Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XX

[Krandall]

we're freakin cold this even.

[dick-84]

U cant even see when u are driving and there is a shit load of snow.

[Lady4Fiddy]

maybe you shouldn't drive then

[dick-84]

Im at work. Have to get home some how.

But im not driving. I broke a upper control arm on my blazer saturday. 

[Lady4Fiddy]

so your gonna walk in the snow?

[Krandall]

Im at work. Have to get home some how.

But im not driving. I broke a upper control arm on my blazer saturday. 

bummer, how'd you do that?

[dick-84]

Im at work. Have to get home some how.

But im not driving. I broke a upper control arm on my blazer saturday. 

bummer, how'd you do that?

Well i was at the beach jumping some snow piles. I left there and went to the movies with the GF went home and hen left for the bar. I hit the breaks and the steering wheel went crazy. So i knew there was something wrongh and i turned around and went back home and looked at the front end and there it was. I bet it was about this                                           far from where it should have been. 

[Krandall]

 

that sucks man!

Well.. I'm off to bed. Have a great evening everyone!


GOOD NIGHT RAPTORSOURCE!!! 

[Peelz]

Post up those Barkers for sale Peels off the net now

funny $hit polarass. Love the name. 

[FoundArealQuad]

Thanks Peels

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Feb 4 1783

A large earthquake in Calabria Italy leaves 50,000 dead.

Feb 4 1899

On patrol in the city of Manila, Private William Grayson shoots three Filipino soldiers when they fail to halt. The next morning, U.S. forces launch an artillery assault on the Filipino army, killing 3,000. Thus begins the three-year Philippine-American War, a brutal and disastrous campaign foreshadowing the Vietnam War.

Feb 4 1974

Patty Hearst kidnapped

Feb 4 1983

Karen Carpenter dies of anorexia nervosa. She frequently took laxatives and induced vomiting to prevent weight gain. At the time of her death she was pencil thin.

Feb 4 1987

Pianist/homosexual Liberace dead from AIDS in Palm Springs, California. Nobody even suspected the man was gay.

Feb 4 1998



Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is assaulted with a direct hit by a fluffy cream pie during a three-pronged attack in Brussels. He was in Belgium attending meetings with industry and government leaders. Rumor is that the attack was engineered by Noel Godin, infamous for his other pie throwings at government officials.

Birthdays today...
1524 - Luis de Camões, Portuguese poet (d. 1580)
1575 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1629)
1620 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d. 1667)
1646 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. 1699)
1677 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731)
1688 - Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (d. 1763)
1725 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)
1746 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish, Belarusian-Lithuanian, and American national hero (d. 1817)
1778 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)
1799 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (d. 1854)
1808 - Josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem(d. 1856)
1831 - Oliver Ames, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1841 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (d. 1926)
1846 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)
1848 - Jean Aicard, French poet (d. 1921)
1849 - Jean Richepin, French poet (d. 1926)
1859 - Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (d. 1881)
1871 - Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)
1872 - Gotse Delchev, a great Macedonian revolutionary, (d. 1903)
1873 - Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (d. 1905)
1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (d. 1953)
1877 - Eddie Cochems, Father of the Forward Pass in American football (d. 1953)
1881 - Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)
1891 - Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar, Speaker of Lok Sabha (d. 1978).
1892 - Andreu Nin, Catalan politician (d. 1937)
1892 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964)
1895 - Nigel Bruce, English actor (d. 1953)
1896 - Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (d. 1938)
1896 - Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
1897 - Ludwig Erhard, 2nd Bundeskanzler of Germany (d. 1977)
1900 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and lyricist (d. 1977)
1902 - Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (d. 1974)
1902 - Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
1904 - MacKinlay Kantor, American writer (d. 1977)
1905 - Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986)
1906 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (d. 1945)
1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
1908 - Julian Bell, British poet (d. 1937)
1912 - Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian politician (d. 1999)
1912 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (d. 1993)
1912 - Byron Nelson, American golfer (d. 2006)
1912 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006)
1913 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
1914 - Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980)
1915 - Ray Evans, American songwriter with Jay Livingston (d. 2007)
1915 - William Talman, American actor (d. 1968)
1915 - Norman Wisdom, English actor and comedian
1917 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1980)
1918 - Ida Lupino, English film actress and director (d. 1995)
1918 - Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher (d. 1991)
1918 - Janet Waldo, American actress
1921 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)
1922 - Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Classical Singer
1923 - Conrad Bain, Canadian-born actor
1925 - Russell Hoban, American writer
1929 - Jerry Adler, American actor
1931 - Isabel Martínez de Perón, third wife of Argentine president Juan Perón
1935 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)
1936 - David Brenner, American comedian
1936 - Gary Conway, American actor
1937 - David Newman, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
1940 - George Romero, American director, screenwriter and producer
1940 - John Schuck, American actor
1941 - John Steel, British musician (The Animals)
1943 - Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese president of the regional government of Madeira
1943 - Ken Thompson, American computer scientist
1944 - Florence LaRue, American singer (The Fifth Dimension)
1947 - Dan Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States
1948 - Alice Cooper, American musician
1949 - Michael Beck, American actor
1950 - Pamela Franklin, British actress
1951 - Patrick Bergin, Irish actor
1951 - Phil Ehart, American musician (Kansas)
1951 - Dariush Eghbali, Iranian singer and musician
1951 - Stan Papi, American baseball player
1952 - Lisa Eichhorn, American actress
1952 - Jerry Shirley, drummer of rock band Humble Pie.
1952 - Li Yinhe, Chinese sexologist
1953 - Kitaro, Japanese composer
1955 - Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak Prime minister
1957 - Don Davis, American composer
1957 - Evan Wolfson, American attorney and activist
1958 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer
1959 - Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress
1959 - Lawrence Taylor, American football player.
1960 - Tim Booth, British singer (James)
1960 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish author (d. 2007)
1960 - Jenette Goldstein, American actress
1960 - Jonathan Larson, American composer (d. 1996)
1961 - Stewart O'Nan, American author
1961 - Denis Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Clint Black, American musician
1962 - Michael Riley, Canadian actor
1962 - Alfred Twardecki, Polish historian
1963 - Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier
1964 - Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring)
1965 - Jerome Brown, American football player (d. 1992)
1966 - Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist
1966 - Kyōko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer
1967 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1995)
1968 - Marko Matvere, Estonian actor
1969 - Duncan Coutts, Canadian bassist (Our Lady Peace)
1969 - Dallas Drake, ice hockey player
1969 - Brandy Ledford, American actress and model
1970 - Gabrielle Anwar, English actress
1971 - Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian
1971 - Michael A. Goorjian, American actor
1972 - Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1973 - Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-born boxer
1973 - Manny Legacé, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1974 - Eric Townsend, American musician and record producer
1974 - Mijntje Donners, Dutch hockey international
1975 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress
1975 - Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
1976 - Cam'ron, American rapper
1977 - Gavin DeGraw, American musician
1977 - Mitra Hajjar, Iranian actress
1978 - Danna Garcia, Colombian actress
1979 - Andrei Arlovski, Russian mixed martial artist
1979 - Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing car driver
1981 - Ben Hendrickson, American baseball player
1981 - Jason Kapono, America professional basketball player
1981 - Tom Mastny, Indonesian baseball player
1981 - Johan Van Summeren, Belgian cyclist
1982 - Chris Sabin, American professional wrestler
1982 - Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist
1982 - Kimberly Wyatt, American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
1983 - Jarrad Waite, Australian rules footballer
1984 - Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
1985 - Bug Hall, American actor
1986 - Mohammad Mahmudullah, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 - Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
1988 - Eoin McDowell, Irish rugby player
1988 - Carly Patterson, American gymnast
1990 - Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese Seiyū

