Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XX

[socalrappy700]

Time to head for the train, have a good night Raptorsource.

[Peelz]

Time to head for the train, have a good night Raptorsource.

NIce talking with you as usual.

[Krandall]

Well.. someone was supposed to call me back.. I waited so far... 1/2 hour.. I'm headed out...
Catch you guys later!

[dick-84]

Where is everyone? 

[BRAD]

Whats up Dick

[dick-84]

Not to much man. Just working. you?

[BRAD]

Just killin some time before bed.  I got a long day of classes tomorrow

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jan 22 1905

In 1905, thousands of demonstrating Russian workers were fired on by Imperial army troops in St. Petersburg on what became known as "Red Sunday" or "Bloody Sunday". 96 people were killed, and over 300 were wounded. This incident marks the beginning of the so-called 1905 revolution.

Jan 22 1918

Manitoba, Canada film censor board decides to ban comedies, on the grounds that they make audiences "too frivolous".

Jan 22 1951

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's baseball career is ended after he is thrown out of a winter league game, during the tryouts for the Washington Senators.

Jan 22 1957

Mad Bomber captured.

Jan 22 1972

In an interview with Melody Maker, musician David Bowie announces that he is gay. Actually he is bisexual, and his wife Angela did catch him in bed with Mick Jagger.

Jan 22 1973

The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Texas' abortion laws, settling the debate once and for all.

Jan 22 1973

176 people are killed in Kano, Nigeria when a Nigerian Airlines flight crashes on its way back from Mecca.

Jan 22 1987



The State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, R. Budd Dwyer, proclaims his innocence to fraud charges at a crowded press conferences and then pulls a gun out of an envelope and blows his fucking brains out.

Jan 22 2008



Heath Ledger dies.

