Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XIX

[socalrappy700]

grand total for snow yesterday was over a foot.   

[Warren]

must be nice all we got here was ice and sleet. i wish it would snow here again. 

[Peelz]

Snowing here, the pretty kind. Not cold and windy.

[socalrappy700]

We are under a warning, nasty storm on the way.  3-4 inches, bitter cold and 30-40mph winds. 

[Peelz]

Marvelous 

We still haven't got enough snow in one shot to fire up the big snowblower. Just shovel.    That is wonderful on a bad back.

[Warren]

Snowing here, the pretty kind. Not cold and windy.

that's the kind that ushally has big ass flakes. thats the good snow man snow. lol

We are under a warning, nasty storm on the way.  3-4 inches, bitter cold and 30-40mph winds. 

lucky you. that should make for some hazardous driving. are people horrible winter drivers up your way socal? seems if we get 2 inches of snow there is about 30 people that end up in the ditches around here.  

[Warren]

Marvelous 

We still haven't got enough snow in one shot to fire up the big snowblower. Just shovel.    That is wonderful on a bad back.

just do what my dad does. lol if theres one inch on the ground he gets out the snow blower. lol

[Peelz]

Correct Warren. It is the "ride rappy down the street kinda snow" Opened the Garage already.

haha warren. I have this huge snowblower that is overkilll for my driveway, takes longer to get it out, then run it. Unless we get a shitload. Then I do mine and some of the neighbors, especially the old guy across the street.

[socalrappy700]

No snowblower for me, I shoveled all of it yesterday.  Sucks, and the house we looked at has a big driveway, that could suck. 

[Peelz]

No snowblower for me, I shoveled all of it yesterday.  Sucks, and the house we looked at has a big driveway, that could suck. 

Plow on Raptor..."braap, braap, braaap...done"   

[Warren]

yeah my dad used to clear out half our blocks driveways. we havn't had enough snow yet for that though

[socalrappy700]

No snowblower for me, I shoveled all of it yesterday.  Sucks, and the house we looked at has a big driveway, that could suck. 

Plow on Raptor..."braap, braap, braaap...done"   

Nice idea, and it has a big garage, 3.5 car.

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jan 11 1892

After sampling the services of many adolescent women in the tropics, the fifty year old painter Paul Gauguin marries Tehura, an awfully cute 13 year old Tahitian girl.

Jan 11 1960

Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas kills his 74 year old mother. He tells Toledo police that he raped her corpse, but later recants this. The murder ends his career as a serial killer; he is variously attributed to having killed between 100 and 600 people. The truth is probably below 100.

Jan 11 1962

In the Peruvian Andes, an avalanche buries 3,000 people alive as the volcano Huascaran erupts.

Jan 11 1964

The US Surgeon General warns against smoking for the first time. It's amazing how many dumbshits need to be told that inhaling smoke is harmful.

Jan 11 1966

Numerous people, including the mayor of Wanaque and their police chief, observe a UFO over Wanaque Reservoir, burning holes in the ice. The Air Force explained it as a weather balloon, but later withdrew that claim and called it a helicopter.

