Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXIII

[funyun]

I like when the japanese ram and spray down that bat mobile lookin sea sheppard boat

[Krandall]

[who else but rk]

where the hell is brian?

[Krandall]

He's now to cool for school. Ditched RS completely one day and never looked back. Questioning whether he has a raptor or not anymore. Which is no biggie, but.... You can find him 24/7 on Facebook.

[who else but rk]

yea his stuff is always blown up on my news feed. wasnt he a mod? and i rarely remember him talking about quads....

[Krandall]

He was and still is an Admin. He was a 660 guy. I don't think he did much modding so he was just around for the BS.

oh well, people come and go. 

You still have a quad or Dirt Bike?

[Krandall]

Today in History:

1858    Abraham Lincoln argued that "a house divided against itself cannot stand" in a speech to the state Repbulican convention in Springfield, Ill., after he was nominated for the U.S. Senate.

1890    Stan Laurel of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Lancashire, England.

1897    The United States signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii.

1903    Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.

1932    President Herbert Hoover was renominated at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

1960    "Psycho," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, premiered in New York.

1963    The Soviet Union launched the first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, into orbit aboard Vostok 6.

1967    The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival - which catapulted Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis Joplin to stardom - opened in northern California.

1976    Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.

1978    President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.

1987    A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him; he was convicted of illegal weapons possession.

1996    Russian voters went to the polls in their first independent presidential election; the result was a runoff between President Boris Yeltsin, the eventual winner, and a Communist challenger.

2000    Federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp., creating the nation's largest local phone company, Verizon.

2009    Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., admitted he'd had an extramarital affair with a campaign staff member.