Birthdays today...
1263 - Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar (d. 1328)
1440 - Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
1553 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625)
1561 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)
1570 - Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)
1592 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)
1654 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729)
1690 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
1733 - Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer
1781 - François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (d. 1849)
1788 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (Lord Byron), English poet (d. 1824)
1796 - Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
1797 - Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)
1799 - Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
1820 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
1840 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
1849 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912)
1858 - Beatrice Webb, English economist (d. 1943)
1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
1874 - Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
1874 - Jay Hughes, American baseball player (d. 1924)
1875 - D. W. Griffith, American film director (d. 1948)
1876 - Warren McLaughlin, American baseball player (d. 1923)
1877 - Tom Jones, American baseball player (d. 1923)
1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
1880 - Bill O'Neill, American baseball player (d. 1920)
1881 - Ira Thomas, American baseball player (d. 1958)
1882 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956)
1886 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1921)
1887 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
1889 - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
1889 - Amos Strunk, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1890 - Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)
1890 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
1892 - Marcel Dassault, French industrialist (d. 1986)
1893 - Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
1897 - Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (d. 1981)
1900 - Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (d. 1980)
1902 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
1903 - Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
1904 - George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983)
1904 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
1904 - John Milligan, American baseball player (d. 1972)
1906 - Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987)
1906 - Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
1907 - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
1907 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
1907 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
1908 - Lev Landau, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1908 - Prince Oana, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1909 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
1909 - Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2001)
1909 - U Thant, Burmese 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
1911 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
1913 - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1977)
1913 - Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
1914 - Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
1915 - Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician (d. 1993)
1916 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
1916 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer
1916 - Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati Author, Poet, Astrologist (Gujarat is a State of India) (d. 1994)
1917 - Huck Geary, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1918 - Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
1919 - Diomedes Olivo, Dominican Republic baseball player (d. 1977)
1920 - Sir Alf Ramsey, English football manager (d. 1999)
1922 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1987)
1924 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (d. 2001)
1925 - Johnny Bucha, American baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 - Bobby Young, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1927 - Lou Creekmur, American football player
1928 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (d. 2004)
1931 - Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
1932 - Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist
1932 - Piper Laurie, American actress
1934 - Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
1934 - Graham Kerr, British-born chef
1935 - Seymour Cassel, American actor
1936 - Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1936 - Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
1937 - Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan rebel leader
1937 - Joseph Wambaugh, American author
1938 - Altair, Brazilian footballer
1939 - Jeff Smith, American chef (d. 2004)
1939 - J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
1940 - Addie "Micki" Harris, singer (Shirelles) (d. 1982)
1940 - John Hurt, English actor
1940 - George Seifert, American football coach
1942 - Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
1943 - Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress
1945 - Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach
1946 - Malcolm McLaren, English impresario, musician and self-publicist
1946 - Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
1948 - Gilbert Levine, American conductor
1948 - Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990)
1949 - Mike Caldwell, American baseball player
1949 - Phil Miller, English guitarist (National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole)
1949 - Steve Perry, American singer and musician (Journey)
1951 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (d. 1989)
1951 - Leon Roberts, American baseball player
1952 - Ramón Avilés, Puerto Rican baseball player
1952 - Teddy Gentry, American musician (Alabama)
1952 - Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007)
1953 - Jim Jarmusch, American director
1953 - Myung-Whun Chung,South Korean Conductor and pianist
1954 - Tully Blanchard, American professional wrestler
1954 - Chris Lemmon, American actor
1954 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
1955 - Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
1955 - Thomas David Jones, NASA astronaut
1956 - Steve Riley, American drummer
1956 - John Wesley Shipp, American actor
1957 - Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Brian Dayett, American baseball player
1957 - Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician
1957 - Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993)
1957 - Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist
1958 - Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek football player and manager
1959 - Linda Blair, American actress
1960 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (d. 1997)
1961 - Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter and artist
1962 - Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor
1962 - Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
1963 - Javier Ortiz, American baseball player
1963 - Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
1963 - Jeff Treadway, American baseball player
1964 - Wayne Kirby, American baseball player
1965 - Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N' Roses)
1965 - DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor
1965 - Diane Lane, American actress
1965 - Brian McCardie, Scottish actor
1965 - Andrew Roachford, English singer and songwriter
1965 - Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress
1967 - Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast
1967 - Eleanor McEvoy, Irish singer-songwriter
1967 - Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 - Heath, Japanese bass guitarist (X Japan)
1968 - Frank Lebœuf, French footballer
1968 - Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer
1969 - Olivia d'Abo, English actress
1969 - Keith Gordon, American baseball player
1969 - John Linton Roberson, American cartoonist
1970 - Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
1970 - Alex Ross, American comic book painter (Marvels, Kingdom Come)
1971 - Stan Collymore, English footballer
1972 - Gabriel Macht, American actor
1972 - Romi Paku, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1972 - Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (d. 1999)
1972 - Namrata Shirodkar, Indian actress
1973 - Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer
1974 - Cameron McConville, Australian racing driver
1975 - Balthazar Getty, American actor
1975 - Felipe Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
1975 - David Výborný, Czech ice hockey player
1976 - Jimmy Anderson, American baseball player
1976 - James Dearth, American football player
1976 - Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice hockey player
1977 - Jono Gibbes, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1977 - Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
1977 - Aaron Rakers, American baseball player
1978 - Chone Figgins, American baseball player
1979 - Carlos Ruiz, Panamanian baseball player
1980 - Jake Grove, American football player
1980 - Christopher Masterson, American actor
1980 - Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence)
1980 - Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
1980 - Subhash Ram Prajapati, Nepalese Writer
1981 - Willa Ford, American singer
1981 - Beverley Mitchell, American actress
1981 - Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
1982 - Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer
1982 - Jason Peters, American football player
1983 - Shaun Cody, American football player
1983 - Robert Steinhäuser, German perpetrator of the Erfurt massacre (d. 2002)
1984 - Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Ubaldo Jimenez, Dominican Republic baseball player
1984 - Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel
1984 - Leon Powe, American basketball player
1984 - Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer
1985 - Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer
1986 - Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
1986 - Daniel Wayne Smith, American actor, reality television personality (d. 2006)
1987 - Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1988 - Greg Oden, American basketball player

