Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XX

[Colorado700R]

Feb 9 1989

Officials for the World Wrestling Federation testify before the New Jersey Senate that their matches are actually rigged. Say it ain't so!


:'( :'( :'(

LIES.. ITS REAL!

But the "performers" never use anabolic steriods!!   

[Peelz]

Feb 9 1909

The first federal law prohibiting the importation of opium is enacted, aimed not particularly at the ravages the drug was having on American society (none: white people weren't using opium), but at the hated Chinese.


HATERS!   

[Flynbyu]

Beautiful day here yesterday. Temps in the 70's. We broke out the Corvette and broke the 3,000 mile mark yesterday.

:'(

Rain today, but at least it's not freezing!

~Brian

[Peelz]

forecasted to hit 67 here, and storms. Feels like a jungle outside. Gross and moist. Mud everywhere, grass still dead. I will take the temp though.

[FoundArealQuad]

74 hear today and I'm at work

[Flynbyu]

74 hear today and I'm at work

That's usually the way it works.



~Brian

[Peelz]

How was auto imndustry this weekend B? Looked like a ton of traffic at our local shops. My sister even bought a car....

[Peelz]

No posts in here since 10 am, I am depressed.


GOod evening ladies. I bid you all adieu.


So GTFOML!

[Flynbyu]

No posts in here since 10 am, I am depressed.


GOod evening ladies. I bid you all adieu.


So GTFOML!

Everyone stays in chatbox.

Losers!

~Brian

[Peelz]

No posts in here since 10 am, I am depressed.


GOod evening ladies. I bid you all adieu.


So GTFOML!

Everyone stays in chatbox.

Losers!

~Brian

yeah losers!

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Feb 10 1863


Midgets Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren married in a ceremony promoted and orchestrated by P.T. Barnum, reception tickets $75 (adjusted for inflation, $1250 in today's dollars). Commodore Nutt served as best man.

Feb 10 1920

Major League Baseball bans the spitball. Pitchers who had been throwing spitballs could continue, and the practice ended completely in 1934 when the last one, Burleigh Grimes, retired.

Feb 10 1981

Eight people were killed, 198 injured, when fire broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino. (A busboy was later found guilty of setting the fire.)

Feb 10 1993

In a TV interview, former negro Michael Jackson tells Oprah Winfrey that he suffers from a skin disorder causing it to whiten.

