Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XX

[dick-84]

Ill do that right now.

[BRAD]

alright man.  Let me know what you think

[Sand84]

Yo

[dick-84]

They  look good!

Shouldnt you be working Ryan!

[BRAD]

whats up Sand.  get back to work

[BRAD]

Peace out guys.  Im heading to bed.

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jan 24 41

Roman emperor Caligula is assassinated by his bodyguards.

Jan 24 1908



The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by its founder, Robert Baden-Powell. He enjoyed watching the boys swim naked, and as a hobby he collected photographs of them.

Jan 24 1978

The nuclear-powered Soviet Cosmos 954 satellite plunges through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates, scattering radioactive debris over parts of Canada's Northwest Territories. Much of the satellite lands in the Great Slave Lake; only about 1% of the radioactive material is recovered.

Jan 24 1986

Crackpot and founder of the fraudulent Scientology movement, L. Ron Hubbard dies. His bad science fiction writing has grown alarmly prolific in the years since his death.

Jan 24 1989

Ted Bundy put to death in the Electric Chair for the murder of Kimberly Leach, after ten years trying to appeal. Here is a post-mortem picture of the burns on Bundy's head.

Birthdays today...
  76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
1287 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop (d. 1345)
1444 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
1540 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (d. 1581)
1638 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet (d. 1706)
1670 - William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)
1674 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)
1679 - Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)
1705 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
1724 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
1742 - Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (d. 1808)
1752 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
1754 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)
1763 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831)
1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (d. 1822)
1779 - Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Russian tsarina (d. 1826)
1848 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
1862 - Edith Wharton, American writer (d. 1937)
1864 - Marguerite Durand, French feminist leader (d. 1936)
1872 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
1872 - Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
1886 - Henry King, American film director (d. 1982)
1888 - Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960)
1888 - Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958)
1891 - Walter Model, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1895 - Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976)
1898 - Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (d. 1939)
1901 - Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d. 1995)
1902 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (d. 1965)
1905 - J. Howard Marshall, American billionaire (d. 1995)
1907 - Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician (d. 1999)
1909 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (d. 2005)
1909 - Ann Todd, English actress (d. 1993)
1910 - Granny D, Doris Haddock, American activist
1913 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer (d. 2008)
1915 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
1916 - Jack Brickhouse, American sports broadcaster (d. 1998)
1917 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor
1918 - Oral Roberts, American evangelist
1919 - Coleman Francis, American film director
1920 - Jerry Maren, American actor
1922 - Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
1925 - Maria Tallchief, American ballerina
1926 - Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter
1927 - Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, British aristocrat (d. 2007)
1928 - Desmond Morris, British anthropologist
1928 - Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
1934 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet (d. 1976)
1935 - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (d. 2008)
1936 - Doug Kershaw, American musician
1939 - Ray Stevens, American musician
1941 - Neil Diamond, American singer
1941 - Aaron Neville, American singer
1942 - Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (d. 2008)
1943 - Subhash Ghai, Indian film director
1943 - Sharon Tate, American actress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1945 - D. Todd Christofferson, LDS apostle
1945 - John Garamendi, American politician
1946 - Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor
1947 - Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
1947 - Warren Zevon, American musician (d. 2003)
1948 - Michael Des Barres, British actor and rock singer
1949 - John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
1950 - Daniel Auteuil, French actor
1950 - Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian-born American writer
1951 - Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-born American comedian
1954 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1986)
1956 - Hanne Krogh, Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks)
1956 - Lounès Matoub, a famous Berber Kabyle singer (d. 1998)
1957 - Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
1958 - Neil Allen, American baseball player
1958 - Jools Holland, British musician
1959 - David Mills, American author
1959 - Vic Reeves, English comedian
1960 - Rick Leventhal, American television news correspondent
1961 - Guido Buchwald, German football player
1961 - Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress
1961 - Vince Russo, American writer
1961 - William Van Dijck, Belgian athlete
1963 - Martyn Grimley, English field hockey player
1963 - Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer
1965 - Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1965 - Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian film director
1966 - Jimeoin, Northern Irish comedian
1967 - Mark Kozelek, American singer/songwriter (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon)
1967 - Phil LaMarr, American voice actor
1967 - John Myung, American musician (Dream Theater)
1968 - Michael Kiske, German musician
1968 - Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
1969 - Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Icelandic actor
1970 - Matthew Lillard, American actor
1971 - Cory Bailey, American baseball player
1971 - Andrea Mackris, American television producer
1972 - Naoshi Mizuta, Japanese composer
1972 - Ulla Werbrouck, Belgian judoka and politician
1974 - Ed Helms, American actor
1975 - Rónald Gómez, Costa Rican footballer
1976 - Shae-Lynn Bourne, Canadian ice dancer with Victor Kraatz
1976 - Cindy Pieters, Belgian cyclist
1979 - Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer
1979 - Tom Kostopoulos, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Rocky Boiman, American football player
1980 - Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress
1981 - Travis Hanson, American baseball player
1983 - Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
1983 - Scott Speed, American race car driver
1984 - Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
1984 - Witold Kiełtyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (d. 2007)
1986 - Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
1986 - Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor

Famous deaths...
  41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (b. 12)
772 - Pope Stephen III (b. 720)
1002 - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
1125 - David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
1366 - Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
1376 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
1473 - Conrad Paumann, German composer
1595 - Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
1626 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580)
1639 - Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (b. 1596)
1666 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)
1709 - George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
1769 - François de Chevert, French general (b. 1695)
1856 - Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)
1877 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
1882 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
1883 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)
1895 - Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
1911 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
1918 - George Arthur Crump, Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (b. 1871)
1920 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
1924 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
1932 - Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867)
1943 - John Burns, English politician (b. 1858)
1948 - Maria Mandel, Camp Leader at Auschwitz (b. 1912)
1955 - Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)
1960 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)
1962 - Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (b. 1877)
1962 - André Lhote, french painter.
1965 - Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1966 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909)
1970 - Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
1971 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
1973 - J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1897)
1973 - Masao Ohba, world champion Japanese boxer (b. 1949)
1975 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)
1978 - Herta Oberheuser, German doctor (b. 1911)
1980 - Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress, (b. 1887)
1982 - Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president and dictator (b. 1918)
1983 - George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
1986 - Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (b. 1954)
1986 - Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
1988 - Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
1989 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
1989 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (b. 1937)
1990 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)
1991 - John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
1992 - Ken Darby, American composer, arranger and conductor (b. 1909)
1992 - Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (b. 1950)
1993 - Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908)
1993 - Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1942)
1994 - Yves Navarre, French writer (b. 1940)
1998 - Walter D. Edmonds, American author (b. 1903)
2000 - Bobby Duncum, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2002 - Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (b. 1934)
2002 - Elie Hobeika, Lebanese Forces militia commander (b. 1956)
2003 - Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)
2004 - Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
2005 - June Bronhill, Australian singer (b. 1929)
2005 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1933)
2005 - Chalkie White, English rugby union coach (b. 1929)
2006 - Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
2006 - Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician
2006 - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
2007 - Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)
2007 - Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
2007 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's Oldest Military Veteran (b. 1891)
2008 - Randy Salerno, co-anchor of Chicago's CBS 2 News (b. 1963)

Holidays and observances...
Roman Empire - first day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra

Have a great Saturday.

~Brian

[Peelz]

Jan 24 1986

Crackpot and founder of the fraudulent Scientology movement, L. Ron Hubbard dies. His bad science fiction writing has grown alarmly prolific in the years since his death.


  shhhh scientology is the new islam.

[Flynbyu]

Aliens of Scientology eat Muslims.



~Brian

[Peelz]

I'll see your scientology, and raise you a jehovah's witnesses.

[exentix]

hola everybody

[Flynbyu]

I'll see your scientology, and raise you a jehovah's witnesses.

I'll raise your Jehovah's with the Church of Satan.





~Anton Szandor LaVey

[Colorado700R]

Repost, but appropriate 

[Flynbyu]

Yeah, so send me your money Tom Cruise!

Gettin' busy again....Gotta roll.

~Brian

[Peelz]

I'll see your scientology, and raise you a jehovah's witnesses.

I'll raise your Jehovah's with the Church of Satan.





~Anton Szandor LaVey

all in with a full house of Branch Davidians