Birthdays today...
347 - Emperor Theodosius I "The Great" of Rome (d. 395)
889 - Abd-ar-Rahman III, Emir and Caliph of Cordoba (d. 961)
1322 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (d. 1380)
1359 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (d. 1393)
1395 - Michelle of Valois, Duchess of Burgundy (d. 1422)
1503 - Parmigianino, Italian artist (d. 1540)
1591 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (d. 1646)
1630 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard in the US (d. 1684)
1671 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (d. 1745)
1755 - Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804)
1757 - Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (d. 1831)
1788 - William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)
1800 - Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (d. 1895)
1807 - Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder (d. 1874)
1814 - James Paget, British surgeon and pathologist (d. 1899)
1815 - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
1825 - Bayard Taylor, U.S. poet and writer (d. 1878)
1839 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator, philosopher and nationalist (d. 1903)
1842 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
1843 - Charles Yelverton O'Connor, Irish-Australian engineer (d. 1902)
1845 - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (d. 1912)
1850 - Joseph Charles Arthur, American botanist (d. 1942)
1852 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
1853 - Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (d. 1926)
1856 - Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (d. 1932)
1857 - Fred Archer, English jockey (d. 1886)
1858 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947)
1859 - Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India (d. 1925)
1864 - Thomas Dixon, American playwright, lecturer, North Carolina state legislator, lawyer, and author (d. 1946)
1867 - Edward B. Titchener, British psychologist. (d. 1927)
1868 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (d. 1940)
1870 - Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (d. 1945)
1872 - George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
1873 - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (d. 1949)
1875 - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (d. 1956)
1876 - Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1885 - Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (d. 1965)
1885 - Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (d. 1977)
1887 - Aldo Leopold, American ecologist (d. 1948)
1888 - Chester Conklin, American comedian and actor (d. 1971)
1889 - Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (d. 1938)
1890 - Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author (d. 1954)
1890 - Max Carey, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1895 - Laurens Hammond, American inventor of the Hammond organ (d. 1973)
1897 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979)
1899 - Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991)
1901 - Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988)
1902 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer (d. 1986)
1903 - Alan Paton, South African writer (d. 1988)
1905 - Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
1905 - Manfred B Lee, U.S. writer, co-eponym of Ellery Queen (d. 1971)
1906 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
1907 - Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (d. 1982)
1908 - Lionel Stander, American actor (d. 1994)
1910 - Sir Shane Paltridge, Australian politician (d. 1966)
1910 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (d. 1975)
1910 - Izler Solomon, American conductor (d. 1987)
1911 - Nora Heysen, Australian artist (d. 2003)
1911 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
1915 - Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier, co-founder Special Air Service (d. 1955)
1916 - Bernard Blier, French actor (d. 1989)
1917 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (d. 1982)
1921 - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (d. 1990)
1921 - Juanita M. Kreps, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
1922 - Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer (d. 1986)
1923 - Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, automobile designer and businessman
1924 - Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
1924 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
1924 - Don Cherry, American singer and golfer
1924 - Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, Nobel laureate
1925 - Grant Tinker, American television executive
1926 - Lev Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998)
1928 - David L. Wolper, American television producer
1930 - Ron Mulock, Australian politician
1930 - Rod Taylor, Australian-born American actor
1931 - Betty Churcher, director of the National Gallery of Australia
1932 - Alfonso Arau, Mexican film director
1934 - Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
1934 - Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, Computer scientist
1935 - Ghita Nørby, Danish actress
1938 - Fischer Black, American economist (d. 1995)
1938 - Arthur Scargill, Socialist Labour Party (UK) leader
1939 - Anne Heggtveit, Canadian alpine skier
1941 - Gérson, Brazilian footballer
1942 - Clarence Clemons, American musician (E Street Band)
1943 - Jim Hightower, American radio host and author
1944 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (d. 1989)
1944 - Shibu Soren, Indian politician
1945 - Christine Kaufmann, German-Austrian actress
1945 - Samdech Preah Sanghareach Bour Kry, Supreme Patriarch of the Cambodian Dhammayutt Order
1946 - Naomi Judd, American singer
1946 - Tony Kaye, British piano and organ player (Yes)
1946 - John Piper, American theologian
1949 - Daryl Braithwaite, Australian rock singer
1951 - Willie Maddren, English former footballer (d. 2000)
1952 - Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright
1952 - Ben Crenshaw, American golfer
1952 - Michael Forshaw, Australian politician
1952 - Lee Ritenour, American musician and composer
1953 - John Sessions, Scottish actor
1956 - Robert Earl Keen, American singer
1957 - Bryan Robson, English footballer and manager
1958 - Vicki Peterson, American musician (The Bangles)
1958 - Diego León Montoya Sánchez, former Columbian crime boss
1959 - Rob Ramage, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Jasper Fforde, British author
1961 - Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Prince of Austria and Prince Royal of Hungary
1962 - Susan Lindauer, American peace activist and accused spy
1963 - Tracy Caulkins, U.S. Olympic swimmer
1963 - Dean Reynolds, English snooker player
1965 - Roland Scholten, Dutch Darts Player
1966 - Marc Acito, American novelist and humorist
1966 - Kelley Law, Canadian curler
1967 - Derek Riddell, Scottish actor
1968 - Anders Borg, Swedish politician
1968 - Tom Dumont, American musician
1969 - Manny Acta, Dominican baseball player
1969 - Kyle Richards, American actress
1970 - Chris Jent, American basketball player and coach
1970 - Joy Nilo, Filipino Composer
1970 - Malcolm D. Lee, American actor, film director, and screenwriter.
1971 - Mary J. Blige, American singer
1971 - Chris Willsher, English singer-songwriter, drummer, writer and performer
1972 - Marc Blucas, American actor
1972 - Amanda Peet, American actress
1972 - Christian Jacobs, Lead singer of The Aquabats
1973 - Joanna Brodzik, Polish actress
1973 - Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer
1973 - Rockmond Dunbar, American actor
1974 - Cody McKay, Canadian baseball player
1974 - Jens Nowotny, German footballer
1975 - Rory Fitzpatrick, American ice hockey player
1976 - Efthimios Rentzias, Greek basketball player
1977 - Shomari Buchanan, American football player
1977 - Nadia Turner, American singer
1978 - Michael Duff, Northern Irish footballer
1978 - Emile Heskey, English footballer
1978 - Holly Brisley, Australian actress
1979 - Darren Lynn Bousman, American film director
1979 - Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer
1980 - Lovieanne Jung, American softball player
1980 - Mike Williams, American football player
1980 - Deanna Wright, American actress
1981 - Jamelia, English singer
1981 - Tom Meighan, British singer (Kasabian)
1982 - Ashley Taylor Dawson, British actor and singer
1982 - Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress
1983 - Ted Richards, Australian rules footballer
1983 - Matthew Palleschi, Canadian soccer player
1983 - Adrian Sutil, German racing driver
1985 - Rie fu, Japanese singer
1985 - Kazuki Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
1985 - Newton Faulkner, British singer
1987 - Scotty Cranmer, American professional BMX rider
1988 - Daniel Dzufer, Australian rules footballer
1993 - Flora Cross, American actress

