Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume IV

[kyledvor61]

theres no places to ride quads around here. and ive always wanted a bike and its time to make the plunge.
read this thread and look at this guyus second post  made me laugh considering i have a rapp
http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=655057

You didnt state you had a 700 so he wouldnt know. What are you leaning towards getting? I'd say 250 4-stroke.

lol. how did the drags go today?

pretty good. We know a guy who grew up with Tony Schumacher and got us into his pits and stuff. He got first and is first in points by a long shot. It rained for a bit but they got the track dried and prepped fast. They had the smaller classes like super comp there which is cool because thats what im running after jr's so I can work my way up. It's also cool because the pro circuit and all the fans were there today and I raced that track two weeks ago and there was freakin no one there except for maybe 30 jr's. weird.

[BRAD]

well later guys. i gotta get up early for work tomorrow mornin

[kyledvor61]

well later guys. i gotta get up early for work tomorrow mornin

work, haha whats that

[who else but rk]

yea thats exactly what i was leaning twords.

[kyledvor61]

yea thats exactly what i was leaning twords.

now the question which brand?

no honda
i think the suzuki has efi or electric start or something
ktm is all around badass
yamaha is always good
dont know anything about kawi

[exentix]

ERMAHGERD! last day of school today, FINALLY!!! see you dudes later lol

[socalrappy700]

mornin shift checking in.

And silver lake was a blast!   

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jun 9 68

Rather than suffer a Senate-imposed death by flogging, Nero implores his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat. The freedman complies, giving the condemned emperor a quick death, just as centurions arrive at the villa to haul him away.

Jun 9 1930

Jake Lingle, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, is shot dead gangland-style at the Illinois Central train station underpass, during rush hour. Dozens of people witness the murder, and the Leo Vincent Brothers are caught four months later after an intensive manhunt. Lingle was allegedly killed over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.

Jun 9 1934

Donald Duck debuts in The Wise Little Hen.

Jun 9 1980

In the midst of a cocaine binge, comedian Richard Pryor attempts suicide by dousing himself with rum and setting it ablaze. The self-immolation attempt goes haywire when the flaming man leaps from his apartment window and runs down the street, screaming in agony. Pryor barely survives the incident, and only after six weeks of intensive care and three skin graft surgeries.

Jun 9 1999

Honduran officials warn that, due to years of inadequate maintenance and obstructions caused by hurricane Mitch, the clogged sewers in Tegucigalpa pose an imminent threat to human life. They announce that the water treatment system includes tanks clogged with fecal matter that could disastrously explode at any moment.

Birthdays today...
1508 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
1580 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
1588 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d. 1666)
1595 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
1672 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
1686 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
1768 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
1781 - George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d.1848)
1810 - Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
1843 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)
1845 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)
1849 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
1851 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
1865 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (d. 1914)
1865 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931)
1875 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1968)
1882 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
1890 - Leslie Banks, British actor (d. 1952)
1891 - Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964)
1893 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1898 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
1900 - Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)
1911 - George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
1912 - Ingolf Dahl, American composer (d. 1970)
1915 - Les Paul, American guitarist
1916 - Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank
1921 - Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
1922 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
1922 - Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist - Radio and TV animator (d. 1988)
1922 - George Axelrod, American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director (d. 2003)
1925 - Keith Laumer, science fiction writer (d. 1993)
1929 - Johnny Ace, American singer (d. 1954)
1930 - Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
1931 - Jackie Mason, American comedian
1931 - Joe Santos, American actor
1931 - Bill Virdon, American baseball player and manager
1934 - Jackie Wilson, American singer (d. 1984)
1936 - Mick O'Dwyer, Gaelic footballer and manager
1937 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
1938 - Charles Wuorinen, American composer
1939 - Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
1939 - David Hobbs, English race car driver and personality on American TV
1939 - Dick Vitale, American sportscaster
1939 - Charles Webb, author
1941 - Jon Lord, organist in Deep Purple
1943 - Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer
1945 - Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
1945 - Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater
1947 - Kiran Bedi, Indian Police Service Officer
1947 - John Gurda, American historian
1948 - Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
1951 - Dave Parker, American baseball player
1951 - James Newton Howard, American film composer
1952 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer
1954 - George Pérez, American comic book artist
1954 - Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer
1956 - Patricia Cornwell, American author
1959 - Christian Wulff, German politician, currently prime minister of Lower Saxony.
1961 - Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
1961 - Aaron Sorkin, American writer
1963 - Johnny Depp, American actor
1963 - Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author
1964 - Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
1964 - Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
1968 - Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper
1969 - Eric Wynalda, American footballer
1971 - Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer
1971 - John McKeown, Scottish musician (Yummy Fur, 1990s)
1971 - Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
1972 - Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
1973 - Tedy Bruschi, American football player
1973 - Laura Ponte, Spanish model and royal
1973 - Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director
1974 - Samoth, Norwegian guitarist (Emperor, Zyklon)
1974 - Tim Shaw, British radio personality
1974 - Randy Winn, American baseball player
1975 - Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
1975 - Otto Addo, Ghanaian footballer
1975 - Jeff Saturday, American football player
1977 - Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
1977 - Amisha Patel, Indian actress
1977 - Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
1978 - Shandi Finnessey, game hostess
1978 - Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
1978 - Miroslav Klose, German footballer
1978 - Michaela Conlin, American actress
1979 - Ruka, Japanese Drummer
1980 - Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
1980 - Lehlohonolo Seema, Lesotho footballer
1980 - Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
1981 - Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
1981 - Vic Zhou, JVKV band member, Taiwanese actor, singer and model.
1981 - Anoushka Shankar, Famous sitarist and daughter of Ravi Shankar
1982 - Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
1983 - Alektra Blue, American porn star
1983 - Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
1984 - Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1984 - Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
1984 - Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
1985 - Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress
1985 - Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
1986 - Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
1986 - Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
1988 - Mae Whitman, American Actress
1993 - Danielle Chuchran, American actress

