Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXI

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Mar 17

St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.

Mar 17 45 BC

In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.

Mar 17 1776

British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery overlooking the city.

Mar 17 1780

George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".

Mar 17 1845

The rubber band is patented.

Mar 17 1960

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

Mar 17 1966

Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.

Mar 17 1985

Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree.

Mar 17 2008

New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor.

Birthdays today...
1231 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (d. 1242)
1473 - King James IV of Scotland (d. 1513)
1628 - François Girardon, French sculptor (d. 1715)
1676 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)
1725 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born military and political leader (d. 1806)
1777 - Roger Brooke Taney, 5th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1864)
1780 - Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist (d. 1847)
1781 - Ebenezer Elliott, British poet (d. 1849)
1787 - Edmund Kean, English actor (d. 1833)
1804 - Jim Bridger, American trapper and explorer (d. 1881)
1820 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (d. 1897)
1834 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor (d. 1900)
1846 - Kate Greenaway, English children's author and illustrator (d. 1901)
1856 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1862 - Silvio Gesell, Belgian economist (d. 1930)
1864 - Joseph Baptista, Indian Home Rule Movement founder (d. 1930)
1866 - Pierce Butler, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1939)
1870 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (d. 1951)
1880 - Sir Patrick Hastings, British barrister (d. 1952)
1880 - Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (d. 1912)
1881 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1883 - Urmuz, Romanian writer (d. 1923)
1884 - Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1934)
1886 - Princess Patricia of Connaught, British princess (d. 1974)
1888 - Paul Ramadier, French politician (d. 1961)
1892 - Benjamin Drake Van Wissen, Australian Engineer (d. 1984)
1894 - Paul Green, American writer (d. 1981)
1897 - Jozef C. Mazur, American stained glass artist and painter (d. 1970)
1901 - Alfred Newman, American film composer (d. 1970)
1902 - Bobby Jones, American golfer (d. 1971)
1907 - Sonny Werblin, American football franchise owner (d. 1991)
1908 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996)
1912 - Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist (d. 1987)
1914 - Sammy Baugh, American football player (d. 2008)
1915 - Henry Bumstead, American art director (d. 2006)
1916 - Ray Ellington, British singer (d. 1985)
1919 - Nat King Cole, American singer (d. 1965)
1922 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
1925 - Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian film and stage actor
1926 - Siegfried Lenz, German writer
1928 - William John McKeag, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1930 - James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991)
1931 - David Peakall, British scientist (d. 2001)
1932 - Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist
1933 - Myrlie Evers-Williams, American activist
1936 - Ladislav Kupkovic, Slovakian composer
1936 - Patty Maloney, American actress
1936 - Ken Mattingly, American astronaut
1937 - Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (d. 2008)
1937 - Adam Wade, American singer and actor
1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (d. 1993)
1938 - Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, Northern Irish clergyman
1938 - Zola Taylor, American singer (The Platters) (d. 2007)
1939 - Jim Gary, American sculptor (d. 2006)
1939 - Robin Knox-Johnston, British Yachtsman
1940 - Mark White, American politician
1941 - Paul Kantner, American musician (Jefferson Airplane)
1941 - Wang Jin-pyng, Taiwanese politician
1942 - John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (d. 1994)
1942 - Dimitris Poulikakos, Greek composer, singer and actor
1944 - Pattie Boyd, British photographer and model
1944 - Cito Gaston, American baseball player and manager
1944 - John Sebastian, American singer and songwriter
1945 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (d. 1982)
1945 - Michael Hayden, American Air Force General, CIA director
1945 - Katri Helena, Finnish singer
1947 - Jan Andersson, Swedish politician
1947 - Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born composer and producer
1947 - James Morrow, American author
1948 - William Gibson, American writer
1948 - Alex MacDonald, Scottish footballer and football manager
1949 - Patrick Duffy, American actor
1949 - Daniel Lavoie, French Canadian singer and songwriter
1949 - Pat Rice, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1950 - Patrick Adams, American record producer and songwriter
1951 - Donald Findlay, Scottish lawyer
1951 - Scott Gorham, American musician (Thin Lizzy)
1951 - Craig Ramsay, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Kurt Russell, American actor
1952 - Nikos Xydakis, Greek musician and composer
1953 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino communist revolutionary (d. 2001)
1953 - Chuck Muncie, American football running back
1954 - Lesley-Anne Down, English actress
1955 - Cynthia McKinney, American politician, Presidential candidate
1955 - Gary Sinise, American actor
1956 - Patrick McDonnell, American cartoonist
1957 - Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer
1957 - Michael Kelly, American journalist (d. 2003)
1958 - Pat Bolland, Canadian Broadcaster
1959 - Danny Ainge, American basketball player and coach
1959 - Paul Black, American rock singer
1959 - Christian Clemenson, American actor
1960 - Arye Gross, American actor
1961 - Sam Bowie, American basketball player
1961 - Andrew Paul, English actor
1961 - Dana Reeve, American actress and activist (d. 2006)
1961 - Casey Siemaszko, American actor
1962 - Ank Bijleveld-Schouten, Dutch politician
1962 - Clare Grogan, Scottish actress-singer
1963 - Alex Fong Chung-Sun, Chinese actor
1963 - Nick Peros, Canadian composer
1964 - Lee Dixon, English footballer
1964 - Rob Lowe, American actor
1964 - Jacques Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1966 - Jeremy Sheffield, English actor
1967 - Billy Corgan, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
1967 - Barry Minkow, American religious leader and ex-convict
1969 - Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer
1969 - Mathew St. Patrick, American actor
1970 - Gene Ween, American musician (Ween)
1970 - Yanic Truesdale, Canadian actor
1971 - Bill Mueller, American baseball player
1972 - Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian musician
1972 - Marc Gunn, poet, podcaster, and musician (Brobdingnagian Bards)
1972 - Mia Hamm, American soccer player
1973 - Rico Blanco, Filipino singer (Rivermaya)
1973 - Caroline Corr, Irish singer and musician
1973 - Vance Wilson, American baseball player
1973 - Jerome Woods, American football player
1974 - Marisa Coughlan, American actress
1974 - Mark Dolan, British TV show host
1974 - Oliver Palotai, German keyboardplayer (Doro)
1975 - Justin Hawkins, British singer (The Darkness)
1975 - Andrew "Test" Martin, Canadian wrestler (d. 2009)
1975 - Natalie Zea, American actress
1976 - Brittany Daniel, American actress
1976 - Cynthia Daniel, American actress and photographer
1976 - Scott Downs, American baseball player
1976 - Stephen Gately, Irish singer, musician, and actor (Boyzone)
1976 - Álvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer
1978 - Adam Jennings, British actor, producer and director
1979 - Nicole "Coco" Austin, American glamor model
1979 - Stormy Daniels, American pornographic actress
1979 - Andrew Ference, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Samoa Joe, Samoan wrestler
1979 - Sharman Joshi, Indian actor
1980 - Danny Califf, American soccer player
1981 - Aaron Baddeley, Australian golfer
1981 - Servet Çetin, Turkish football player
1981 - Kyle Korver, American basketball player
1982 - Steven Pienaar, South African footballer
1986 - Olesya Rulin, American actress
1987 - Ryan Parent, Canadian hockey player
1987 - Krisnan Inu, New Zealand Rugby League player

