Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume IV

[Flynbyu]

Time to hit the sack.

Good night guys.

~Brian

but are you back in black?

good night

Let loose, from the noose.

+1

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jun 13 1886

The bodies of Bavaria's mad King Ludwig II and his physician, Dr. Gudden, are discovered floating face-down in Lake Starnberg. The recently-deposed monarch had been under house arrest ever since his uncle, Prince Luitpold von Bayern, staged a coup a few days earlier.

Jun 13 1920

The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via Parcel Post.

Jun 13 1934

Two months before becoming Fuhrer, Hitler meets Mussolini in Venice. Unfortunately, Mussolini refuses to have an interpreter and his German is not good, so neither man can understand the other. Unimpressed, Mussolini gathers a general impression of the German as "a silly little monkey."

Jun 13 1944

The Third Reich fires eleven V-1 flying bombs at England from France. Only four of the Buzzbombs actually strike London, but the Germans will eventually follow that up with another 9,000.

Jun 13 1962

Three convicts -- Frank Lee Morris and the brothers Anglin -- escape from Alcatraz island in a rowboat made out of raincoats. They are the only prisoners believed to have successfully escaped.

Jun 13 1971

Next to the White House wedding photo of President Nixon's daughter Tricia, the New York Times runs its first story on the "Pentagon Papers," a top secret DoD analysis authored by the RAND Corporation detailing every mistake and deception made during the 30-year history of the Vietnam War. Attorney General John Mitchell manages to block any further publication of the embarrassing documents, but the court order is countermanded two weeks later in a Supreme Court decision.

Jun 13 1981

During the Trooping the Colour ceremony, a 17-year-old fires six blanks from a revolver at Queen Elizabeth II, startling her horse. Marcus Sargeant is later sentenced to five years imprisonment for the offense.

Jun 13 1985

Mailroom workers discover a bomb inside a suspicious parcel at Boeing, Inc.'s Fabrication Division in Auburn, Washington. After the police bomb squad disarms it, investigators discover the initials "FC" stamped on both caps, making it the first explosive device recovered intact from the Unabomber.

Birthdays today...
823 - Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the West Franks (d. 877)
1649 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
1752 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (d. 1840)
1763 - José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman (d. 1838)
1773 - Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829)
1775 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (d. 1833)
1786 - Winfield Scott, U.S. general (d. 1866)
1822 - Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)
1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
1864 - Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist (d. 1922)
1864 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (d. 1939)
1863 - Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
1865 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
1870 - Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1876 - William Sealey Gosset, English chemist, statistician (d. 1937)
1884 - Anton Drexler, founder of the German Worker's Party (d. 1942)
1884 - Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
1884 - Etienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978)
1887 - Bruno Frank, German author (d. 1945)
1888 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (d. 1935)
1892 - Basil Rathbone, English actor (d. 1967)
1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (d. 1957)
1894 - Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
1894 - Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (d. 1986)
1897 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (d. 1973)
1899 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (d. 1978)
1901 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
1903 - Harold 'Red' Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
1906 - Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
1910 - Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
1910 - Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
1910 - Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
1911 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
1911 - Erwin Müller, German-born physicist (d. 1977)
1912 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (d. 1943)
1913 - Etienne Leroux, major Afrikaans author.
1915 - Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)
1917 - Teddy Turner, comedian (d. 1992)
1918 - Ben Johnson, American actor (d. 1996)
1918 - Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (d. 1944)
1924 - Percy Rodriguez, Canadian actor (d. 2007)
1926 - Paul Lynde, American actor (d. 1982)
1928 - John Forbes Nash, American mathematician, Nobel laureate
1929 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)
1930 - Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel (d. 2004)
1931 - Irvin D. Yalom , psychotherapist,Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University
1933 - Tom King, British politician
1933 - Erich Ribbeck, German football soccer trainer
1934 - Lady Annabel Goldsmith, English socialite
1935 - Christo, Bulgarian artist
1935 - Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebonnt, French artist
1935 - Samak Sundaravej, Thai Prime Minister
1939 - Tom Cheek, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1940 - Bobby Freeman, American soul singer
1941 - Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
1941 - Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player
1943 - Malcolm McDowell, English actor
1944 - Ban Ki-moon, the current U.N. Secretary General
1945 - Whitley Strieber, American author
1947 - A. G. Lafley, American executive director
1948 - Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2001)
1949 - Dennis Locorriere, American singer and guitarist (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show)
1950 - Michael Stark, Australian actor
1950 - Gerd Zewe, German footballer
1951 - Richard Thomas, American actor
1951 - Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
1952 - Tony Bruno, American talkshow host
1953 - Tim Allen, American comedian and actor
1954 - Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician
1954 - Rita Cadillac, Brazilian dancer
1955 - Alan Hansen, Scottish football pundit
1959 - Steve Georganas, Australian politician
1959 - Lance Kinsey, Canadian actor
1961 - Anders Järryd, Swedish tennis player
1962 - Ally Sheedy, American actress
1962 - Glenn Michibata, Canadian professional tennis player
1962 - Davey Hamilton, American racing driver
1963 - Bettina Bunge, German tennis player
1963 - Paul De Lisle, American musician (Smash Mouth)
1964 - Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke, English actress
1964 - Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian composer
1965 - Lukas Ligeti, Austrian composer and drummer
1965 - Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca
1966 - Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
1966 - Naoki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
1968 - David Gray, British musician
1968 - Denise Pearson, British singer (Five Star)
1968 - Fabio Baldato, Italyan cyclist
1969 - Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian athlete
1969 - Søren Nystrøm Rasted
1970 - Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
1970 - Rivers Cuomo, American musician (Weezer)
1970 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
1972 - Natalie MacMaster, Canadian musician
1973 - Sam Adams, American football player
1973 - Mattias Hellberg, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
1973 - Ville Laihiala, Finnish musician (Sentenced, Poisonblack)
1973 - Kasia Kowalska, Polish pop rock singer
1974 - Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer
1974 - Steve-O, American television personality
1974 - Brande Roderick, American actress
1974 - Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
1974 - Valeri Bure, Russian ice hockey player
1975 - Ante Covic, Australian footballer
1975 - Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director
1975 - Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
1976 - Kym Marsh, English singer, actress, & T.V. presenter
1976 - Jason 'J' Brown, English Singer
1977 - Alaura Eden, American porn actress
1978 - Ethan Embry, American actor
1978 - Mathis Künzler, Swiss actor
1978 - Jason Michael Carroll, Country musician
1978 - Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1979 - Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
1980 - Darius Vassell, English footballer
1980 - Florent Malouda, French footballer
1980 - Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver
1980 - Sarah Connor, German singer
1981 - Chris Evans, American actor
1981 - David Madden, 4th-ranked Jeopardy! champion of all-time
1982 - Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian athlete
1983 - Matt Allison, British racing driver
1983 - Jason Spezza Canadian Hockey Player
1984 - Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
1985 - Raz-B, American singer (B2K)
1985 - Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver
1986 - Kat Dennings, American actress
1986 - Ashley Olsen, American actress
1986 - Mary-Kate Olsen, American actress
1989 - Lisa Tucker, American singer
1990 - Aaron Johnson, British actor

