Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XIX

[Flynbyu]

Yeah, I've been slacking. Cleaned the apartment a bit. Waiting for the woman to get home.

Cleaned the apartment = Looked at porn all day.



Lunchtime! Be back in a few!

~Brian

[Sand84]

Yo


Thats a funny ass pic Brian

[Peelz]

You guys all gone? 

Have a great new year!

[BRAD]

whats up peels?

[Peelz]

What up B-rad. About to crack open beer #2 here .

Worked sucked and I am ready to relax. Kids are rockin' some WII mariokart, Wife is workin. You partying tonight? If so, be safe.

[BRAD]

sounds good man.  I wish I could drink some tonight.  But I have to do the driving.   Me and the g/f is heading to my uncles for a little party then we are heading to her house for a family party at her moms I think.

[Flynbyu]

Yo


Thats a funny ass pic Brian

Glad you enjoyed it!

We've got some nasty mofos around here.

~Brian

[Peelz]

Got our new laptop 4 days early, way to go Dell. Setting it up now. Better lay off the beers for a bit. 

Can't wait to see all the drunk posts this year. 

[shookie]

yo brian i was down in sallisaw again.

[Peelz]

yo brian i was down in sallisaw again.

and you didn't even stop by for a reach around...Jerk!

[shookie]

 

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jan 1

Annual Catholic Feast of the Circumcision, to celebrate the removal of the Holy Foreskin.

Jan 1 1943

Josef Stalin appears as Time's 1942 "Man of the Year".

Jan 1 1946

Emperor Hirohito descends from being a divine being to mere mortal man. General MacArthur insisted on it.

Jan 1 1959

Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba from Fulgencio Batista. "Don't worry, Castro's regime can't last."

Jan 1 1966

The Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965 goes into effect. Cigarette companies are forced to label their product like so: "Caution: Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your Health"

Jan 1 1976



Potheads alter the "HOLLYWOOD" sign to read "HOLLYWEED". Way to go!

Jan 1 1993

During Hong Kong's new year's festivities, a stampede kills 20 and injures many more.

Jan 1 1995

Fred West, accused of committing England's "House of Horrors" killings, suicides by hanging himself in his prison cell.

Jan 1 1998

Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, dies in Aspen of traumatic neck and head wounds resulting from an accident while playing "ski football".

