Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume VI

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Mornin

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jul 8 1932

Tod Browning's groundbreaking horror movie Freaks, featuring genuine carnival sideshow performers, premieres at the Rialto theater in New York. The film opens to critical outrage, and is later banned by the British government for 30 years.

Jul 8 1976

Former President Richard M. Nixon is disbarred by the New York Bar Association. Nixon attempted to resign voluntarily, as he had from the California and U.S. Supreme Court bars, but New York refused to accept his resignation unless he acknowledged that he had obstructed justice during the Watergate coverup.

Jul 8 1987

Kitty Dukakis, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Governor Michael Dukakis, reveals that she was formerly addicted to amphetamines. Kitty waits until after the November election to acknowledge her raging alcoholism, however.

Jul 8 1997

Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, publicly apologizes to his children's babysitter, with whom he had a five year relationship starting when she was age 14. The local district attorney declines to press charges, but Kennedy winds up dead in an apparent skiing accident five months later.

Birthdays today...
1528 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
1545 - Don Carlos of Spain (d. 1568)
1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
1760 - Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
1766 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)
1792 - Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)
1830 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)
1830 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Altenburg (d. 1911)
1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)
1838 - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)
1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman (d. 1937)
1851 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941)
1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d. 1911)
1867 - Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (d. 1945)
1878 - Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945)
1882 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961)
1885 - Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)
1892 - Richard Aldington, English poet (d. 1962)
1892 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
1895 - Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1898 - Melville Ruick, American actor (d. 1972)
1904 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician
1905 - Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (d. 1997)
1906 - Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)
1907 - George W. Romney, American businessman and politician (d. 1995)
1908 - Louis Jordan, American saxophonist (d. 1975)
1908 - Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)
1914 - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
1914 - Billy Eckstine, American jazz singer (d. 1993)
1917 - Faye Emerson, American actress (d. 1983)
1918 - Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000)
1919 - Walter Scheel, German politician
1920 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish industrialist (Lego Group) (d. 1995)
1923 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete
1924 - Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (d. 2005)
1926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004)
1927 - Maurice Hayes, Irish politician
1932 - Jerry Vale, American singer
1933 - Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
1933 - Antonio Lamer, French Canadian lawyer and chief justice
1934 - Ed Lumley, Canadian corporate executive and former politician
1935 - Steve Lawrence, American entertainer and singer
1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, Russian cosmonaut
1941 - Dario Gradi, Italian-born football manager
1942 - Phil Gramm, American politician
1944 - Jai Johanny Johanson, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band)
1944 - Jeffrey Tambor, American actor
1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politician
1947 - Kim Darby, American actress
1947 - Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae
1948 - Raffi, Canadian children's entertainer
1949 - Frank Delima, American comedian
1949 - Dale Hoganson, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef
1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress
1952 - Jack Lambert, American football player
1952 - Anna Quindlen, American columnist
1955 - Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress
1956 - Terry Puhl, Canadian baseball player
1957 - Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian television personality
1957 - Carlos Cavazo, American musician (Quiet Riot)
1958 - Kevin Bacon, American actor
1958 - Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician
1958 - Neetu Singh, Indian Actress
1958 - Andreas Carlgren, Swedish politician
1959 - Robert Knepper, American actor
1960 - Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league footballer
1961 - Toby Keith, American singer
1961 - Andrew Fletcher, English musician (Depeche Mode)
1962 - Joan Osborne, American singer and songwriter
1964 - Linda de Mol, Dutch actress and host
1964 - Alexei Gusarov, Russian ice hockey player
1967 - Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
1968 - Akio Suyama, Japanese seiyu
1968 - Billy Crudup, American actor
1968 - Michael Weatherly, American actor
1969 - Sugizo Japanese guitarist and singer
1970 - Beck, American singer
1972 - Sourav Ganguly, Indian cricketer
1972 - Karl Dykhuis, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 - Shōsuke Tanihara, Japanese actor
1973 - Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress
1974 - Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer
1974 - Tami Erin, American actress and model
1975 - Elias Viljanen, Finnish Guitarist
1976 - Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer
1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
1977 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
1980 - Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
1981 - Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
1982 - Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
1982 - Joshua Alba, American actor
1982 - Sophia Bush, American actress
1983 - Jaroslav Janiš, Czech racing car driver
1983 - Elizabeth Del Mar, American pornographic actress
1983 - John Bowker (baseball), American baseball player
1984 - Alexis Dziena, American actress
1985 - Jamie Cook, British musician (Arctic Monkeys)
1986 - Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer
1987 - Vlada Roslyakova, Russian supermodel
1992 - Benjamin Grosvenor, Pianist
1998 - Jaden Smith, American actor

