Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXIII

[Krandall]

congrats on the whoredom!

[Lady4Fiddy]

Yay!

[Spartan]

So worked today, got my farmer's tan taken care of (above the waist anyways). Sunburned like hell ,and gotta leave again in a few minutes.

[exentix]

So worked today, got my farmer's tan taken care of (above the waist anyways). Sunburned like hell ,and gotta leave again in a few minutes.

haha i love that, im still peeling like a tater from my burn   

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History
On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony. (Go to article.)

On July 1, 1893, Walter White, who headed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for over 20 years, was born. Following his death on March 21, 1955, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
   
On July 1,   1905, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Franco-German rivalry over Morocco.


Today in history:
1863    The Civil War Battle of Gettysburg began.

1867    Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain.

1898    Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

1916    Dwight D. Eisenhower married Mary "Mamie" Geneva Doud in Denver.

1943    "Pay-as-you-go" income tax withholding began.

1946    The United States exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

1961    Britain's Princess Diana was born Diana Spencer near Sandringham, England.

1963    The U.S. Post Office introduced five-digit ZIP codes.

1966    The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.

1968    The album "Music From Big Pink" by the Band was released.

1968    The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

1969    Britain's Prince Charles was invested as the prince of Wales.

1980    "O Canada" was proclaimed the national anthem of Canada.

1984    The Motion Picture Association of America established the "PG-13" rating.

1987    President Ronald Reagan nominated federal appeals court judge Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court. (Bork was later rejected by the Senate.)

1991    President George H.W. Bush nominated federal appeals court judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.

2000    Vermont's civil unions law went into effect, granting gay couples most of the rights, benefits and responsibilities of marriage.

2000    The Confederate flag was removed from atop South Carolina's Statehouse.

2004    Actor Marlon Brando died at age 80.

2005    Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice, announced her retirement.




