Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XIX

[Peelz]

Hey Brad...missed your post.

[socalrappy700]

Hola Aaron. Haven't seen you on in awhile. Hope all's well.

Socal....Just lie...tell them you lost your job. ...Gone...

I would be lying if I told you I haven't thought about that.  But I like to do the right thing and man up.  My dad and I have been talking all day while we've been watching football and I think him and I are on the same page.  He did go as far as try to bribe us with help on a house but I told him I'm not that guy, and he didn't raise me to be.  We're going to stick it out the next year so we're here the full two years and if we're not happy we'll do what is best for OUR family. 

[Peelz]

Hola Aaron. Haven't seen you on in awhile. Hope all's well.

Socal....Just lie...tell them you lost your job. ...Gone...

I would be lying if I told you I haven't thought about that.  But I like to do the right thing and man up.  My dad and I have been talking all day while we've been watching football and I think him and I are on the same page.  He did go as far as try to bribe us with help on a house but I told him I'm not that guy, and he didn't raise me to be.  We're going to stick it out the next year so we're here the full two years and if we're not happy we'll do what is best for OUR family. 

Good. I have a feeling if I were to announce plans to leave, my parents would do the same.

[socalrappy700]

Hola Aaron. Haven't seen you on in awhile. Hope all's well.

Socal....Just lie...tell them you lost your job. ...Gone...

I would be lying if I told you I haven't thought about that.  But I like to do the right thing and man up.  My dad and I have been talking all day while we've been watching football and I think him and I are on the same page.  He did go as far as try to bribe us with help on a house but I told him I'm not that guy, and he didn't raise me to be.  We're going to stick it out the next year so we're here the full two years and if we're not happy we'll do what is best for OUR family. 

Good. I have a feeling if I were to announce plans to leave, my parents would do the same.

Yeah, I saw it coming.  He said "would you stay if you could just pick a house and you mom and I work something out?"  I do feel bad for them, they are going to be crushed if we leave.

[Peelz]

Hola Aaron. Haven't seen you on in awhile. Hope all's well.

Socal....Just lie...tell them you lost your job. ...Gone...

I would be lying if I told you I haven't thought about that.  But I like to do the right thing and man up.  My dad and I have been talking all day while we've been watching football and I think him and I are on the same page.  He did go as far as try to bribe us with help on a house but I told him I'm not that guy, and he didn't raise me to be.  We're going to stick it out the next year so we're here the full two years and if we're not happy we'll do what is best for OUR family. 

Good. I have a feeling if I were to announce plans to leave, my parents would do the same.

Yeah, I saw it coming.  He said "would you stay if you could just pick a house and you mom and I work something out?"  I do feel bad for them, they are going to be crushed if we leave.

When my sister and her husband made their attempt to live out there we all helped them. Rented out and cared for their house. They didn't last. My sister thought she was a Cali person, but she was only 8 when we moved to Ia. Couldn't fit in with the people out there, and the pace of life. Oh and the cost of living. 
Lived in Sherman Oaks....LA. Just didn't prepare themselves.

[socalrappy700]

Thats why you're never leaving.....you've gone native.

[exentix]

ho's?

[Peelz]

Thats why you're never leaving.....you've gone native.

No I "ain't"  !!!!

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Dec 29 1170

Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is slashed to death by four of King Henry II's knights at the altar of the Virgin Mary. "Is there no one who will rid me from this turbulent priest", cried Henry in frustration earlier that month. It was apparently not a serious demand for Becket's death, but that did not stop his brains from being splattered in Canterbury Cathedral.

Dec 29 1890

The Wounded Knee Massacre took place in Wounded Knee, South Dakota as over 200 Sioux were killed by US troops sent to disarm them.

Dec 29 1972

Members of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes admit at a press conference that they survived by Cannibalism. This spawned a popular theme for bumper stickers, "Rugby Players Eat Their Dead". But best of all is the quote from one of the team, "If we had been soccer players, we would have died."

