Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume III

[BRAD]

hows it going Aaron?

[Colorado700R]

Just got done setting up the rappy for walden  :grin_nod:

[BRAD]

sounds good. i havent rode mine in almost 2 weeks. i treid waxing it tonight any got mad and quite after doing half of the back fender

[Colorado700R]

why no riding?

[BRAD]

i was busy workin all week before last. and was gone on vacation all last week. kinda sucks i was hoping to ride yesterday but it rained me out. and i couldnt get anybody to ride today

[Flynbyu]

We have A-10s fly near our house all the time, they are really quiet like they say.

New truck...pulls the hauler like it isn't there.

Yep, pretty quiet......Turbofan engines. Really high pitch sound vs. afterburner noise. You're cose to Nellis right? Lots of activity there!

You got a new ride? Sweet.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

May 28 1946

Manhattan Project scientists Klaus Fuchs and John von Neumann file for a secret patent on their design for the hydrogen bomb initiator.

May 28 1959

America launches a Jupiter rocket containing a rhesus monkey named Able and a squirrel monkey named Miss Baker. After experiencing nine minutes of microgravity, the capsule successfully returns to Earth with both monkeys intact. However, Able dies during surgery to remove his electrodes.

May 28 1977

All hell breaks loose as our very own Socal is born on this date. Happy Birthday E!

May 28 1981

Former Milwaukee police officer and Playboy bunny Laurie "Bambi" Bemenek breaks into the house of her husband's ex-wife and murders her. Prosecutors will claim that Bemenek was incensed over the amount of alimony her husband was paying. Bambi later escapes from prison in 1990, fleeing to Canada.

May 28 1987

German teenager Matthias Rust lands his Cessna in Moscow's Red Square, buzzing the Kremlin on the way in. He serves 18 months in prison for this prank, which also costs the commander of the Soviet Air Command his job.

May 28 1998

Talented comedian Phil Hartman dies at the hand of his crazy wife Brynne, who then commits suicide after the police arrive. Hartman's corpse is found in bed with multiple gunshot wounds to the head. SNL televises a very bad retrospective of his work several weeks later.

Birthdays today...
1140 - Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
1371 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419)
1524 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
1582 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (d. 1662)
1588 - Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (d. 1672)
1641 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
1660 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
1676 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
1692 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (d. 1752)
1738 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814)
1759 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
1779 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852)
1807 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
1818 - Pierre Beauregard, American Confederate general (d. 1893)
1836 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
1837 - George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
1837 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)
1853 - Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
1858 - Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)
1872 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
1878 - Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
1883 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian activist (d. 1966)
1883 - Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (d. 1978)
1884 - Edvard Beneš, Czech politician (d. 1948)
1886 - Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (d. 1954)
1888 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953)
1888 - Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1942)
1889 - Richard Réti, Austrian-Czech chess grandmaster (d. 1929)
1892 - Sepp Dietrich, German SS officer (d. 1966)
1900 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
1908 - Ian Fleming, English author (d. 1964)
1909 - Red Horner, Canadian hockey player (d. 2005)
1910 - T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)
1910 - Lady Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)
1911 - Thora Hird, British actress (d. 2003)
1911 - Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (d. 1986)
1912 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1990)
1912 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist and politician (d. 1992)
1914 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)
1915 - Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001)
1916 - Walker Percy, American author (d. 1990)
1917 - Papa John Creech, American musician (d. 1994)
1918 - Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 1990)
1921 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
1922 - Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
1923 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)
1923 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor and politician (d. 1998)
1925 - Bülent Ecevit, Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2006)
1925 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone
1931 - Carroll Baker, American actress
1934 - Dionne quintuplets (Emilie d. 1954, Marie d. 1970, Yvonne d. 2001)
1936 - Betty Shabazz, American civil rights activist (d. 1997)
1936 - Claude Forget, French-Canadian politician
1938 - Jerry West, American basketball player
1938 - Prince Buster, Jamaican musician
1941 - Beth Howland, American actress
1942 - Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1943 - Terry Crisp, Canadian hockey coach
1943 - Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004)
1944 - Rudy Giuliani, American politician
1944 - Gladys Knight, American singer and actress
1944 - Patricia Quinn, Northern Irish actress
1944 - Billy Vera, American actor and musician
1944 - Faith Brown, British actress
1945 - John Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1945 - Gary Stewart, American singer (d. 2003)
1945 - Hunter "Patch" Adams, American doctor
1945 - John N. Bambacus, American politician
1946 - Satchidanandan, Indian poet
1946 - Skip Jutze, American baseball player
1947 - Sondra Locke, American actress
1947 - Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Egyptologist
1949 - Wendy O. Williams, American musician (The Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
1950 - Ian Bradley, British writer and academic
1950 - Jim Harris, American professional wrestler
1952 - Russell J. Wintner, American film executive
1953 - Arto Lindsay, American guitarist and singer
1954 - John Tory, Canadian politician
1954 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (d.1988)
1955 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004)
1955 - Mark Howe, American ice hockey player
1956 - Julie Peasgood, British actress
1956 - Jerry Douglas, American dobro player
1956 - Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1980)
1957 - Kirk Gibson, American baseball player
1957 - Ben Howland, American college basketball coach
1959 - John Morgan, British etiquette expert (d. 2000)
1962 - Brandon Cruz, American actor
1962 - Roland Gift, English musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
1962 - James Michael Tyler, American actor
1963 - Houman Younessi, Iranian-born scientist
1963 - Gavin Harrison, British drummer (Porcupine Tree)
1964 - Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer
1964 - Christa Miller, American actress
1964 - David Baddiel, British comedian and television presenter
1964 - Phil Vassar, American country music singer
1965 - Chris Ballew, American musician
1967 - Glen Rice, American basketball player
1968 - Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
1969 - Mike DiFelice, American baseball player
1969 - Justin Kirk, American actor
1970 - Morgan Fox, Canadian model and 1990 Playboy playmate
1970 - Ian Cashmore, English actor and paranormal investigator
1970 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
1971 - Isabelle Carré, French actress
1971 - Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian figure skater
1972 - Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist
1972 - Guidoni Junior Doriva, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress
1976 - Liam O'Brien, American voice actor
1976 - Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
1976 - Glenn Morrison, Rugby League Player
1977 - Jeremy Borash, American professional wrestling announcer
1977 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View)
1977-The Big E,the Sasquatch, Socal born today!
1979 - Jesse Bradford, American actor
1979 - Monica Keena, American actress
1979 - Ronald Curry, American football player
1980 - Mark Feehily, Irish musician (Westlife)
1980 - Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer
1981 - Adam Green, American singer and songwriter
1981 - Daniel Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
1982 - Alexa Davalos, American actress
1982 - Jhonny Peralta, Dominican baseball player
1983 - Humberto Sanchez, Dominican baseball player
1985 - Colbie Caillat, American folk singer-songwriter
1986 - Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer
1986 - Jaslene Gonzalez, American model and reality show contestant
1986 - Michael Oher, American football player at Ole Miss
1988 - David Perron, Canadian ice hockey player

