Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Ranger]

Congrats junior...Wish I could relive my high school years.

[socalrappy700]

Wednesday may 27, 2009 - Kyle graduates 8th grade

Only took 3 years.

[kyledvor61]

Wednesday may 27, 2009 - Kyle graduates 8th grade

Only took 3 years.

just wanted to make sure I got the most out of it

[Peelz]

Soon, you MAY start growing hair in strange places. Even before Krandall.

[kyledvor61]

Soon, you MAY start growing hair in strange places. Even before Krandall.

maybe someday

[Krandall]

Wednesday may 27, 2009 - Kyle graduates 8th grade

Only took 3 years.

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older and they stay the same age."

[Flynbyu]

Wednesday may 27, 2009 - Kyle graduates 8th grade

Only took 3 years.

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older and they stay the same age."

Score!

Alright alright alright!

~Brian

[Krandall]

"I'm letting you have shotgun. But I want you to know it's because only 'cuz I'm goin' inside."

[dragonz]

Wednesday may 27, 2009 - Kyle graduates 8th grade

Only took 3 years.

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older and they stay the same age."

& you can always hit on their mums too

[BLU700R]

Yeah everyone and their mums has guns around here. Lol. Anywhoo I'm in Michigan bitches. In Evart for 2 weeks.

[Krandall]

nothin good in Michigan.

[socalrappy700]

Just some sand dunes.

[Krandall]

Brian. quit doing yard work.

[Flynbyu]

Brian. quit doing yard work.

The Nazis are making me work today.

I'm so pissed.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

May 28, 2009

    * 585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
    * 1503 – James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years.
    * 1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
    * 1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).
    * 1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.
    * 1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
    * 1774 – American Revolutionary War: the first Continental Congress convenes.
    * 1830 – President Andrew Jackson signs The Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
    * 1859 – Big Ben is drawn on a carriage pulled by 16 horses from Whitechapel Bell Foundry to the Palace of Westminster.
    * 1863 – American Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union.
    * 1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
    * 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
    * 1918 – The Democratic Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic declare their independence.
    * 1926 – 28th May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
    * 1930 – The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
    * 1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Ovila and Elzire Dionne, and later become the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
    * 1934 – The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
    * 1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
    * 1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
    * 1937 – Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.
    * 1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany.
    * 1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
    * 1942 – World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people.
    * 1952 – Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park's Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America.
    * 1952 – The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
    * 1955 – Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria.
    * 1961 – Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
    * 1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
    * 1970 – The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
    * 1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
    * 1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
    * 1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
    * 1977 - Resident sasquatch Erich Springinsguth born.
    * 1978 – Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. The election is won by incumbent Sangoulé Lamizana.
    * 1979 – Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
    * 1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
    * 1987 – 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and is not released until August 3, 1988.
    * 1987 – A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
    * 1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa, falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
    * 1995 – The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, ⅔ of total population.
    * 1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
    * 1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
    * 1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.
    * 1999 – Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklöv and Tony Olsson after a car chase.
    * 2002 – NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
    * 2002 – The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
    * 2003 – Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
    * 2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
    * 2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.

     Birthdays today...