Dec 29 1975

Bomb explodes at LaGuardia airport in New York, killing 11 people and injuring many others.

Dec 29 1993

Former child star Todd Bridges (who played Willis on "Different Strokes") arrested for transportation of methamphetamine.

Dec 29 1997

Male nurse Orville Lynn Majors is charged with six counts of murder at Vermillion County Hospital in Newport, MD. He is suspected of many other murders, likely over 100. Majors would apparently inject older patients with potassium chloride or other drugs, and frequently he expressed a dislike for elderlies. When off duty, hospital deaths occurred once every 551 hours; but on duty, once every 23 hours.

Birthdays today...
1709 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762)
1721 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764)
1796 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877)
1800 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor (d. 1860)
1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)
1816 - Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)
1843 - Elisabeth of Wied (pen name was Carmen Sylva), queen of Romania and writer (d. 1916)
1856 - Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (d. 1894)
1859 - Venustiano Carranza, 54th President of Mexico (d. 1920)
1876 - Pablo Casals, Catalan musician (d. 1973)
1881 - Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968)
1896 - David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974)
1899 - Nie Rongzhen, People's Liberation Army Chief of General Staff (d. 1992)
1902 - Nels Stewart, National Hockey League player (d. 1957)
1908 - Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian (d. 1993)
1910 - Ronald Coase, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1914 - Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989)
1914 - Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d. 1999)
1915 - Bill Osmanski, American football player (d. 1996)
1917 - Tom Bradley, American politician (d. 1998)
1917 - Ramanand Sagar, Indian film director (d. 2005)
1920 - Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-American actress (d. 1995)
1921 - Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (d. 2006)
1922 - William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998)
1925 - Pete Dye, American golf course architect
1927 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
1928 - Bernard Cribbins, British actor
1931 - Prince Gu of Korea, Korean royalty (d. 2005)
1932 - Inga Swenson, American actress
1934 - Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress
1936 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)
1937 - Wayne Huizenga, American football team owner
1937 - Barbara Steele, British actress
1938 - Harvey Smith, English showjumper
1938 - Jon Voight, American actor
1941 - Ray Thomas, British musician (The Moody Blues)
1942 - Rick Danko, Canadian musician (The Band) (d. 1999)
1942 - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor
1946 - Marianne Faithfull, British singer
1947 - Ted Danson, American actor
1947 - Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (d. 1998)
1947 - Vincent Winter, British actor (d. 1998)
1949 - Syed Kirmani, Indian cricket player
1949 - David Topliss, rugby league player
1950 - Jon Polito, American actor
1951 - Yvonne Elliman, American disco singer
1951 - Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (d. 2007)
1952 - Gelsey Kirkland, American dancer
1953 - Stanley Tookie Williams, American author/murderer (d. 2005)
1953 - Gali Atari, Israeli singer and actress
1954 - Roger Voudouris, American singer (d. 2003)
1954 - Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002)
1956 - Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian
1957 - Brad Grey, American film producer
1957 - Paul Rudnick, American screenwriter/playwright
1958 - Nancy J. Currie, American astronaut
1959 - Patricia Clarkson, American actress
1959 - Paula Poundstone, American comedian
1960 - David Boon, Australian Cricketer
1960 - Thomas Lubanga, founder and leader of Union of Congolese Patriots
1961 - Kevin Granata, American associate professor at Virginia Tech, victim of the Virginia Tech massacre (d. 2007)
1961 - Jim Reid, Scottish singer (The Jesus and Mary Chain, Freeheat)
1962 - Blake Mitchell, American adult actress
1962 - Devon White, Jamaican baseball player
1963 - Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiard player
1963 - Des Foy, British rugby league player
1963 - Dave McKean, British artist and filmmaker
1963 - Sean Payton, American football coach
1965 - Dexter Holland, American musician (The Offspring)
1966 - Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer
1967 - Ashleigh Banfield, Canadian journalist
1967 - Chris Barnes, American singer
1967 - Andy Wachowski, American director
1969 - Jennifer Ehle, American actress
1969 - Allan McNish, Scottish race car driver
1970 - Aled Jones, Welsh singer
1970 - Hidetoshi Mitsusada, Japanese racing driver
1970 - Glen Phillips, American musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
1970 - Kevin Weisman, American actor
1972 - Asheru, American rapper
1972 - Jason Kreis, American soccer player
1972 - Jude Law, British actor
1972 - Renu, Indian
1972 - Evan Seinfeld, American musician (Biohazard) and actor
1973 - Pimp C, American rapper (UGK) (d. 2007)
1973 - Theo Epstein, American baseball general manager
1974 - Mekhi Phifer, American actor
1974 - Richie Sexson, American baseball player
1975 - Jaret Wright, American baseball player
1976 - Danny R. McBride, American actor, writer, and producer
1976 - Filip Kuba, Czech hockey player, defenseman for the Ottawa Senators
1977 - Katherine Moennig, American actress
1977 - Jimmy Journell, American baseball player
1978 - Matthew Carr, Australian rules footballer
1978 - Alexis Amore, Peruvian pornographic actress
1978 - Kieron Dyer, English footballer
1978 - LaToya London, American singer
1979 - Diego Luna, Mexican actor
1979 - Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed-martial arts fighter
1979 - Ariel Schrag, American Cartoonist
1981 - Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater
1982 - Dale Morris, Australian rules footballer
1982 - Gabrielle Destroismaisons, Quebec singer
1983 - James Kelly, Australian rules footballer
1983 - Jessica Andrews, American country/pop singer
1986 - Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and model
1987 - Yuhi Sekiguchi, Japanese racing driver
1988 - Agnes Szavay, Hungarian tennis player
1989 - Nathan Forbes, British footballer
1994 - Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan

