Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XX

[Sand84]

I love it.. If i had known it was coming out i would have waited

[Krandall]

those white ones are sharp (White/Silver) I think the SE/2's are over rated.

shhh don't say that around certain other members.

black n blue ftw

[Krandall]

I will also agree. It's one of the best color combos out there for a stock quad.. but... it's boring to keep it stock.

[Sand84]

those white ones are sharp (White/Silver) I think the SE/2's are over rated.

shhh don't say that around certain other members.

black n blue ftw

Gay

[BRAD]

I dunno.  The black rims are what drove me away from it and to the GYTR

[Peelz]

those white ones are sharp (White/Silver) I think the SE/2's are over rated.

shhh don't say that around certain other members.

black n blue ftw

Love that combo first available on 08's. With the black wheels. Oh yeah!  Painted my 660 with same scheme. If I get the GYTR, I would paint the rims black, I dig that look. The Black on white that some guys are doing here has grown on me. Like DMX and Air. I could always do that if I get sick of the silver.

[BRAD]

Well Peace out guys.  I gotta get up early tomorrow and put another LIFT on dad's Jeep.

[Sand84]

Later Brad  Im out to lateer all

[Peelz]

Peels peeling out as well. Later tataers thanks for the b.s. session!

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jan 17 1893

White people, businessmen and sugar planters helped by U.S. troops, overthrow Queen Liliʻuokalani of Hawaiʻi. The islands become the Republic of Hawaiʻi before being annexed by the U.S. in 1898.

Jan 17 1899

Al Capone's birthday.

Jan 17 1950

Seven men wearing Halloween masks rob the Brink's office in Boston of $1.2M cash, and $1.5M securities. One of the robbers confesses to the job in 1953, eleven days before the statute of limitations was to expire.

Jan 17 1961

President Eisenhower warns us of the evils of the "military industrial complex". Did we listen carefully enough?

Jan 17 1966

An American B-52 collides with its tanker aircraft during refueling over the town of Palomares, Spain. Seven crew members are killed in the resulting jet fuel explosion. Also, three 10-megaton hydrogen bombs crash near the town. Although none of them detonates, two rupture, scattering powdered plutonium over 558 acres of farmland. The USA hauls away 1,600 tons of soil and tomato plants and disposes of them in Aiken, South Carolina.

Jan 17 1977

After refusing appeals and demanding his death sentence, double murderer Gary Gilmore is given a hood and shot by a Utah Firing Squad in the first U.S. execution in ten years.

Jan 17 1994

The massive "Northridge Earthquake" strikes Los Angeles, producing a ground pulse far greater than its 6.7 magnitude would indicate. It causes 61 deaths and damages reaching $20 billion. The quake is by far the most expensive cataclysm in U.S. history.

Jan 17 1995

One year after the Northridge quake in California, a large 7.2 quake strikes Kobe Japan, killing 5,090, leaving 1.5 million homeless, and causing damage of approximately $200 billion dollars. It is the most destructive quake in Japan since the 1923 Kanto disaster.