Birthdays today...
766 - Ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818)
1431 - Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
1449 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)
1467 - Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1548)
1484 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)
1511 - Henry, Duke of Cornwall (d. 1511)
1516 - Margaret Leijonhufvud, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1551)
1557 - István Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (d. 1606)
1600 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (d. 1649)
1614 - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (d. 1672)
1618 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (baptism) (d. 1682)
1638 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
1648 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)
1655 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
1684 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
1704 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787)
1711 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
1714 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1780)
1735 - Paul Revere, American patriot (d. 1818)
1745 - Anthony Wayne, American general and statesman (d. 1796)
1750 - Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (d. 1801)
1752 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (d. 1836)
1767 - Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (d. 1849)
1774 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (d. 1860)
1779 - William Clowes, English printer (d. 1847)
1803 - Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician (d. 1869)
1814 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (d. 1864)
1819 - Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet (d. 1861)
1823 - Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849)
1833 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
1834 - Ludovic Halévy, French playwright (d. 1908)
1848 - John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924)
1852 - Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist (d. 1904)
1854 - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (d. 1941)
1863 - Pierre de Coubertin, French organizer of the Olympic Games (d. 1937)
1864 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
1864 - Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (d. 1957)
1868 - Snitz Edwards, American actor (d. 1937)
1873 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (d. 1952)
1874 - Gustave Whitehead, German inventor (d. 1927)
1874 - Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
1876 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
1878 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929)
1879 - William Fox, Hungarian-born American film producer (d. 1952)
1879 - E. M. Forster, English novelist (d. 1970)
1881 - Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
1887 - Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (d. 1945)
1888 - John Garand, American inventor (d. 1974)
1889 - Charles Bickford, American film actor (d. 1967)
1890 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966)
1892 - Manuel Roxas, 5th President of the Philippines (d. 1948)
1892 - Artur Rodziński, Croatian conductor (d. 1958)
1894 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (d. 1974)
1894 - Shitsu Nakano, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2007)
1895 - J. Edgar Hoover, American FBI director (d. 1972)
1900 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986)
1900 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish musician (d. 1990)
1902 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)
1904 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
1904 - Ethan Allen, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1905 - Stanisław Mazur, Polish mathematician (d. 1981)
1906 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (d. 1974)
1909 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
1909 - Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992)
1909 - Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959)
1911 - Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist
1911 - Basil Dearden, British film director (d. 1971)
1911 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1912 - Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
1912 - Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician (d. 1995)
1914 - Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and SOE agent (d. 1944)
1917 - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981)
1917 - Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)
1918 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
1919 - Carole Landis, American film actress (d. 1948)
1919 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist
1920 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1921 - Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian philosopher (d. 1986)
1922 - Rocky Graziano, American boxer (d. 1990)
1922 - Ernest Hollings, American politician
1923 - Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician (d. 1992)
1923 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
1924 - Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet
1925 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (d. 1981)
1925 - Valentina Cortese, Italian actress
1925 - Raymond Pellegrin, French actor
1926 - Richard Verreau, French-Canadian tenor (d. 2005)
1927 - Doak Walker, American football star (d. 1998)
1927 - Calum MacKay, Canadian hockey player (d. 2001)
1927 - Maurice Béjart, French choreographer (d. 2007)
1927 - Pat Heywood, Scottish actress
1927 - Vernon L. Smith, American economist, winner
1928 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (d. 1984)
1929 - Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer
1930 - Ty Hardin, American film actor
1930 - Gaafar al-Nimeiry, President of Sudan 1971–85