Famous Birthdays:
1910 - E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Lawrence-Defenders, Caine Mutiny)
1910 - Ilona Massey, Budapest Hungary, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show)
1910 - Lord Richardson, president (General Medical Council)
1910 - Richard Maling Barrer, chemist
1912 - Enoch Powell, England, MP (C)/racist/Greek professor
1912 - John Peel, MP
1914 - Stewart Cathie "Billy" Griffith, cricketer (140 for England, 1948)
1914 - Stewart Griffith, secretary (MCC)
1915 - Joseph Kagan, businessman
1915 - Mariano Rumor, premier Italy
1915 - John Tukey, American statistician (d. 2000)
1916 - Francis Lopez, composer
1916 - Hank Luisetti, NBA forward (1st to use a one-handed shot)
1917 - Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post)
1917 - Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari; d. 1989)
1917 - Irving Penn, American photographer
1919 - Lord Aberdare, committee chairman (House of Lords)
1920 - John Howard Griffin, US, photographer/author (Black Like Me)
1920 - Raymond U. Lemieux, Canadian scientist (d. 2002)
1920 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
1921 - Lord Perry of Walton, SDP/vice chancellor (Open University England)
1923 - Ake Hermanson, composer
1923 - Henryk Czyz, composer
1923 - Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (d. 1962)
1924 - Sayed Idries Shah, thinker
1925 - Faith Domergue, New Orleans, actress (House of 7 Corpses)
1925 - Richard Jacobs, philanthropist/sports owner (Cleveland Indians)
1927 - Robert Matthews, master (Clare College Cambridge England)
1927 - Thomas W "Tom" Graveney, English cricket batsman (50's & 60's)
1928 - Harold Hanham, vice chancellor (Lancaster University)
1928 - Sergiu Comissiona, Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64)
1929 - James Kirtland Randall, composer
1929 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
1929 - Pauline Yates, English actress
1930 - Brian Statham, cricketer (masterful England quick for two decades)
1930 - David Konstant, bishop (Leeds)
1930 - Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian/American cinematographer
1931 - Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader
1931 - Ivo Petric, composer
1931 - Robert F [Bob] Smith, (Rep-R-OR, 1983- )
1932 - David Keylsey, actor/director
1932 - Ralph Robins, CEO (Rolls-Royce)
1933 - Joachim Nowotny, writer
1934 - Eileen Atkins, London England, actress (Equus, Devil Within Her)
1934 - Janet Pilgrim, playmate (July 1955, Dec 1955, Oct 1956)
1934 - Little Caesar, vocalist (Little Caesar & the Romans)
1934 - Lord Patrick Beresforord, blood-stock agent
1934 - Lucia Dlugoszewski, composer
1934 - William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel laureate
1934 - Elvira Vinogradova, Russian TV persona
1935 - Jim Dine, Cincinnati Oh, pop artist (St John the Divine)
1935 - Bill Cobbs, American actor
1936 - August Willemsen, Dutch poet/translator
1936 - Fred Oster, Dutch TV host
1937 - August Busch III, CEO (Anheuser-Busch, St Louis Cards)
1937 - Erich Segal, Brooklyn NY, author (Love Story, Oliver's Story)
1937 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Tsar of Bulgaria
1938 - James Bolam, actor (Crucible of Terror)
1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, NY, novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights)
1938 - Mickie Finn, Hugo Okla, TV hostess/banjo player (Mickie Finn's)
1938 - Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer
1940 - Billy "Crash" Craddock, Greensboro NC, singer
1940 - Hans Dorrestijn, Dutch cabaret performer
1940 - Neil Goldschmidt, Governor of Oregon
1941 - Lamont Dozier, Detroit, songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier)
1941 - Aldrich Ames, CIA officer and spy for the Soviet Union
1941 - Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist
1942 - Eddie Levert, Canton Ohio, vocalist (O'Jays-For the Love of Money)
1942 - Giacomo Agostini, Lovere, Italy, world motorcycle race champion
1942 - John Rostill, rocker
1943 - Joan Van Ark, NYC, actress (Valene-Dallas, Knots Landing)
1943 - Joan Van Ark, American actress
1944 - Joan Barbara Grigor, artist
1944 - Takamiyama, [Jesse Kuhaulua], Hawaii, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion
1945 - Claire Alexander, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 - Lucienne Robillard, Canadian politician
1946 - Lord Astor, of Hever
1946 - Neil MacGregor, director (British National Gallery)
1946 - Simon Williams, US, actor (Fiendish plot of dr Fu Manchu)
1946 - Jodi Rell, American politician, governor of Connecticut
1947 - -minu, Swiss columnist and writer
1948 - Ron LeFlore, American baseball player
1949 - Kale Browne, San Rafael Calif, actor (Michael Hudson-Another World)
1949 - Peppy Castro, [Emil Thielhelm], NYC, rock vocalist (Balance)
1949 - Paulo César, Brazilian footballer
1950 - James Smith, US, singer (Stylistics-Can't Give you Anything)
1950 - Jesse Dizon, Oceanside Calif, actor (Ramon-Operation Petticoat)
1951 - John Salthouse, British(?) actor (American Werewolf in London)
1951 - Michel Viso, France, cosmonaut
1951 - Sonia Braga, Maringa Brazil, actress (Dona Flor & Her 2 Husbands)
1951 - Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
1952 - Aleksandr Zaitsev, USSR, pairs figure skating (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1952 - Gino Vanelli, Montreal Quebec, singer (Living Inside Myself)
1952 - Rob Kloet, pop drummer/singer (Nits-In the Dutch Mountains)
1952 - George Papandreou, junior, Greek politician
1953 - Ian Mosley, Paddington London, drummer (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1954 - Gary Roberts, rocker (Boomtown Rats)
1954 - Jeffrey S Ashby, Dallas Tx, astronaut (sk: STS 85)
1955 - Laurie Metcalf, Carbonville Illinois, actress (Jackie-Roseanne)
1955 - Simon Bailey, priest
1957 - Adri van Tiggelen, Dutch soccer star (Sparta/PSV)
1957 - Ian Buchanan, Scotland, actor (General Hospital, Gary Shandling Show)
1958 - Jóhannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist (Þeyr)
1958 - Ulrike Tauber, East German swimmer
1959 - Warrior, American professional wrestler
1961 - Robbie Kerr, cricketer (Queensland opener 2 Tests for Australia 1985)
1962 - Wally Joyner, American baseball player
1962 - Femi Kuti, Nigerian Afrobeat Musician
1962 - Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
1963 - Mohsin Kamal, cricketer (Pakistani fast bowler 1984- )
1963 - Jim Fullington, American professional wrestler
1963 - Scott Alexander, American screenwriter
1965 - J J Birden, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1965 - Johannes Harisch, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1966 - Jan Zelezny, Czech, javelin thrower (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96)
1966 - [Eric] Randy Barnes, Charleston WV, shot putter (Oly-silv/gold-88, 96)
1966 - Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1967 - John Franklin, American actor
1968 - Alton Montgomery, NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Matt Turk, NFL punter (Washington Redskins)
1968 - Nehemiah Perry, cricketer (fine Jamaican off-spinner)
1968 - Patrick Stuart, Hollywood Cal, actor (Will Cortlandt-All My Children)
1969 - Kevin Young, Alpena MI, infielder (KC Royals)
1969 - L B Stephens, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Mark Crossley, Welsh footballer
1970 - Michael Husted, NFL place kicker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 - Phil A Mickelson, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1991 Northern Telecom)
1970 - Clifton Collins Jr., American actor
1970 - Cobi Jones, American soccer player
1971 - Andre President, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Christopher Gomez, LA Calif, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1971 - Tupac Shakur, Bkln NY, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet) (killed in 1996)
1971 - Chris Gomez, American baseball player
1972 - Shawnelle Scott, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1972 - John Cho, Korean-American actor
1972 - Simon Khan, English golfer
1972 - Ann Shoket, American magazine editor
1973 - Shannon Myers, CFL receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1973 - Nikos Machlas, Greek footballer
1974 - Paul Lee, British sculptural artist
1975 - Asa Carlsson, Vasteras Sweden, tennis star (1995 Futures-Stockholm)
1975 - Maria Sinigerova, Miss Universe-Bulgaria (1996)
1976 - Frank van Twillert, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1977 - Kerry Wood, American baseball player
1977 - Petros Papadakis, American sportscaster, former USC football player
1978 - Daniel Brühl, German actor
1978 - Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player
1978 - Jasmine Leong, Chinese Malaysian singer
1978 - Lyndsey Marshal, British film/stage/television actress
1980 - Daré Nibombé, Togolese footballer
1980 - Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
1980 - Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
1980 - Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
1980 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
1981 - Miguel Villalta, Peruvian Footballer
1981 - Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
1981 - Kevin Bieksa, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Ben Kweller, American singer/songwriter
1982 - May Andersen, Danish supermodel
1982 - Matt Costa, American singer/songwriter
1982 - Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress
1982 - Chris Wingert, American soccer player
1983 - Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer
1984 - Steven Whittaker, Scottish Footballer
1984 - Rick Nash, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer
1986 - Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi Cricketer
1986 - Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Robert Rothbart, Bosnian-Israeli Basketball Player
1986 - Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
1987 - Diana DeGarmo, American singer
1987 - Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer
1988 - Keshia Chante, Canadian singer
1988 - Leeland Dayton Mooring, American musician (Leeland)
1993 - Alice Ann Newman, daughter of Gretchen & Randy