Famous deaths...
45 BC - Titus Labienus, Roman leader
180 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (b. 121)
461 or 493 - Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland
659 - Gertrude of Nivelles, Belgian abbess
1040 - Harold Harefoot, King of England
1058 - King Lulach I of Scotland
1199 - Jocelin, bishop of Glasgow
1272 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)
1425 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (b. 1407)
1516 - Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1478)
1565 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (b. 1500)
1640 - Philip Massinger, English dramatist (b. 1583)
1649 - Gabriel Lallemant, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1610)
1680 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (b. 1613)
1704 - Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (b. 1641)
1713 - Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw (b. 1688)
1715 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1643)
1741 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (b. 1671)
1764 - George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer
1782 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (b. 1700)
1830 - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (b. 1764)
1846 - Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1784)
1849 - William II of the Netherlands (b. 1792)
1853 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physician and mathematician (b. 1803)
1871 - Robert Chambers, Scottish naturalist (b. 1802)
1875 - Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (b. 1832)
1893 - Jules Ferry, French statesman (b. 1832)
1912 - Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (b. 1880)
1917 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
1926 - Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (b. 1853)
1937 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
1941 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (b. 1895)
1946 - Dai Li, Chinese spymaster (b. 1897)
1949 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1956 - Fred Allen, American actor and comedian (b. 1894)
1956 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
1957 - Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
1961 - Susanna M. Salter, Mayor of Argonia, Kansas (b. 1860)
1965 - Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football coach, player, and innovator (b. 1862)
1974 - Louis Kahn, American architect
1976 - Luchino Visconti, Italian director (b. 1906)
1981 - Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1983 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1987 - Santo Trafficante, Jr., American gangster (b. 1914)
1988 - Nikolas Asimos, Greek counter-culture composer and singer (b. 1949)
1989 - Merritt Butrick, American actor (b. 1959)
1990 - Capucine, French actress (b. 1931)
1990 - Ric Grech, British bass player (Blind Faith - Traffic) (b. 1946)
1992 - Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903)
1993 - Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
1994 - Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (b. 1925)
1995 - Ronnie Kray, British gangster (b. 1933)
1995 - Rick Aviles, American actor (b. 1952)
1996 - René Clément, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1913)
1996 - Terry Stafford, American singer (b. 1941)
1999 - Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (b. 1921)
1999 - Rod Hull, British comedian (b. 1936)
2002 - Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (b. 1911)
2002 - Pat Weaver, American broadcast executive (b. 1908)
2003 - Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (b. 1902)
2004 - J. J. Jackson, American television personality (b. 1941)
2005 - George F. Kennan, American Cold War strategist and historian (b. 1904)
2005 - Andre Norton, American writer (b. 1912)
2006 - Bob Blue, American singer/songwriter (b. 1948)
2006 - Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (b. 1913)
2006 - Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (b. 1913)
2006 - Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (b. 1955)
2007 - John Backus, American computer scientist (b. 1924)
2007 - Roger Bennett, American Southern Gospel performer (b. 1959)
2007 - Jim Cronin, Animal welfare campaigner and founder of Monkey World in Dorset, England. (b. 1951)
2008 - Roland Arnall, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances...
Ancient Latvia - Kustonu Diena (return of the larks) observed
Feast day of St Patrick: a public holiday in Ireland (National feast), Montserrat and the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, widely celebrated elsewhere in North America and worldwide (see Saint Patrick's Day)
Suffolk County, Massachusetts - Evacuation Day
Ancient Rome - the second day of the Bacchanalia in honor of Bacchus
Ancient Rome - the Liberalia in honor of Liber

