Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XX

[exentix]

Been a while it seems like since we've heard from the mini-ho's 

yea ive been busy doing nothing lately hahahah

gettin me a decent car soon tho 

[BRAD]

What kind of car you getting ex?

[exentix]

1997 buick regal. 100,000 miles on it, great condition. no mechanical problems. its my grandparents car so theyre getting rid of it cas they just bought a brand new 09 camry. it was for sale for 1000 bucks, but 800 to me and i can pay when i get the money. and hes gonna tell the tax place i bought it for 1 dollar so i dont have to pay taxes. ill get pics when i get it

[BRAD]

sounds good man.  Goodluck with the car. Hey you never know they may forget just how much you have payed them and let you off early

[exentix]

thats fine if they dont lol 800 bucks is a freakin steal! i have over half already so i should get it pretty soon. i can get my lisence this sunday, im freakin pumped. i have to schedule my test tho, and i may have to wait 

[Sand84]

Brad getting enough back on taxes to almost buy my tires     Best price i can find is $1208 for 35x12.5x20 at www.onlinetires.com

[BRAD]

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/index.jsp?s_kwcid=TC-8567-120637842022-S-23714889522&

try this site if you want.

Also a 315-75 or a 315-70 will come out to a 35" tire but alittle cheaper and easier to find

[Sand84]

Im picky I want the Nitto Mud Grapplers :grin_nod:

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jan 30 1649

Oliver Cromwell beheads the British monarch King Charles I, at Whitehall.

Jan 30 1835

Andrew Jackson is the subject of the first recorded assassination attempt on a U.S. president. After a man fires shots at him, Jackson beat the shit out of his would-be assassin.

Jan 30 1945

The largest maritime disaster in history leaves 7700 dead after a Soviet submarine torpedoes the Nazi ship Wilhelm Gustoff.

Jan 30 1948

Mohandas K. Gandhi assassinated by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse.

Jan 30 1962

Two of the Flying Wallendas die when their human pyramid of seven people collapses in Detroit.

Jan 30 1968

North Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive, in which they suffer a defeat and 46,000 dead, but shocks the complacent American television viewer who had been led to believe the war was won.

Jan 30 1972

British troops kill 13 unarmed marchers in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. This incident becomes known as "Bloody Sunday" and marks the beginning of a new extended round of violence.

Jan 30 1973

G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of Watergate charges.

Jan 30 1976

George HW Bush becomes directory of the Central Intelligence Agency, a position which he holds until 1977. Perhaps he knows who killed Kennedy.

