away, the guy still has one left.  I'll ship it to you.

hey maybe. I'll let you know tomorrow.   Have you got his out of the box yet? Curious about the size. Colin has grown a $hitload recently.  I think they were looking at the Big power wheels one that is for sale at Wal Mart....I like that one anyhow, I was just worried about the foot pedal...but we sat him on one..and he figured out how to make it go.  :grin_nod:  And the size suited him well.  Thanks

[socalrappy700]

Same for Owen, his birthday is January 23rd.  Did you find the baby raptor down by you?  They don't make the raptor model anymore. But let me know right away, the guy still has one left.  I'll ship it to you.

hey maybe. I'll let you know tomorrow.   Have you got his out of the box yet? Curious about the size. Colin has grown a $hitload recently.  I think they were looking at the Big power wheels one that is for sale at Wal Mart....I like that one anyhow, I was just worried about the foot pedal...but we sat him on one..and he figured out how to make it go.  :grin_nod:  And the size suited him well.  Thanks

There is no pedal.  You make it go by a button on the handle bar.  I think it will be fine for him, it may not be as powerful as the big power wheels but it will pull him around just fine.

[Peelz]

yeah, power wheels one has the pedal. Yours has the thumb button. I am thinking about the size because this will be the last step before he gets the real thing. Looking into it right now.

heisted your link from shout. I will show the wife later. Thanks again.

Did I mention it is freezing yet?


said link:

http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/tag/965170587.html

[socalrappy700]

Thats the link, just let me know what you want to do. 

And yes, its frickin cold out.  I don't ever remember it being so cold or hot in cali that if you went outside you had a mater of minutes to live.

[Peelz]

Hey E, I looked at it. It is same little tikes model quad he already has right now...only raptor themed. Which is cooler than "Go diego go"   , but he has almost outgrown it as it is. He is mid 30 lbs now. Sorta looks like I miagineyou would on a Blaster. :lol;  Probably will go with the bigger one. If the foot pedal bothers me, I will rewire it for a thumb button. Just rip a switch off at work.  Huge thanks for the thought bro.  

Southen Cali sounds nice right about now. Windchill of-15.  

[socalrappy700]

if he's getting that big already that would be way too small for him.  I agree with going with the large model, he'll get more use out of that.

[Peelz]

Yep, same model. Time for next step. Have you seen the power wheels Rhino? Nearly bought that thing 100 times.

Oh...and Poolaris makes a 170cc mini-Razr now. I am guessing we might see that one out at Mom and Dad's house in the next few years. 

[Krandall]

Hey E, I looked at it. It is same little tikes model quad he already has right now...only raptor themed. Which is cooler than "Go diego go"   , but he has almost outgrown it as it is. He is mid 30 lbs now. Sorta looks like I miagineyou would on a Blaster. :lol;  Probably will go with the bigger one. If the foot pedal bothers me, I will rewire it for a thumb button. Just rip a switch off at work.  Huge thanks for the thought bro.  

Southen Cali sounds nice right about now. Windchill of-15.  

[socalrappy700]

Yep, same model. Time for next step. Have you seen the power wheels Rhino? Nearly bought that thing 100 times.

Oh...and Poolaris makes a 170cc mini-Razr now. I am guessing we might see that one out at Mom and Dad's house in the next few years. 

My mom bought it for Owen awhile ago, he needs to grow into that.  She also got one for my nieces, they love theirs. 

And krandall, there's noting wrong with for forum, you can go back to your corner now.

[BRAD]

whats up gents?

[Krandall]

n/m here. Just gettin some bills paid, and makin sur eI have everything ready for x-mas

[BRAD]

ah I have some last minute shopping to do tomorrow with the new g/f.  I need to find Mom something good this year since she is kinda pissed at me about my grades

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Dec 22 1879

Stalin's birthday!

Dec 22 1955

The corpse of Evita Peron is stolen by anti-Peronistas.

Dec 22 1972

An earthquake destroys the city of Managua, Nicaragua, leaving 6,000 dead.

Dec 22 1984

Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 teenage boys on the NYC subway after one of them asks him for money.

Dec 22 1996

An alien cadaver of height 5 centimeters is found at the Kibbutz Achihod, Ahyud Israel. Scientists at Israel's Technion Institute in Hafnia determine that not enough material is present to conduct "proper tests" but the alien's composition is chiefly cow manure.

Dec 22 2001

Richard Reid attempts to blow up an American Airlines transatlantic flight by igniting a plastic explosive concealed in his shoe. Other passengers beat the living daylights out of him.