    * 1140 – Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
    * 1371 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419)
    * 1524 – Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
    * 1582 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (d. 1662)
    * 1588 – Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (d. 1672)
    * 1641 – Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
    * 1660 – King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
    * 1676 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
    * 1692 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (d. 1752)
    * 1738 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814)
    * 1759 – William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
    * 1779 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852)
    * 1807 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
    * 1818 – P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (d. 1893)
    * 1836 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
    * 1837 – George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
    * 1837 – Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)
    * 1853 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
    * 1858 – Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)
    * 1872 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
    * 1878 – Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
    * 1883 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian activist (d. 1966)
    * 1883 – Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (d. 1978)
    * 1884 – Edvard Beneš, Czech politician (d. 1948)
    * 1886 – Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (d. 1954)
    * 1888 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953)
    * 1888 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1942)
    * 1889 – Richard Réti, Austrian-Czech chess grandmaster (d. 1929)
    * 1892 – Sepp Dietrich, German SS officer (d. 1966)
    * 1900 – Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
    * 1908 – Ian Fleming, English author (d. 1964)
    * 1909 – Red Horner, Canadian hockey player (d. 2005)
    * 1910 – T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)
    * 1910 – Lady Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)
    * 1911 – Thora Hird, British actress (d. 2003)
    * 1911 – Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (d. 1986)
    * 1912 – Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
    * 1912 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist and politician (d. 1992)
    * 1914 – W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)
    * 1915 – Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001)
    * 1916 – Walker Percy, American author (d. 1990)
    * 1917 – Papa John Creech, American musician (d. 1994)
    * 1918 – Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 1990)
    * 1921 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
    * 1922 – Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
    * 1923 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)
    * 1923 – Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor and politician (d. 1998)
    * 1925 – Bülent Ecevit, Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2006)
    * 1925 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone
    * 1931 – Carroll Baker, American actress
    * 1934 – Annette Dionne, Dionne quintuplets
    * 1934 – Cecile Dionne, Dionne quintuplets
    * 1934 – Emilie Dionne, Dionne quintuplets (d. 1954)
    * 1934 – Marie Dionne, Dionne quintuplets (d. 1970)
    * 1934 – Yvonne Dionne, Dionne quintuplets(d. 2001)
    * 1936 – Betty Shabazz, American civil rights activist (d. 1997)
    * 1936 – Claude Forget, French-Canadian politician
    * 1938 – Jerry West, American basketball player
    * 1938 – Prince Buster, Jamaican musician
    * 1941 – Beth Howland, American actress
    * 1942 – Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    * 1943 – Terry Crisp, Canadian hockey coach
    * 1943 – Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004)
    * 1944 – Rudy Giuliani, 107th Mayor of New York City
    * 1944 – Gladys Knight, American singer and actress
    * 1944 – Patricia Quinn, Northern Irish actress
    * 1944 – Gary Stewart, American singer (d. 2003)
    * 1944 – Billy Vera, American actor and musician
    * 1944 – Faith Brown, British actress
    * 1945 – John Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
    * 1945 – Hunter "Patch" Adams, American doctor
    * 1945 – John N. Bambacus, American politician
    * 1946 – Satchidanandan, Indian poet
    * 1946 – Skip Jutze, American baseball player
    * 1947 – Sondra Locke, American actress
    * 1947 – Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Egyptologist
    * 1947 – Lynn Johnston, Canadian cartoonist
    * 1949 – Wendy O. Williams, American musician (The Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
    * 1950 – Ian Bradley, British writer and academic
    * 1950 – Jim Harris, American professional wrestler
    * 1952 – Russell J. Wintner, American film executive
    * 1953 – Arto Lindsay, American guitarist and singer
    * 1954 – John Tory, Canadian politician
    * 1954 – Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (d. 1988)
    * 1955 – John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004)
    * 1955 – Mark Howe, American ice hockey player
    * 1956 – Julie Peasgood, British actress
    * 1956 – Jerry Douglas, American dobro player
    * 1956 – Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1980)
    * 1957 – Kirk Gibson, American baseball player
    * 1957 – Ben Howland, American college basketball coach
    * 1959 – John Morgan, British etiquette expert (d. 2000)
    * 1960 – Mark Sanford, 115th Governor of South Carolina & former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina
    * 1962 – Roland Gift, English musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
    * 1962 – Brandon Cruz, American actor
    * 1962 – James Michael Tyler, American actor
    * 1963 – Houman Younessi, Iranian-born scientist
    * 1963 – Gavin Harrison, British drummer (Porcupine Tree)
    * 1964 – Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer
    * 1964 – Christa Miller, American actress
    * 1964 – David Baddiel, British comedian and television presenter
    * 1964 – Phil Vassar, American country music singer
    * 1965 – Chris Ballew, American musician
    * 1967 – Glen Rice, American basketball player
    * 1968 – Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
    * 1969 – Mike DiFelice, American baseball player
    * 1969 – Justin Kirk, American actor
    * 1970 – Morgan Fox, Canadian model and 1990 Playboy playmate
    * 1970 – Ian Cashmore, English actor and paranormal investigator
    * 1970 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
    * 1971 – Isabelle Carré, French actress
    * 1971 – Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian figure skater
    * 1971 – Lisa Lopes, American singer (TLC) (d. 2002)
    * 1971 – Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman
    * 1971 – Monika Schnarre, Canadian model
    * 1971 – Brad Sugars, Australian entrepreneur
    * 1972 – Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist
    * 1972 – Guidoni Junior Doriva, Brazilian footballer
    * 1974 – Alicia Minshew, American actress
    * 1975 – Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress
    * 1976 – Liam O'Brien, American voice actor
    * 1976 – Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
    * 1976 – Glenn Morrison, Rugby League Player
    * 1977 – Jeremy Borash, American professional wrestling announcer
    * 1977 – Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View)
    * 1977 - Erich Springinsguth, big bastard, aka Sasquatch
    * 1979 – Jesse Bradford, American actor
    * 1979 – Ronald Curry, American football player
    * 1979 – Joeri Jansen, Belgian athlete
    * 1979 – Monica Keena, American actress
    * 1980 – Mark Feehily, Irish musician (Westlife)
    * 1980 – Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer
    * 1981 – Adam Green, American singer and songwriter
    * 1981 – Daniel Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
    * 1982 – Alexa Davalos, American actress
    * 1982 – Jhonny Peralta, Dominican baseball player
    * 1983 – Steve Cronin, American soccer goalkeeper
    * 1983 – Humberto Sanchez, Dominican baseball player
    * 1984 – Beth Allen, New Zealand actress
    * 1985 – Colbie Caillat, American folk singer-songwriter
    * 1986 – Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer
    * 1986 – Joseph Cross, American actor
    * 1986 – Michael Oher, American football player at Ole Miss
    * 1986 – Berrick Barnes, Australian Rugby player
    * 1988 – David Perron, Canadian ice hockey player

