Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXI

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Mar 6 1836

Alamo seized by Santa Ana, 3,000 versus 147 not being a fair fight. The holdouts suffered unnecessary deaths, disobeying direct orders by remaining, and losing their arms and cannon to the Mexicans.

Mar 6 1918

The US naval vessel "Cyclops" vanishes in the Bermuda Triangle.

Mar 6 1978



Larry Flynt, publisher of the fine magazine Hustler, is shot and paralyzed.

Mar 6 1983

Cheryl Araujo is gang raped atop a pool table at a tavern in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Other men in the establishment applauded the spectacle. Four men are convicted of the crime in a trial that attracts nationwide attention.

Birthdays today...
1340 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
1459 - Jacob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)
1475 - Michelangelo, Italian artist (d. 1564)
1483 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian (d. 1540)
1495 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (d. 1556)
1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
1663 - Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732)
1706 - George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
1716 - Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
1761 - Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General (d. 1828)
1779 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)
1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826)
1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861)
1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)
1817 - Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
1818 - William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
1831 - Philip Sheridan, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1888)
1834 - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
1870 - Oscar Straus, Viennese operetta composer (d. 1954)
1882 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
1885 - Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)
1893 - Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981)
1900 - Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (d. 1975)
1903 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
1904 - Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)
1904 - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960)
1905 - Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)
1906 - Lou Costello, American actor comedian (d. 1959)
1914 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
1915 - Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras
1915 - Pete Gray, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1917 - Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
1917 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
1917 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher (d. 2003)
1919 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
1923 - Ed McMahon, American television personality
1925 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
1927 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004)
1927 - Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (d. 1975)
1930 - Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor
1931 - Hal Needham, American stuntman
1933 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1934 - John Noakes, British television presenter
1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete
1936 - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (d. 2002)
1936 - Marion Barry Jr., American politician
1936 - Jean Boht, English actress
1937 - Ivan Boesky, American stock trader
1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
1939 - Adam Osborne, British author and computer designer (d. 2003)
1939 - Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria
1939 - Cookie Rojas, baseball player
1940 - Joanna Miles, American actress
1940 - Willie Stargell, baseball player (d. 2001)
1942 - Ben Murphy, American actor
1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand singer
1944 - Mary Wilson, American singer (The Supremes)
1946 - David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
1947 - Kiki Dee, British singer
1947 - Dick Fosbury, American athlete
1947 - Martin Kove, American actor
1947 - Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
1947 - Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer
1948 - Anna Maria Horsford, American actress
1949 - Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan
1949 - Martin Buchan, Scottish soccer player
1951 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
1953 - Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
1953 - Jacklyn Zeman, American actress
1955 - Alberta Watson, Canadian actress
1957 - Dick Rambone, American porn Star
1958 - Eddie Deezen, American actor
1959 - Saul Anuzis, American politician
1959 - Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
1960 - Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player
1962 - Valerie French, American animatronics art director
1963 - D.L. Hughley, American comedian and actor
1964 - Skip Ewing, American country music singer and songwriter
1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician
1966 - Alan Davies, British comedian and actor
1967 - Connie Britton, American actress
1967 - Julio Bocca, Argentine ballet dancer
1968 - Moira Kelly, American actress
1968 - Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X)
1969 - Andrea Elson, American actress
1969 - Tari Phillips, American basketball player
1969 - Amy Pietz, American actress
1969 - Greg Scott, British TV personality
1971 - Sean Morley, American professional wrestler
1971 - Darrick Martin, American basketball player
1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player
1972 - Jaret Reddick, American musician (Bowling For Soup)
1973 - Terry Adams, American baseball player
1973 - Michael Finley, American basketball player
1973 - Greg Ostertag, American basketball player
1973 - Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist (ex-Opeth)
1974 - Sebastian Siegel, British-American actor
1975 - Aracely Arambula, Mexican actress and singer
1976 - Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler
1977 - Giorgos Karagounis, Greek soccer player
1977 - Marcus Thames, American baseball player
1978 - Sage Rosenfels, American Football Player
1978 - Lara Cox, Australian Actress
1979 - David Flair, American professional wrestler
1979 - Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player
1979 - Ryan Nyquist, American BMX rider
1979 - Clint Barmes, American baseball player
1981 - Ellen Muth, American actress
1983 - Andranik Teymourian, Iranian soccer player
1984 - Becky, Japanese-British entertainer
1985 - Albert Reed, American model
1986 - Eli Marienthal, American actor
1987 - Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress
1989 - Agnieszka Radwańska, Polish tennis player
1990 - Patricia Rodríguez, Spanish model
1992 - Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer
1996 - Savanah Stehlin, American actress