Famous Birthdays in the last 100 Years:
1911 - Alvino Rey, Cleve Ohio, orch leader (King Family)
1911 - Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal
1912 - Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier
1912 - David Brower, environmentalist/president (Sierra Club)
1912 - Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer
1912 - Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
1913 - Jo Sinclair, writer
1914 - Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 - Earle Warren, alto sax player
1914 - Magda Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (People vs Zsa Zsa Gabor)
1915 - Jean Stafford, US writer (Boston Adventure, Lion & Carpenter)
1915 - Viscount Leverhulm, English large landowner (Unilever)
1915 - Willie Dixon, Vicksburg Missisipi, blues artist (Walkin' the Blues, Mellow Down Easy)
1915 - Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
1916 - Olivia de Havilland, Tokyo Japan, actress (Adventures of Robin Hood)
1919 - Hans Bender, German poet
1920 - Harold Sakata, American actor (d. 1982)
1921 - Seretse Khama, 1st premier/president of Botswana (Bechuanaland)
1923 - Constance Ford, actress (Ada Hobson-Another World)
1925 - Farley Granger, San Jose CA, actor (Arnold, Rope, Deathmask)
1926 - Franclaois-Regis Bastide, writer/broadcaster
1926 - Robert Fogel, Nobel laureate
1926 - Carl Hahn, German automotive executive
1927 - Hans Eklund, composer
1927 - Ruben Gomez, baseball player
1928 - Constance Ford, US actress (Cabinet of Calgary, Ada-Another World)
1928 - Volker Wangenheim, composer
1929 - Gerald M Edelman, US biochemist (Nobel 1972)
1930 - Andreas JAI Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Schipluiden/Leiderdorp)
1930 - Imelda Marcos, former 1st lady (Philipines)/shoe collector
1930 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
1931 - Leslie Caron, Boulogne-Biliancourt France, actr (Lili, Father Goose)
1931 - Tab Hunter, actor (Tab Hunter Show, Lust in the Dust)
1932 - Bobby Day, [Robert Byrd], Fort Worth Tx, rock vocalist (Rockin' Robin)
1932 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
1933 - Frank Baumann, baseball player
1933 - Peter Walwyn, British race horse trainer
1934 - Jamie Farr, Toledo Oh, actor (Klinger-M*A*S*H, AfterMASH)
1934 - Jean Marsh, London England, actress (Dark Places, Eagle has Landed)
1934 - Sydney Pollack, Lafayette, director (Tootsie, Presumed Innocent)
1934 - Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter
1935 - James Cotton, blues vocalist
1935 - Seiji Ozawa, [Fentian Shenyan], Manchuria, orchestra conductor
1937 - Ebrahim I Ebrahim, South African ANCer/Umkhonto we Sizwe-leader
1938 - Chester Watson, West Indian cricket fast bowler (early 60s)
1938 - Don Pavletich, baseball player
1938 - Craig Anderson, baseball player
1939 - Charles Hatcher, (Rep-D-GA, 1981- )
1939 - Delaney Bramlett, Okla, rocker (Shindogs, Delaney & Bonnie)
1939 - Karen Black, American actress
1940 - Jack Acker, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1940 - Kenneth Clarke, British minister
1941 - John Gould, British composer/musical comic
1941 - Rod Gilbert, Canada, NHL wing (NY Rangers)
1941 - Sally Quinn, Georgia, CBS newscaster (Morning Show)
1941 - Twyla Tharp, Portland Ind, choreographer (Twyla Tharp Dance Troupe)
1941 - Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel laureate
1942 - Genevieve Bujold, Montreal, actress (King of Hearts, Choose Me, Coma)
1942 - Karen Black, [Ziegler], Park Ridge Ill, (5 Easy Pieces, Pyx)
1942 - William Carney, (Rep-R-NY, 1979-86)
1942 - Andraé Crouch, American singer
1943 - Jeff Wayne, musician
1945 - Deborah Harry, Miami Fla, singer (Blondie-Heart of Glass)
1945 - Mike Burstyn, Israeli-American actor
1946 - June Montiero, US, vocalist (Toys-A Lover's Concerto)
1946 - Ron Silver, NYC, actor (Gary-Rhoda, Entity, Silkwood, Best Friends)
1947 - Marc Benno, rocker
1947 - Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese racing driver
1949 - John Farnham, Australian singer
1950 - David Duke, American politician, K.K.K. member
1951 - Daryl Anderson, Seattle, actor (Animal-Lou Grant)
1951 - Fred Schneider, Newark Ga, vocalist/guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster)
1951 - Trevor Eve, Wales, actor (Shadow Chasers)
1951 - Anne Feeney, American protest singer
1951 - Terrence Mann, American actor and dancer
1952 - Dan Aykroyd, Ottawa Canada, comedian/actor (SNL, Dragnet)
1952 - Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
1953 - Henry Percy, 11th duke of Northumberland, godchild of Elizabeth II
1954 - Michael Daniel Reid, Bainbridge MD, PGA golfer (1987 Seiko Tucson)
1955 - Keith Whitley, Sandy Hook Ky, country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes)
1956 - Adrian Wright, rocker (Human League-Only Human)
1956 - Bill Caudill, baseball player
1956 - Lorna Patterson, Whittier Calif, actress (Airplane, Pvt Benjamin)
1956 - Alan Ruck, American actor
1957 - Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
1958 - Nancy Lieberman Cline, Bkln, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury) (Oly-S-76)
1959 - Anne Smith, Dallas TX, tennis star
1960 - Alan Ruck, Cleve Oh, actor (Stuart-Spin City)
1960 - Evelyn "Champagne" King, Bronx NY, disco singer (Shame, I'm in Love)
1960 - Lynn Jennings, Princeton NJ, 5k runner
1960 - Mike Fitzgerald, baseball player
1961 - Diana Frances Spencer, Sandringham England, Princess of Wales (-97)
1961 - Kalpana Chawla, Karnal India, astronaut (STS 87)
1961 - [Frederick] Carl[eton] Lewis, Birmingham, track (Oly-9 gold-84-96)
1961 - Malcolm Elliott, British cyclist
1962 - Andre Braugher, Chicago Ill, actor (Frank Pembleton-Homicide)
1963 - Edward Tsang Lu, Springfield Mass, astronaut (STS 84)
1963 - Roddy Bottum, LA Calif, rock keyboardist (Faith No More-Real Thing)
1964 - Mike Twardoski, baseball player
1964 - Poi Burton, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1964 - Theresa Lynn, Louisville KY, actress (Orgasm Girl-Private Parts)
1965 - Luc Rochefort, Trois-Rivieres Que, golfer (1991 Low Amateur Quebec)
1966 - Eric Ball, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1966 - Larisa Savchenko, Neiland Latvia, tennis star
1966 - Patrick McEnroe, Manhasset NY, tennis star
1966 - Shawn Burr, Sarnia, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1966 - Simon Arkell, Australian pole vaulter (Olympics-17th-92, 96)
1966 - Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
1967 - Dave Richardson, CFL tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1967 - Mike Eastwood, Ottawa, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 - Pamela Anderson Lee, Ladysmith BC, playmate (Feb 90/Home Improvement)
1967 - Tony Bennett, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1968 - Charles Wilson, NFL wide receiver (NY Jets)
1968 - Roshumba Williams, Chicago Ill, model (Bride)
1968 - Tim Abell, American actor
1969 - Gary Brown, NFL running back (Houston Oilers)
1969 - Graham Lloyd, cricketer (son of David, Lancashire batsman, Eng ODI 96)
1970 - Kevin O'Brien, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1970 - Nicky Goetze, Milwaukee Wisc, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 NCAA Acad)
1970 - Van Malone, NFL safety (Detroit Lions)
1970 - Melissa Peterman, American actress
1971 - Darick Holmes, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Oleg Antonenko, hockey forward (Team Belarus, Olympics-1998)
1971 - Wanda Gonzalez, Miss Connecticut USA (1996)
1971 - Julianne Nicholson, American actress
1971 - Steven W. Bailey, American actor
1971 - Jamie Walker, American baseball player
1972 - Corey Hirsch, Medicine Hat, NHL goalie (Vancouver Canucks)
1972 - Darrick Bledose, WLAF cornerback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Claire Forlani, English actress
1972 - Alex Machacek, Austrian musician
1973 - Malina Milson, Australian softball 1st baseman (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Michele Krasnoo, Culver City Calif, actress (Kickboxer IV)
1975 - Liv Tyler, New York City, actress and daughter of Aerosmith's frontman, Steven Tyler (Stealing Beauty)
1975 - Sufjan Stevens, American musician
1976 - Patrick Stephan Kluivert, Surinam/Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1976 - Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
1977 - Misty Marriah Esplin, Preston Idaho, Miss America-Idaho (1997)
1977 - Liv Tyler, American actress
1977 - Keigo Hayashi, Japanese music artist
1977 - Birgit Schuurman, Dutch musician
1978 - Eisa Istok, Miss Illinois Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Jacqie Turner, west Covina Calif, figure skater, 1997 SW Pacific-2nd
1978 - Vicki Renee Hughes, Miss New Mexico Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist
1980 - Patrick Aufiero, American hockey player
1981 - Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-born Australian Rules footballer
1981 - Demetria McKinney, American Actress
1982 - Carmella DeCesare, American model
1982 - Romola Garai, English actress
1982 - Justin Huber, Australian baseball player
1982 - Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1982 - Adrian Ward, American football player
1982 - Hilarie Burton, American actress
1983 - Marit Larsen, Norwegian musician (M2M)
1983 - Leeteuk, Korean singer
1988 - Evan Ellingson, American actor
1989 - Mitch Hewer, English actor
1989 - Hannah Murray, English actress
1992 - Bryant Jones, Camarillo Ca, actor (Nate Hastings-Young & Restless)