Famous deaths...
211 - Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (b. 146)
708 - Pope Sisinnius
856 - Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz (b. c. 780)
869 - Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (b. 827)
1508 - Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459)
1590 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (b. 1517)
1615 - Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
1615 - Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian scholar, polymath and child prodogy (b. 1535)
1617 - Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher (b. 1546)
1694 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
1713 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671)
1774 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
1799 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
1781 - Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (b. 1737)
1894 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker (b. 1814)
1905 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)
1928 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1853)
1933 - Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846)
1936 - Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
1940 - Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)
1943 - Frank Calder, the first NHL President (b. 1877)
1944 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
1944 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)
1958 - Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915)
1959 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
1966 - Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American president of the National Geographic Society (b. 1875)
1967 - Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)
1968 - Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
1974 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)
1975 - Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
1975 - Howard Hill, American archer (b. 1899)
1977 - Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)
1982 - Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)
1982 - Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge (b. 1909)
1983 - Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950)
1987 - Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan feminist and founder of RAWA (b. 1956)
1987 - Liberace, American musician (b. 1919)
1987 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)
1990 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1917)
1992 - Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911)
1994 - Fred De Bruyne, Belgian cyclist (b. 1930)
1995 - Godfrey Brown, British athlete and teacher (b. 1915)
1995 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)
2000 - Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
2000 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1941)
2000 - Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
2001 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (b. 1924)
2001 - Pankaj Roy, Indian cricketer (b. 1928)
2001 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (b. 1922)
2002 - George Nader, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
2003 - Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2003 - Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian politician (b. 1920)
2003 - André Noyelle, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
2006 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921)
2006 - Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)
2007 - Steve Barber, American baseball pitcher (b. 1938)
2007 - José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian World Cup footballer (b. 1925)
2007 - Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (b. 1959)
2007 - Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
2007 - Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
2008 - Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances...
Ancient Latvia - Biezputras Diena observed.
Independence Day in Sri Lanka (1948).
Angolan Anniversary of the Outbreak of Armed Struggle against Portuguese Colonialism.
World Cancer Day
Across the Universe Day


Have a great Wedensday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is assaulted with a direct hit by a fluffy cream pie during a three-pronged attack in Brussels. He was in Belgium attending meetings with industry and government leaders. Rumor is that the attack was engineered by Noel Godin, infamous for his other pie throwings at government officials.


Someone sure stepped it up when they did the shoe @ bush

[BRAD]

Morning Getnts.  Im getting to watch another 3" of snow hit the ground today

[Krandall]

Nice! We haven't seen any significant snow for aobut a week and a half. Just been cold. Today was -6 when I woke up. They are saying mid 30's this weekend. Probably do another river ride 

[BRAD]

Its sitting around 25 here.  With a steady cloud of snow coming down