Famous deaths...
766 - Chrodegang of Metz, Frankish bishop of Metz
1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador
1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)
1796 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
1836 - James Butler Bonham, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1807)
1836 - Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786)
1836 - William Barret Travis, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1809)
1842 - Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
1854 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (b. 1778)
1860 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
1866 - William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher and historian (b. 1794)
1867 - Artemus Ward, American comic writer (b. 1834)
1881 - Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (b. 1801)
1888 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
1895 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
1899 - Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1834)
1905 - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
1932 - John Philip Sousa, American conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
1933 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
1935 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (b. 1895)
1939 - Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (b. 1852)
1941 - Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867)
1948 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (b. 1914)
1950 - Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
1951 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
1951 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
1952 - Jürgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (executed) (b. 1895)
1961 - George Formby, British comedian and singer (b. 1904)
1964 - King Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
1965 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
1967 - John Haden Badley, English author and educator (b. 1865)
1967 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
1969 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
1970 - William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
1971 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)
1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
1981 - George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)
1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
1984 - Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (b. 1905)
1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
1988 - Mairéad Farrell, Irish Republican (b. 1957)
1988 - Daniel McCann, Irish Republican (b. 1957)
1988 - Seán Savage, Irish Republican (b. 1965)
1994 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, activist, and politician (b. 1920)
1997 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
1997 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
1998 - Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1999 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, Emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)
1999 - Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933)
2000 - John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
2001 - Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
2002 - Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
2003 - John Sanford, American author (b. 1904)
2004 - Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
2004 - Ray Fernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
2005 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
2005 - Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943)
2005 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2005 - Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
2006 - Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (b. 1924)
2006 - King Floyd, American musician (b. 1945)
2006 - Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (b. 1960)
2006 - Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)
2007 - Jean Baudrillard, French theorist and photographer (b. 1929)
2007 - Allen Coage ("Bad News Brown"), American wrestler and judoka (b. 1943)
2007 - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
2008 - Peter Poreku Dery, Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale (b. 1918)
2009 - Francis Magalona, Filipino Rapper known as "King of Pinoy Rap" (b. 1964)

Holidays and observances...
Ghana - Independence Day (from Britain, 1957)
Alamo Day in Texas
Foundation Day on Norfolk Island (1788)

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Sorry to hear about the bad luck Brian.  Hopefully things will turn around this year.  Also, why are you having second thoughts about building on the land?

Were we live now, we are less than five minutes from shopping, five minutes from the airport, five minutes from everything.


I would love to have a little privacy, but then I like being close to everything. We went oout to our property two weeks ago, and the roads are needing attention. The county was supposed to have picked up on the maintenance, and they are not maintaining the roads. The roads are all paved, but they are filled with rough areas. The actual road ting the edition where our property is loacated is really good, but the 1/2 - 3/4 of a  mile to the entrance sucks. There are some really nice homes in the area of my property. There are several retired people with homes there (our neighbor across the street is a retired dentist). Someone is building a 3000-3500 square foot home diagonally across the street from us now, but the home that is sitting next to our property has a shitty looking car sitting outside not in operation (it's against the covenants to have a vehicle not in working order sitting outside and in view of other property owners). On the drive into our phase, there are some homes built in the late 90's that are not being kept up to standard in my opinion. I'm afraid if I build a $300-350,000 home, the surroundings into my phase hurt my property value. Don't get me wrong, there are some really nice homes already in the edition, but there are many that seem to be falling below the status quo (in my opinion).



