Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[dragonz]

Great Scott! Holy Dr. Who reference !!!! Batman!

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[Colorado700R]

let me go get my 19ft scarf and we'll talk in the police call box.

[Krandall]

I used to watch the old Dr. Who when Tom Baker was the Dr.

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

June 5, 2009

    *  70 – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
    * 1257 – Kraków, Poland receive city rights.
    * 1798 – The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
    * 1817 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
    * 1829 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
    * 1832 – The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
    * 1837 – Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
    * 1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
    * 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
    * 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
    * 1888 – The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
    * 1900 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
    * 1915 – Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
    * 1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
    * 1917 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
    * 1933 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
    * 1941 – Four thousands Chongqing residents were asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
    * 1944 – World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
    * 1945 – The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
    * 1946 – A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.
    * 1947 – Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
    * 1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
    * 1959 – The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
    * 1963 – British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.
    * 1963 – Movement of 15 Khordad: Protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
    * 1967 – Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
    * 1968 – U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
    * 1969 – The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
    * 1975 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
    * 1975 – The United Kingdom holds its first and only country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
    * 1976 – Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
    * 1977 – A coup takes place in Seychelles.
    * 1977 – The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
    * 1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five people in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
    * 1984 – Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
    * 1989 – The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
    * 1995 – The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
    * 1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
    * 2001 – U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
    * 2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
    * 2003 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
    * 2006 – Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

     Birthdays today...