Have a great Tuesday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Mar 17 2009


<edit per boss>


ALSO!!!!!



Today my raptor is 3 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Krandall]

blah blah blah, wrong thread


Anyone else rocking green that's irish?

and peels...      

[Flynbyu]

Happy Birthday to Randy's bitch! (His quad)

~Brian

[Peelz]

+1 happy b-day rappy!


St Patty's is not that big of a deal for me. I can drink any day. I am not catholic, and only like 1/2 Irish.

[Krandall]

Happy Birthday to Randy's bitch! (His quad)

~Brian

Aww, I miss Nix being around.


1/2 Irish is a lot

I'll be out celebrating w/ some green brews tonight!

[Flynbyu]

blah blah blah, wrong thread


Anyone else rocking green that's irish?

and peels...      

I'm not Irish, and I'm sneaky with the green today.

It's on my watch only.



So pinch me bitch, and you get pinched ten times!



~Brian

[socalrappy700]

The city has been going nuts since Saturday.  Tons of green beer and a green river.

[Krandall]

The city has been going nuts since Saturday.  Tons of green beer and a green river.

Niiice!!!

I know the river is an annual thing for Chi town. I saw the white house dyed all of the fountains green

[Peelz]

blah blah blah, wrong thread


Anyone else rocking green that's irish?

and peels...      

I'm not Irish, and I'm sneaky with the green today.

It's on my strap-on only.



So pinch me bitch, and you get pinched ten times!



~Brian

fixed

[Flynbyu]

blah blah blah, wrong thread


Anyone else rocking green that's irish?

and peels...      

I'm not Irish, and I'm sneaky with the green today.

It's on my strap-on only.



So pinch me bitch, and you get pinched ten times!



~Brian

fixed

Not funny.



~Brian

[Krandall]

blah blah blah, wrong thread


Anyone else rocking green that's irish?

and peels...      

I'm not Irish, and I'm sneaky with the green today.

It's on my strap-on only.



So pinch me bitch, and you get pinched ten times!



~Brian

come get me sexy

[Flynbyu]

blah blah blah, wrong thread


Anyone else rocking green that's irish?

and peels...      

I'm not Irish, and I'm sneaky with the green today.

It's on my strap-on only.



So pinch me bitch, and you get pinched ten times!



~Brian

come get me sexy

Baby, I wanna butta yo' bread.

WTF?

~Brian

[Peelz]

I like my breadz wif no buttah. 

[Flynbyu]

Where's mah butta?



~Brian