Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXIV

[Krandall]

[Peelz]

I wantz dem all.

[Krandall]

I love how they provide Lucky Strikes... Unfiltered.

[socalrappy700]

Oh the pain.  Oh so good but so much pain.  We were the only two white guys in that place today. 

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History

On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.

On Sept. 14, 1879, Margaret Sanger, the outspoken early twentieth-century advocate of birth control, was born. Following her death on Sept. 6, 1966, her obituary appeared in The Times.
   
On September 14, 1901, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the assassination of President William McKinley.



On this date in:

1814    Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812.

1847    U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott took control of Mexico City.

1901    President William B. McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, 42, was sworn in, becoming the youngest president in U.S. history.

1940    Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.

1948    Ground was broken in New York City for the United Nations' world headquarters.

1975    Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.

1982    Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries suffered in a car crash.

1982    Lebanon's president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed by a bomb.

1994    Acting commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the rest of the baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players.

2001    The FBI released the names of the 19 hijackers who took part in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; President George W. Bush toured the ruins of the World Trade Center and addressed rescue workers over a bullhorn.

2005    Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

2005    A federal judge in San Francisco declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional.

2009    Actor Patrick Swayze died at age 57.

Current Birthdays

Actor-director Tyler Perry turns 41 years old today.


74    Walter Koenig
Actor ("Star Trek")

70    Larry Brown
Hall of Fame basketball coach

66    Joey Heatherton
Singer, dancer

63    Jon "Bowzer" Bauman
Rock singer (Sha Na Na)

63    Sam Neill
Actor

46    Faith Ford
Actress ("Faith and Hope," "Murphy Brown")

40    Ben Garant
Actor ("Reno911!")

40    Craig Montoya
Rock musician

39    Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Actress ("According to Jim")

37    Nas
Rapper

27    Amy Winehouse
Singer

Historic Birthdays

Margaret Sanger

9/14/1879 - 9/6/1966
American birth-control advocate
(Go to obit.)

81    Luigi Cherubini
9/14/1760 - 3/15/1842
Italian-born French composer of opera and sacred music

89    Alexander von Humboldt
9/14/1769 - 5/6/1859
German naturalist and explorer

92    Alice Stone Blackwell
9/14/1857 - 3/15/1950
American women's suffragist and editor

77    Charles Dana Gibson
9/14/1867 - 12/23/1944
American artist and illustrator

61    Jan Masaryk
9/14/1886 - /1948
Czechoslovakian statesman and diplomat

66    Karl Compton
9/14/1887 - 6/22/1954
American educator, physicist, and president of M. I. T. (1930-48)

74    Norman Chandler
9/14/1899 - 10/20/1973
American publisher of the Los Angeles Times

87    Hal Wallis
9/14/1899 - 10/5/1986
American motion-picture producer

62    Allan Bloom
9/14/1930 - 10/7/1992
American writer, philosopher and teacher

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History

On Sept. 16, 1974, President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders.

On Sept. 16, 1838, James Jerome Hill, who built a railroad empire in the American northwest, was born. Following his death on May 29, 1916, his obituary appeared in The Times.
   
On September 16, 1882, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the British conquest of Egypt.







On this date in:

1630    The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.

1638    France's King Louis XIV was born.

1810    Mexico began a successful revolt against Spanish rule.

1893    Hundreds of thousands of settlers took part in a land run in Oklahoma's "Cherokee Strip."

1908    General Motors was formed in Flint, Mich., by William Durant.

1919    The American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress.

1940    Rep. Samuel T. Rayburn, D-Texas, the longest-serving House speaker in history, was first elected to the post.

1940    President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.

1966    The Metropolitan Opera opened its new home at New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

1972    "The Bob Newhart Show" premiered on CBS.

1974    President Gerald R. Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft-evaders.

1987    Two dozen countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to save the Earth's ozone layer by reducing emissions of harmful chemicals.

2002    U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that Iraq had unconditionally accepted the return of U.N. weapons inspectors.

2004    Hurricane Ivan plowed into the Gulf Coast with 130 mph wind and a major storm surge; Ivan was blamed for at least 115 deaths, 43 in the United States.

2007    A deadly shooting in Baghdad involving the U.S. security firm Blackwater USA left 17 Iraqi civilians dead.

2008    The federal government announced an emergency $85 billion loan to rescue AIG, the world's largest insurance company.

Current Birthdays

Mickey Rourke turns 54 years old today.

86    Lauren Bacall
Actress

85    B.B. King
Blues musician

83    Peter Falk
Actor ("Columbo")

78    George Chakiris
Actor ("West Side Story")

76    Elgin Baylor
Basketball Hall of Famer

62    Kenney Jones
Rock musician (Small Faces, The Who)

62    Susan Ruttan
Actress ("L.A. Law")

61    Ed Begley Jr.
Actor

56    Mark McEwen
TV personality

55    Robin Yount
Baseball Hall of Famer

54    David Copperfield
Magician

52    Jennifer Tilly
Actress

47    Richard Marx
Singer

46    Molly Shannon
Actress, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")

42    Marc Anthony
Singer

29    Alexis Bledel
Actress ("Gilmore Girls")

25    Madeline Zima
Actress ("Californication," "Heroes")

18    Nick Jonas
Rock singer, musician (The Jonas Brothers)

Historic Birthdays

James Jerome Hill

9/16/1838 - 5/29/1916
American railroad builder
(Go to obit.)

83    Squire Whipple
9/16/1804 - 3/15/1888
American civil engineer, inventor and theoretician

73    Albrecht Kossel
9/16/1853 - 7/5/1927
German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1910)

95    J. C. Penney
9/16/1875 - 2/12/1971
American business leader

83    Clive Bell
9/16/1881 - 9/17/1964
English art critic

67    Karen Horney
9/16/1885 - 12/4/1952
German-born American psychoanalyst

78    Jean Arp
9/16/1887 - 6/7/1966
French sculptor, painter and poet

54    Earl Carroll
9/16/1893 - 6/17/1948
American theatrical producer and director

62    Sir Alexander Korda
9/16/1893 - 1/23/1956
Hungarian-born English film director and producer

70    Laurence Peter
9/16/1919 - 1/12/1990
Canadian author

[Hefe]

on this day in history...
Hefe tries to whore some posts!

[Krandall]

you will fail.


actually, you'll succedd, because I'm going to lunch in 3 mins w/ the wife,.

[Hefe]

[NaturalRaptor]

Whoring with mini-ho responses!   

[Hefe]

an old Ho that acts like a mini-ho

thats me!

[NaturalRaptor]

I wish it were 5:30 already.   

[Krandall]

I wish it were 4:45 already


totally ready to go home!

[NaturalRaptor]

I need a beer, glad I am off tomorrow.  Suck ass long week already...

[Krandall]

Beer is in my near future!