Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXI

[dragonz]

Dragonz, have they renamed the Islands yet?  Can one of them be called "Raptor Island" 

Yo Maddog!
I wish!
Don't get enough time to ride my own, let alone lobby to evict half of the north island to make a decent quad-bike riding park....................

Hows you black rappy going?
Black is best after all!

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Apr 27 4977 BC

GERD creates the universe, according to calculations by mystic and part-time astronomer Johannes Kepler.

Apr 27 1509

The entire state of Venice is excommunicated by Pope Julius II for an entirely secular reason: the refusal to place parts of Romagna under the Pope's control.

Apr 27 1521

In an hourlong battle with Philippine islanders, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his men are repeatedly jabbed with sharpened bamboo spears. After Magellan finally succumbs to his wounds, the natives hack him to pieces with their swords.

Apr 27 1861

In a blatantly unconstitutional act, President Abraham Lincoln suspends habeas corpus inside a zone between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. The government may now detain citizens indefinitely without ever filing charges. A year and a half later, Lincoln expands the scope of his order to the entire nation.

Apr 27 1865

At least 1,700 Union soldiers are killed when the boiler aboard the steamship Sultana suddenly explodes.

Apr 27 1940

Heinrich Himmler gives orders to construct a concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland. Only 14 months later, Auschwitz is open for business.

Apr 27 1963

Comedian Lenny Bruce is arrested in Miami for illegal possession of hypodermic needles. They were, however, for legally-prescribed prescription drugs.

Apr 27 1986

During a live TV special, journalist Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault beneath the Lexington Hotel in Chicago. He finds nothing inside, apart from a few empty bottles.

Apr 27 1986

Someone interrupts the HBO satellite feed during the movie The Falcon and The Snowman. For five minutes, two-thirds of their customer base receives the message: Good evening HBO from Captain Midnight. $12.95 a month? No way! (Showtime-Movie Channel Beware.) Three months later, the FCC arrests Florida satellite dish retailer John R. MacDougall for the crime.

Apr 27 1987

After determining that Kurt Waldheim had "assisted or otherwise participated in the persecution of persons" during his Nazi years, the Department of Justice places him on a watch list of undesirable aliens. As such, the sitting President of Austria is disallowed entry into the U.S. It is the first time that a foreign head of state is legally forbidden from visiting America.

    Birthdays today...