Famous deaths...
314 - St. Miltiades
705 - Pope John VI
802 - St. Paulinus II of Aquileia
812 - Staurakios, Byzantine Emperor
844 - Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor
1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1000)
1083 - Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria (b. c. 1020)
1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
1495 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian author, literary theorist, and Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)
1641 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583)
1696 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
1703 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (b. 1632)
1713 - Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637)
1735 - Danilo I , Vladika of Montenegro (b. c.1670)
1753 - Sir Hans Sloane, Ulster-Scot physician and collector (b. 1660)
1762 - Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
1763 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676)
1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (b. 1704)
1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)
1801 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (b. 1749)
1836 - John Molson, Canadian brewer (b. 1763)
1843 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and writer of the American national anthem (b. 1779)
1867 - Sir Stuart Donaldson, first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales (b. 1812)
1882 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)
1891 - Baron Georges Haussmann, French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris (b. 1809)
1901 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
1902 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
1905 - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)
1914 - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842)
1923 - King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
1928 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
1931 - James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
1941 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
1944 - Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law (b. 1903)
1947 - Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
1952 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (b. 1889)
1952 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (b. 1885)
1954 - Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
1957 - Sir Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law (b. 1867)
1958 - Alec Rowley, English composer (b. 1892)
1958 - Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
1961 - Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)
1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
1966 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
1966 - Lal Bahadur Shastri, third Prime Minister of independent India (b. 1904)
1968 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1969 - Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)
1972 - Padraic Colum, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore (b. 1881)
1975 - Max Lorenz, German heldentenor famous for Wagner roles (b. 1901)
1978 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927)
1979 - Jack Soo, American actor (b. 1917)
1980 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
1981 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1888)
1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
1985 - Sir William McKell, Premier of New South Wales, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
1986 - Sid Chaplin, UK novelist (b. 1916)
1987 - Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist (b. 1911)
1988 - Florence Knapp, American, one-time oldest person in the world (b. 1873)
1988 - Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, American WW II Marine aviator (b. 1912)
1991 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1994 - Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (b. 1902)
1995 - Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (b. 1909)
1998 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
1999 - Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (b. 1897)
1999 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)
1999 - Fabrizio de André, Italian singer (b. 1940)
2000 - Betty Archdale, Anglo-Australian educationalist and cricketer (b. 1907)
2000 - Ivan Combe, American inventor (b. 1911)
2000 - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)
2001 - Michael Williams, British actor, husband of Judi Dench (b. 1935)
2002 - Henri Verneuil, French playwright and film director (b. 1920)
2002 - Struan Sutherland, Australian medical researcher (b. 1936)
2003 - Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)
2003 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
2003 - Mickey Finn, English drummer (T. Rex) (b. 1947)
2005 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (b. 1913)
2005 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1938)
2005 - James Griffin, American musician (Bread) (b. 1943)
2005 - Fabrizio Meoni, Italian motorcyclist (b. 1957)
2006 - Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (b. 1966)
2006 - Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim (b. 1998)
2007 - Puchi Balseiro, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter (b. 1926)
2007 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (b. 1932)
2007 - Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
2008 - Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (b. 1917)
2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, the 1st person to climb Mt Everest in 1953 (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances...
Albania - Republic Day (1946)
Morocco - Independence Resistance Day
Nepal - Unity Day
Puerto Rico - Eugenio Maria de Hostos Day
Roman Empire - First day of Carmentalia in honor of Carmenta
Paulinus of Aquileia
Theodosius the Cenobiarch
January 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Hat Day

