Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXI

[BRAD]

That sucks B.  whats up Randy?

[Peelz]

B-rad...you have been notably slacking in your posts lately. Please remedy this immediately. 

How is eveyone today? I am feeling better, thankfully. Itching to go riding quite a bit. 

[Flynbyu]

Itching is not from wanting to go ride.



~Brian

[Peelz]

Itching is not from wanting to go ride.



~Brian

only if accompanied by a burning sensation.

Later Tater

[Flynbyu]

I was referring to drug withdrawls.



~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Apr 8 1916

Auto racer Bob Burman crashes and burns during a race in Corona, California. He dies and takes his mechanic Eric Scroeder and a track policeman with him. Burman was in the lead during most of the race but his Peugot broke a wheel sending his car crashing through a crowd barrier and into a pole and badly injuring 5 spectators.

Apr 8 1988

Rev. Jimmy Swaggart resigns from his ministry when it is revealed that he has been consorting with a prostitute, Debra Murphree. She says he was a frequent client but only liked to watch her undress. Only a few months earlier, Swaggart had been giving Rev. Jim Bakker shit about Jessica Hahn.

Apr 8 1991

Retired horse jockey Willie Shoemaker loses control of his Ford Bronco; the resulting crash renders him paralyzed from the neck down. Shoemaker is later arrested for drunk driving, but no charges are ever filed.

Apr 8 1992

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat suffers only minor injuries after his airplane crashes into the Libyan desert. However, three others on board the craft are killed.

Apr 8 1994

Kurt Cobain's body is found 3 days after committing suicide with a shotgun.