    * 1495 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)
    * 1623 – Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (d. 1722)
    * 1650 – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714)
    * 1701 – King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
    * 1718 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)
    * 1724 – Col. Thomas Gardner, a heroic political figure and soldier (d. 1775)
    * 1737 – Edward Gibbon, English historian (d. 1794)
    * 1748 – Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (d. 1833)
    * 1755 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836)
    * 1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher and early feminist, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (d. 1797)
    * 1791 – Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
    * 1806 – Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, queen of Spain (d. 1878)
    * 1812 – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)
    * 1812 – William W. Snow, American politician (d. 1886)
    * 1820 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (d. 1903)
    * 1822 – Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War general and 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
    * 1840 – Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (d. 1911)
    * 1848 – King Otto I of Bavaria (d. 1916)
    * 1850 – Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (d. 1921)
    * 1853 – Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (d. 1914)
    * 1878 – Frank Alvin Gotch, American professional wrestler (d. 1917)
    * 1888 – Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917)
    * 1891 – Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer (d. 1953)
    * 1893 – Dragoljub Mihailović, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (d. 1946)
    * 1893 – Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (d. 1939)
    * 1894 – George Petty, WWII Pin-Up Artist (d. 1975)
    * 1894 – Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born musicologist and composer (d. 1995)
    * 1896 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (d. 1963)
    * 1899 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994)
    * 1903 – Horace Stoneham, American Major League Baseball team owner (d. 1990)
    * 1904 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (d. 1972)
    * 1906 – Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (d. 1966)
    * 1910 – Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (d. 1988)
    * 1913 – Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist (d. 2004)
    * 1916 – Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
    * 1918 – Sten Rudholm, Swedish jurist, member of the Swedish Academy
    * 1920 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
    * 1920 – Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet
    * 1920 – Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1997)
    * 1921 – John Stott, British theologian and clergyman
    * 1922 – Martin Gray, Polish-born American writer, holocaust survivor
    * 1922 – Jack Klugman, American actor
    * 1927 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2006)
    * 1927 – Joe Moakley, American politician (d. 2001)
    * 1927 – Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
    * 1927 – Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (d. 1988)
    * 1931 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
    * 1932 – Anouk Aimée, French actress
    * 1932 – Pik Botha, South African politician
    * 1932 – Casey Kasem, American disc jockey
    * 1932 – Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
    * 1935 – Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer
    * 1936 – Geoffrey Shovelton, English opera singer
    * 1937 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
    * 1937 – Robin Eames, Northern Irish clergyman
    * 1938 – Earl Anthony, American bowler (d. 2001)
    * 1938 – Alain Caron, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1986)
    * 1939 – Judy Carne, British actress and comedian
    * 1939 – Jerry Mercer, drummer for Canadian rock band April Wine from 1973-2008.
    * 1939 – Stanislaw Dziwisz, Polish Cardinal
    * 1941 – Jennings Michael Burch, American author
    * 1941 – Lee Roy Jordan, American football player
    * 1941 – Pat Choate, American economist
    * 1942 – Jim Keltner, American drummer
    * 1943 – Helmut Marko, Austrian racing driver
    * 1944 – Michael Fish, British former weather forecaster
    * 1944 – Cuba Gooding, Sr., American musician (The Main Ingredient)
    * 1945 – August Wilson, American playwright (d. 2005)
    * 1947 – Ann Peebles, American singer
    * 1947 – George Kenneth Butterfield, American politician
    * 1947 – Peter Ham, Welsh singer and songwriter (Badfinger) (d. 1975)
    * 1947 – Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
    * 1948 – Frank William Abagnale, Jr., con artist turned security consultant.
    * 1948 – Kate Pierson, American singer (The B-52's)
    * 1948 – Amrit Bohra, Nepalese politician
    * 1951 – Ace Frehley, American musician (Kiss)
    * 1952 – George Gervin, American basketball player
    * 1952 – Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver
    * 1952 – Larry Elder, American political commentator
    * 1953 – Arielle Dombasle, French singer and actress
    * 1956 – Douglas P., English musician (Death in June, Crisis)
    * 1956 – Bryan Harvey, American musician
    * 1957 – Eric Bristow, English darts player
    * 1957 – Rosanna Scotto, American news anchor
    * 1957 – Michel Barrette, Canadian actor and stand-up comedian
    * 1959 – Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
    * 1959 – Louis Lortie, French Canadian concert pianist
    * 1959 – Neil Pearson, British actor
    * 1962 – Ángel Comizzo, Argentine footballer
    * 1962 – James LeGros, American actor
    * 1962 – Im Sang-soo, an award winning South Korean film director and screenwriter
    * 1962 – Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor
    * 1963 – Cali Timmins, Canadian actress
    * 1963 – Russell T Davies, Welsh television writer and executive producer of Doctor Who
    * 1964 – Michael Mahonen, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter
    * 1964 – Lisa Wilcox, American actress
    * 1967 – Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
    * 1967 – Aki Avni, Israeli entertainer
    * 1967 – Tommy Smith, Scottish jazz musician
    * 1967 – Erik Thomson, Australian actor
    * 1967 – Jason Whitlock, American sportswriter
    * 1969 – Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
    * 1969 – Darcey Bussell, British ballerina
    * 1969 – Grahame Cheney, Australian boxer
    * 1969 – Mica Paris, British singer and presenter
    * 1970 – Kylie Travis, English actress and model
    * 1971 – Tess Daly, British television presenter
    * 1972 – David Lascher, American actor
    * 1973 – Sébastien Lareau, French Canadian professional tennis player
    * 1974 – Johnny Devine, Canadian professional wrestler
    * 1974 – Richard Johnson, Australian footballer
    * 1975 – Rabih Abdullah, former National Football League player
    * 1975 – Chris Carpenter, American baseball player
    * 1975 – Pedro Feliz, Dominican baseball player
    * 1976 – Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer and composer
    * 1976 – Sally Hawkins, English film actress
    * 1976 – Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer
    * 1976 – Olaf Tufte, Norwegian rower
    * 1977 – Khalid Zoubaa, French runner
    * 1977 – Jerry Trainor, American actor
    * 1978 – Adamantia Kontogiorgi, Greek actress
    * 1979 – Will Boyd, American musician
    * 1979 – Natasha Chokljat, Australian netballer
    * 1980 – Christian Lara, Ecuadorian footballer
    * 1980 – Ananda Mikola, Indonesian racing driver
    * 1980 – Sybille Bammer, Austrian tennis player
    * 1980 – Talitha Cummins, Australian journalist
    * 1981 – Fabrizio Faniello, Maltese singer
    * 1981 – Joey Gathright, American baseball player
    * 1981 – Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer
    * 1982 – Katrina Johnson, American actress
    * 1983 – Ari Graynor, American actress
    * 1984 – Patrick Stump, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
    * 1984 – Pierre-Marc Bouchard, hockey player
    * 1984 – Daniel Holdsworth, Australian Rugby League player
    * 1986 – Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer
    * 1986 – Dinara Safina, Russian Tennis player
    * 1987 – William Moseley, British actor
    * 1987 – Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Canadian actress
    * 1987 – Elliott Shriane, Australian speed skater
    * 1989 – Emily Rios, American actress
    * 1992 – Allison Iraheta, American singer

    Famous deaths...