Birthdays today...
1499 - Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
1524 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
1606 - Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
1609 - John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
1685 - Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750)
1775 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834)
1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
1785 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1936)
1795 - Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)
1846 - Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
1859 - Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943)
1884 - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
1890 - Fanny Kaplan, failed assassin of Vladimir Lenin. (d. 1918)
1892 - Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
1893 - Jimmy Durante, American actor/comedian (d. 1980)
1893 - Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)
1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
1897 - Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)
1897 - John Franklin Enders, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1985)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
1898 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
1901 - Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)
1903 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
1903 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
1904 - John Farrow, American film director (d. 1963)
1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
1906 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
1910 - Georges Pire, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
1914 - Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001)
1920 - Alex Comfort, British physician and writer (d. 2000)
1924 - Bud Poile, Canadian hockey player and executive (d. 2005)
1926 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993)
1927 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
1927 - Brian Priestman, British conductor
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
1929 - Jim and Lou Whittaker, American mountaineers
1930 - Robert Wagner, American actor
1930 - E.L. Konigsburg, American author
1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
1931 - Doug Young, American voice actor
1933 - Richard Schickel, American film critic
1934 - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
1935 - John Alcorn (artist), American designer and illustrator (d. 1992)
1937 - Roberta Flack, American singer
1939 - Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
1940 - Mary Rand, British athlete
1941 - Michael Apted, British director
1943 - Bill Laskey, American football player
1944 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)
1944 - Frank Keating, American politician
1944 - Rufus Reid, American musician
1944 - Vernor Vinge, American novelist
1944 - Frances Moore Lappe, American writer and activist
1947 - Louise Arbour, Canadian judge
1947 - Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist and composer
1947 - Nicholas Owen, English newsreader
1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
1949 - Jim Corcoran, Quebec singer and songwriter
1949 - Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
1949 - Nigel Olsson, British musician
1949 - Harold Sylvester, American actor
1950 - Mark Spitz, American swimmer
1951 - Robert Iger, American entertainment executive
1952 - Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
1954 - Larry McWilliams, baseball player
1955 - Chris Adams, British pro wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)
1955 - Jim Cramer, American television personality
1955 - Greg Norman, Australian golfer
1958 - Michael Weiss, American musician
1959 - Dennis Gentry, American football player
1959 - Lisa McPherson, Former Scientologist (d. 1995)
1960 - Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)
1961 - Alexander Payne, American film director
1961 - George Stephanopoulos, American political commentator
1962 - Cliff Burton, American musician (Metallica) (d. 1986)
1962 - Bobby Czyz, American boxer
1962 - Piero Pelù, Italian singer and song-writer (Litfiba)
1963 - Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
1964 - Glenn Beck, American radio and television host
1964 - Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989)
1964 - Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
1964 - Francesca Neri, Italian actress
1965 - Mario Jean, Quebec comedian and television actor
1966 - Daryl Johnston, American football player
1967 - Laura Dern, American actress
1967 - Jacky Durand, French cyclist
1967 - Armand Serrano, Filipino animator
1968 - Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player
1968 - Garrett Reisman, NASA astronaut
1968 - Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
1969 - Joe Mangrum, American artist
1969 - Laurie Dhue, American television personality
1970 - Alberto Castillo, Dominican baseball player
1970 - Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver
1970 - Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer
1970 - Myrea Pettit, British illustrator
1970 - Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist
1971 - Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998)
1971 - Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler
1974 - Elizabeth Banks, American actress
1974 - Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
1974 - Ty Law, American football player
1974 - Tanoai Reed, American stunt performer
1975 - Amber Frey, American witness in the Scott Peterson case
1975 - Kool Savas, German rapper
1975 - Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player
1976 - Lance Berkman, American baseball player
1976 - Kev Brown, American rapper/producer
1976 - Keeley Hawes, English actress
1977 - Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
1978 - Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
1978 - Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
1979 - Daryl Palumbo, American musician
1979 - Ross Powers, American snowboarder
1980 - César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 - Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer
1980 - Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Steve Tully, English footballer
1981 - Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
1981 - Andrew Johnson, English footballer
1981 - Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter
1981 - The Reverend Tholomew Plague, drummer (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 - Keith Dunne, Irish footballer
1982 - Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
1982 - Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player
1984 - Alex Gordon, American baseball player
1984 - Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
1986 - Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
1986 - Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1987 - Choi Si Won, Korean singer (Super Junior)
1991 - Emma Roberts, American actress
1994 - Makenzie Vega, American actress
1997 - Chloe Moretz, American actress

Famous deaths...
1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)
1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
1242 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
1576 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
1686 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
1758 - Thomas Ripley, English architect
1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
1857 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
1891 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
1904 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
1906 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)
1912 - Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)
1917 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1833)
1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
1932 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
1945 - Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
1966 - Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
1975 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
1984 - David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958)
1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
1987 - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
1990 - Bill Sherwood, American filmmaker/composer (b. 1952)
1992 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
1993 - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
1997 - Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
2001 - Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
2001 - George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
2002 - Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)
2002 - Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
2003 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
2003 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
2003 - Clark MacGregor, United States Congressman from Minnesota (b. 1922)
2003 - Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)
2003 - Ron Ziegler, press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
2004 - Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)
2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
2006 - J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
2006 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
2007 - Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
2007 - Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
2008 - Roy Scheider, American Actor (b. 1932)
2008 - Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947)
2008 - Adeline Jay Geo-Karis, Long serving Illinois Senator (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances...
Italy - National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe to commemorate Italian Istrian and Dalmatian exiles and Foibe massacres.
Saint Scholastica
St. Paul's Shipwreck day; birth of Catholicism in Malta

Have a great Tuesday.

~Brian

[Peelz]

Feb 10 1993

In a TV interview, former negro Michael Jackson tells Oprah Winfrey that he suffers from a skin disorder causing it to whiten.


  at "former negro"  !

[Krandall]

Feb 10 1920

Major League Baseball bans the spitball. Pitchers who had been throwing spitballs could continue, and the practice ended completely in 1934 when the last one, Burleigh Grimes, retired.


wow.. I thought it was just a term. that's awesome!

[Peelz]

It was preceeded by the "jizz-ball" banned as well.

[socalrappy700]

I could only throw 3 or 4 of those per game.