Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXIII

[Colorado700R]

whorelords.....attack!

[Spartan]

Bored I took the stock cam I got apart and put it back together without breaking anything...Wow.

[Lady4Fiddy]

Bored I took the stock cam I got apart and put it back together without breaking anything...Wow.

That's fookin Amazing!

[Peelz]

Bored I took the stock cam I got apart and put it back together without breaking anything...Wow YET.....

fixed for accuracy 

[Krandall]

http://www.nitrobahn.com/news/bugatti-veyron-16-4-super-sport-sets-newland-speed-record-at-267-81-mph/

[disco]

http://www.nitrobahn.com/news/bugatti-veyron-16-4-super-sport-sets-newland-speed-record-at-267-81-mph/

that has to be among the top annoying websites.  Click a thumb and a new page of links and thumbs appear.  Cool car though.  What's up with the "limited" top speed though?  I'm not going to buy one now.    I gotta have the pure unadulterated top speed.  I haven't even done half that in real life.     Hmm... unless you count sky diving.  I bet my big butt looked like a meteor coming in.

[dragonz]

http://www.nitrobahn.com/news/bugatti-veyron-16-4-super-sport-sets-newland-speed-record-at-267-81-mph/

that has to be among the top annoying websites.  Click a thumb and a new page of links and thumbs appear.  Cool car though.  What's up with the "limited" top speed though?  I'm not going to buy one now.    I gotta have the pure unadulterated top speed.  I haven't even done half that in real life.     Hmm... unless you count sky diving.  I bet my big butt looked like a meteor coming in.

So how many parachutes did they deploy to stop you making a large crater?

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History

   On July 6, 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2. (Go to article.)

On July 6, 1907, Frida Kahlo, the Mexican painter famous for her surrealist and expressionist work , was born. Following her death on July 13, 1954, her obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
   
   On July 6, 1872, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Senator Charles Sumner, civil rights for black Americans, and the presidential election of 1872.



On this date in:

1483    England's King Richard III was crowned.

1535    Sir Thomas More was executed in England for treason.

1777    British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.

1854    The first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Mich.

1923    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed.

1928    The first all-talking movie feature, "The Lights of New York," was shown in New York.

1933    Baseball's first All-Star game was held at Chicago's Comiskey Park, with the American League's best beating the National Leauge squad 4-2.

1944    Fire broke out in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn., killing 169 people.

1957    teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time, at a church in their native Liverpool, England, following a performance by Lennon's band, the Quarrymen.

1974    Garrison Keillor's radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," debuted in a live broadcast from St. Paul, Minn.

2003    Former ambassador Joseph Wilson, in a New York Times op-ed, disputed President George W. Bush's statement that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa, saying he had found no evidence to support the claim when the CIA asked him to investigate.

2004    Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry chose Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina to be his running mate.

2005    Soap opea actress Kelly Monaco won the first season of "Dancing With the Stars."

2005    New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed after refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA operative's name. (She was jailed for 85 days before agreeing to testify.)

2009    Robert McNamara, the Pentagon chief who'd directed the escalation of the Vietnam War despite private doubts, died at 93.

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History
On July 7, 1981, President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court. (Go to article.)

On July 7, 1906, Satchel Paige, the pitching star of Negro League and major-league baseball, was born. Following his death on June 8, 1982, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
   
On July 7, 1860, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Giuseppe Garibaldi's conquest of Sicily.





On this date in:

1846    U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.

1865    Four people were hanged in Washington, D.C., after being convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.

1898    The United States annexed Hawaii.

1930    Construction began on Boulder Dam on the Colorado River.

1946    Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint.

1954    Elvis Presley made his radio debut when Memphis, Tenn., station WHBQ played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right."

1958    President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill.

1987    Lt. Col. Oliver North began his public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had "never carried out a single act, not one" without authorization.

1990    Martina Navratilova won a record ninth women's singles title at Wimbledon.

2003    A federal judge approved a settlement fining WorldCom $750 million for its $11 billion accounting scandal.

2005    terrorist bombings in three Underground stations and a double-decker bus killed 52 victims and four suicide bombers in the worst attack on London since World War II.

[Krandall]

1958    President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill.


How come we don't add anymore states? Is it because everyone's happy w/ how much land they currently have? 




On a side note. We (Wife and I) are officially going to Australia leaving December 21st!

Bought our tickets to there and back last night.

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History

On July 8, 1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea. (Go to article.)

On July 8, 1839, John D. Rockefeller, who founded the Standard Oil Co. and gave more than $500 million to charitable causes, was born. Following his death on May 23, 1937, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
   
On July 8, 1882, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the British and French rivalry in Egypt.




On this date in:

1663    King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island.

1776    Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence to a crowd gathered at Independence Square in Philadelphia.

1839    American oilman John D. Rockefeller was born in Richford, N.Y.

1889    The Wall Street Journal was first published.

1891    Warren G. Harding married Florence K. DeWolfe in Marion, Ohio.

1907    Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first "Follies" on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

1919    President Woodrow Wilson received a tumultuous welcome in New York City after his return from the Versailles Peace Conference in France.

1986    Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes.

1994    Kim Il Sung, North Korea's communist leader since 1948, died at age 82.

2004    Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas and his son Timothy were convicted in New York of looting the cable company and deceiving investors.

[preddy08]

Haven't posted here for a while...




That is all

[Spartan]

Nice clothes, shawna...

[Krandall]

How awesome would it be to have a monkey?

[Peelz]

sup monkey boy!