    *  630 – King Ardashir III of Persia
    * 1404 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
    * 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
    * 1530 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (b. 1458)
    * 1599 – Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)
    * 1605 – Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)
    * 1613 – Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)
    * 1625 – Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553)
    * 1656 – Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
    * 1694 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
    * 1695 – John Trenchard, English statesman (b. 1640)
    * 1702 – Jean Bart, French admiral (b. 1651)
    * 1782 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)
    * 1813 – Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer (b. 1779)
    * 1873 – William Charles Macready, English actor (b. 1793)
    * 1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
    * 1896 – Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation (b. 1815)
    * 1915 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
    * 1921 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
    * 1932 – Hart Crane, American writer (b. 1899)
    * 1936 – Karl Pearson, English statistician (b. 1857)
    * 1937 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (b. 1891)
    * 1941 – Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
    * 1952 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
    * 1962 – A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman (b. 1873)
    * 1965 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
    * 1967 – William Douglas Cook, founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti, (New Zealand) (b. 1884)
    * 1969 – René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
    * 1970 – Arthur Shields, Irish actor (b. 1896)
    * 1972 – Kwame Nkrumah, leader of Ghana (b. 1909)
    * 1973 – Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (b. 1914)
    * 1977 – Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915)
    * 1988 – David Scarboro, British actor (b. 1968)
    * 1989 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
    * 1992 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
    * 1992 – Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (b. 1927)
    * 1995 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
    * 1996 – William Colby, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1920)
    * 1998 – Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer (b. 1925)
    * 1998 – John Bassett, Canadian publisher and media baron (b. 1915)
    * 1998 – Dominique Aury, French novelist (b. 1907)
    * 1999 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter (b. 1922)
    * 2000 – Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (b. 1954)
    * 2002 – George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
    * 2002 – Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b. 1916)
    * 2002 – Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. 1921)
    * 2006 – Julia Thorne, ex-wife of John Kerry (b. 1944)
    * 2007 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)

    Holidays and observances...

    * Catalonia: Montserrat's Day
    * Finland: National Veterans' Day
    * World Graphic Design Day
    * Sierra Leone: Republic Day
    * Slovenia: Day of Uprising Against Occupation
    * South Africa: Freedom Day and UnFreedom Day

Have a great Monday.

~Brian

[Mad Dog]

Dragonz, have they renamed the Islands yet?  Can one of them be called "Raptor Island" 

Yo Maddog!
I wish!
Don't get enough time to ride my own, let alone lobby to evict half of the north island to make a decent quad-bike riding park....................

Hows you black rappy going?
Black is best after all!

I hear ya, never enough time to have fun.  But that makes each ride just that more special.

The black rappy is broken, like it always is.

[Peelz]

Happy World Graphic Design Day.  This is a special day for me. 

[Krandall]

Apr 27 1986

Someone interrupts the HBO satellite feed during the movie The Falcon and The Snowman. For five minutes, two-thirds of their customer base receives the message: Good evening HBO from Captain Midnight. $12.95 a month? No way! (Showtime-Movie Channel Beware.) Three months later, the FCC arrests Florida satellite dish retailer John R. MacDougall for the crime.


BADASS! 

[Flynbyu]

Apr 27 1986

Someone interrupts the HBO satellite feed during the movie The Falcon and The Snowman. For five minutes, two-thirds of their customer base receives the message: Good evening HBO from Captain Midnight. $12.95 a month? No way! (Showtime-Movie Channel Beware.) Three months later, the FCC arrests Florida satellite dish retailer John R. MacDougall for the crime.


BADASS! 

It's more than that now!



~Brian

[Flynbyu]

I'm headed to our satellite store for the day......Catch you guys later!

~Brian

[Krandall]

Have fun B.

[Flynbyu]

I'm at our satellite location watching it rain......Oh, and playing Mafia Wars.

~Brian

[Peelz]

I'm at our satellite location watching it rain......Oh, and playing Mafia Wars.

~Brian

Careful now, wouldn't want you to over-exert yourself.     

[Flynbyu]

Did I mention I'm watching TV too? Big starring Tom Hanks is on AMC.



~Brian

[NaturalRaptor]

Did I mention I'm watching TV too? Big starring Tom Hanks is on AMC.



~Brian

Thats a good ole movie. "Sleep over, okay but I am on top!" (bunk that is)

[Flynbyu]

He had no clue that chick wanted to get shagged.



~Brian

[NaturalRaptor]

He had no clue that chick wanted to get shagged.



~Brian

That is so funny the way she was throwing herself at him and he just want to play games! Just like the mini hos! 

[Flynbyu]

No doubt!

Kyle wouldn't be tall enough to hit it!

~Brian