Birthdays today...
1463 - Friedrich III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
1484 - George Spalatin, German reformer (d. 1545)
1501 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)
1504 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
1560 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)
1600 - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681)
1612 - Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (d. 1671)
1666 - Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (d. 1723)
1686 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (d. 1766)
1706 - Benjamin Franklin American statesman (d. 1790)
1712 - John Stanley, English composer (d. 1786)
1719 - William Vernon, American merchant (d. 1806)
1732 - King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski of Poland (d. 1798)
1734 - François-Joseph Gossec, Belgian composer (d. 1829)
1761 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (d. 1832)
1789 - August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850)
1798 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (d. 1857)
1814 - Mrs. Henry Wood, English novelist (d. 1887)
1820 - Anne Brontë, British author (d. 1849)
1828 - Eduard Remenyi, Hungarian violinist (d. 1898)
1828 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War general (d. 1918)
1831 - Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
1832 - Henry Martyn Baird, American educationalist (d. 1906)
1834 - August Weismann, German biologist (d. 1914)
1850 - Aleksandr Taneyev, Russian composer (d. 1918)
1851 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928)
1853 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (d. 1933)
1857 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (d. 1935)
1857 - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (d. 1941)
1858 - Tomás Carrasquilla, Colombian writer (d. 1940)
1860 - Douglas Hyde, Irish politician (d. 1949)
1863 - David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister (d. 1945)
1863 - Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner (d. 1938)
1865 - Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951)
1867 - Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939)
1871 - David Earl Beatty British admiral (d. 1936)
1871 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer (d. 1940)
1875 - Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan dramatist (d. 1910)
1876 - Frank Hague, American politician (d. 1956)
1877 - May Gibbs, Australian children's author (d. 1969)
1880 - Mack Sennett, Canadian film director (d. 1960)
1881 - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941)
1882 - Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (d. 1946)
1883 - Sir Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (d. 1972)
1886 - Ronald Firbank, British novelist (d. 1926)
1886 - Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (d. 1955)
1887 - Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
1897 - Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (d. 1946)
1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
1899 - Nevil Shute, English author (d. 1960)
1901 - Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-born philosopher (d. 1973)
1903 - Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (d. 1953)
1905 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
1905 - Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007)
1905 - Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1907 - Henk Badings, Dutch composer (d. 1987)
1908 - Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager (d. 1985)
1911 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1914 - William Stafford, American poet and essayist (d. 1993)
1914 - Anacleto Angelini, Chilean businessman (d. 2007)
1914 - Irving Brecher, American Screenwriter
1917 - M. G. Ramachandran, Indian politician, actor (d. 1987)
1917 - Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (d. 2007)
1918 - Keith Joseph, British politician (d. 1994)
1921 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)
1922 - Luis Echeverría Álvarez, Mexican politician
1922 - Nicholas Katzenbach, American politician
1922 - Betty White, American actress
1923 - Carol Raye, Australian actress
1925 - Robert Cormier, American author (d. 2000)
1925 - Abdul Kardar, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1996)
1925 - Edgar Ray Killen, American convict
1925 - Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (d. 2000)
1926 - Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and statesman
1926 - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (d. 2006)
1927 - Tom Dooley, American humanitarian (d. 1961)
1927 - Norman Kaye, Australian actor and musician (d. 2007)
1927 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
1928 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
1928 - Vidal Sassoon, English cosmetologist
1929 - Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1930 - Eddie LeBaron, American football player
1931 - James Earl Jones, American actor
1931 - L. Douglas Wilder, American politician
1931 - Don Zimmer, American baseball coach
1932 - Sheree North, American actress (d. 2005)
1933 - Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
1933 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-born Pakistani diplomat (d. 2003)
1933 - Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (d. 1998)
1935 - Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
1937 - Alain Badiou, French philosopher
1939 - Maury Povich, American talk show host
1940 - Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan runner
1941 - Dame Gillian Weir, New Zealand organist
1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer
1942 - Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and businesswoman
1942 - Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
1942 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (d. 2001)
1943 - René Préval, President of Haiti
1943 - Geoffrey Deuel, American actor
1943 - Chris Montez, American singer
1944 - Françoise Hardy, French singer
1945 - Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter
1946 - Michèle Deslauriers, Quebec actress
1948 - Davíð Oddsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland
1948 - Jim Ladd, American freeform (radio format) Disc Jockey
1948 - Anne Queffélec, French pianist
1949 - Mick Taylor, British musician (The Rolling Stones)
1949 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984)
1950 - Luis López Nieves, Latin American writer
1952 - Darrell Porter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1952 - Larry Fortensky, American former husband of Elizabeth Taylor
1952 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician
1954 - Susan Kiefel, Australian lawyer and judge
1954 - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy
1955 - Steve Earle, American musician
1956 - Paul Young, English musician
1957 - Keith Chegwin, English television presenter
1957 - Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian and radio personality
1957 - Ann Nocenti, American comic book writer
1957 - Michel Vaarten, Belgian cyclist
1959 - Susanna Hoffs, American musician
1959 - Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer and actress
1960 - John Crawford, American musician
1960 - Chili Davis, Jamaican-born American baseball player
1960 - Chatchai Plengpanich, Thai actor
1961 - Brian Helgeland, American writer and film director
1961 - Maia Chiburdanidze, Russian women's Chess grandmaster
1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
1962 - Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author
1963 - Kai Hansen, German singer and guitarist (Gamma Ray)
1964 - Andy Rourke, English bass guitarist (The Smiths)
1964 - Michelle Obama, wife of Barack Obama
1965 - Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Nikos Nioplias, Greek footballer
1966 - Stephin Merritt, American singer and songwriter (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies)
1966 - Joshua Malina, American actor
1966 - Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer
1967 - Richard Hawley, English singer and songwriter (Pulp, The Longpigs)
1967 - Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (d. 2007)
1967 - Song Kang-ho, South Korean actor
1968 - Craig Strong, American actor & voice actor
1968 - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch writer
1968 - Svetlana Masterkova, Russian athlete
1969 - Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film writer and director
1969 - Naveen Andrews, British actor
1969 - Tijs Verwest, (DJ Tiësto) Dutch DJ
1970 - Jeremy Roenick, American ice hockey player
1970 - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born animator
1970 - James Wattana, Thai snooker player
1971 - Kid Rock, American singer
1971 - Richard Burns, English rally driver (d. 2005)
1971 - Leonardo Ciampa, Italian-American musician
1971 - Youki Kudoh, Japanese actress
1971 - Sylvie Testud, French actress
1971 - Ann Wolfe, female boxer
1972 - Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter
1972 - Benno Fürmann, German actor
1973 - Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer
1973 - Liz Ellis, Australian netball captain
1973 - Aaron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 - Yang Chen, Chinese footballer
1974 - Derrick Mason, American football player
1974 - Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian musician
1975 - Tom Jenkinson, English musician (Squarepusher)
1975 - Freddy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican-American actor
1975 - Rami Yacoub, Swedish songwriter/producer
1977 - Kevin Fertig, American professional wrestler
1977 - Leigh Whannell, Australian screenwriter/actor
1980 - Zooey Deschanel, American actress
1980 - Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian ballroom dancer
1980 - Kimberly Spicer, American model
1980 - Gareth McLearnon, Northern Irish flautist
1981 - Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer
1981 - Scott Mechlowicz, American actor
1981 - Ray J, American R&B singer
1982 - Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
1982 - Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer
1983 - Alvaro Arbeloa, Spanish Footballer
1983 - Johannes Herber, German basketball player
1983 - Andrea Lowell, American model
1983 - Rick Kelly, Australian racing driver
1983 - Julie Budet, French Electronic-Pop Musician
1985 - Simone Simons, Dutch singer (Epica)
1985 - Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer BeForU
1985 - Kang-In, South Korean singer (Super Junior)
1995 - Connor Cruise, American actor; adopted son of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman

Famous deaths...
395 - Theodosius I, Roman Emperor
1229 - Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier
1369 - King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
1468 - Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405)
1598 - Fyodor I Tsar of Russia (b. 1557)
1617 - Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
1654 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
1705 - John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
1718 - Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader
1737 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
1738 - Jean-François Dandrieu, French composer (b. 1682)
1751 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b. 1671)
1826 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
1834 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
1861 - Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
1863 - Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
1869 - Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)
1874 - Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins (b. 1811)
1884 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
1887 - William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
1891 - George Bancroft, U.S. historian (b. 1800)
1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
1903 - Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
1908 - Ferdinand IV Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)
1909 - Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819)
1911 - Sir Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist (b. 1822)
1927 - Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
1931 - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (b. 1864)
1932 - Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (b. 1893)
1933 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
1936 - Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
1942 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
1947 - Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
1947 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883)
1952 - Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (b. 1877)
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
1964 - T.H. White, English author (b. 1906)
1967 - Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (b. 1884)
1970 - Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890)
1970 - Billy Stewart, American singer (b. 1937)
1972 - Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
1977 - Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
1977 - Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940)
1981 - Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899)
1983 - Doodles Weaver, American actor (b. 1911)
1987 - Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908)
1991 - King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
1992 - Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (b. 1915)
1993 - Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915)
1994 - Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
1994 - Yevgeny Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (b. 1926)
1996 - Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986)
1996 - Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
1996 - Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
1997 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
1997 - Bert Kelly, Australian politician (b. 1912)
1998 - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (b. 1930)
1999 - Robert Eads, American transsexual (b. 1945)
2000 - Philip Jones, British trumpeter (b. 1928)
2001 - Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930)
2002 - Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955)
2002 - Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
2003 - Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
2003 - Balint Vazsonyi, Hungarian pianist (b. 1936)
2004 - Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (b. 1914)
2004 - Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
2004 - Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915)
2004 - Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931)
2005 - Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (b. 1960)
2005 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
2005 - Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)
2005 - Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
2006 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
2006 - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
2007 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
2007 - Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
2008 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player (b. 1943)
2008 - Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
2008 - Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances...
Ancient Latvia - Zirgu Diena observed

Have a great Saturday.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

We're in a heat wave today!

[Flynbyu]

Guten Morgen.

~Brian

[Krandall]

hola senior Brian.

[Flynbyu]

Buenos dias mi amigo.

~Brian

[Krandall]

slow day @ the dealership?


We're actually warm outside today!