Birthdays today...
1320 – King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
1533 – Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (d. 1604)
1541 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician (d. 1593)
1605 – King Philip IV of Spain, (d. 1665)
1641 – Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (d. 1704)
1692 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (d. 1770)
1732 – David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, and mathematician (d. 1796)
1818 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (d. 1892)
1818 – King Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)
1826 – Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (d. 1890)
1827 – Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (d. 1898)
1842 – Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1933)
1859 – Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (d. 1938)
1865 – Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist (d. 1940)
1869 – Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (d. 1939)
1871 – Clarence Hudson White American photographer (d. 1925)
1874 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (d. 1960)
1875 – King Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934)
1883 – R. P. Keigwin, English academic (d. 1972)
1888 – Dennis Chavez, American politician (d. 1964)
1889 – Sir Adrian Boult, British conductor (d. 1983)
1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, inventor of Lego (d. 1958)
1892 – Richard Neutra, American architect (d. 1970)
1892 – Mary Pickford, Canadian actress (d. 1979)
1896 – Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981)
1902 – Andrew Irvine, British mountaineer who disappeared somewhere high on Mount Everest with his climbing partner George Mallory (d. 1924)
1904 – John Hicks, British economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1989)
1904 – Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (d. 1970)
1905 – Helen Joseph, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1992)
1905 – Erwin Keller, German field hockey player (d. 1971)
1906 – Raoul Jobin, French Canadian tenor (d. 1974)
1908 – Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (d. 1987)
1909 – John Fante, American novelist (d. 1983)
1910 – George Musso, American football player (d. 2000)
1911 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1911 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. 1995)
1912 – Alois Brunner, Austrian Nazi
1912 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (d. 1969)
1914 – María Félix, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1918 – Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States
1918 – Glendon Swarthout, American author (d. 1992)
1919 – Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
1920 – Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (d. 1994)
1921 – Alfie Bass, English actor (d. 1987)
1921 – Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (d. 2003)
1921 – Jan Novák, Czech composer (d. 1984)
1923 – George Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
1923 – Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (d. 1997)
1924 – Frédéric Back, German-born Canadian short film director and screenwriter
1924 – Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, English soldier and historian (d. 2006)
1926 – Henry N. Cobb, American architect
1926 – Shecky Greene, American comedian
1926 – Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian
1928 – Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)
1928 – Monty Sunshine, English jazz clarinetist
1929 – Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (d. 2000)
1929 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer/composer (d. 1978)
1929 – Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (d. 1996)
1930 – Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma
1931 – John Gavin, American actor and politician
1932 – Sultan Iskandar of Johor, also the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
1933 – Fred Ebb, American composer (d. 2004)
1934 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (d. 2007)
1935 – Albert Bustamante, American politician
1937 – Seymour Hersh, American journalist
1938 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian United Nations Secretary General
1940 – John Havlicek, American basketball player
1941 – Darlene Gillespie, Canadian-born American actress
1941 – Peggy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
1941 – Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer
1942 – Roger Chapman, British rock singer (Family, Streetwalkers)
1942 – Douglas Trumbull, American film director
1943 – Tony Banks, British politician (d. 2006)
1943 – Michael Bennett, American dancer/choreographer (d. 1987)
1943 – Miller Farr, American football player
1944 – Hywel Bennett, Welsh actor
1944 – Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter
1945 – Derrick Walker, British racing team owner
1946 – Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1946 – Stuart Pankin, American actor
1946 – Tim Thomerson, American actor
1947 – Tom DeLay, American politician
1947 – Steve Howe, English guitarist (Yes, Asia, GTR)
1947 – Robert Kiyosaki, American investor
1947 – Larry Norman, American singer/songwriter
1947 – Pascal Lamy, Director-General of WTO
1948 – Michael Leshner, Canadian lawyer and gay rights advocate
1949 – John Madden, English film director
1949 – Brenda Russell, American singer/songwriter
1950 – Grzegorz Lato, Polish footballer
1951 – Geir Haarde, former Icelandic prime minister
1954 – G.V. Loganathan, American professor (d. 2007)
1954 – Gary Carter, American baseball player
1955 – Ricky Bell, American football player (d. 1984)
1955 – Kane Hodder, American actor and stuntman
1955 – Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist
1955 – David Wu, Taiwanese-born American politician
1956 – Christine Boisson, French actress
1956 – Jim Piddock, English actor, writer and producer
1957 – Fred Smerlas, American football player
1960 – John Schneider, American actor
1961 – Richard Hatch, American reality television personality
1962 – Izzy Stradlin, American musician (Guns N' Roses)
1963 – Julian Lennon, English musician and singer
1963 – Terry Porter, American basketball player and coach
1963 – Alec Stewart, English cricketer
1963 – Seth Tobias, American financial commentator (d. 2007)
1964 – Lisa Guerrero, American sports broadcaster
1964 – Biz Markie, American rapper/disc jockey
1964 – John McGinlay, Scottish footballer
1965 – Michael Niko Jones, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1966 – Mark Blundell, British racing driver
1966 – Mazinho, Brazilian footballer
1966 – Bobby Ologun, Nigerian television personality
1966 – Robin Wright Penn, American actress
1967 – Arwyn Davies, Welsh actor
1968 – Patricia Arquette, American actress
1968 – Patricia Girard-Léno, French athlete (100 m hurdles)
1968 – Tracy Grammer, American folk singer
1972 – Paul Gray, American bassist (Slipknot)
1973 – Khaled Badra, Tunisian footballer
1973 – Emma Caulfield, American actress
1973 – Alex S. Gonzalez, American baseball player
1974 – Chino XL, American rapper
1974 – Holger Hott Johansen, Norwegian orienteerist
1974 – Nnedi Okorafor, Nigerian American writer
1975 – Anouk, Dutch singer
1975 – Timo Pérez, Dominican baseball player
1977 – Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (d. 2008)
1977 – Mark Spencer, American computer programmer
1978 – Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress
1978 – Bernt Haas, Swiss footballer
1979 – Jeremy Guthrie, American baseball player
1979 – Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist and singer (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, Kylähullut)
1980 – Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer
1980 – Katee Sackhoff, American actress
1981 – Brian Burres, American baseball player
1981 – Taylor Kitsch, Canadian actor and model
1982 – Judy Star, Canadian porn star
1983 – Allu Arjun, Indian film actor
1983 – Adrian Bellani, American actor
1984 – Júlia Liptáková, Slovakian model
1984 – Taran Noah Smith, American actor
1984 – Kirsten Storms, American actress
1986 – Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer
1986 – Félix Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1986 – Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress, model and singer
1987 – Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
1989 – Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese singer
1992 – Shelby Young, American actress