Famous deaths...
1357 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
1556 - Saitō Dōsan, Japanese daimyo (b. 1494?)
1672 - John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
1747 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
1750 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
1787 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
1805 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
1808 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720)
1811 - Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742)
1816 - Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord
1828 - Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
1843 - Noah Webster, American author, politician, and lexicographer (b. 1758)
1849 - Anne Brontë, English author (b. 1820)
1878 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1916 - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
1927 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
1937 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868)
1947 - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
1948 - Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914)
1953 - Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
1968 - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (b. 1908)
1971 - Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero (b. 1924)
1971 - Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912)
1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894
1975 - Ezzard Charles, Heavyweight champion (b. 1921)
1976 - Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
1978 - Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)
1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
1981 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901)
1982 - Lt Col 'H'. Jones VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1940)
1984 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise) (b. 1926)
1988 - Sy Oliver, Jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (b. 1910)
1993 - Billy Conn, American boxer and actor (b. 1917)
1994 - Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
1994 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (b. 1916)
1998 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (b. 1948)
2001 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
2001 - Joe Moakley, American politician (b. 1927)
2002 - Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)
2003 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
2003 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
2003 - Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
2004 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (b. 1934)
2006 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)
2007 - Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
2007 - Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
2008 - David Mitton, Scottish-born director (b. 1938 )

Holidays and observances...
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
Germain of Paris
Augustine of Canterbury
William of Gellone
Bernard of Menthon
Lanfranc
Republic Day in Azerbaijan and Armenia (both 1918).
National Flag Day in the Republic of the Philippines

~Brian

[BRAD]

whats up Brian?

[Colorado700R]

Happy Birthday Erich 

[Colorado700R]

Since we all know he's a overgrown primate, do we get to spank the monkey? 

[LittleBuddha]

Hey, Happy Birthday you big bastard!!!   

[Flynbyu]

I thought the Sasquatch was due back in the office today.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

Ok, I'm awake....well at work.  I took the late train since I didn't get home till 2 thanks to a delay by the great american airlines.   

[Flynbyu]

Ok, I'm awake....well at work.  I took the late train since I didn't get home till 2 thanks to a delay by the great american airlines.   

Weather delay?

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

Got to the airport and no plane.....fuckers.  Our plane was stuck in Miami, and it didn't make it to cali till 8:45