Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XIX

[Flynbyu]

Not for long.

~Brian

[Krandall]

nope

[Peelz]

Estoy Aqui'

[Krandall]

buncha girly girls.

[exentix]

huh?

[BRAD]

whats up dude?  where you been?

[exentix]

home haha... computer has been being a douche bag lately so i havent been on too much.

[BRAD]

oh.  so hows the selling of the rappy doing? you still having to get rid of it?

[Krandall]

Haaaapy trails to you!

[RaptorRandy]

Mornin all

[socalrappy700]

mornin, cold one here today.

[Krandall]

We were @ 0 this mornin.  no wind though so not to bad.

[socalrappy700]

14 here with a little wind, too cold for me.

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jan 8 1880

Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, dead in San Francisco. Born Joshua A. Norton, he was adopted by the citizens of the city and issued frequent imperial proclamations.

Jan 8 1935

Elvis born, Tupelo Mississippi.

Jan 8 1973

Ed Kemper, Santa Cruz, California's own serial killer, shoots a hitchhiking co-ed. Her body is hidden at the home of Ed's mother to be molested and dismembered the next day.

Jan 8 1991

Guitarist Steve Clark from Def Leppard found dead from a drug and alcohol overdose. He was 31.

Jan 8 1992

George Bush, sick with the stomach flu, decides not to excuse himself at a Tokyo state dinner. He vomits in the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister while cameras are rolling, to the great amusement of everyone except the Prime Minister.

Jan 8 1998

Unabomber suspect Ted Kaczynski attempts to hang himself in his jail cell with his underwear. Let's hope for his mother's sake that the underwear he chose was clean.

Birthdays today...
1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
1587 - Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1616)
1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
1628 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
1632 - Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)
1635 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop (d. 1709)
1735 - John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)
1786 - Nicholas Biddle, American banking executive (d. 1844)
1788 - Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831)
1788 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
1792 - Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)
1805 - John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871)
1805 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
1812 - Sigismond Thalberg, French pianist and composer (d. 1871)
1817 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)
1821 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)
1821 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (d. 1862)
1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
1830 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)
1836 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912)
1843 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)
1843 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)
1852 - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
1860 - Emma Booth, daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1903)
1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
1864 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
1866 - William G. Conley, American politician (d. 1940)
1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1930)
1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
1873 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)
1873 - Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956)
1881 - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
1885 - John Curtin, Australian politician (d. 1945)
1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist (d. 1967)
1888 - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)
1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1957)
1891 - Storm Jameson, English writer (d. 1986)
1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)
1894 - St Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941)
1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)
1896 - Jaromir Weinberger, Czech-American composer (d. 1967)
1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
1899 - Solomon Bandaranaike, Ceylonese Prime Minister (d. 1959)
1900 - Dame Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (d. 1982)
1902 - Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)
1902 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
1904 - Karl Brandt, Alsacian Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
1905 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)
1908 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)
1909 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
1910 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1988)
1911 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (d. 2006)
1915 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
1921 - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard
1922 - Abbey Simon, U.S. pianist
1923 - Larry Storch, American actor
1923 - Giorgio Tozzi, American bass
1923 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (d. 2008)
1924 - Benjamin Lees, American composer
1924 - Ron Moody, English actor
1925 - Helmuth Hubener, German activist (d. 1942)
1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano
1926 - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)
1926 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian
1927 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator
1928 - Gaston Miron, Quebec poet and editor (d. 1996)
1928 - Slade Gorton, former American politician
1929 - Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor
1931 - Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)
1933 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator
1933 - Jean-Marie Straub, French film director
1933 - Ko Un, Korean poet
1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
1934 - Gene Freese, American baseball player
1934 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer (d. 1977)
1936 - Zdeněk Mácal, Czech conductor
1936 - Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-born British scientist
1937 - Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host
1939 - Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan fashion designer
1938 - Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian bass-baritone
1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)
1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator
1942 - Valya Balkanska, Bulgarian folk singer
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and author
1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress
1944 - Terry Brooks, American writer
1945 - Jeannie Lewis, Australian actress and singer
1945 - Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host
1945 - Kathleen Noone, American actress
1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)
1947 - Don Bendell, American author & karate master
1947 - David Bowie, English musician
1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
1947 - Terry Sylvester, British singer and musician
1948 - Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director
1951 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician
1951 - John McTiernan, American film director
1952 - Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist
1953 - Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
1955 - Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer
1955 - Mike Reno, Canadian musician
1957 - Nacho Duato, Spanish classical dancer and choreographer
1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler
1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Crowded House) (d. 2005)
1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh
1962 - Chris Marion, American musician
1965 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
1966 - Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player
1967 - R. Kelly, American singer
1968 - Keith Mullings, American boxer
1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician
1969 - Ami Dolenz, American actress
1970 - Rachel Friend, Australian actress
1971 - Jason Giambi, American baseball player
1971 - Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer
1973 - Mark Knight, English sound designer
1973 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
1973 - Jason Stevens, Australian rugby league footballer
1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
1975 - Harris Jayaraj, Indian music composer
1976 - Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician
1976 - Josh Meyers, American actor
1976 - Carl Pavano, American baseball player
1976 - Brad Snyder, Canadian shot putter
1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
1977 - Ron Pederson, Canadian actor
1977 - Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress
1978 - Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess grandmaster
1978 - Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
1979 - Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
1979 - Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
1979 - Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
1980 - Rachel Nichols, American actress
1981 - Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
1981 - Xie Xingfang, Chinese badminton player
1982 - Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer
1982 - wiL Francis, American singer
1982 - Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
1982 - John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
1983 - Chris Mordetzky, American wrestler
1983 - Felipe Colombo, Argentine-Mexican actor and singer
1984 - Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
1985 - Rachael Lampa, American singer
1985 - Cho Cheng, American fashion designer
1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
1986 - David Silva, Spanish footballer
1988 - Adam T. Siska, American musician (The Academy Is...)
1990 - Maci Wainwright, American singer
1991 - Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer

Famous deaths...
482 - Saint Severinus of Noricum
1100 - Antipope Clement III (b. c.1029)
1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
1198 - Pope Celestine III (b. c.1106)
1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
1337 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267)
1456 - St Lawrence Justinian, Italian bishop and first Patriarch of Venice (b. 1381)
1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
1557 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
1570 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (b. c.1510)
1598 - John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525)
1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist (b. 1564)
1707 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
1775 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
1789 - Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. c.1703)
1794 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
1815 - Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)
1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
1854 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)
1865 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1880 - Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (b. 1811)
1896 - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
1901 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1916 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
1916 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
1918 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
1934 - Serge Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (b. 1886)
1938 - Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)
1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of scouting (b. 1857)
1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
1943 - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
1944 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
1945 - Karl Krafft, Swiss astrologer who was manipulated by the Nazi regime (b. 1900)
1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
1950 - Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
1953 - Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
1967 - Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (b. 1927)
1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
1970 - Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)
1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet (b. 1911)
1975 - John Gregson, English actor (b. 1919)
1975 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
1976 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
1979 - Sara Carter, American country musician (b. 1898)
1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
1981 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
1982 - Grégoire Aslan, Armenian actor (b. 1908)
1983 - Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
1983 - Ron Frazer, Australian actor (b. 1924)
1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
1990 - Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)
1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
1994 - Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
1994 - Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)
1995 - Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)
1996 - John Hargreaves, Australian actor (b. 1945)
1996 - François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
1996 - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (b. 1907)
1997 - Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
2005 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)
2005 - Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer
2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
2006 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
2007 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
2007 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
2007 - Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
2007 - David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
2007 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
2008 - George Moore, Australian champion jockey (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances...
Commonwealth Day is celebrated in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Bubblebath Day

Have a great Thursday.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

Morning all.  Beautiful day here. Gonna reach above 60 degrees