Have a great Sunday.

~Brian

[Peelz]

No snowblower for me, I shoveled all of it yesterday.  Sucks, and the house we looked at has a big driveway, that could suck. 

Plow on Raptor..."braap, braap, braaap...done"   

Nice idea, and it has a big garage, 3.5 car.

I need a bigger garage...big time. I put up a shed in the back, it is full of yard toys, baby clothes, Xmas decorations. Need to go bigger. In our 2 car garage: 3 quads, 3 Schwinns, The streetbike, and some lawnchairs for our guests that smoke.    Overflowing.  

There was a studded KFX700 with a plow at the ice track last year haulin ass and plowin the ice. It was pretty damned cool.




Hey Brian, good morning and Happy "Nepalese Unity" Day  And...international hat day! Got your goat roper hat on?

[Krandall]

Back home today.


My bro and I left home (parents place) friday night @ 7:15pm drove out to Billings Montana to pick up a sled. We got there at about 8:30am. through minnesota was an easy drive. Got to North Dakota not bad roads clear. Made it to Bismarck... Roads literally glare ice (As they don't use salt on the roads) went from doing 80mph to 30-40 for about 2 hours. made it to Montana not bad. Roads patchy but not horrible. drove on a full moon we coudl see everything. Got there 830 waited for the guy in the wal-mart parking lot in Billings. tired is about how I would explain it. Guy showed up 1/2 hour late whatev. we left there around 9:15am drove back home nice weather sunny no clouds. could see the snow storm that was comin moving at us. Windy as heck across the plains of north dakota dealt with drifting all across 94. Made it to Minn about 6:00PM last night. 4 more hours to go thankful we were in a state that uses salt on the roads. Made it to my parents place @ 10:00pm. Sled. 95' XCR 600 Tripple. Aftermarket 153" Tunnel, 144" Track w/ 2" paddle. SLP Pipes and custom painted hood. Hoping my bro will post some pics up tonight. Needs to be re-jetted for the new altitude home. Got to the apartment last night @ midnight on about 2 hours of sleep total. Crashed slept for 12 hours.

Glad to be back. total miles put on in our 27 hour venture. 1706