Famous deaths...
217 – Caracalla, Roman Emperor (b. 186)
956 – Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy
1143 – John II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1087)
1364 – King John II of France (b. 1319)
1461 – Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)
1586 – Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer and theologian (b. 1522)
1587 – John Foxe, English writer (b. 1516)
1691 – Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1611)
1697 – Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629)
1704 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624)
1704 – Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641)
1725 – John Wise, English clergyman (b. 1652)
1735 – Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (b. 1676)
1848 – Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
1857 – Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (b. 1827)
1861 – Elisha Otis, American elevator builder (b. 1811)
1870 – Charles de Bériot, Belgian composer (b. 1802)
1906 – Auguste D, First recorded Alzheimer's victim (b. 1850)
1919 – Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848)
1920 – Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b. 1884)
1931 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
1936 – Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
1942 – Kostas Skarvelis, Greek songwriter (b. 1880)
1950 – Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish-born ballet dancer (b. 1890)
1958 – Ethel Turner, Australian author (b. 1872)
1965 – Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
1973 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist and sculptor (b. 1881)
1974 – James Charles McGuigan, Catholic archbishop of Toronto (b. 1894)
1978 – Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (b. 1894)
1981 – Omar Bradley, U.S. general (b. 1893)
1984 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1894)
1985 – J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)
1986 – Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967)
1990 – Ryan White, American AIDS activist (b. 1971)
1991 – Per Yngve "Dead" Ohlin, Swedish metal singer (b. 1969)
1992 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
1993 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
1994 – François Rozet, French Canadian actor (b. 1899)
1996 – George W. Jenkins, American businessman (b. 1907)
1996 – Ben Johnson, American actor (b. 1918)
1996 – León Klimovsky, Argentine film director (b. 1906)
1997 – Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947)
2000 – Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
2002 – María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
2004 – Enda Colleran, Gaelic footballer (b. 1941)
2005 – Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2005 – Onna White, Canadian choreographer (b. 1924)
2006 – Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923)
2007 – Carey W. Barber, American clergyman (b. 1905)
2007 – Sol LeWitt, American artist (b. 1928)
2008 – Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (b. 1928)
2008 – John Button, Australian politician (b. 1933)
2008 – Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances...
Buddha's Birthday in Japan (Not the Raptorsource Buddah)

Have a great wednesday.

~Brian

[BRAD]

Morning Gents. where's everybody at?

[Krandall]

Apr 8 1994

Kurt Cobain's body is found 3 days after committing suicide with a shotgun.



ewwwwww just imagine walking in on something like that.




Mornin gents.!

[Peelz]

Morning ladies. B-Rad....you need to step up your game a notch. 

[Flynbyu]

Apr 8 1994

Kurt Cobain's body is found 3 days after committing suicide with a shotgun.



ewwwwww just imagine walking in on something like that.




Mornin gents.!

I remember it was a flannel funeral.



~Brian

[Peelz]

Ta-ta buttnuggets!

[Krandall]

later homo..

[Flynbyu]

Later man.

Keep it rizzeal!

~Brian

[BRAD]

Morning ladies. B-Rad....you need to step up your game a notch. 

whats up Peels?  hows life going man?  you get Snipped yet??

[Peelz]

Morning ladies. B-Rad....you need to step up your game a notch. 

whats up Peels?  hows life going man?  you get Snipped yet??

I am telling ya' your raptor source time waaaay below standard. Let's work on it. 2 weeks ago Friday.