    * 1341 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)
    * 1493 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
    * 1523 – Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573)
    * 1553 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
    * 1554 – Elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of Charles IX of France (d. 1592)
    * 1640 – Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
    * 1660 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)
    * 1646 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)
    * 1718 – Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
    * 1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
    * 1757 – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
    * 1760 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (d. 1852)
    * 1771 – Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)
    * 1781 – Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)
    * 1819 – John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892)
    * 1850 – Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
    * 1862 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)
    * 1868 – James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)
    * 1876 – Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
    * 1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
    * 1879 – Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985)
    * 1879 – René Pottier, French cyclist (d. 1907)
    * 1883 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
    * 1884 – Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)
    * 1894 – Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
    * 1895 – William Boyd (actor), American actor (d. 1972)
    * 1898 – Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoemaker (d. 1960)
    * 1898 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)
    * 1899 – Otis Barton, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor (d. 1992)
    * 1900 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
    * 1905 – John Abbott, British actor (d. 1996)
    * 1905 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1936 (d. 1935)
    * 1912 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
    * 1919 – Richard Scarry, American author/illustrator (d. 1994)
    * 1920 – Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (d. 1974)
    * 1923 – Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)
    * 1923 – Daniel Pinkham, American composer, organist, and harpsichordist (d. 2006)
    * 1925 – Art Donovan, American football star
    * 1928 – Robert Lansing, American actor (d. 1994)
    * 1928 – Tony Richardson, British film director (d. 1991)
    * 1930 – Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
    * 1931 – Jacques Demy, French film director (d. 1990)
    * 1931 – Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher, antroposopher
    * 1932 – Christy Brown, Irish author (d. 1981)
    * 1934 – Bill Moyers, American journalist
    * 1936 – Connie Hines, American actress
    * 1938 – Karin Balzer, German hurdler
    * 1939 – Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada
    * 1939 – Margaret Drabble, English novelist
    * 1941 – Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
    * 1941 – Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer and songwriter
    * 1941 – Spalding Gray, American actor and writer (d. 2004)
    * 1941 – Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots
    * 1942 – Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatoguinean politician
    * 1943 – Matthew Lesko, American author
    * 1944 – Tommie Smith, American athlete
    * 1944 – Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
    * 1945 – John Carlos, American athlete
    * 1945 – Patrick Head, English F1 technical director and team co-owner (WilliamsF1)
    * 1946 – John Bach, Welsh actor
    * 1946 – Freddie Stone, American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone)
    * 1947 – Laurie Anderson, American performance artist
    * 1947 – Tom Evans, English musician (Badfinger) (d. 1983)
    * 1949 – Ken Follett, Welsh author
    * 1950 – J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author
    * 1950 – Ronnie Dyson, American singer and actor (d. 1990)
    * 1950 – Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (d. 1977)
    * 1951 – Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.
    * 1952 – Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001)
    * 1952 – Daniel Katzen, American classical musician
    * 1952 – Nicko McBrain, English drummer (Iron Maiden)
    * 1953 – Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer
    * 1954 – Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor
    * 1955 – Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player
    * 1956 – Richard Butler, English singer (Psychedelic Furs)
    * 1956 – Kenny G, American saxophonist
    * 1958 – Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros
    * 1959 – Robert Lloyd, English musician (The Nightingales)
    * 1960 – Leslie Hendrix, American actress
    * 1960 – Margo Lanagan, Australian author
    * 1961 – Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
    * 1961 – Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d. 2006)
    * 1962 – Princess Astrid of Belgium
    * 1962 – Jeff Garlin, American comedian
    * 1963 – Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer
    * 1964 – Karl Sanders, American musician (Nile)
    * 1965 – Sandrine Piau, French soprano
    * 1967 – Joe DeLoach, American athlete
    * 1967 – Ray Lankford, American baseball player
    * 1967 – Ron Livingston, American actor
    * 1969 – Brian McKnight, American musician
    * 1970 – Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player
    * 1971 – Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
    * 1971 – Takaya Tsubobayashi, Japanese racing driver
    * 1971 – Mark Wahlberg, American singer and actor
    * 1972 – Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler
    * 1972 – Chuck Klosterman, American journalist
    * 1972 – Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor
    * 1973 – Lamon Brewster, American boxer
    * 1973 – Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish musician and songwriter
    * 1973 – Gella Vandecaveye, Belgian judoka
    * 1974 – Chad Allen, American actor
    * 1974 – Russ Ortiz, American baseball player
    * 1975 – Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
    * 1975 – Sandra Stals, Belgian athlete
    * 1976 – Torry Holt, American football player
    * 1976 – Ross Noble, English comedian
    * 1976 – Jack Ross, Scottish footballer
    * 1977 – Kristin Gore, American author and screenwriter
    * 1977 – Christian Martucci, American musician
    * 1977 – Nourhanne, Lebanese singer
    * 1977 – Navi Rawat, American actress
    * 1977 – Liza Weil, American actress
    * 1978 – Fernando Meira, Portuguese football player
    * 1979 – David Bisbal, Spanish singer
    * 1979 – Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer
    * 1979 – Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
    * 1979 – Jason White, American NASCAR driver
    * 1980 – Yasser Latif Hamdani, Pakistani constitutional lawyer
    * 1980 – Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player
    * 1980 – Mike Fisher, Canadian Ice Hockey Player (Ottawa Senators)
    * 1981 – Jade Goody, British television personality (d. 2009)
    * 1981 – Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
    * 1983 – Bill Bray, American baseball player
    * 1983 – Marques Colston, American football player
    * 1984 – Cécilia Cara, French singer and actress
    * 1985 – Kenny De Ketele, Belgian cyclist
    * 1987 – Charlie Clements, English actor
    * 1992 – Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer
    * 1995 – Troye Mellet, Australian actor and singer
    * 2005 – Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain

     Famous deaths...