Famous Deaths:
1910 - Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
1925 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
1925 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
1928 - Dr. Mark Keppel, County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (b. 1867)
1929 - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, US inventor (gyroscope compass), dies
1930 - Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
1932 - Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass), dies
1936 - Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies
1939 - Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
1940 - Dubose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies
1940 - Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25
1941 - Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies
1944 - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
1945 - Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
1946 - Ludwig Winder, writer, dies
1946 - Miloje Milojevic, composer, dies at 61
1947 - Jean-Francois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86
1952 - Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b. 1861)
1953 - Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
1955 - Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (b. 1864)
1958 - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45
1958 - Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
1959 - George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), shoots self at 45
1961 - O C Scott, cricketer (WI leg-spinner in 8 Tests), dies
1961 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
1963 - J C Powys, writer, dies at 90
1969 - Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Brit field marshal, dies at 78
1969 - John BMR "John" Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57
1969 - John Scott, rocker with the Pretenders, dies at 25
1969 - Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, composer, dies at 53
1970 - Elsa Triolet, writer, dies at 73
1970 - Heino Eller, composer, dies at 83
1970 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
1971 - Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
1975 - Don Robey, US gospel/impresario/producer, dies at 71
1976 - Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed
1976 - Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live, dies
1977 - Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking
1979 - Ben Weber, US composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62
1979 - Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich, writer, dies at 77
1979 - Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
1979 - Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
1981 - Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered
1981 - John S Knight, US newspaper magnate, dies at 86
1981 - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
1982 - John Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs
1984 - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1988 - Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. (b. 1946)
1990 - Eva Turner, British soprano, dies
1990 - Megan Leigh, American porn star (b. 1964)
1991 - Vicky Brown, US singer (Power of Love), dies
1992 - Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World), dies
1993 - John B Connally, gov of Texas/shot with JFK in 1963, dies at 76
1993 - Lindsay Hassett, cricketer (3073 runs in Tests), dies
1994 - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88
1994 - Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings), dies at 82
1994 - Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic, dies at 82
1995 - Jack Wagner, actor/voice (Disneyland, Walt Disney World), dies
1996 - David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69
1996 - Mel Allen, sportscaster (NY Yankees), dies at 83
1996 - Mel Allen, American baseball announcer (b. 1913)
1997 - Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911)
1999 - David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
2000 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
2003 - Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2003 - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
2004 - Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
2005 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
2006 - Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)
2006 - Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist, (b. 1942)
2007 - Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
2007 - Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (b. 1940)
2008 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (b. 1975)
2008 - Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (b. 1921)

[Spartan]

Damn weather....and damn shipping...blah. At least I have some work tomorrow, just in time for me to recover.

[exentix]

hey ho's  boring rainy day here today  noffin to do

[Spartan]

Break your quad and that'll give you something to do...repair it

[exentix]

cant ride around the house. neighbors bitch too much. i guess my little piped up 350 is too loud 

[Spartan]

They think that's loud, I should bring over my quad and rev my no-QCed exhaust...that'll make some noise

[exentix]

They think that's loud, I should bring over my quad and rev my no-QCed exhaust...that'll make some noise

or a 770 with a sparks big core? thats loud enough  they dont like that so much either

[Spartan]

Yeah that's a loud mofo...When I'm standing next to my buddy's XX6 big core at WOT it makes my ears bleed almost

[exentix]

actually i rode with a guy with a yfz that was bone stock except a sparks exhaust and it was twice as loud as devans 770 with the sparks pipe.  made my ears hurt, i actually jumped a few times when he cracked the throttle