~Brian

[Peelz]

Happy ghanian independence day mofos!!!!

[Flynbyu]

I now have a nerw pet peeve.

When custoemrs sign contracts, 95% of them say "Signing my life away." This irritates me.

I need a smart ass remark to counter.

"Yes, you are now the property of the Church of Scientology."

~Brian

[Peelz]

I now have a nerw pet peeve.

When custoemrs sign contracts, 95% of them say "Signing my life away." This irritates me.

I need a smart ass remark to counter.

"Yes, you are now the property of the Church of Scientology."

~Brian

Tell them Jeezus will have to sign it as well to verify soul has not already had a lien!

[Krandall]

I now have a nerw pet peeve.

When custoemrs sign contracts, 95% of them say "Signing my life away." This irritates me.

I need a smart ass remark to counter.

"Yes, you are now the property of the Church of Scientology."

~Brian

"uh-oh.. they're coming to take me away..."


welcome to my world brian... welcome to my world.

[Flynbyu]

I now have a nerw pet peeve.

When custoemrs sign contracts, 95% of them say "Signing my life away." This irritates me.

I need a smart ass remark to counter.

"Yes, you are now the property of the Church of Scientology."

~Brian

"uh-oh.. they're coming to take me away..."


welcome to my world brian... welcome to my world.

That's EXACTLY what I thought.

Your dilema with the douches when the sirens go by.

Oh, and Peels....Done. I will use that!

~Brian

[Krandall]

Ugh... More hoops. Talked to my bank today.. they can't work with the house we're looking @ due to the copper piping... We are now working with a separate mortgage company called countrywide sounds like they will be able to help us out... I'm hoping so... I'm nearing the point where I'll stay in an apartment, to much BS.

[Flynbyu]

Ugh... More hoops. Talked to my bank today.. they can't work with the house we're looking @ due to the copper piping... We are now working with a separate mortgage company called countrywide sounds like they will be able to help us out... I'm hoping so... I'm nearing the point where I'll stay in an apartment, to much BS.

That's bullshit!

Copper piping? Hell that's the best!

When I was in the mortgage biz, Countrywide was one of my lenders.

~Brian

[FoundArealQuad]

Ugh... More hoops. Talked to my bank today.. they can't work with the house we're looking @ due to the copper piping... We are now working with a separate mortgage company called countrywide sounds like they will be able to help us out... I'm hoping so... I'm nearing the point where I'll stay in an apartment, to much BS.

I financed my house through Country Wide they are pretty decent. It's probably the best time to buy a house if you have job security, don't give up

[Krandall]

Ugh... More hoops. Talked to my bank today.. they can't work with the house we're looking @ due to the copper piping... We are now working with a separate mortgage company called countrywide sounds like they will be able to help us out... I'm hoping so... I'm nearing the point where I'll stay in an apartment, to much BS.

That's bullshit!

Copper piping? Hell that's the best!

When I was in the mortgage biz, Countrywide was one of my lenders.

~Brian

failed to mention... since I'm assuming you're not aware. House was broken into and the copper in the basement was stolen.   that's why

[Flynbyu]

Damn. That's hardcore.

I've heard of people cutting powerlines for copper, but never houses.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Yeah, my uncle was tryin to sell his house about a year ago.. He was living elsewhere. people broke in and ripped the walls out and pulled all the copper tubing out.. It's a big thing lately here in Minn.

[Krandall]

brian, Deal O' The Day

Check it. 

[Peelz]

Damn. That's hardcore.

I've heard of people cutting powerlines for copper, but never houses.

~Brian

Randy stole it to pay me. Standard meth-purchase procedure.