Famous deaths...
1036 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)
1231 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
1256 - Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
1636 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
1645 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
1665 - Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
1760 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. 1696)
1784 - Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
1881 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1898 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
1918 - Tsar Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (b. 1878)
1930 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
1943 - Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
1951 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1958 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
1965 - Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)
1965 - David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
1972 - Clyde McPhatter, American musician (b. 1932)
1972 - Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
1972 - Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. 1891)
1972 - Dündar Taşer, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925)
1977 - Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)
1979 - Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)
1980 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
1982 - Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
1982 - Riccardo Paletti, Formula One driver (b. 1958)
1986 - Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)
1987 - Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
1989 - Fran Allison, American, early television personality (Kukla, Fran and Ollie) (b. 1907)
1993 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
1993 - Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
1998 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
2002 - John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
2003 - Malik Meraj Khalid, Former caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
2004 - Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
2004 - Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
2005 - Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
2005 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)
2005 - David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
2005 - Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
2006 - Charles Haughey, Taoiseach (b. 1925)
2007 - Walid Eido, Lebanese MP (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances...
Roman Empire – Quinquatrus Minusculae held in honor of Minerva
Roman Empire – seventh day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
Saint Anthony of Padua, priest, confessor, Doctor of the Church
Saint Agricius, bishop of Sens, confessor
Saint Leo III, pope
Saint Onuphrius, hermit, confessor
Blessed Thomas Woodhouse, martyr

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Jun 13 1962

Three convicts -- Frank Lee Morris and the brothers Anglin -- escape from Alcatraz island in a rowboat made out of raincoats. They are the only prisoners believed to have successfully escaped.



Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery did as well... 

[Flynbyu]

The FBI thinks they didn't make it, but relatives received post cards from South America after the escape.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Time to hit the shower.

Later gang.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

Jun 13 1920

The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via Parcel Post.

Ok,  you know they only did this because someone tried it.

[Peelz]

buenos dias.

Jun 13 1920

The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via Parcel Post.

Ok,  you know they only did this because someone tried it.

cheaper than flyin em'..

[socalrappy700]

buenos dias.

Jun 13 1920

The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via Parcel Post.

Ok,  you know they only did this because someone tried it.

cheaper than flyin em'..

Owen goes by fedex.

[Krandall]

I'm out for a bit.. I'm freakin tired. Catch you guys later

[socalrappy700]

I'm out for a bit.. I'm freakin tired. Catch you guys later

Try to get some rest.  But don't nap too much.  You need to start working on being able to sleep at night.

[Peelz]

buenos dias.

Jun 13 1920

The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via Parcel Post.

Ok,  you know they only did this because someone tried it.

cheaper than flyin em'..

Owen goes by fedex.

I'm out for a bit.. I'm freakin tired. Catch you guys later

maybe b.s.'ing on here too long with those kids last night? :grin_nod:

[socalrappy700]

Peels, how is the forecast for you guys?  Still more on the way or are things going to start to dry out?

[BRAD]

Jun 13 1920

The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via Parcel Post.

Ok,  you know they only did this because someone tried it.

wouildnt that be a suprise package to get

[RR34]

good morning whores.

[Peelz]

Peels, how is the forecast for you guys?  Still more on the way or are things going to start to dry out?

2 days dry, rain on sunday, mon, tue. But we got 2in of rain last night. Thank GERD I'm on high ground. Rivers cresting tonight higher than they ever have it would seem. They canceled the festival I was talking about a few pages back. No "funnel cakes or mullets"