Famous Deaths in last 100 years:
1910 - Marius Petipa, Fren ballet dancer/choreographer (Casse-noisette), dies
1916 - William Booth, cricketer (WW I 2 Tests for England 1913-14), dies
1922 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I mala voglia), dies at 81
1925 - Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, French composer (Dreamy Fish), dies at 59
1925 - Jan P Veth, Dutch painter/lithographer/art historian, dies at 61
1939 - Louis Davids [Simon David], cabaret performer/chorus performer, dies
1943 - Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed
1943 - C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed
1943 - Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1943 - Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1944 - Carl Mayer, actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise), dies at 49
1947 - Clarence Lucas, composer, dies at 80
1949 - Louis Davids, [Simon David], cabaret artist, dies at 65
1950 - Edward Faber Schneider, composer, dies at 77
1950 - Eliel Saarinen, Fins/US architect (Chicago Trib building), dies at 76
1950 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (b. 1865)
1953 - Azzedine Bey, Tunisian heir to the throne, murdered
1953 - Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies
1958 - Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch writer (I Go Me Own Way), dies
1958 - Harry Nicholls Holmes, Dr (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78
1958 - Rudolf von Laban, Czech/Ger choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78
1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
1963 - Camille Chautemps, premier France, dies
1964 - Pierre Monteux, French/US conductor (Concert Bldg Orch), dies at 89
1965 - Claude Thornhill, composer, dies at 55
1965 - Wally Hammond, S African cricketer (7,249 runs for England), dies
1968 - Dick Young, cricketer (England wicketkeeper v Aust 1907-08), dies
1968 - Virginia Weidler, actress (All This & Heaven Too), dies at 42
1971 - Lord Learie Constantine, WI cricketer (all-rounder & fielder), dies
1973 - Mario La Broca, composer, dies at 76
1974 - Juan D Peron, president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies at 78
1976 - Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
1978 - Kurt Student, German Luftwaffe general (b. 1890)
1979 - Richard Ward, actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64
1980 - Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends & Associates), dies at 75
1981 - George Voskovec, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag), dies at 76
1981 - Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
1981 - Rushton Moreve, American bass player (b. 1948)
1982 - John Everett Watts, composer, dies at 51
1982 - Vera [A Veronica] Bondam, actress, dies at 86
1983 - R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87
1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904)
1986 - Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62
1987 - Snakefinger, British-born musician (b. 1949)
1988 - Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer, dies at 82
1988 - Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer, dies at 68
1989 - William Ching, actor (Moonlighter, Terror in Haunted House), dies
1990 - Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48
1990 - Jurriaan Schrofer, graphic designer, dies
1991 - Joost Baljeu, painter/founder-editor Structure, dies
1991 - Michael Landon, actor (Bonanza, Hwy to Heaven), dies of cancer at 54
1992 - Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer (Amarcord), dies
1992 - Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissauan politician (b. 1933)
1994 - Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies
1995 - Bruce Mitchell, S Afr cricketer (leading Test scorer with 3471), dies
1995 - Ronald Farrow, radio producer/priest, dies at 49
1995 - Wolfman Jack, disc jockey (Midnight Special), dies at 57
1996 - Alfred Marks, actor (Fanny Hill, Desert Mice), dies at 75
1996 - Margaux Hemmingway, actress (Lipstick), dies at 41
1996 - Richard Michael Fraser, political administrator, dies at 80
1996 - Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright, dies at 53
1997 - Joshua Hassan, head of Gibraltar (1964-69, 72-87), dies
1997 - Robert Mitchum, actor (Winds of War), dies at 79
1999 - Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-born film director (b. 1908)
1999 - Guy Mitchell, American popular singer (b. 1927)
1999 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate (b. 1904)
1999 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
2000 - Sarah Payne, British murder victim (b. 1992)
2000 - Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2003 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (b. 1930)
2003 - Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (b. 1927)
2003 - N!xau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
2004 - Marlon Brando, actor ("The Godfather", "A Street Cart Named Desire" and "On the Water Front") dies at 80
2004 - Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931)
2004 - Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (b. 1909)
2005 - Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)
2005 - Obie Benson, American musician (b. 1936)
2006 - Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
2008 - Mel Galley, English guitarist (b. 1948)
2009 - Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
2009 - Onni Palaste, Finnish writer (b. 1917)
2009 - Mollie Sugden, English actress (b. 1922)
2009 - Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan professional boxer (b. 1952)
2009 - Marwa El-Sherbini, Egyptian housewife (b. 1977 or 1976)