1932 - Giuseppe Patanè, Italian opera conductor (d. 1989)
1932 - Jackie Parker, American football player (d. 2006)
1933 - Joe Orton, English writer (d. 1967)
1933 - Frederick Lowy, Canadian educator
1933 - Norman Yemm, Australian actor
1935 - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (d. 1990)
1936 - James Sinegal, American businessman
1937 - Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, Polish author (d. 1995)
1938 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (d. 2005)
1938 - Clay Cole, American television host and producer
1939 - Michèle Mercier, French actress
1940 - Frank Langella, American actor
1942 - Gennadi Sarafanov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2005)
1942 - Country Joe McDonald, American musician (Country Joe and the Fish)
1942 - Martin Frost, American politician
1942 - Dennis Archer, American politician
1942 - Alassane Ouattara, Former Prime Minister of Ivory Coast
1942 - Judy Stone, Australian pop singer
1943 - Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Indian scientist
1943 - Tony Knowles, 9th Governor of Alaska
1943 - Don Novello, American actor
1943 - Larry Clark, American director
1944 - Jimmy Hart, American wrestling manager
1944 - Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician
1945 - Peter Duncan, Australian politician
1945 - Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver
1946 - Carl B. Hamilton, Swedish economist and politician
1946 - Rick Hurst, American actor
1946 - Rivelino, Brazilian football player
1947 - Jon Corzine, American politician
1947 - Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
1948 - Pavel Grachev, Russian general
1949 - Daniel E Gawthrop, American composer
1950 - Morgan Fisher, English musician (Mott the Hoople)
1950 - Wayne Bennett, Australian rugby league coach
1950 - Deepa Mehta, Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter
1951 - Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
1951 - Nana Patekar, Indian film and stage actor
1951 - Hans-Joachim Stuck, German race car driver
1953 - Greg Carmichael, British guitarist (Acoustic Alchemy)
1954 - Bob Menendez, American politician
1956 - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1956 - Sergei Avdeyev, Russian cosmonaut
1956 - Mike Mitchell, American basketball player
1956 - Kôji Yakusho, Japanese actor
1957 - Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress
1957 - Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer, professor and politician
1958 - Grandmaster Flash, Barbadian musician
1959 - Azali Assoumani, Comorian president
1959 - Jennifer Edwards, American actress
1959 - Panagiotis Giannakis, Greek basketball player and coach
1960 - Michael Seibert, American ice dancer
1961 - Fiona Phillips, British television presenter
1961 - Sam Backo, Australian rugby league footballer
1961 - Mark Wingett, British actor
1961 - Sam Palahnuk, American video game designer
1962 - Sophie Thompson, British actress
1962 - Ari Up, German musician (The Slits)
1963 - Lina Kačiušytė, Lithuanian swimmer
1964 - Juliana Donald, American actress
1964 - Dedee Pfeiffer, American actress
1964 - Clare Holman, British actress
1966 - Anna Burke, Australian politician
1967 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (d. 2000)
1967 - Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Spanish film director
1967 - John Digweed, English DJ
1967 - Tim Dog, American rapper
1968 - Joey Stefano, American adult actor (d. 1994)
1968 - Miki Higashino, Japanese composer
1968 - Davor Šuker, Croatian footballer
1969 - Morris Chestnut, American actor
1969 - Sophie Okonedo, British actress
1969 - Christi Paul, American news anchor
1969 - Verne Troyer, American actor
1969 - Nicolle Dickson, Australian actress
1970 - Gabriel Jarret, American actor
1970 - Shelley O'Donnell, Australian netballer
1970 - Kimberly Page, American actress
1971 - Bobby Holik, Czech hockey player
1971 - Sammie Henson, American wrestler
1972 - Neve McIntosh, Scottish actress
1972 - Lilian Thuram, French footballer
1972 - DJ Shadow, American DJ and songwriter
1973 - Anwar Mansoor Mangrio, Sindhi poet
1974 - Catalina Guirado, English model and TV personality
1975 - Sonali Bendre, Indian model and actress
1975 - Joe Cannon, American soccer player
1975 - Eiichiro Oda, Japanese Manga artist
1976 - Caleb Wyatt, American motocross rider
1976 - Georgina Chapman, British fashion designer and actress
1977 - Hasan Salihamidžić, Bosnian footballer
1977 - Robert Roode, Canadian professional wrestler
1978 - Nina Bott, German actress
1978 - Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
1978 - Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda, Indian spiritualist
1978 - Tarik O'Regan, British composer
1979 - Brody Dalle, Australian singer (The Distillers)
1979 - Koichi Domoto, Japanese artist
1980 - Elin Nordegren, Swedish model
1981 - Jonas Armstrong, Irish actor
1981 - Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian race car driver
1981 - Abdülkadir Koçak, Turkish boxer
1981 - Eden Riegel, American actress
1982 - David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player
1983 - Ali Bastian, English actress and model
1983 - Calum Davenport, English footballer
1983 - Emi Kobayashi, Japanese model
1984 - José Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer
1984 - Alok Kapali, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 - Shareefa, American singer
1984 - Michael Witt, Australian rugby league footballer
1985 - Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
1986 - Glen Davis, American basketball player
1986 - Vidya Balan, Indian actress
1987 - Gilbert Brule, Canadian professional hockey player
1987 - Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
1987 - Devin Setoguchi, Canadian professional hockey player
1989 - Marvin Austin, American football player
1992 - Jack Wilshere, English footballer
1992 or 1994 - He Kexin, Chinese gymnast
1998 - Marlene Lawston, American child actress