Famous deaths...
  62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
  68 - Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)
373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
597 - St. Columba, Christian missionary (b. 521)
630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia
1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1656 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
1716 - Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)
1717 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
1834 - William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
1892 - Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist
1892 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
1912 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writter (b. 1852)
1946 - Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925)
1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
1958 - Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
1961 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
1973 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
1974 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1979 - Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
1981 - Allen Ludden, TV game show host (b. 1917)
1989 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
1989 - Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
1993 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
1994 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1997 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
2000 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
2007 - Frankie Abernathy, Former The Real World: San Diego castmate (b. 1981)

Holidays and observances...
Roman Empire paganism - third day of the Vestalia in honor of the goddess Vesta
Catholicism



Have a great Monday.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Headed west.....

Into the storm.

~Brian

[preddy08]

Erich, you better have an ass load of pictures!

This was a shitty weekend here in nebraska!!! We went down to a buddies cabbin and we had nasty tornados all night got 3 inches of rain in a couple of hours. An F2 touched down right in the middle of Omaha. My girlfreinds neighbor hood got hammered!!! roofs ripped off, limbs down all over the place.

Interesting weekend none the less.

[socalrappy700]

Erich, you better have an ass load of pictures!

This was a shitty weekend here in nebraska!!! We went down to a buddies cabbin and we had nasty tornados all night got 3 inches of rain in a couple of hours. An F2 touched down right in the middle of Omaha. My girlfreinds neighbor hood got hammered!!! roofs ripped off, limbs down all over the place.

Interesting weekend none the less.

No pictures.....I was riding.   Had a good storm go through saturday night so we didn't get to close the place, but all in all it was a good time.  I love how its right on the water, its just like pismo beach.

[RR34]

mornin er'body

[who else but rk]

yea thats exactly what i was leaning twords.

now the question which brand?

no honda
i think the suzuki has efi or electric start or something
ktm is all around badass
yamaha is always good
dont know anything about kawi

lol false

the suzuki 450 has efi. but thats an 08 and i dont have 8 grand to blow on a bike. im buying my bike used and im not looking for a 450

the kawi 250fs and yamahas are the handsdown best bikes out there. the kawi has a strong engine and is a sick bike. the yamaha is super reliable and is the originator of the 250fs. the ktms are decent bikes, fast as hell, but have alot of quirks. and no honda for me lol

[socalrappy700]

yea thats exactly what i was leaning twords.

now the question which brand?

no honda
i think the suzuki has efi or electric start or something
ktm is all around badass
yamaha is always good
dont know anything about kawi

lol false

the suzuki 450 has efi. but thats an 08 and i dont have 8 grand to blow on a bike. im buying my bike used and im not looking for a 450

the kawi 250fs and yamahas are the handsdown best bikes out there. the kawi has a strong engine and is a sick bike. the yamaha is super reliable and is the originator of the 250fs. the ktms are decent bikes, fast as hell, but have alot of quirks. and no honda for me lol

What quirks are you talking about on a ktm...proof?   

Also you can get a suzuki 450 for much less then 8k, and you can go used for even less...they've had efi for a few years.

[RR34]

yea thats exactly what i was leaning twords.

now the question which brand?

no honda
i think the suzuki has efi or electric start or something
ktm is all around badass
yamaha is always good
dont know anything about kawi

lol false

the suzuki 450 has efi. but thats an 08 and i dont have 8 grand to blow on a bike. im buying my bike used and im not looking for a 450

the kawi 250fs and yamahas are the handsdown best bikes out there. the kawi has a strong engine and is a sick bike. the yamaha is super reliable and is the originator of the 250fs. the ktms are decent bikes, fast as hell, but have alot of quirks. and no honda for me lol

What quirks are you talking about on a ktm...proof?   

Also you can get a suzuki 450 for much less then 8k, and you can go used for even less...they've had efi for a few years.

the suzuki 450 bike didnt get efi till 08