[Peelz]

Friday up in here! holiday weekend get together with family

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History
On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator. (Go to article.)

On July 2, 1908, Thurgood Marshall, the leader of the legal battle against segregated schools and the first black member of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born. Following his death on Jan. 24, 1993, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
   
On July 2,   1864, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a challenge to President Lincoln's renomination.


On This Day in History:
1776    The Continental Congress passed a resolution that "these United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States."

1881    President James A. Garfield was fatally shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; he died on Sept. 19.

1890    Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.

1908    Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, was born in Baltimore.

1926    The U.S. Army Air Corps was created.

1932    Democrats nominated New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at their convention in Chicago.

1947    An object that the Army Air Force later said was a weather balloon crashed near Roswell, N.M. Eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation it might have been an alien spacecraft.

1961    Author Ernest Hemingway, 61, shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.

1964    President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill.

1976    The Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.

2001    Robert Tools received the world's first self-contained artificial heart in Louisville, Ky. (He lived 151 days with the device.)

2003    President George W. Bush promised to deal harshly with those who attack American troops in Iraq, saying "bring them on."

2007    President George W. Bush commuted the sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, sparing him from a two-and-half-year prison term in the CIA leak case.

[Krandall]

1947    An object that the Army Air Force later said was a weather balloon crashed near Roswell, N.M. Eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation it might have been an alien spacecraft.


ALIENS?!!!!

[Colorado700R]

wandi....

http://cosprings.craigslist.org/mcy/1822819067.html

[disco]

It's RAINING here.  Not a light little mist, oh no, this is torrential downpour material.  Been like this all day.  Guy from work just called me, he had to move his car in the parking lot because it's flooding.  All the feeders are flooding. 

And I'm sitting home on my computer, nice and dry, feeling sorry for the working man out here.     Off today so I can work over the weekend.   

[Peelz]

Have a wonderful holiday weekend gents! Be safe!

[Lady4Fiddy]

you too peeler 

[Krandall]

War is not pretty: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/afghanistan_june_2010.html


Pictures to help bring you closer to what our soldiers are going through.

[Lady4Fiddy]

Those are some sad pics

[Peelz]

War is not pretty: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/afghanistan_june_2010.html


Pictures to help bring you closer to what our soldiers are going through.

terrible. THe crap part is...you have to really dig to find a good story of how it is going there. Only AFTER you weed out all the sensationalist media garbage.