Famous deaths...
379 - Saint Basil of Caesarea (b. 330)
404 - Saint Telemachus
874 - Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (b. 846)
898 - Odo, Count of Paris (b. 860)
962 - Baldwin III, Count of Flanders (b. c. 940)
1204 - King Haakon III of Norway (b. c. 1170)
1387 - King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332)
1515 - King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
1554 - Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500)
1559 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (b. 1503)
1560 - Joachim du Bellay, French poet (b. 1522)
1617 - Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (b. 1558)
1631 - Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544)
1697 - Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624)
1716 - William Wycherley, English dramatist (b. 1640)
1730 - Samuel Sewall, English judge (b. 1652)
1742 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)
1748 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
1759 - Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)
1766 - James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (b. 1688)
1782 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
1789 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716)
1793 - Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (b. 1712)
1796 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735)
1800 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (b. 1716)
1817 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (b. 1743)
1852 - John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (b. 1777)
1853 - Gregory Blaxland, Australian explorer (b. 1778)
1862 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)
1869 - Martin W. Bates, American politician (b. 1786)
1881 - Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805)
1892 - Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1894 - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
1896 - Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (b. 1826)
1906 - Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
1919 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881)
1921 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
1931 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
1932 - C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (b. 1846)
1940 - Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865)
1943 - Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, U.S. military officer who gave "a message to Garcia" (b. 1857)
1944 - Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect who designed New Delhi (b. 1869)
1944 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
1953 - Hank Williams, American singer (b. 1923)
1954 - Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (b. 1890)
1957 - Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid.
1958 - Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
1960 - Margaret Sullavan, American actress (b. 1909)
1964 - Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890)
1966 - Vincent Auriol, French politician (b. 1884)
1969 - Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (b. 1888)
1969 - Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902)
1971 - Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (b. 1894)
1972 - Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (b. 1888)
1980 - Pietro Nenni, Italian socialist politician (b. 1891)
1980 - Adolph Deutsch, American composer and arranger (b. 1897)
1981 - Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Jewish concert pianist (b. 1920)
1982 - Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
1984 - Alexis Korner, British blues musician (b. 1928)
1985 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
1986 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
1986 - Bruce Norris, American hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings) (b. 1924)
1991 - Buck Ram, American songwriter and businessman (The Platters) (b. 1907)
1992 - Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (b. 1906)
1994 - Lord Arthur Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
1994 - Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
1994 - Edward Arthur Thompson, British historian (b. 1914)
1995 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1995 - Fred West, British serial killer (suicide) (b. 1941)
1996 - Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901)
1996 - Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (b. 1906)
1997 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician (b. 1937)
1997 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician (b. 1944)
1998 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1905)
2000 - Colin Vaughan, Australian political journalist (b. 1931)
2001 - Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
2002 - Julia Phillips, American film producer (b. 1944)
2003 - Joe Foss, American politician, fighter pilot and AFL Commissioner (b. 1915)
2003 - F. William Free, American advertising executive (b. 1928)
2003 - Cyril Shaps, English actor (b. 1923)
2005 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician (b. 1924)
2005 - Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (b. 1931)
2005 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist (b. 1938)
2005 - Bob Matsui, American politician (b. 1941)
2006 - Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (b. 1913)
2006 - Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (b. 1918)
2006 - Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (b. 1927)
2006 - Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (b. 1956)
2007 - A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1908)
2007 - Ernie Koy, American baseball player (b. 1909)
2007 - Tillie Olsen, American writer (b. 1912)
2007 - Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (b. 1922)
2007 - Julius Hegyi, American conductor (b. 1923)
2007 - Del Reeves, American country singer (b. 1932)
2007 - Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (b. 1943)
2007 - Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (b. 1951)
2007 - Tad Jones, American jazz music historian (b. 1952)
2007 - Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
2008 - Salvatore Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonnano (b. 1932)
2008 - Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (b. 1949)
2008 - Pratap Chandra Chunder, union minister of India (b. 1919)
2008 - Harold Corsini, American photographer (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances...
New Year's Day for many countries around the world using the Gregorian calendar; often celebrated at midnight with fireworks.
Last day of Kwanzaa
Christian celebrations:
Anglican and Episcopal churches - Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus.
Roman Catholicism - Feast of the Circumcision (Old calendar).
Roman Catholicism - Holy Day of Obligation in many countries. Final Day of Octave of Christmas, Solemnity of Mary (New calendar).
January 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Cuba Liberation Day.
Czech Republic: Establishment of the Czech Republic.
Haiti Independence Day.
Slovakia: Establishment of the Slovak Republic.
Sudan Independence Day.
Republic of China: Establishment of the Republic of China
New Year's Day Parade in London, United Kingdom.
Vienna New Year's Concert.
Pasadena, California - the Tournament of Roses Parade and, traditionally, the Rose Bowl.

Happy New Year!

~Brian

[BRAD]

Morning Guys

[Flynbyu]

Good morning Brad.

~Brian

[BRAD]

Morning Brian.  How did your new years go?