Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume VI

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jun 28 1905

Dr. Beaurieux picks up the freshly-severed head of Henri Languille just after it drops into the guillotine basket and shouts the man's name three times. According to the doctor's report: "Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves. ... I was dealing with undeniably living eyes which were looking at me."

Jun 28 1914

During a parade in Sarajevo, Nedjelko Cabrinovic tosses a grenade into the automobile carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife Sofia. But Ferdinand knocks the bomb away with his arm and his driver speeds away from the would-be assassin. A short while later, during the return drive, Gavrilo Princip pulls out an automatic pistol and kills both Ferdinand and his pregnant wife. Five weeks later, the continent of Europe erupts into World War I.

Jun 28 1969

The three-day Stonewall Riots, triggered by the police raid of a New York City gay bar, begin the gay rights movement.

Jun 28 1997

Mike Tyson is disqualified from a championship boxing bout after biting off a large portion of Evander Holyfield's ear. Tyson is later banned from boxing and fined $3 million for the incident. Tastes like chicken.

Birthdays today...
1476 - Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
1490 - Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz (d. 1545)
1491 - King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
1503 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556)
1547 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (d. 1599)
1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (d. 1640)
1641 - Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien, queen of Poland (d. 1716)
1703 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
1719 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
1806 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
1824 - Paul Broca, French physician (d. 1880)
1831 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
1867 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1873 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1944)
1875 - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1883 - Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1884 - Lamina Sankoh, early Sierra Leonean nationalist (d. 1964)
1891 - Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
1891 - Esther Forbes, American writer (d. 1968)
1891 - Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (d. 1974)
1902 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1972)
1909 - Eric Ambler, English writer (d. 1998)
1912 - Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (d. 1996)
1912 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
1913 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker
1913 - Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
1914 - Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
1917 - Katherine Rawls, American swimming champion (d. 1982)
1920 - A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
1921 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
1922 - Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
1923 - Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
1926 - Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
1927 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1928 - Dr Hans Blix, Swedish head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission 2000-2003
1928 - Harold Evans, English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times 1967-1981
1930 - Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
1931 - Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver
1932 - Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
1933 - Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician
1934 - Carl Levin, United States Senator
1935 - John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
1936 - Chuck Howley, American football player
1937 - Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
1937 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
1937 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (d. 1995)
1938 - John Byner, American comedian
1938 - Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
1938 - Leon Panetta, American White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton
1940 - Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1941 - Al Downing, American baseball player
1941 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
1942 - Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party (d. 1993)
1942 - David Miner, American musician and record producer
1943 - Donald Johanson, American paleoanthropologist
1943 - Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1945 - David Knights, English bass guitarist (Procol Harum)
1946 - Bruce Davison, American actor
1946 - Gilda Radner, American comedienne (d. 1989)
1946 - Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician.
1947 - Robert Bondi, American politician
1947 - Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef
1947 - Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
1947 - Mark Helprin, American writer
1948 - Kathy Bates, American actress
1950 - Mauricio Rojas, Swedish politician
1952 - Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
1954 - Alice Krige, South African actress
1955 - Shirley Cheriton, English actress
1955 - Eric Gates, English footballer
1955 - Thomas Hampson, American baritone
1956 - Noel Mugavin, Australian Rules Football player
1957 - Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1957 - Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
1957 - Mike Skinner, American racecar driver
1958 - Félix Gray, French singer and songwriter
1960 - John Elway, American football player
1963 - Beverley Craven, English singer-songwriter
1964 - Mark Grace, American baseball player
1966 - John Cusack, American actor
1966 - Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
1967 - Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
1968 - Adam Woodyatt, English actor
1968 - Chayanne, Puerto Rican singer
1969 - Danielle Brisebois, American actress
1970 - Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
1970 - Steve Burton, American actor
1971 - Tichina Arnold, American actress
1971 - Fabien Barthez, French footballer
1971 - Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
1971 - Juan Carlos Echeverry, Colombian operatic tenor
1971 - Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality
1971 - Ron Mahay, American baseball player
1971 - Aileen Quinn, American actress
1972 - Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
1973 - Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
1974 - Rob Dyrdek, Professional skateboarder
1975 - Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish Musician, Former Lead Singer of Dissection
1976 - Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
1976 - Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
1977 - Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
1977 - Chris Spurling, American baseball player
1978 - Simon Larose, Canadian professional tennis player
1979 - Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
1979 - Randy McMichael, American football player
1979 - Florian Zeller, French novelist and playwright
1983 - Maui Taylor, Filipino model and singer
1985 - Phil Bardsley, English football player
1986 - Kellie Pickler, American singer
1986 - Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
1988 - Lacey Schwimmer, American dancer
1990 - Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
1994 - Madeline Duggan, English actress
1994 - Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan

Famous deaths...
548 - Theodora, Byzantine empress
767 - Pope Paul I
928 - Louis the Blind, King of Provence
1061 - Floris I, Count of Holland
1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
1194 - Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
1385 - Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1348)
1389 - Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329)
1586 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
1598 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish-born cartographer (b. 1527)
1716 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
1813 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b. 1755)
1834 - Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
1836 - James Madison, President of the United States (b. 1751)
1880 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
1881 - Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
1892 - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
1889 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818)
1913 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863)
1914 - Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
1915 - Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1916 - Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1922 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
1929 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
1960 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)
1962 - Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1962 - Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
1965 - Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
1971 - Franz Stangl, Austrian commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
1974 - Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
1975 - Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
1975 - Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (b. 1924)
1976 - Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (b. 1927)
1978 - Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
1980 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
1981 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
1982 - Harry Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (b. 1913)
1985 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1989 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)
1992 - Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
1993 - GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
2000 - Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
2000 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
2001 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
2001 - Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
2003 - Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2004 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
2005 - Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
2006 - Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
2006 - George Page, American television host (b. 1935)
2006 - Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author (b. 1919)
2006 - George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
2007 - Eugene Bennett Fluckey, American Navy Submariner (b. 1913)
2007 - Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances...
Vidovdan, Orthodox religious holiday commemorating St. Vitus

Have a great Saturday.

~Brian

[ThisGuyAlex]

hmmmm....nothin like a big list of dead people in the mornin.....

[Flynbyu]

The new Ferrari California has been released.

Yeah, it's PIMP!!!







Link: Ferrari California

~Brian

[who else but rk]

its been out for a while 

[Peelz]

nice sweet ride. Reminds me a bit of a bmw Z roadster.

[Peelz]

Taking care of the mowing, then a family reunion. Have a great Saturday fellas.

[who else but rk]

yea it is sweet until you see the back wich brian kindly didnt show us

yea i have some chores around the house then hopefully ill go riding

[Flynbyu]

Taking care of the mowing, then a family reunion. Have a great Saturday fellas.

Likewise.

A family reunion is a great place to meet chicks!



~Brian

[who else but rk]

 
" might as well keep it in the familly!"

[Flynbyu]

yea it is sweet until you see the back wich brian kindly didnt show us

yea i have some chores around the house then hopefully ill go riding

Single rear lights....Ferrari moved away from the duals, which in my opinion would have set this car off!

~Brian

[Peelz]

meet chicks,.. and sell methamphetamines. :grin_nod:

10 am and discussion has already turned to incest

I love this site


I didn't look like a ferrari at first glance to me.

later whores

[LittleBuddha]

Did somebody say incest? 

[Flynbyu]

Did somebody say incest? 

Yeah, Peels is headed to a family reunion.



"Closer the kin, the deeper it goes in."

~Brian

[LittleBuddha]

Did somebody say incest? 

Yeah, Peels is headed to a family reunion.



"Closer the kin, the deeper it goes in."

~Brian

I got down with my second cousin in high school.  She had the nicest tits.   

[RR34]