    *  535 – Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
    * 1017 – Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 976)
    * 1118 – Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (b. 1049)
    * 1296 – Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
    * 1316 – King Louis X of France (b. 1289)
    * 1383 – Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
    * 1568 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522)
    * 1625 – Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583)
    * 1667 – Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607)
    * 1688 – Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
    * 1716 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
    * 1722 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist, and harpsichordist (b. 1660)
    * 1738 – Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
    * 1791 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born colonial governor (b. 1718)
    * 1816 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)
    * 1825 – Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence (b. 1788)
    * 1826 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
    * 1866 – John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
    * 1900 – Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
    * 1902 – Louis J. Weichmann, American witness to Abraham Lincoln's assassination (b. 1842)
    * 1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
    * 1910 – O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
    * 1913 – Chris von der Ahe, German-born baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
    * 1916 – Lord Horatio Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850)
    * 1920 – Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
    * 1921 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
    * 1930 – Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
    * 1975 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
    * 1976 – Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
    * 1993 – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
    * 1998 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
    * 1998 – Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
    * 1999 – Mel Tormé, American singer, composer, and actor (b. 1925)
    * 2000 – Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925)
    * 2001 – Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish medical researcher and humanist (b. 1908)
    * 2002 – Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
    * 2002 – Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)
    * 2003 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
    * 2003 – Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
    * 2004 – Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
    * 2004 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
    * 2005 – Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
    * 2005 – Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
    * 2006 – Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
    * 2007 – Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)

     Holidays and observances...

    * World Environment Day
    * Bahá'í Faith: Feast of Núr (First day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í calendar.)
    * Denmark: Constitution Day and Father's Day
    * Equatorial Guinea: President's Day
    * Iran: Khordad Movement Anniversary
    * New Zealand, Yemen: Arbor Day
    * Seychelles: Liberation Day
    * Suriname: Indian Arrival Day

Have a good Friday.

~Brian

[Peelz]

Happy Danish Father's Day mofos!!

It is Friday! booyah!

[Flynbyu]

Happy Danish Father's Day mofos!!

It is Friday! booyah!

It is Friday....

Friday = Thursday for me.



~Brian

[Peelz]

Happy Danish Father's Day mofos!!

It is Friday! booyah!

It is Friday....

Friday = Thursday for me.



~Brian

Brian is a Ruiner! sorry mano. How long has it been since you actually got time to go ride your quad?

[Flynbyu]

Happy Danish Father's Day mofos!!

It is Friday! booyah!

It is Friday....

Friday = Thursday for me.



~Brian

Brian is a Ruiner! sorry mano. How long has it been since you actually got time to go ride your quad?

I have only been out in the field behind my house. I haven't been to the river in over a year.

=(

~Brian

[Krandall]

1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).


Boy, if they only had known then whats going on now.

[Peelz]

Happy Danish Father's Day mofos!!

It is Friday! booyah!

It is Friday....

Friday = Thursday for me.



~Brian

Brian is a Ruiner! sorry mano. How long has it been since you actually got time to go ride your quad?

I have only been out in the field behind my house. I haven't been to the river in over a year.

=(

~Brian

say it with me

" I love my job, I love my job, I love my job." nice daily affirmation.

[socalrappy700]

You're time is coming Brian, just hold out a bit longer till you land something else.

[Flynbyu]

1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).


Boy, if they only had known then whats going on now.

I remember that. No trucks.

We had to order conversion trucks, and our inventory soared to 15.7 million.

After the strike, trucks were plentiful and we were stuck with high priced shit.

~Brian

[Krandall]

1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).


Boy, if they only had known then whats going on now.

I remember that. No trucks.

We had to order conversion trucks, and our inventory soared to 15.7 million.

After the strike, trucks were plentiful and we were stuck with high priced shit.

~Brian

that's crazy that a couple thousand workers could have such an impact.

[Flynbyu]

1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).


Boy, if they only had known then whats going on now.

I remember that. No trucks.

We had to order conversion trucks, and our inventory soared to 15.7 million.

After the strike, trucks were plentiful and we were stuck with high priced shit.

~Brian

that's crazy that a couple thousand workers could have such an impact.

It's not necessarily that....It affects the guys that build parts too. You can only build so many until you run out of parts....When you run out of parts, you're done until items are off constraint.

~Brian

[Peelz]

Have a great day all,.