Birthdays today...
1095 - Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)
1178 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)
1546 - Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (d. 1604)
1550 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631)
1639 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)
1690 - Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)
1694 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768)
1696 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (d. 1785)
1723 - Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787)
1765 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825)
1805 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)
1807 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)
1819 - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (d. 1870)
1819 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892)
1853 - Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (d. 1917)
1853 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1919)
1856 - Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
1860 - Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator (d. 1927)
1862 - Connie Mack, American baseball executive (d. 1956)
1869 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (d. 1935)
1869 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
1872 - Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961)
1874 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939)
1876 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor (d. 1944)
1883 - Edgard Varèse French-born composer (d. 1965)
1887 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920)
1888 - J. Arthur Rank, British film producer (d. 1972)
1898 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)
1899 - Gustav Gründgens, German actor (d. 1963)
1900 - Marc Allégret, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1973)
1901 - André Kostelanetz, American popular music orchestra leader and arranger (d. 1980)
1903 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983)
1905 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)
1905 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (d. 1972)
1907 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (d. 1991)
1909 - Patricia Hayes, English actress (d. 1998)
1912 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (d. 2007)
1915 - Barbara Billingsley, American actress
1917 - Gene Rayburn, American game show host (d. 1999)
1921 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American country singer (d. 1963)
1922 - Jack Brooks, American politician
1922 - Ruth Roman, American actress (d. 1999)
1924 - Frank Corsaro, American stage director
1925 - Lewis Glucksman, American financier (d. 2006)
1934 - David Pearson, American racecar driver
1936 - James Burke, British writer
1936 - Hector Elizondo, American actor
1936 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor (d. 1969)
1937 - Eduard Uspensky, Russian writer
1938 - Matty Alou, Dominican baseball player
1938 - Lucien Bouchard, Quebec politician
1939 - James Gurley, American musician
1942 - Dick Parry, English musician (Pink Floyd)
1943 - Paul Wolfowitz, American politician
1944 - Steve Carlton, American baseball player
1945 - Diane Sawyer, American journalist
1946 - Rick Nielsen, American musician (Cheap Trick)
1948 - Noel Edmonds, English game show host
1948 - Steve Garvey, American baseball player
1948 - Chris Old, English cricketer
1948 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (d. 2003)
1949 - Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
1949 - Robin Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees)
1951 - Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster
1953 - Bern Nadette Stanis, actress
1953 - Ian Turnbull, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 - Hideshi Matsuda, Japanese racing driver
1955 - Lonnie Smith, American baseball player
1957 - Carole James, Canadian politician
1958 - Frank Gambale, Australian musician
1958 - David Heavener, American actor and musician
1959 - Bernd Schuster, German footballer
1960 - Wakin Chau, Chinese singer
1960 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (d. 1988)
1960 - Luther Campbell (Luke), American rap artist (2 Live Crew)
1960 - Patrick Fitzgerald, American attorney
1961 - Andrew Fastow, American businessman
1962 - Ralph Fiennes, English actor
1963 - Giuseppe Bergomi, Italian footballer
1963 - Luna H. Mitani, Japanese American surrealism painter
1966 - Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast
1966 - Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer, German singer and bassplayer (Destruction)
1967 - Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer
1967 - Richey James Edwards, Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers) (disappeared in 1995)
1967 - Stéphane Gendron, Quebec politician
1967 - Paul Morris, Australian racing driver
1968 - Dina Meyer, American actress
1968 - Lauralee Bell, American actress
1969 - Myriam Bédard, Canadian athlete
1971 - Pat Mastroianni, Canadian actor
1972 - Big Tigger, television host
1972 - Vanessa Paradis, French singer
1974 - Heather Donahue, American actress
1975 - Chris Adler, American actor
1975 - Crissy Moran, American erotic actress
1975 - Dmitri Khokhlov, Russian footballer
1975 - Stanislav Neckář, Czech ice hockey player
1975 - Sergei Aschwanden, Swiss judoka
1976 - Brian A. Alexander, American screenwriter and director
1976 - Katleen De Caluwé, Belgian athlete
1976 - Jason Lane, American Baseball Player
1977 - Steve Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Chris Carmack, American actor
1983 - Jennifer Hawkins, Australian Miss Universe
1984 - Basshunter, popular Swedish singer
1984 - Festus, American professional wrestler
1985 - Paul Lester V Alejandro, Filipino novelist
1986 - Dennis Armfield, Australian rules footballer
1989 - Jordin Sparks, American singer and American Idol winner
1990 - Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor

Famous deaths...
1100 - Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia
1550 - Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III
1603 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (b. 1566)
1646 - Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)
1660 - André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)
1681 - Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
1708 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)
1738 - Constantia Jones, British prostitute (executed)
1767 - John Newbery, English publisher (b. 1713)
1788 - Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
1806 - William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)
1828 - William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b. 1766)
1867 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (b. 1788)
1870 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1836)
1880 - George Eliot, English writer (b. 1819)
1899 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (b. 1837)
1902 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychiatrist (b. 1840)
1917 - Mother Cabrini, first American citizen canonized by the Catholic Church (b. 1850)
1939 - Ma Rainey, American singer (b. 1886)
1940 - Nathanael West, American writer (b. 1903)
1942 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858)
1943 - Beatrix Potter, English writer (b. 1866)
1944 - Harry Langdon, American silent film actor (b. 1884)
1959 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American dancer and actress (b. 1901)
1965 - Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1913)
1971 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch author and television personality (b. 1913)
1979 - Darryl F. Zanuck, American producer (b. 1902)
1985 - D. Boon, American singer and guitarist (The Minutemen) (b. 1958)
1988 - Chico Mendes, Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist, and environmental activist (assassinated) (b. 1944)
1989 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1992 - Frederick Franz, Watchtower president (b. 1893)
1993 - Don DeFore, American actor (b. 1913)
1995 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (b. 1911)
1995 - James Meade, English economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1907)
1998 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1969)
2002 - Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana (b. 1929)
2002 - Joe Strummer, English musician (The Clash) (b. 1952)
2003 - Dave Dudley, American singer (b. 1928)
2004 - Doug Ault, American baseball player (b. 1950)
2006 - Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (b. 1960)
2006 - Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer (b. 1919)
2006 - Dennis Linde, American songwriter (b. 1943)
2007 - Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances...
In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice, sometimes known as Yule, occurs on or very close to this date. In the Southern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs around this time.
Japan - Tōji (winter solstice)

Have a great Monday.

~Brian