Famous deaths...
810 - Pepin, King of Italy (b. 773)
975 - King Edgar of England
1153 - Pope Eugene III
1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1623 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
1689 - Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (b. 1629)
1716 - Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
1721 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
1726 - John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
1826 - Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
1850 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
1855 - Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (b. 1790)
1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799)
1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
1898 - Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860)
1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
1913 - Louis Hémon, French-born writer (b. 1880)
1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
1930 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
1933 - Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)
1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician (b. 1859)
1941 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
1943 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)
1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist (b. 1881)
1957 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879)
1962 - Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897)
1967 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani political figure (b. 1893)
1967 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)
1971 - Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1979 - Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
1981 - Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1986 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
1987 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
1990 - Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
1991 - James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
1994 - Christian-Jaque, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
1994 - Kim Il-sung, North Korean leader (b. 1912)
1994 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (b. 1927)
1994 - Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
1999 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
2001 - John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (b. 1920)
2002 - Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
2004 - Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)
2004 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1922)
2006 - June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
2006 - Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances...
Annual Soapy Smith wake, held each year in Skagway, Alaska in the Gold Rush Cemetery and in Hollywood, California at the Magic Castle
Saints Abda and Sabas
Saint Auspicius, bishop of Trier
Saint Evodius, bishop of Rouen, confessor (Translation)
Saint Grimbald, abbot, confessor
Saint Kilian of Würzburg, bishop, and companions
Saint Nummius, confessor St. Nom
Saint Procopius, martyr
Saint Quintinus, martyr (Invention)
Saint Theobald (Thibaut), abbot
Saint Barbara (Translation)
Saint Elizabeth, queen of Portugal
Saint Sunniva and companions, virgins

Have a great Tuesday.

~Brian

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1970 - Beck, American singer

He's the man!  He has two turn tables and a microphone.

[Krandall]

Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, publicly apologizes to his children's babysitter, with whom he had a five year relationship starting when she was age 14. The local district attorney declines to press charges, but Kennedy winds up dead in an apparent skiing accident five months later.


NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE! 

minus the dieing part

[Krandall]

on a pretty sweet side note:


My fiance' went to school for a major in Theatre. Eventually wanting to do Broadway type acting. She got a gig this Thursday as an extra for "Big Lots"  (http://www.biglots.com)

Gettin paid $150 to do it

[socalrappy700]

Cool, what will she be doing?

[preddy08]

What does she usualy do for 150 bucks............................lol

[Krandall]

What does she usualy do for 150 bucks............................lol

  Gotta makes the cash monies! 


She's not sure yet. They said they'd call her today w/ more details.

[Peelz]

What does she usualy do for 150 bucks............................lol

that's alot of meth, huh preddy? 

morning folks! I hate being back at work after a long holiday weekend. 

[preddy08]

What does she usualy do for 150 bucks............................lol

morning folks! I hate being back at work after a long holiday weekend. 

Tell me about it I have been at a wedding since thursday in Okaboji. I just cant get moving.

[ThisGuyAlex]

mornin neighbors..... that's what the hangover i had this weekend felt like......damn rumpleminze

[socalrappy700]

What does she usualy do for 150 bucks............................lol

morning folks! I hate being back at work after a long holiday weekend. 

Tell me about it I have been at a wedding since thursday in Okaboji. I just cant get moving.

Wednesday was my last day working too.  I'm feeling like death today.

[Peelz]

mornin neaighbors..... that's what the hangover i had this weeken felt like......damn rumpleminze

ooh noo! bad memories again.

Solid beer drinking for 3 days straight here. Along with a ton of barbequed red meat, yeah My tummy hurts.... I need a vacation from a vacation.

[ThisGuyAlex]

me too......

[Peelz]

Krandall, you know what would really suck? After working so hard to get those handlebars ready to sell me, I win the VIP prize..... J/K