Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXIV

[Krandall]

Welcome to the BS section Matt. t-minus 28 days til I'm leaving for LS!

[Spartan]

Already on the 2nd page...whores

[Colorado700R]

Welcome to the BS section Matt. t-minus 28 days til I'm leaving for LS!

so you'll be on your period then too??

[Krandall]

Hopefully I'll be over it by then.

[Lady4Fiddy]

We'll just have to call you Raggin' Randy!

[NaturalRaptor]

Welcome to the BS section Matt. t-minus 28 days til I'm leaving for LS!

Same here! Bringing lots of beer and whiskey!   

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History

On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II.

On Sept. 2, 1948, Christa McAuliffe, the American teacher who died in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion, was born. Following her death on Jan. 28, 1986, her obituary appeared in The Times.
   
On September 2, 1871, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the new "streetcar suburbs."


On this date in:

1666    The Great Fire of London broke out. It destroyed nearly 400 acres, including some 13,000 houses and the old St. Paul's Cathedral.

1789    The U.S. Treasury Department was established.

1864    Union Gen. William T. Sherman's forces occupied Atlanta during the Civil War.

1901    Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair.

1935    A hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys, claiming 423 lives.

1944    Navy pilot George H.W. Bush was shot down by Japanese forces as he completed a bombing run over the Bonin Islands.

1945    Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent republic.

1963    "The CBS Evening News" was lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.

1969    North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh died.

1969    The first automatic teller machine to use magnetic-striped cards opened to the public at Chemical Bank in Rockville Centre, New York.

1983    Tom Brokaw took over as anchor of NBC's "Nightly News."

1985    A U.S.-French expedition announced that it had located the wreckage of the Titanic about 560 miles off Newfoundland.

1992    The United States and Russia agreed to build a space station.

2004    President George W. Bush accepted his party's nomination for a second term at the Republican National Convention in New York City.

2005    A National Guard convoy packed with food, water and medicine rolled into New Orleans four days after Hurricane Katrina.

2005    President George W. Bush told Michael Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" during a tour of Hurricane Katrina damage in Alabama.

2009    Pfizer agreed to pay a record $2.3 billion settlement for illegal drug promotion.

Current Birthdays

Actress Salma Hayek turns 44 years old today.


79    Alan K. Simpson
Former U.S. senator, R-Wyo.

73    Peter Ueberroth
Former baseball commissioner

69    John Thompson
Hall of Fame basketball coach

62    Nate Archibald
Basketball Hall of Famer

62    Terry Bradshaw
Football Hall of Famer, sportscaster

59    Jim DeMint
U.S. senator, R-S.C.

59    Mark Harmon
Actor ("NCIS," "St. Elsewhere")

58    Jimmy Connors
Tennis Hall of Famer

50    Eric Dickerson
Football Hall of Famer

46    Keanu Reeves
Actor

42    Cynthia Watros
Actress

23    Spencer Smith
Rock musician (Panic at the Disco)

Historic Birthdays

Christa McAuliffe

9/2/1948 - 1/28/1986
American teacher; died in the Challenger space shuttle explosion
(Go to obit.)

81    Ernst Curtius
9/2/1814 - 7/11/1896
German archaeologist; directed the excavation of Olympia

79    Lucretia Hale
9/2/1820 - 6/12/1900
American novelist and writer of children's books

81    Giovanni Verga
9/2/1840 - 1/27/1922
Italian novelist, short story writer and playwright

65    A. G. Spalding
9/2/1850 - 9/9/1915
American baseball player and sporting-goods manufacturer

78    Wilhelm Ostwald
9/2/1853 - 4/4/1932
Russian-born German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1909)

79    Frederick Soddy
9/2/1877 - 9/22/1956
English Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1921)

67    Werner Blomberg
9/2/1878 - 3/22/1946
German general and minister of war under Hitler

81    Cleveland Amory
9/2/1917 - 10/14/1998
American critic, historian and journalist

57    Martha Mitchell
9/2/1918 - 5/31/1976
American figure in the Watergate scandal

[Colorado700R]

RANDY!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQljzQ_FpUE&feature=channel

[disco]

CB's are great.  I was driving through Shreveport today and heard a woman asking if anybody needed company.  She got a taker and said to drop to channel 17.  So me and about three other guys dropped to 17 to listen.     Some poor slob is trying to hook up with her and we keep chiming in.  He couldn't find her and she kept saying she was at the Flying J.  I said you can't miss her, she's sitting in the black and white with disco lights on top.     She ended up giving out her phone number.  DANG!!!  I should have written it down, just hit me as I type this.  I could have posted it or used it for random contests or something.     