Famous deaths...
721 - Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661)
1170 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. 1118)
1563 - Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515)
1634 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)
1661 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
1689 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)
1731 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)
1737 - Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)
1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)
1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
1891 - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (b. 1823)
1894 - Christina Rossetti, English poet (b. 1830)
1897 - William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812)
1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
1924 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (b. 1875)
1929 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
1937 - Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878)
1953 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(b. 1887)
1960 - Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862)
1960 - Philippe Panneton, Quebec physician, diplomat and writer (b. 1895)
1967 - Paul Whiteman, American musician and conductor (b. 1890)
1968 - Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
1970 - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909)
1976 - Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (b. 1954)
1980 - Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
1980 - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899)
1981 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (b. 1893)
1986 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director (b. 1932)
1988 - Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (b. 1940)
1993 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (b. 1930)
1995 - Lita Grey, American actress (b. 1908)
1996 - Mireille Hartuch, French singer and actress (b. 1906)
1998 - Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (b. 1930)
1999 - Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (b. 1906)
2001 - Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908)
2003 - Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)
2003 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (b. 1932)
2003 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (b. 1928)
2004 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
2004 - Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947)
2004 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (b. 1915)
2005 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922)
2007 - Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
2007 - Kevin Greening, British radio presenter (b. 1962)

Holidays and observances...
The fifth day of Christmas in Western Christianity.

Have a great Monday.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

Looks like it will be in the mid 70's in cali when we are out there.    :wootwoot:

[Flynbyu]

We are supposed to be in the 60's here today. 65F tomorrow.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

I'm just looking forward to seeing green again, instead of the brown, gray and dead we have here. 

[BRAD]

Whats up guys?  Its not supposed to break 50 for us today.

[Flynbyu]

I'm just looking forward to seeing green again, instead of the brown, gray and dead we have here. 

Amen.

Depressing.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

when I left on Wednesday it was a blizzard and we had two feet of snow on the ground.  But when I came home on Saturday it was almost 60 and a tropical storm.....plus all the snow was gone.  Now its cold again and the only snow we have is a few grayish piles along the driveway.  Everything else is dead.