Birthdays today...
133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
1505 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)
1563 - Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
1615 - Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler and only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (d. 1675)
1661 - Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)
1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
1754 - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
1816 - Nathaniel Prentice Banks, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
1832 - Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
1841 - Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
1859 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)
1873 - Georges Ricard-Cordingley, painter (d. 1939)
1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
1889 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)
1894 - Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
1899 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1972)
1901 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (d. 1983)
1910 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
1911 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)
1912 - Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
1912 - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
1913 - Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener (d. 1988)
1914 - John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992)
1914 - David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
1915 - Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976)
1915 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
1917 - Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist (d. 2008)
1918 - David Opatoshu, American television actor (d. 1996)
1919 - Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
1920 - Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
1920 - Delbert Mann, American film director (d. 2007)
1922 - Dick Martin, American comedian (d. 2008)
1924 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
1925 - Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
1925 - Dorothy Malone, American actress
1927 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
1927 - Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (d. 2005)
1928 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
1930 - Sandy Amorós, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992)
1930 - Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
1930 - Gene Hackman, American actor
1930 - Magnus Malan, South African politician
1931 - John Crosbie, Canadian politician
1931 - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
1931 - Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author
1932 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
1933 - Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)
1935 - Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)
1936 - F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
1936 - Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
1936 - Horst Jankowski, German popular pianist (d. 1998)
1937 - Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005)
1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
1937 - Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
1938 - Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
1941 - Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
1941 - Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
1942 - Marty Balin, American musician
1943 - Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
1945 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
1947 - Les Barker, English poet
1947 - Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
1948 - Nick Broomfield, English film- and documentary-maker
1948 - Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1949 - Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1950 - Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
1951 - Phil Collins, English musician
1951 - Charles S. Dutton, American actor
1951 - Bobby Stokes, English former footballer (d. 1995)
1952 - Doug Falconer, Canadian football player
1955 - Curtis Strange, American golfer
1955 - John Baldacci, American politician, governor of Maine
1955 - Judith Tarr, American author
1956 - Jeremy Gittins, English actor
1956 - Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
1957 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
1958 - Brett Butler, American actress and comedian
1959 - Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club)
1959 - Jody Watley, American singer
1961 - Dexter Scott King, American actor and son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan
1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau, American convicted statutory rapist
1963 - Tina Malone, English actress
1965 - Julie McCullough, American model and actress
1966 - Danielle Goyette, Quebec female ice hockey player
1967 - Jay Gordon, American musician
1968 - Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3)
1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain
1969 - Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV show star
1971 - Darren Boyd, British actor
1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player
1972 - Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer
1972 - Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - Jalen Rose, American basketball player
1974 - Christian Bale, Welsh actor
1974 - Olivia Colman, English actress
1974 - Jemima Khan, English socialite
1975 - Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
1976 - Andy Milonakis, American comedian
1977 - Dan Hinote, American ice hockey player
1977 - Deltha O'Neal, American football player
1978 - John Patterson, American baseball player
1980 - Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
1980 - Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
1980 - Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
1980 - Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
1981 - Peter Crouch, English footballer
1981 - Josh Kelley, American musician
1981 - Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
1982 - Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
1984 - Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
1985 - Aaadietya Pandey, Indian astrologer
1985 - Trae Williams, American football player
1986 - Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter
1986 - Nick Evans, American baseball player
1987 - Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
1987 - Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
1988 - Heather Baker, American socialite
1988 - Rob Pinkston, American actor
1989 - Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
1990 - Jake Thomas, American actor
1990 - Luca Sbisa, Swiss ice hockey player
1990 - Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress/singer
2005 - Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II, of Jordan

Famouos deaths...
1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
1384 - Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
1574 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
1606 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
1649 - King Charles I of England (executed) (b. 1600)
1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
1836 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
1867 - Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
1869 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
1889 - Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (b. 1858)
1926 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
1929 - La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)
1934 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1869)
1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)
1958 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
1958 - Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
1962 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
1963 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
1969 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1980 - Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
1982 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
1984 - Patrick Lee McCall, South African bank robber, member of Stander gang
1991 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
1991 - Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
1991 - John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
1994 - Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
1995 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
1998 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
1999 - Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
1999 - Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
2001 - Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (b. 1915)
2001 - Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern neurosurgery (b. 1915)
2005 - Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
2005 - Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)
2006 - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
2007 - Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor and artistic director (b. 1934)
2007 - Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2008 - Jeremy Beadle, British television host, (b. 1948)
2008 - Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
2008 - Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious leader (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances...
St. Mutien-Marie Wiaux (+1917)
St. Hippolytus
St. Hyacintha Mariscotti
St. Aldegonde
St. Bathild
St. Martina, Virgin and Martyr, c. 226 AD
St. Savina, martyred under Emperor Diocletian
St. Anthony the Great's feast in the Coptic Church
King Charles the Martyr (Anglicanism)
Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church: Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Jan 30 1976

George HW Bush becomes directory of the Central Intelligence Agency, a position which he holds until 1977. Perhaps he knows who killed Kennedy.

If they can find Saddam in a hole... I'm pretty sure they know who killed Kennedy and TuPac 

[Flynbyu]

Tupac and Biggie.

Holla!

~Brian

[Krandall]

pretty much 

Just saw Springstein is going to be in town soon!

[Flynbyu]

I like a few of his songs, but I wouldn't consider myself a huge fan.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Randy, do you have HBO?

"Flight of the Choncords" have a TV show on HBO. Same guys. It's hilarious.

http://www.hbo.com/conchords/

I've been watching it on Sundays.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Randy, do you have HBO?

"Flight of the Choncords" have a TV show on HBO. Same guys. It's hilarious.

http://www.hbo.com/conchords/

I've been watching it on Sundays.

~Brian

I do not   I heard it was on here though way sweet!!! we watched it when we were down under.