     Famous deaths...

    *  576 – Saint Germain of Paris (b. 496)
    * 1357 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
    * 1556 – Saitō Dōsan, Japanese daimyo
    * 1672 – John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
    * 1747 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
    * 1750 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
    * 1787 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
    * 1805 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
    * 1808 – Richard Hurd, English Bishop of Worcester and writer (b. 1720)
    * 1811 – Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742)
    * 1816 – Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord
    * 1828 – Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
    * 1843 – Noah Webster, American author, politician, and lexicographer (b. 1758)
    * 1849 – Anne Brontë, English author (b. 1820)
    * 1864 – Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and liberal politician (b. 1808)
    * 1878 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
    * 1916 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
    * 1927 – Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
    * 1937 – Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
    * 1940 – Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (b. 1868)
    * 1947 – August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
    * 1948 – Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914)
    * 1953 – Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
    * 1968 – Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (b. 1908)
    * 1971 – Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero (b. 1924)
    * 1971 – Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912)
    * 1972 – King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
    * 1975 – Ezzard Charles, Heavyweight champion (b. 1921)
    * 1976 – Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
    * 1978 – Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)
    * 1980 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
    * 1981 – Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901)
    * 1982 – Lt Col 'H'. Jones VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1940)
    * 1983 – Erastus Corning 2nd, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1909)
    * 1984 – Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise) (b. 1926)
    * 1988 – Sy Oliver, Jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (b. 1910)
    * 1993 – Billy Conn, American boxer and actor (b. 1917)
    * 1994 – Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
    * 1994 – Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (b. 1916)
    * 1998 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (b. 1948)
    * 2001 – Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
    * 2001 – Joe Moakley, Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts (b. 1927)
    * 2002 – Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)
    * 2003 – Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
    * 2003 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
    * 2003 – Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
    * 2004 – Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (b. 1934)
    * 2006 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)
    * 2007 – Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
    * 2007 – Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
    * 2008 – Robert Justman, American television producer (b. 1926)

     Holidays and observances...

    * Azerbaijan and Armenia: Republic Day (both 1918).
    * Ethiopia: Downfall of the Derg Day
    * Philippines: National Flag Day

Have a great Thursday.

~Brian