Famous deaths...
1536 - Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
1666 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)
1750 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
1763 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
1767 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)
1779 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
1779 - Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
1892 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
1900 - David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
1921 - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
1922 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1837)
1922 - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
1922 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)
1931 - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
1945 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
1949 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
1950 - Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
1950 - Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
1951 - Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (b. 1872)
1959 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1929)
1966 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
1967 - Robert Henriques, English writer (b. 1905)
1968 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)
1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
1975 - Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
1978 - Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
1981 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)
1982 - Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
1982 - Eduardo Frei Montalva, 28th President of Chile (b. 1911)
1985 - Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
1987 - Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
1988 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
1991 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
1991 - Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (b. 1942)
1993 - Abe Kobo, Japanese writer (b. 1924)
1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
1994 - Rhett Forrester, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
1994 - Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
1995 - Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy family (b. 1890)
1997 - Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
1997 - Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (b. 1957)
1997 - Wally Whyton, English musician (b. 1929)
1999 - Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
2000 - Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)
2000 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)
2001 - Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2001 - Roy Brown, American clown (b. 1932)
2002 - Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
2003 - Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)
2004 - Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)
2004 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
2004 - Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
2005 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1943)
2005 - Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
2005 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)
2005 - Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)
2007 - Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer
2007 - Ngô Quang Trưởng, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
2007 - Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
2008 - Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
2008 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
2008 - Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances...
Christianity - Feast day of St. Vincent, Anastasius of Persia.

Have a great Thursday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Jan 22 2008
Heath Ledger dies.


RIP Man..... 

[Flynbyu]

The Dark Knight was almost snubbed in the Oscar nominations.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

That was total BS.  By far the best movie of the year.

[Krandall]

That was total BS.  By far the best movie of the year.

There were quite a few things I didnt' like about the movie. But I'd put Batman and IronMan in a close 1st/2nd.

Batman turned my off big time w/ batmans' voice and the lack of cool ninja moves. they made action seens look good w/ a lot of camera jumping which is kind of lame, the old batman (Val Kilmer) he at least had some sweet moves
Heath's portrayal though of the joker was pretty much amazing. From the craziness of him all the way to his little "ticks" like licking his lips a lot.

[socalrappy700]

That was total BS.  By far the best movie of the year.

There were quite a few things I didnt' like about the movie. But I'd put Batman and IronMan in a close 1st/2nd.

Batman turned my off big time w/ batmans' voice and the lack of cool ninja moves. they made action seens look good w/ a lot of camera jumping which is kind of lame, the old batman (Val Kilmer) he at least had some sweet moves
Heath's portrayal though of the joker was pretty much amazing. From the craziness of him all the way to his little "ticks" like licking his lips a lot.

The voice was all that I saw wrong with it.  And I'm sure they'll change that for next time.  And there was less fight scenes this time due to the amount of plot they had to get out in this one.

[Krandall]

That was total BS.  By far the best movie of the year.

There were quite a few things I didnt' like about the movie. But I'd put Batman and IronMan in a close 1st/2nd.

Batman turned my off big time w/ batmans' voice and the lack of cool ninja moves. they made action seens look good w/ a lot of camera jumping which is kind of lame, the old batman (Val Kilmer) he at least had some sweet moves
Heath's portrayal though of the joker was pretty much amazing. From the craziness of him all the way to his little "ticks" like licking his lips a lot.

The voice was all that I saw wrong with it.  And I'm sure they'll change that for next time.  And there was less fight scenes this time due to the amount of plot they had to get out in this one.

oh.. and +1 to the voice.    got annoying.

[Flynbyu]

I wouldn't say Batman was the best movie. There were parts I liked, and disliked. I hate the fact Bale was directed to change his voice. I don't remember that in the last one. Ledger's character was awesome. Why the f*ck Maggie Gylenhall was cast is beyond me. She's not attractive, and did a terrible job in my opinion. The plot was jumbled a bit, and the direction was as good as the last film in my opinion. I would have had "two face" survive to play the villan in the next flick. The ending of the Dark Knight was stupid in my opinion.

~Brian