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History


On Sept. 3, 1976, the unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.

On Sept. 3, 1849, Sarah Orne Jewett, the popular turn-of-the-century American writer, was born. Following her death on June 24, 1909, her obituary appeared in The Times.
   
On September 3, 1864, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential campaign of 1864.


On this date in:

1189    England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster.

1658    Oliver Cromwell, England's lord protector, died.

1783    The Treaty of Paris officially ended America's Revolutionary War.

1929    The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 381.17, it's pre-crash high.

1939    Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.

1970    Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi died at age 57.

1978    Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

2004    A three-day hostage siege at a school in Beslan, Russia, ended in bloody chaos after Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building; more than 330 people were killed, most of them children.

2005    President George W. Bush ordered more than 7,000 active duty forces to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

2005    Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died at age 80.

2007    Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, 63, vanished after taking off in a single-engine plane in western Nevada. (His remains were discovered in October 2008 in California's Sierra Nevada mountains.)

2009    A private funeral service was held in Glendale, Calif. for singer Michael Jackson, whose body was entombed in a mausoleum.

Current Birthdays

Olympic snowboarder Shaun White turns 24 years old today.


87    Mort Walker
Cartoonist ("Beetle Bailey")

78    Eileen Brennan
Actress

70    Pauline Collins
Actress ("Upstairs, Downstairs")

68    Al Jardine
Rock singer-musician (The Beach Boys)

67    Valerie Perrine
Actress

55    Steve Jones
Rock guitarist (The Sex Pistols)

53    Steve Schirripa
Actor ("The Sopranos")

45    Charlie Sheen
Actor ("Two and a Half Men")

Historic Birthdays

Sarah Orne Jewett

9/3/1849 - 6/24/1909
American writer whose writings focused on life in Maine
(Go to obit.)

66    Diane De Poitiers
9/3/1499 - 4/22/1566
French mistress of Henry II

80    Roger North
9/3/1653 - 3/1/1734
English lawyer, historian and biographer

74    John Humphrey Noyes
9/3/1811 - 4/13/1886
American founder of the Oneida Community

63    Mark Hopkins
9/3/1813 - 3/29/1878
American capitalist; helped build Central Pacific Railroad

67    Louis Sullivan
9/3/1856 - 4/14/1924
American architect

77    Edward Filene
9/3/1860 - 9/26/1937
American department-store entrepreneur and philanthropist

75    Ferdinand Porsche
9/3/1875 - 1/30/1951
Austrian automotive engineer

73    Thomas Milton Rivers
9/3/1888 - 5/12/1962
American virologist; helped develop the polio vaccine

54    Charles Houston
9/3/1895 - 4/22/1950
American lawyer and educator

85    Sir Macfarlane Burnet
9/3/1899 - 8/31/1985
Australian Nobel Prize-winning physician and virologist (1960)

69    Loren Eiseley
9/3/1907 - 7/9/1977
American anthropologist, educator and author

[Spartan]

CB's are great.  I was driving through Shreveport today and heard a woman asking if anybody needed company.  She got a taker and said to drop to channel 17.  So me and about three other guys dropped to 17 to listen.     Some poor slob is trying to hook up with her and we keep chiming in.  He couldn't find her and she kept saying she was at the Flying J.  I said you can't miss her, she's sitting in the black and white with disco lights on top.     She ended up giving out her phone number.  DANG!!!  I should have written it down, just hit me as I type this.  I could have posted it or used it for random contests or something.     

that's great...I considered getting a CB but...what the phuck would be the point for me?

[disco]

Driving to Little Sahara!

[Krandall]

Driving to Little Sahara!

ppssssst..

pats deaf.

[Spartan]

[disco]

No hookers on the CB tonight    It was a quiet night.